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Najib Razak ordered to pay $400M tax bill
05:09 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayA Malaysian court on Wednesday ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to settle 1.69 billion ringgit ($397.41 million) in unpaid taxes over seven years while he was still in office, according to a report by national newswire Bernama...
US orders closure of China's consulate in Houston
04:07 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe United States has ordered the closure of China's consulate in the city of Houston, a move Beijing called "an unprecedented escalation" that will sabotage relations between the world's two biggest economies...
Benapole custom not releasing goods thru’ digital certificate
04:00 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayMany goods are stranded at Benapole Custom House, the country’s largest land port, as it didn’t accept the digitally signed copies of the Certificate of Origin (Entrepreneur Certificate) issued under the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA)...
Cargo plane catches fire at Shanghai airport
03:46 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayA Boeing 777 cargo plane of the Ethiopian Airlines caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, the airport said. The fire was spotted at around 3:56 p.m. and has been put out, reports Xinhua...
First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered
03:40 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe first active leak of methane from the sea floor in Antarctica has been revealed by scientists...
Use modern methods to save local fishes from extinction: PM
03:21 PM, 22 Jul 2020 Wednesday“The Prime Minister has asked the people to protect the native species of fish from extinction coming out of the traditional fish farming methods by adopting advanced and modern systems,” said PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim...
Saima Wazed made CVF ‘Thematic Ambassador’
02:47 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdaySaima Wazed Hossain, Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, has been chosen as a “Thematic Ambassador” by Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) under the thematic domain of ‘Vulnerability’...
42 more die from coronavirus in 24 hours
02:36 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 2,751 as 42 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,744 more have been infected with the virus, raising the number of such cases to 213,254. Professor Nasima Sultana, ADG of the Directorate General of Health Services, said while presenting the daily health bulletin on Wednesday...
Saudi king chairs cabinet meeting from hospital, in stable condition
12:58 PM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdaySaudi King Salman held a cabinet meeting via video call from hospital in the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, a day after the 84-year-old monarch was admitted with what state media said was inflammation of the gall bladder...
Trump says virus in US will get worse before it gets better
11:40 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayPresident Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the “nasty horrible’” coronavirus will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better, but he also tried to paint a rosy picture of efforts to conquer the disease that has claimed more than 140,000 American lives in just five months...
3 simple acts can stop Covid-19 outbreaks, study finds
11:08 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayIf people washed their hands regularly, wore masks, and kept their social distance from each other, these three simple behaviors could stop most all of the Covid-19 pandemic, even without a vaccine or additional treatments, according to a new study...
Suu Kyi to run again in November election
09:37 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayMyanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will be a candidate in this November’s general election, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party said Tuesday...
9 Colombian military personnel die following helicopter accident
09:20 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayAt least nine members of Colombia’s military died on Tuesday when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying them in operations against FARC guerrilla dissidents in the Andean country’s Guaviare province was involved in an accident, the army reported...
Afghan girl kills 2 Taliban militants in fightback
09:00 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayA teenage Afghan girl has been hailed on social media for her "heroism" after fighting back last week against Taliban militants who killed her parents...
US records over 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day
08:45 AM, 22 Jul 2020 WednesdayU.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus rose by more than 1,000 on Tuesday, the biggest single-day increase since early June, according to a Reuters tally. After weeks of declining fatalities, there were more than 5,200 U.S. COVID-19 deaths in the week ended July 19, up 5% from the previous seven days, a Reuters analysis found...
Prominent Pak journo 'goes missing' in Islamabad
10:02 PM, 21 Jul 2020 TuesdayRights groups have demanded information on the whereabouts of a prominent Pakistani journalist, known for his criticism of the country's powerful military, after he reportedly disappeared on Tuesday...
Transshipment: Indian goods-laden ship arrives at Ctg port for trial run
09:41 PM, 21 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe goods laden ship ‘MV Sejuti’ from India, has arrived at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port here on Tuesday...
Russia’s first COVID-19 vaccine ready
09:17 PM, 21 Jul 2020 TuesdayRussia’s first vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection, which was created by military specialists and scientists of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, is ready, First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov told Argumenty i Fakty newspaper...
Bangladesh makes wearing masks mandatory
08:44 PM, 21 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe government on Tuesday ordered its citizens to wear masks whenever they go out of homes to limit the transmission of coronavirus. A circular was issued by the health ministry in the afternoon, reports UNB...
Bangladesh to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha Aug 1
08:30 PM, 21 Jul 2020 TuesdayEid-ul-Azha will be celebrated in Bangladesh on August 1 as the Zil Hajj moon was not seen anywhere of the country on Tuesday...