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Coronavirus: Bangladesh reports 32 more deaths
04:45 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe deaths related to the novel coronavirus stood at 5,193 in Bangladesh on Monday, with 32 more fatalities in the past 24 hours. During the period, 1,407 people newly caught the deadly virus, taking the country's tally to 3,60,555, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release...
Japan to gradually lift COVID travel alerts from October
04:24 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayJapan plans to gradually lift overseas travel alerts in October in a bid to spur the removal of entry restrictions implemented in other countries, Nikkei has learned...
Armenian, Azeri forces battle again, 21 killed
03:38 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayAt least 21 people were killed on Monday in a second day of heavy clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh that reportedly involved air power, missiles and heavy armour, reports Reuters...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam laid to rest
02:58 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayAttorney General Mahbubey Alam has been buried at Mirpur Intellectuals Graveyard in the capital. He was buried around 1pm on Monday after a namaz-e-janaza held on the premises of Supreme Court. Pesh Imam of the court’s mosque Abu Saleh Md Salim Ullah conducted the funeral prayer...
Sahed gets life imprisonment
02:21 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayA Dhaka court has sentenced the chairman of Regent Group and Regent Hospital Sahed Karim alias Md Sahed to life imprisonment in a case filed under Arms Act with Uttara police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge K M Imrul Kayesh passed the order on Monday. Earlier, the same court took the charge sheet into cognizance in the case and framed charges against him on August 27...
Genocide of Baloch: Political activists meet UK Cabinet member
02:10 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe Central Spokesperson of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) said on Saturday that a delegation of BNM UK zone under the supervision of their President Hakeem Baloch met the former chairman of the Conservative party and current state minister for Transportation Grant Shapps...
3 workers killed in balcony collapse in Dhanmondi
01:50 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThree workers were killed as a balcony of an under-construction building collapsed on them at Dhanmondi 32 in the capital on Monday. Two of the deceased were identified as Shafiqul, 22 and Insan, 22, hailing from Chapainawabganj...
Post quarantine habits and mindset to adopt
01:07 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayDue to Covid 19, the whole world went through a period of isolation and anxiety, and even though the lockdown has long been lifted, life hasn’t gone back to exactly what it was before it all began. The pandemic raised a number of concerns, for which we may have to change or adopt certain habits and mindset in order to keep ourselves safe, as well as those around us...
Mahbubey Alam’s namaj-e-janaza held
12:35 PM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe namaj-e-janaza of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was held on the Supreme Court premises on Monday morning. His body was taken there around 11am and the namaj-e-janaza was held at 11:30am. The attorney general will be buried at the Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard in the afternoon...
Novel coronavirus "happened naturally": WHO chief
11:38 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated the natural origin of the novel coronavirus. "The virus has happened naturally," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday at a media briefing on COVID-19. "WHO believes in science and evidence and that's why we say science, solutions and solidarity," he said...
Trump ‘paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017’: NY Times
10:49 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe New York Times says Donald Trump paid just $750 (£587) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House...
Gang-rape at MC College: Another accused held
10:13 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested another accused from Fenchuganj upazila early Monday in a case filed over Friday’s gang-rape at MC College...
Global coronavirus death toll passes 1 million
09:29 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil’s jungles to America’s biggest city New York...
TikTok: US judge halts app store ban
08:58 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayA US judge has issued a temporary injunction preventing a ban on future downloads of the TikTok app...
Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment
08:41 AM, 28 Sep 2020 MondayThe nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease - and millions of others may survive...
Those defying leadership can leave GF: Reza Kibria
10:10 PM, 27 Sep 2020 SundayGonoforum (GF) General Secretary Dr Reza Kibria on Sunday said some members of their party have tried to tarnish its image by holding an unauthorised meeting in its name...
Military suicides up as much as 20% in Covid era
09:54 PM, 27 Sep 2020 SundayMilitary suicides have increased by as much as 20% this year compared to the same period in 2019, and some incidents of violent behavior have spiked as service members struggle under COVID-19, war-zone deployments, national disasters and civil unrest...
14-day quarantine will affect players’ fitness: Russell
09:35 PM, 27 Sep 2020 SundayState Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell doesn’t see any logic in staying a 14-day quarantine in Sri Lanka, stating that it will affect cricketers’ fitness badly...
PM’s 74th birthday today
08:34 PM, 27 Sep 2020 SundayThe 74th birthday of Prime Minister and Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina is being celebrated today across the country.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam dies
07:45 PM, 27 Sep 2020 SundayAttorney General Mahbubey Alam has died while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH). He aged 71. He breathed his last at around 7:25pm on Sunday, his son Sumon Mahbub confirmed this in a facebook post. The country's 13th Attorney General left behind wife, a son and a daugher as well as well wishers to mourn...