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Coronavirus death toll passes 2,300
02:41 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayThirty more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,305. Besides, the confirmed coronavirus cases in the country reached 181,129 as 2,686 more cases were detected in the last 24 hours. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this while presenting the daily health bulletin on Saturday...
Adeeba of Malaysia announced as first Asian President of IAS
02:32 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayIAS has announced nine newly elected and three re-elected members to its Governing Council. Adeeba Kamarulzaman of Malaysia is the new IAS President and Sharon Lewin of Australia the President-Elect, with Jennifer Kates of the United States serving as Treasurer, says a press release...
Singapore ruling PAP party wins elections
02:11 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdaySingapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has retained power in Friday's general election but with a reduced majority, final results show...
Iran will develop oil industry despite US sanctions: Oil Minister
01:50 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayIran is determined to develop its oil industry in spite of U.S. sanctions imposed on the country, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said in a televised speech on Saturday...
Floods, landslides kill 23 in Nepal, dozens missing
01:08 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayHeavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday...
Bogura RDA director general dies of Covid-19
12:36 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayMd Aminul Islam, director general of Bogura Rural Development Academy (RDA), died from coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning...
Sahara Khatun buried at Banani graveyard
12:21 PM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayAwami League Presidium Member and former home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun, MP, was buried beside her mother’s grave at Banani graveyard at 11:45am on Saturday. Earlier, her namaz-e-janaza was held at Banani mosque premises following health guidelines around 11am...
Maryland man may be first person successfully vaccinated against COVID-19
11:59 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayA Maryland man believes he may be one of the first people to be successfully vaccinated against the coronavirus after participating in a trial that has reported promising early results in producing antibodies...
Turkey reconverts Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
11:12 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayTurkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul's Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal...
A new world war over technology
10:03 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayNations and companies around the world are being sucked into a running battle over the future of technology between the United States and China, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that is fracturing global supply chains and pushing businesses out of lucrative markets...
Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s prison sentence
09:12 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayPresident Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president’s own conduct...
Kuwait may charge Bangladesh envoy in human trafficking case
08:49 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayDetails of human trafficking in Kuwait which saw the arrest of an MP from Bangladesh suggests that the scandal is not simply a case of one single rouge lawmaker...
US sets record for coronavirus cases 3rd day in a row at nearly 69,000
08:30 AM, 11 Jul 2020 SaturdayNew cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co. stuck to its plans to reopen its flagship theme park in hard-hit Florida...
'We can soon inform about Sahed's arrest'
04:52 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said he can soon inform about arrest of Regent Hospital owner Sahed Karim. "RAB and police both are trying nab him (Sahed). We think we can give information soon," he told reporters at his Dhanmondi residence...
Domestic helps have to live with boss in HK
03:47 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayWhen Marta came to Hong Kong in 2011, she was a 29-year-old single mother, looking for a job that could support her young daughter and sick father back in the Philippines...
Faridpur district council chairman dies of Covid-19
03:05 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayFaridpur district council chairman freedom fighter Md Lokman Hossain Mridha has died of COVID-19. He was 76...
37 more die from coronavirus, new cases 2949
02:40 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayDeaths tally from coronavirus in Bangladesh have reached 2,275 as the country recorded 37 more fatalities in the past 24 hours. During the period, 2,949 people tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused novel coronavirus, taking the country's total to 178,443...
HK to suspend all schools Covid 19 cases surge
02:17 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayHong Kong’s Education Bureau on Friday announced the suspension of all schools from Monday after a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases that has fuelled fears of a renewed community spread in the city, reports Reuters...
Bolivian president has coronavirus
01:13 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayBolivia’s interim president and Venezuela’s No. 2 leader announced Thursday that they have been infected with the new coronavirus, just days after Brazil’s leader tested positive as the pandemic hits hard at some of Latin America’s political elite...
US sanctions on Chinese over Uighurs 'abuse'
12:58 PM, 10 Jul 2020 FridayThe US has announced sanctions against Chinese politicians who it says are responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, reports BBC...