China-Pakistan Economic Corridor faces new threats from militancy

Since the multibillion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was launched in 2013, there has been cynical scrutiny of the project, arguably more so than other China-backed overseas investments...

Microsoft's TikTok scoop includes Indian ops

Microsoft is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok’s global business, including the viral video app’s operations in India and Europe, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. One investor pegged the value of Tik-Tok’s India business at as much as $10 billion...

Ramendu, Ferdousi Majumdar catch Covid-19

Eminent actor Ramendu Majumder and his wife actress Ferdousi Majumder have tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...

TikTok threatens legal action against Trump US ban

TikTok is threatening legal action against the US after Donald Trump ordered firms to stop doing business with the Chinese app within 45 days...

Microbus kills mountaineer Reshma

Mountaineer Reshma Begum Ratna lost her life in a road near Chandrima Uddyan in Dhaka on Friday morning...

Bangladesh coronavirus cases cross 2,50,000

The number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh exceeded 2,50,000 on Friday as the country recorded 2,851 more infections in the past 24 hours. With this, the total infections of the country stood at 2,52,502, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...

Sirajganj BNP leader dies of Covid-19

Sirajganj district BNP vice-president advocate Rezaul Karim Talukder has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...

Covid-19 also deals a severe blow to Bangladesh’s media industry

At a time when people need credible information, coronavirus has upended Bangladesh’s media industry, hitting hard its revenue generation and claiming the lives of a good number of journalists and infecting many more...

World shares tumble after Trump takes aim at China tech firms

World stock markets tumbled on Friday after US President Donald Trump ratcheted up already-heightened tensions with Beijing by banning US transactions with two popular Chinese apps, Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s Tiktok, reports Reuters...

Trump issues bans on TikTok, WeChat

US President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on US transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent, operator of messenger app WeChat, in a major escalation of tensions with Beijing, reports Reuters...

Anti-govt protests break out Beirut

Protesters clashed with Lebanese security forces at anti-government demonstrations in Beirut on Thursday, reports BBC. Demonstrators were angered by Tuesday's devastating blast, which officials say was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely since 2013. Many in Lebanon say government negligence led to the explosion, which killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others...

Global recovery will come faster if COVID vaccine available to all: WHO chief

Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...

Sinha killing: 3 including ex-Teknaf OC remanded

Former officer in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and two others have been placed on seven-day remand in a case lodged over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan. Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Court judge Md Helal Uddin on Thursday passed the order...

Mauritania PM, govt resign amid corruption probe

Mauritania’s prime minister and his entire government resigned on Thursday, a day after parliamentary investigators probing alleged graft under the previous administration submitted a report whose authors questioned several ministers, reports Reuters...

Stocks end week maintain gaining streak

Mominul, Mustafizur to join individual training programme

While the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) expected some more players to join the individual training programme that resumed on next Saturday (August 8), Test captain Mominul Haque and fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman confirmed their participation...

Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 74 in latest outbreak

At least 74 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization announced Thursday, reports Anadolu Agency. For several months, the DRC has been battling with several diseasing including, Cholera, Ebola, Measles...

Beirut blast: PM Hasina mourns loss of lives

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday expressed deepest condolences over the loss of innocent lives in the deadly explosion that rocked Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday...

BCCI, Vivo suspend IPL title sponsorship ties for 2020

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Vivo Mobile India Pvt Ltd have officially decided to suspend their partnership for the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2020, an IPL media advisory stated, reports Indian Express...

Israel to begin human testing of coronavirus vaccine

The Israel Institute for Biological Research will begin testing its vaccine for the novel coronavirus on humans in September, the Defense Ministry said, reports The Jerusalem Post...