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Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
03:31 PM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdaySeven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world’s scientists and citizens have reached an unsettling crossroads...
33 die, 3533 infected in 24 hours
02:36 PM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh has reached 2,457 as 33 more people died in the last 24 hours. Besides, 3,533 more have been detected with the virus, raising the number of such cases to 193,590. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said during the health bulletin on Wednesday...
Public transport to remain shut for 9 days during Eid
01:51 PM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe government has decided to keep the public transport closed for nine days during Eid-ul-Azha to stop spread of coronavirus. The public transport will remain shut for five days before and three days after the Eid. A letter has been sent from Cabinet Division to the concerned ministries and divisions in this regard...
Coronavirus: Smokers quit in highest numbers in a decade
01:05 PM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayMore than one million people have given up smoking since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, a survey for charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) suggests...
Andrew Kishore laid to rest
12:19 PM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayRenowned singer Andrew Kishore was laid to eternal rest beside his parents’ graves at Christian cemetery at Sreerampur area in Rajshahi at 11:30am on Wednesday...
Over 2,500 games removed from Apple’s China App Store
11:36 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayMore than 2,500 mobile games were removed from Apple’s China app store in the first week of July, four times as many in the same period in June, after Apple closed a loophole to comply with Chinese licence requirements, data from SensorTower showed...
Flash floods kill 16, displace hundreds in Indonesia
11:24 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayFlash floods and landslides have killed at least 16 people and displaced hundreds in a district on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials at the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Wednesday...
Trump administration rescinds rule on int’l students
10:56 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online next semester because of the coronavirus pandemic...
Pathao co-founder Fahim murdered in New York
10:24 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayNew York police found a limbless, headless body believed to be of co-founder of Bangladeshi ride-sharing app Pathao inside his swanky Manhattan condo on Tuesday afternoon...
Trump says he has ended preferential treatment for Hong Kong
09:54 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayUS President Donald Trump has signed an order to end preferential treatment for Hong Kong, after China enacted a new security law for the ex-British colony...
First COVID-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing
09:08 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday - as the shots are poised to begin key final testing...
Sahed arrested in Satkhira, flown to Dhaka by helicopter
08:31 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayChairman of Regent Group Sahed Karim alias Md Sahed has been arrested from the border area of Debhata upazila in Satkhira in providing fake coronavirus certificates and embezzling money from patients. Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested him with a firearms in a special drive...
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
09:58 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027...
Fake Covid-19 certificates: Regent Group MD held
08:54 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Regent Group's managing director Masud Parvez in a case filed for issuing fake COVID-19 certificates. He is the second accused in the case and believed to be one of the aides of the group chairman Sahed's deception. He was arrested from Gazipur on Tuesday night, the elite force confirmed...
DGHS, Health Ministry not at loggerheads: Zahid Maleque
07:24 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayHealth Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the ministry and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) do not have any problem with each other. He came up with the remark while responding to reporters at a briefing in his office, reports UNB...
China uses corrupt leaders to make inroads into economically weaker countries like Nepal: Report
07:01 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayChina uses corrupt leaders of economically weak countries to make inroads into those nations- Nepal being a case in point, suggests a report in Global Watch Analysis...
ECNEC approves 8 projects with Tk 10,102cr
06:45 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved eight projects with an overall estimated cost of Taka 10,102.03 crore, including a Tk 4,025.62 crore project to develop road infrastructures and drainage system in newly included 18 wards under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)...
UK prepares to change course on Huawei
05:51 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe UK government is preparing to change course over the role of Huawei in its 5G telecoms network...
China's incursions into India really all about Tibet
05:45 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayIf a stone rolls down a mountain and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?..
Jamuna Group chairman Babul laid to rest
05:08 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayJamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul, who died of COVID-19 on Monday, has been laid to rest. The freedom fighter and eminent businessman was buried with state honours at Banani graveyard around 2:50pm on Tuesday...