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S Korea to tighten social distancing
09:44 AM, 17 Nov 2020 TuesdaySouth Korea will impose stricter social distancing rules for the greater Seoul area a month after easing them, officials said on Tuesday, warning of an even bigger crisis if anti-COVID-19 efforts fail to dampen a spike in new cases...
Suarez to miss Atletico's clash with Barca
09:10 AM, 17 Nov 2020 TuesdayLuis Suárez has tested positive for Covid-19. The striker, who scored a penalty in Uruguay’s 3-0 win over Colombia on Friday, will now miss the crucial World Cup qualifier against Brazil on Tuesday, as well as Atlético Madrid’s match against Barcelona, his former club, on Saturday...
BNP engaged in arson to make by-polls questionable: PM
08:50 AM, 17 Nov 2020 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said BNP has carried out the recent arson attacks on buses on the day of the by elections to make the polls questionable and malign the government...
Moderna says its vaccine 84.5 percent effective
08:35 AM, 17 Nov 2020 TuesdayFor the second time in as many weeks, there is promising news from the race for a COVID-19 vaccine as infections surge across the United States and Europe...
'People may die' as Trump transition stalls: Biden
08:16 AM, 17 Nov 2020 TuesdayJoe Biden has warned "people may die" if his incoming presidential administration continues to be impeded by Donald Trump. Speaking in Delaware, the president-elect said co-ordination was needed to tackle the coronavirus outbreak...
bKash provides ventilators to police hospital
05:32 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayCountry's largest mobile financial service provider, bKash has donated six ventilators to Central Police Hospital (CPH), Dhaka to improve the COVID-19 treatment...
UODA Prof Rahmatullah named among world’s top 2% scientists
05:12 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayProf. Dr. Mohammed Rahmatullah, who has been working since 2002 at the University of Development Alternative as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been selected among the top two percent (2%) of the most cited scientists in the world in a prestigious journal article published by Stanford University-based researchers in the USA...
Coronavirus: 21 die, 2139 infected, 1604 recover in 24 hours
04:04 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 6,215 as 21 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,139 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 434,472. Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Monday...
Fire in Hong Kong apartment building kills 7, injures 11
03:20 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayAuthorities in Hong Kong said at least seven people were killed and 11 injured in a fire at an apartment building that may have started at a Hindu religious gathering...
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad to start direct flights to Israel next year
02:07 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayAbu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Monday it would start daily flights to Tel Aviv in March after the United Arab Emirates and Israel’s established formal ties this year...
US COVID-19 cases cross 11 million as pandemic intensifies
01:36 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayThe number of coronavirus cases in the United States crossed the 11-million mark on Sunday reaching yet another grim milestone, according to a Reuters tally, as the third wave of COVID-19 infections surged across the country...
Ex-Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali dies
12:20 PM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayShawkat Ali, former Deputy Speaker of the National Parliament, has passed away. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka at 9:30 am on Monday. Md Tariq Mahmud, Director of Public Relations of the Parliament Secretariat, confirmed the death to Jago News.
UK PM self-isolating after MP tests positive for Covid-19
11:37 AM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19. The prime minister said he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace on Sunday but is not showing symptoms...
One election won't stop US ‘truth decay’: Barack Obama
11:19 AM, 16 Nov 2020 MondayThe US faces a huge task in reversing a culture of "crazy conspiracy theories" that have exacerbated divides in the country, Barack Obama says. In a BBC interview, the former president says the US is more sharply split than even four years ago, when Donald Trump won the presidency...
National football coach Jamie Day tests Covid-19 positive
09:30 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayBangladesh football team head coach Jamie Day has tested Covid-19 positive. The former Arsenal player tested positive in the routine test carried out on all the players and staff of both Bangladesh and Nepal on Saturday, the day after the hosts' 2-0 win against the visitors...
Soumitra cremated with full state honours in Kolkata
08:35 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayLegendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was cremated with full state honours and a gun salute in Kolkata on Sunday evening...
PM opens pavilion on Bangabandhu at JS
07:28 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened a pavilion “Prodorshonite Bangabandhu” (Bangabandhu on display) at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) here this afternoon...
Home Minister, secretary test positive for coronavirus
06:29 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayHome Minister Asaduzzman Khan and senior secretary to the public security division of the ministry Mostafa Kamal Uddin tested positive for coronavirus. Asaduzzaman and Mostafa Kamal are in isolation at their residences in the city...
Covid-19: Normal life back next winter, says vaccine creator
05:55 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayThe impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said...
Coronavirus: 21 die, 1837 infected, 1694 recover in 24 hours
04:29 PM, 15 Nov 2020 SundayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 6,194 as 21 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 1,837 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 432,333. Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Saturday...