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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon reaches highest level
03:14 PM, 19 Nov 2021 FridayDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has jumped 22% in the latest 12-month period, reaching its highest level since 2006, data from the country's space agency shows. Between August 2020 and July 2021, trees were felled from land measuring 13,235 square km (5,110 square miles), the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said...
Australia Test captain Paine steps down
12:50 PM, 19 Nov 2021 FridayTim Paine has stepped down as the captain of Australia's Test cricket team after revealing he was investigated for a sexting scandal...
Modi repeals controversial farm laws
12:10 PM, 19 Nov 2021 FridayIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the repeal of three controversial farm laws after a year of protests...
Six killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw
11:40 AM, 19 Nov 2021 FridayIdentities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police and locals said a bus of 'Hanif Paribahan' hit an auto-rickshaw in Bakchar area on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway around 7:30 am, leaving three dead on the spot and five others injured...
Pfizer signs $5.3 billion US deal to supply Covid-19 antiviral pills
09:08 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayPfizer Inc said on Thursday it had signed a $5.29 billion deal with the US government to deliver 10 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug, as the country rushes to secure promising oral treatments for the disease...
New Pak law allows chemical castration of serial rapists
07:58 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayPakistan has introduced chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists under a law that also calls for faster trials of suspected sexual offenders, a government official said on Thursday...
Teacher gets life in prison for raping student
06:31 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayA court in Rangpur on Thursday sentenced a school teacher to life in prison for raping one of his students in the last year...
Govt records 244 new Covid cases, 5 deaths
04:59 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayThe government recorded 244 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths in the last 24 hours...
Israel, UAE to jointly develop unmanned military, commercial vessels
04:27 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayEmirati and Israeli state-owned weapons makers on Thursday signed a strategic agreement in Dubai to jointly design unmanned vessels capable of carrying out anti-submarine warfare...
ADB approves $150m for small enterprises in Bangladesh
03:54 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 million loan to Bangladesh to provide financing for cottage, micro, and small-sized enterprises (CMSEs) operated by youth, returning migrant workers and rural entrepreneurs, particularly women, who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic...
AstraZeneca Covid-19 antibody drug offers 83% protection over six months
03:26 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayAstraZeneca on Thursday cemented its lead in bringing a preventative COVID-19 shot for the non-infected to market for people who do not respond well to vaccines, saying its antibody drug cocktail offered 83% protection over six months...
Tigers face off Pakistan for new start after T20 WC shamble
02:32 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayBangladesh are keen to bounce back from the Twenty20 World Cup shamble as they take on visiting Pakistan in the first of three-match series of the shortest format of the cricket at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium tomorrow (Friday)...
Philippines tells China to ‘back off’ after South China Sea clash
01:26 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayThree ships from the Chinese coastguard blocked and fired water cannons on two Philippines supply boats within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippines has said...
RMCH records one more fatality in Covid-19 unit
12:43 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded one more fatality in its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 6am today...
UN adopts Rohingya resolution by consensus
12:22 PM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayThe United Nations (UN) has adopted a resolution on 'The situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar' by consensus for the first time. The resolution was jointly tabled by the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU)...
‘Life back to normal’: More COVID-19 curbs eased in Melbourne
11:58 AM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayMelbourne's pubs and cafes can have unlimited patrons from Thursday night, while stadiums can return to full capacity as authorities lifted nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions for the vaccinated residents in Australia's second-largest city...
Myanmar students boycott classes following school reopening
10:24 AM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayAs schools reopen across Myanmar, classrooms remain almost completely empty with students and teachers refusing to attend...
Vancouver storm: British Columbia declares state of emergency
09:33 AM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayA state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian western province of British Columbia after a major storm cut road and rail links in the region...
‘We will all die’: In Kenya, prolonged drought takes heavy toll
09:05 AM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayAs if in a macabre parade, cattle carcasses line the two sides of the dusty road leading into Biyamadow, a sleepy village in northern Kenya’s Wajir county. The grisly spectacle of dismembered animals rotting beneath the scorching sun is the result of a prolonged drought that has been pushing pastoral communities...
14 anti-coup protesters killed in Sudan
08:36 AM, 18 Nov 2021 ThursdayThousands of people have taken part in protests against last month’s coup in Sudan, with security forces shooting dead at least 14 people and wounding dozens of others, medics said. The fatalities - all in the capital Khartoum, especially its northern districts - raised the death toll to 38 following protests since the military seized power...