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Covid: Germany limits use of AstraZeneca Covid jab for under-60s
08:31 AM, 31 Mar 2021 WednesdayGermany is suspending routine use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for people aged below 60 because of a risk of rare blood clots. The German medicines regulator found 31 cases of a type of rare blood...
No excuses, but just seemed to stack all against us: Domingo
09:42 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayBangladesh head coach Russell Domingo refused to show any excuse for their defeat against New Zealand in the second T20 match that cost them the three-match series but said that the DLS confusion and conditions stacked against them at McLean Park in Napier today...
UK MP says she suffered sexual assault at school
09:18 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayA Conservative MP who led a bombshell report on sexual violence in schools five years ago has said she suffered sexual assault at school...
Poland striker out of World Cup qualifier against England
08:58 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayPoland striker Robert Lewandowski will miss Wednesday's 2022 World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley with a knee injury...
Japan score 14 in World Cup qualifier
08:51 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayLiverpool's Takumi Minamino scored as Japan put 14 goals past Mongolia in a World Cup 2022 qualifier...
Lexus to introduce over 10 electric vehicles by 2025
07:59 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayLexus, a luxury auto brand owned by Toyota Motor Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to introduce 20 new or improved models by 2025, of which more than 10 will be electric...
Bahrain appoints head of diplomatic mission to Israel
07:26 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayBahrain has appointed Khalid Al Jalahma as head of its diplomatic mission to Israel, state news agency BNA reported on Tuesday following a deal to establish relations last year...
Gazipur MP hospitalized with Covid-19 infection
07:02 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdaySimen Hussain Rimi, a Awami League lawmaker from Gazipur-4, was admitted to a hospital in capital Dhaka with coronavirus infection on Tuesday afternoon...
US to seize Top Glove products over labour abuses
06:08 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayUS Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has ordered the seizure of disposable gloves made by Malaysia's Top Glove...
Sexual assault allegations: Actor dropped from another film
05:07 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayAmerican actor Armie Hammer has been dropped from another film in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against him, reports claim...
Kiwis seal T20I series, too
04:32 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayAfter they had sealed three-match ODI series against Bangladesh, New Zealand clinched the three-match T20I series, too...
Coronavirus: Govt reports 45 more deaths
04:02 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayBangladesh government reported 45 more COVID-19 deaths and 5,042 new cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the country's total infections and fatalities reached respectively 6,05,937 and 8,994, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday...
Habiganj-2 MP Majid Khan tests Covid-19 positive
03:56 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayHabiganj-2 lawmaker Md Abdul Majid Khan has tested positive for COVID-10, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...
Aguero to leave Man City at end of season
03:33 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayRecord goalscorer Sergio Aguero will leave Manchester City at the end of the season, the club has announced...
Corona infected Abdul Matin shifted to ICU
02:23 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayFormer law minister and Awami League presidium member advocate Abdul Matin Khasru was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital on Sunday night...
Public transport to run at half capacity
12:26 PM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayThe government has decided to run public transport with half of its capacity to stop spread of Coronavirus. Besides, the government has also increased the bus fare by 60 percent. The decision will be effective from Wednesday and will remain in force for the next two weeks, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today...
Former Minneapolis officer goes on trial on charge of murdering Floyd
10:51 AM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayFormer Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin betrayed his badge by “grinding” his knee into George Floyd’s neck during a deadly arrest last May...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro shuffles Cabinet as COVID-19 pressure mounts
09:33 AM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made six Cabinet changes on Monday in the biggest ministerial reshuffle since he took office as pressure mounts on the far-right leader over his handling of the pandemic that has killed over 300,000 in the country...
Myanmar death toll tops 500 as protesters stage ‘garbage strike’
09:07 AM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayMyanmar protesters held overnight candle-lit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a Feb. 1 coup, and as activists on Tuesday launched a new civil disobedience campaign to hurl garbage onto streets...
Pakistan’s president tests positive for COVID-19
08:46 AM, 30 Mar 2021 TuesdayPakistan’s President Arif Alvi has tested positive for COVID-19, he said on Twitter on Monday, after receiving his first dose of a vaccine...