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27 more people, including three physicians, tested positive for coronavirus in Narsingdi district in the last 24 hours till Friday. With this, the total coronavirus cases in the district has...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean...
Many developing countries want to follow in the footsteps of some wealthier Western countries to ease coronavirus restrictions, but they cannot afford any missteps. They lack the key tools —...
Leaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Friday expressed deep concerns as 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka alone, contracted coronavirus disease. In a statement, DUJ President Quddus Afrad...
China’s economy suffered its biggest contraction since possibly the mid-1960s after it told millions of people to stay indoors as measure to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The world's second-largest economy...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested four people for illegally smuggling large quantities of materials used for the treatment and prevention of the coronavirus disease. The arrestees are Anwar...
As the US records the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, many states have imposed restrictions on movement to slow down the progress of the virus – a move that...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that it is not desirable to split as a nation during this crisis moment of coronavirus outbreak. Quader, also Road, Transport...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will reopen factories of their members only after the overall improvement of coronavirus situation in the country. “At this moment, our first and...
Police have arrested a sub-inspector over his alleged links to the shooting death of a man in Gazipur. Kishore Kumar, a bodyguard to Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque,...
The government has taken measures to save the country’s fisheries sector from the possible financial damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic, an official said. Under the move, the Ministry of...
Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in...
The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine. But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in...
Italy’s budget deficit will be near 10 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year, a senior government official told Reuters, as Rome increases borrowing to try to soften...
Millions of rural people, who depend on small loans for financing family ventures and small businesses, cannot borrow money even to meet their emergency needs during the Covid-19 lockdown, said...
The death toll from coronavirus rose to 75 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed 15 more deaths on Friday. This is the largest single day death toll due to the...
A man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been arrested after a video went viral showing him making comments, widely seen as racially derogatory and divisive, about Bangladeshi labour...
Hundreds of dairy farmers in Satkhira are counting huge losses as they have to dump over 50,000 litres of milk every day for lack of demand at every day amid...
Boeing said it will resume commercial airplane production next week in Washington state after suspending operations last month in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and the company’s chief executive told...
Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) soared 15 per cent on Thursday after a media report suggested that severe COVID-19 patients were positively responding to the drugmaker’s experimental treatment remdesivir....
US small businesses may need up to $500 billion a month to ensure their survival through the coronavirus crisis, the head of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the need for more global cooperation to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and voiced support for the WHO after the United States cut its funding....
During the early days of March, Jill Fopiano was having trouble sleeping, waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning, maybe 4 o’clock. She’d been watching news of a virus...
The first case of the coronavirus infection was detected in Feni after test result of a man there came out positive on Thursday. The victim, who used to work in...
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-holiest site said on...
Two youths who had been suffering from fever and cold in separate places of Rangamati district died on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Thuisasing Marma, 21 of Rajosthali upazila...
As the country’s economy has come to a standstill due to the ongoing public holiday aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, experts have urged the government to look both...
China’s economy shrank for the first time since at least 1992 in the first quarter, as the coronavirus outbreak paralysed production and spending, raising pressure on authorities to do more...
Dhaka on Friday morning ranked 4th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) amid the ongoing national shutdown for novel coronavirus. The capital city of Bangladesh had a score of...
A daughter of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and several Mexican cartels have been doling out aid packages to help cash-strapped residents ride out the coronavirus pandemic. In...
A young man has been shot dead allegedly by one of his friends, who is the bodyguard of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur...
President Donald Trump laid out new guidelines on Thursday for US states to emerge from a coronavirus shutdown in a staggered, three-stage approach meant to revive the US economy even...
Fifty-seven Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India due to coronavirus lockdown, returned home through Benapole check-post under a special arrangement on Thursday. Subhankar Kumar Mandal, medical officer of Benapole...
Bangladesh is preparing a list of the healthcare professionals who refrained themselves from caring patients since it reported COVID-19 fatalities from mid-March, officials concerned said. The move came following a...
The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today (Friday), marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971. Senior leaders of Awami League assembled...
Existing infrastructures and limited banking service do not support the continuation of trading in the capital market amid ongoing lockdown enforced by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19....
The government has asked the central bank to double the existing deferred payment period for commercial import to help ensure supply chain of commodities during this COVID-19 pandemic situation. To...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) received fewer VAT returns this month from the businesses amid lockdown, now in place due to the COVID-19 outbreak. As VAT offices remained open...
Prices of essentials items like ginger, garlic, onion, potato and loose soybean witnessed further hike in the city markets last week, battering consumers during this stay-at-home period. Chicken, egg and...
The arrival of the first ready metro rail from Japan remains uncertain for a shipment delay after completion of a factory trial run due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sources said...
Daily income of poverty-stricken population in the country plummeted by 76 per cent during the first week of April compared to February in the wake of virus-induced lockdown, a new...
The government has once again extended the deadline for hajj registration until April 30 considering the outbreak of coronavirus. The Religious Affairs Ministry issued a notice on Thursday in this...
As the spectre of a virus looms large the world over, Japanese film giant Fuji films has developed an anti-viral drug Favipiravir. It was for the first time put into...
Bangladesh is destined to lose the tremendous economic growth momentum it has been witnessing in recent years. The sub-microscopic novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc across the world has already...
The allocation of Tk 50 billion for farmers euphemistically called a stimulus package could not come at a more proper time. Although there is no reason for price hike of...
The question of rice yield from the coming Boro season is bothering the policymakers as well as others concerned. The foremost reason behind this is without doubt the coronavirus-induced lockdown...
Central to conventional post-Covid-19 wisdom is that neo-liberalism has run its course, the only puzzle remaining what it will be replaced by. The answer is emerging in fits and starts...
The nations of the developed world have responded to the Covid-19 crisis by supporting their domestic economies and financial systems in bold and unprecedented ways, on a scale that would...
Four workers of the government’s disease control agency IEDCR have tested positive for the coronavirus, sending their close contacts and the institute’s chief Meerjady Sabrina Flora into quarantine. Nasima Sultana,...
The exhortations by the higher authorities to remain indoors and isolated must have sounded baffling to many in the beginning. But mankind itself has made this situation. By nature, man...
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