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Subhasree Ganguly contracts coronavirus
04:16 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayIndian actress Subhasree Ganguly has tested positive for coronavirus...
Rahul Gandhi tests coronavirus positive
03:55 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayIndia Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has tweeted to say that he has tested positive for Covid-19...
Tigers seek redemption in 1st Test against Sri Lanka
03:43 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayBangladesh national cricket team sought redemption, putting behind the lean form as they take on Sri Lanka in the opening match of the two-match Test series at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy tomorrow (Wednesday)...
PRAN Dairy collects milk from farmers amid lockdown
03:22 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayPRAN Dairy Limited, country’s leading dairy processor, has continued to collect all milk from its contractual dairy farmers at a time when the farmers are facing difficulties to sell milk due to ongoing lockdown across the country to curb the covid-19 transmission...
Actor Jeet tests COVID-19 positive
02:35 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayRenowned Indian actor Jeet has been infected with Coronavirus. The popular actor, who is under home quarantine at present, took to his Twitter handle on Tuesday to announce the news...
Gazette issued extending lockdown till April 28
01:26 PM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayThe government has extended the ongoing lockdown for one more week from April 22 to April 28 to contain the rapid spread of Coronavirus. Cabinet Division issued the gazette notification in this regard on Tuesday. The ongoing lockdown across the country will end on April 21. The government issued the second lockdown from April 14...
PM for global institutions’ primacy to meet vaccine demand
11:51 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayDescribing Covid-19 vaccine as global goods, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh believes in primacy of United Nations and other international institutions to meet everyone’s demand for vaccines and medical requirements on the basis of equity and justice...
India records 1,761 Covid-19 deaths, highest one-day spike
11:28 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayIn a slight drop in the daily Covid-19 infection cases, India registered over 2.59 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, thrusting the caseload in the country to over 1.53 crore, according to the Union health ministry...
Ex-UN chief Ban urges Guterres to engage directly with Myanmar army
10:04 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayFormer U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged his successor on Monday to engage directly with Myanmar's military to prevent an increase in post-coup violence...
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
09:29 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayNASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet...
Cuba has a new leader and it’s not a Castro
08:44 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayMiguel Díaz-Canel has been named first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), the most powerful role on the island. He will be the first person without the name Castro to run Cuba since the 1959 revolution...
Former US Vice President Walter Mondale dies
08:31 AM, 20 Apr 2021 TuesdayWalter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, his family said...
Coronavirus in Bangladesh: 112 more die in 24 hours
05:06 PM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 10,497 as 112 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 4,217 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 723,221. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
European Super League: Premier League’s ‘big six’ agree to join new league
03:31 PM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have agreed to join a new European Super League (ESL)...
Govt to extend lockdown till April 28
02:47 PM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayThe government has decided to extend the ongoing lockdown till April 28 to stop the spread of Coronavirus. State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossen confirmed the matter to Jago News on Monday. Earlier, a virtual inter-ministerial meeting organized by the Cabinet Division was held in this regard around 11am...
Govt mulls extending lockdown, says Quader
12:54 PM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayThe government is mulling extending the nationwide lockdown for one more week to stop spread the Coronavirus. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said this in a video massage from his government residence on Monday...
Mamunul put on 7-day remand
12:06 PM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayA Dhaka court has placed Hefazat-e-islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station over sabotage. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debdas Chandra Adhikari passed the order on Monday...
Covid-19: How India failed to prevent a deadly second wave
11:39 AM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayIn early March, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was "in the endgame" of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as an "example to the world in international co-operation"...
Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row
11:15 AM, 19 Apr 2021 MondayRussia has announced that 20 diplomats from the Czech Republic will be expelled from the country. The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats on Saturday. Czech local intelligence agents claim the diplomats are Russian intelligence operatives...
Two quakes rattle Taiwan, no reports of damage
09:37 PM, 18 Apr 2021 SundayA 5.8 magnitude earthquake quickly followed by another at 6.2 struck eastern Taiwan on Sunday, the island's weather bureau said, with no reports of damage...