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NU honours 4th year viva exam to be held online
07:15 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayThe National University authorities have decided to hold the viva exam of honours fourth year of 2019 online...
Govt mulls resuming public transports amid pandemic
05:49 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayRoad Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that the government is considering resuming the public transports on conditions and maintaining health guidelines in public interest amid the ongoing lockdown over COVID-19 pandemic...
Cambodia closes markets to curb coronavirus
05:00 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayCambodia closed all markets in the capital Phnom Penh on Saturday to contain a spike in coronavirus infections as thousands of families plead for food during a two-week lockdown...
Coronavirus: New deaths 83, cases 2697
04:18 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdaySome 83 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 10,952. During the period, 2,697 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 7,42,400, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday...
Covid-19: Thailand curbs shopping mall hours
03:51 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayThailand curbed shop operating hours on Saturday after the country recorded another record daily rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths amid a third wave of the pandemic...
Iran to bar travellers from India over Covid-19 variant
03:30 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayIran said on Saturday that it would bar travellers from India over a COVID-19 variant to avert its spread in the already stricken country...
Indonesia submarine search feared to have failed as oxygen runs out
02:32 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayIndonesian rescue teams are fearing the worst as oxygen supplies on a missing Indonesian naval submarine are thought to have run out...
Dimuth and Dhananjaya chip away at Bangladesh’s lead
01:40 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayDimuth Karunaratne reached his 11th Test century as Sri Lanka had a near-perfect session on the fourth morning. They are now just 12 runs short of avoiding the follow-on, and are set up to challenge Bangladesh's total of 541 for 7...
Oxygen shortage: 20 COVID-19 patients die in Delhi Hospital
01:25 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayAs many as 20 critically-ill COVID-19 patients died at Jaipur Golden Hospital in India’s capital Delhi on Friday night due to low stock of oxygen. The hospital on Saturday morning also has oxygen for only 45 minutes and they sought for urgent government help...
India records highest daily spike with 3.46 lakh COVID-19 cases
12:14 PM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayIndia recorded 3,46,786 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, setting yet another grim one-day record, taking the overall caseload to 1,62,63,695, according to data from the Union Health Ministry...
2 madrasa teachers killed as truck hits motorcycle
11:39 AM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayTwo madrasa teachers were killed and another teacher was injured as a truck hit a motorcycle on Natore-Bagura highway at Ferryghat bridge area in Singra upazila of Natore on Saturday morning...
Coronavirus: Delhi reports record 348 deaths in 24 hours
10:26 AM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayIndia’s capital Delhi on Friday logged 348 Covid-linked deaths - its biggest single-day spike in the death count. The city also reported 24,331 new coronavirus cases amid the rapid second wave of the pandemic...
India Covid crisis: Hospitals buckle under record surge
09:04 AM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayIndia's healthcare system is buckling as a record surge in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies. Families are left pleading for their relatives who are desperately ill, with some patients left untreated for hours...
Myanmar army chief set to make first foreign trip since coup
08:39 AM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayThe head of the Myanmar military is set to meet international leaders, in what will be his first known foreign trip since the army took power in a coup...
US lifts pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccine
08:20 AM, 24 Apr 2021 SaturdayUS health regulators have lifted an 11-day pause on the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 jab, but will add a warning label about the potential for extremely rare blood clots. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel earlier approved restarting US rollout of the shot...
BNP is ‘visible patron’ of anti-liberation, fanatic forces: Quader
06:13 PM, 23 Apr 2021 FridayAwami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is the ‘visible patron’ of anti-liberation and extreme communal evil forces...
Hefazat leader Ehteshamul put on 4-day remand
04:54 PM, 23 Apr 2021 FridayHefazat-e-Islam's Dhaka city assistant office secretary Mawlana Ehteshamul Haque Sakhi has been placed on a four-day remand in a case filed over the violence at Shapla Chattar in the capital's Motijheel on May 5, 2013...
Coronavirus: New deaths 88, cases 3629
04:31 PM, 23 Apr 2021 FridaySome 88 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 10,869. During the period, 3,629 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 7,39,703, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday...
Over 100 injured in East Jerusalem clashes
04:11 PM, 23 Apr 2021 FridayScores of people have been injured in clashes in East Jerusalem between far-right Jewish activists, Palestinians and Israeli police...
Oscars 2021: Who will win – and who should?
04:02 PM, 23 Apr 2021 FridayNicholas Barber: Chloé Zhao's Nomadland is a small, personal, year-in-the-life narrative, but it's also an epic road movie that boasts breath-taking desert scenery, and a state-of-the-nation treatise on growing old in the US today...