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America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
04:27 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayState and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot...
DPDC faces delay in project implementation
03:49 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayAlthough six months have elapsed after coronavirus struck in China, still Chinese engineers and workers could not return to Bangladesh from their homeland causing excessive delay in a top priority project of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC)...
Coronavirus: Singapore slumps into recession
03:25 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdaySingapore’s economy plunged into recession last quarter as an extended lockdown shuttered businesses and decimated retail spending, a sign of the pain the pandemic is wreaking across export-reliant Asian nations...
Coronavirus recoveries pass 1 lakh in Bangladesh
02:42 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Bangladesh has crossed 1 lakh. New recoveries jumped by 4,910, bringing the nationwide total to 103,227. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this while presenting the daily health bulletin on Tuesday...
Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G
02:23 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayFinnish telecom equipment maker Nokia launched on Tuesday software which enables mobile operators to upgrade their 4G radio stations to new 5G technology without visiting the site or replacing equipment...
Andrew Kishore’s funeral tomorrow
01:57 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayLegendary playback singer Andrew Kishore’s funeral will be held in Rajshahi city tomorrow (Wednesday), his brother-in-law Dr Patrick Bipul Biswas said today...
Ershad’s first death anniversary today
01:22 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayJatiya Party (JP) has taken elaborate programmes to observe the first death anniversary of the party’s founder Hussain Muhammad Ershad today, maintaining the social distancing in wake of the COVID-19 situation...
Rhea pens emotional note for Sushant
12:31 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdaySushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty has penned an emotional note on the actor, saying she is yet to come to terms with the actor’s death. She has shared two pictures of them together along with an open letter to the late actor...
No Eid holidays for govt, private, autonomous officials
11:21 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe government officials including officials of private and autonomous organisations have been asked not to leave their work stations during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holiday to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country...
CPJ names Shahidul among 4 for Int’l Press Freedom Awards 2020
10:49 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Committee to Protect Journalists named prominent Bangladeshi photo journalist Shahidul Alam and three others from Iran, Nigeria, and Russia for the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards...
WHO sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by 1 million in 5 days
10:33 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be no return...
Tiger population at risk in Sundarbans: 38 tigers died in 20 years
10:08 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayA total of 38 tigers died in the last 20 years in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Within a gap of five months, the Forest Department found two dead tigers one in the Sundarbans West Andharmanki Forest Camp area and the other in Sundarban West Division area...
Voting in Bogura-1, Jashore-6 by-polls begins
09:18 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayVoting in Bogura-1 and Jashore-4 by-polls began this morning amid public health concerns over coronavirus. The voting began at 9am and will continue till 5pm without any break. Six candidates are running in Bogura-1, while three in Jashore-6...
California shuts down businesses, schools as coronavirus outbreak grows
09:05 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayCalifornia’s governor on Monday clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August...
Nations heading in wrong direction with COVID-19: WHO
08:27 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe coronavirus pandemic will get "worse and worse" if governments fail to take more decisive action, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "too many countries [were] headed in the wrong direction"...
Sheikh Hasina Medical University to be built in Khulna
05:38 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayThe cabinet today in principle gave a nod to a draft law to build a medical university in Khulna division to be named after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as a part of the government’s measures to expand and develop the scope for higher medical education, research, and healthcare services in the country...
Embryo
04:55 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayWhile washing clothes, Ramija mutters something. In forty-two years of her life, she has got little peace. Now, she’s not only a mother of three children, but a grandmother too. She was married off at fifteen, so is her daughter...
Jamuna Group Chairman Babul dies of COVID-19
04:08 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayJamuna Group Chairman Md Nurul Islam Babul has died from coronavirus. He was 74. Babul, also the owner of the Daily Jugantor and Jamuna Television, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. He left behind his wife and three sons and many well-wishers to mourn his death...
Bangladesh receives first parcel train carrying dry chilies from India
04:04 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayBangladesh has received the first parcel train at Benapole carrying dry Chilies from Andhra Pradesh, India...
Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindzi dies
03:23 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayZindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa's anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported...