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Asian shares hit by surging coronavirus cases, US stimulus woes
10:02 AM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayAsian stocks markets fell on Tuesday as soaring global coronavirus cases and slow progress on a U.S. stimulus deal hammered investor sentiment and took a toll on Wall Street...
Wave of new COVID-19 cases crashes across US and Europe as winter looms
09:07 AM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayThe United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose...
Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to US Supreme Court
08:43 AM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayThe US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the general election...
Ronaldinho tests positive for COVID-19
05:16 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayFormer Brazil striker Ronaldinho Gaucho said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating...
Poet, filmmaker Tokon Thakur gets bail
04:23 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayA Dhaka court has granted bail to poet and filmmaker Tokon Thakur in a case filed for embezzling government funds. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sufian Mohammad Noman passed the order on Monday. Earlier on Sunday night, Tokon was arrested from New Market area in the capital...
Coronavirus: 15 die, 1436 infected, 1493 recover in 24 hours
03:49 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 5,818 as 15 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 1,436 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 400,051. Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Monday...
France urges Arab nations to prevent boycotts over Macron’s cartoons defence
03:14 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayFrance has urged Middle Eastern countries to end calls for a boycott of its goods in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad...
Haji Selim’s son Erfan arrested
01:51 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Irfan Selim, son of lawmaker Haji Selim and councilor of ward 30 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in a case filed over an attack on a navy officer and a death threat...
Malaysia’s PM faces calls to quit after failed bid for emergency rule
01:17 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayMalaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Monday as doubts swirled over the support that he commands, after the king rejected his request to declare a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus epidemic...
Imran Khan asks Facebook CEO to ban Islamophobic content
12:34 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayPakistan’s prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site, warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims, the government said on Sunday...
Attack on navy officer: Case filed against Hazi Selim’s son
12:08 PM, 26 Oct 2020 MondayA case has been filed against Irfan Selim, son of lawmaker Hazi Selim and councilor of ward 30 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and three others over an attack on a navy officer and giving a death threat to him...
Covid: Spain imposes national night-time curfew to curb infections
11:24 AM, 26 Oct 2020 MondaySpain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections...
AL’s door shut for rapists: Quader
09:54 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the party’s door has forever been shut for rapists and abusers of women...
Soumitra Chatterjee’s condition ‘very critical’: Doctors
09:49 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayThe health condition of legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee deteriorated to “very critical” on Sunday, doctors treating him at a private hospital here said...
Biman, US-Bangla to resume flights to India Oct 28-29
09:40 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayUS-Bangla Airlines, the country’s largest private carrier, will resume flight operation to India’s two designations – Kolkata and Chennai – from October 28 while the national flag carrier Biman will reopen its New Delhi flight from Oct 29...
Brilliant Sumon Khan five-for dismisses Nazmul XI to 173
09:32 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundaySumon Khan claimed a five-for, by showing a gem of fast bowling as his side Mahmudullah XI shot Nazmul XI out for 173 in 47.1 overs in the final of the BCB President’s Cup at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Sunday, reports BSS...
PM Modi has ‘decided’ date of war with China, Pakistan: UP BJP chief
09:20 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayIn a controversial remark, BJP’s Uttar Pradesh chief Swatantra Dev Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided when the country would be at war with Pakistan and China...
Chinese city finds over 100 new coronavirus cases linked to first positive
08:57 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayThe remote city of Kashgar in China’s far west detected more than 100 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the regional health authority said...
Malaysia's king rejects emergency rule in blow to premier
07:12 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayMalaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah rejected on Sunday a request by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for him to declare a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis, saying that he did not see the need, reports Reuters...
Mask-wearing is a state order: Cabinet
05:52 PM, 25 Oct 2020 SundayA cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair on Sunday directed all public and private institutions, haat-bazars (markets), mosques and other places of worship to make mask-wearing compulsory...