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Bangladesh reports 46 more coronavirus deaths
03:39 PM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayThe deaths related to the novel coronavirus reached 3,740 in Bangladesh on Tuesday as the country recorded 46 more fatalities from the virus in the past 24 hours. During the period, 3,200 people newly caught the deadly virus, taking the country's tally to 2,82,344, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release...
China says firmly opposes US suppression of Huawei
03:15 PM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayChina said on Tuesday it firmly opposes U.S. suppression of Huawei Technologies Co, after the Trump administration announced it would further tighten restrictions on the company...
Pranab Mukherjee’s vital parameters stable, still on ventilator support
02:59 PM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayFormer President of India Pranab Mukherjee continues to be on ventilator support after undergoing a brain surgery at Army’s Research and Referral (R&R) hospital on August 10...
Indian FS Shringla in city carrying Modi’s message
01:24 PM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayIndian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived in Dhaka on a brief visit on Tuesday carrying a message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shringla will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence and hand over the message he is carrying from Prime Minister Modi, a senior official told UNB...
Sinha murder: 3 APBn men arrested
01:06 PM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayRapid Action Battatlion (RAB) has arrested three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) in connection with the murder case of retired army major Sinha Mohammnad Rashed Khan. RAB sought a 10-day remand after producing them before the court of Cox’s Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on Tuesday...
Country’s first female photographer Sayeeda Khanam dies
11:44 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdaySayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, passed away in the capital early Tuesday. She was 83. The photographer who had been suffering from old age complications breathed her last at her residence in Banani of the capital around 3am...
Moulvibazar Zila Parishad chairman Azizur dies of COVID-19
11:36 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayMoulvibazar Zila Parishad chairman Azizur Rahman died of COVID-19 at a hospital in the capital in the wee hours of Tuesday. Freedom fighter Azizur breathed his last at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) at about 2:30am...
WHO says people in 20s, 30s, 40s increasingly driving pandemic
10:34 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayThe spread of the coronavirus is being increasingly driven by people aged in their 20s, 30s and 40s and many are not aware that they have been infected, the World Health Organisation’s regional director for the Western Pacific said on Tuesday...
8 of a family killed in Mymensingh road accident
09:52 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayEight members of a family were killed in a road accident in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh on Tuesday morning. One child, five women and two men are among the deceased. Pannat, Deputy Director of Mymensingh Fire Service, confirmed the incident to Jago News...
China defends detention of Uighur model in Xinjiang
09:23 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayA Uighur fashion model who filmed himself handcuffed to a bed in an epidemic prevention centre in Xinjiang has been lawfully detained, Chinese officials insist...
Canada finance minister quits amid charity probe
09:08 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayCanada's finance minister has said he will resign after conflict-of-interest allegations involving WE Charity. Bill Morneau has faced pressure to step down after it was revealed he did not repay travel costs covered by WE while on overseas trips to see its work...
Barcelona sack manager Quique Setien after Bayern thrashing
08:29 AM, 18 Aug 2020 TuesdayBarcelona have sacked manager Quique Setien, three days after his side's humiliating 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League...
Feels good to be back to playing cricket: Tamim
05:44 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayBangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal said he is happy to be back to the field although only for practice after a long gap of five months...
‘Hottest temperature on Earth’ as Death Valley, US hits 54.4C
04:44 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayWhat could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth - 130F (54.4C) - has been reached in Death Valley National Park in California...
Coronavirus: 37 die, 2595 infected, 1641 recover in 24 hours
03:25 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 3,694 as 37 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,595 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 279,144. Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Monday noon...
PM donates Tk 1cr to Buddhist community
03:13 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has donated Tk 1 crore to the Buddhist community for celebrating their second largest festival - Probarona Purnima - in a befitting manner...
Sylhet coronavirus cases reach 9,369
02:16 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayWith detection of 70 new coronavirus patients, the number of confirmed cases rose to 9,369 in the Sylhet division on Monday...
China grants country’s first COVID-19 vaccine patent to CanSino
01:12 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayChina’s vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent approval from Beijing for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, state media reported, citing documents from the country’s intellectual property regulator. It is the first COVID-19 vaccine patent granted by China, state-owned newspaper People’s Daily reported on Sunday...
Cross-border travel between Singapore and Malaysia kicks off
12:58 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayFactory operator Nurul Hidayah Norezan was among dozens of Malaysians who made their way across the Causeway to Singapore on Monday (Aug 17), as the two countries' cross-border travel arrangements kick in...
10 die with coronavirus symptoms at CMCH in 24 hours
12:28 PM, 17 Aug 2020 MondayTen more people died with coronavirus symptoms at Cumilla Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) in the last 24 hours. Of them, seven are male and three are female. Dr Md Mujibur Rahman, Director of the hospital, confirmed the deaths to Jago News...