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Global Covid-19 death toll exceeds 1.2 million
10:53 AM, 03 Nov 2020 TuesdayMore than 1.2 million people have died from Covid-19 in the world and 46.8 million people have been infected with the virus, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. The death toll from Covid-19 in the world reached 1,205, 221 while the total caseload surpassed 46,801,621 as of Tuesday morning...
Maradona admitted to hospital in Argentina
10:20 AM, 03 Nov 2020 TuesdayArgentine football great Diego Maradona was admitted to hospital Monday for medical checks, his personal doctor announced...
Jail Killing Day today
09:27 AM, 03 Nov 2020 TuesdayThe Jail Killing Day is being observed today as the day is the second disgraceful incident in the country after the brutal murder of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15 in 1975...
US Election 2020: Biden and Trump make final pitches to voters
08:46 AM, 03 Nov 2020 TuesdayUS President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have spent the final hours of the White House race delivering their closing pitch to voters in critical states. Mr Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as Mr Trump toured the voting battlegrounds of Wisconsin...
Vienna shooting: Gunmen hunted after deadly ‘terror’ attack
08:25 AM, 03 Nov 2020 TuesdayGunmen armed with rifles have opened fire in six different locations in central Vienna, killing two people and wounding several more, police say. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called it a "repulsive terror attack" and said one gunman was also killed...
US whistleblower Snowden seeks Russian passport for sake of future son
05:37 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayU.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, he said on Monday...
Coronavirus: 25 die, 1736 infected, 1961 recover in 24 hours
03:59 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 5,966 as 25 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Of them, twenty are male and five are female. Besides, 1,736 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 410,988...
Trump and Biden race to shore up votes in final hours before Election Day
03:48 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayPresident Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are racing to drive out the votes of Americans not among the more than 91 million who already cast early ballots...
Freedom of speech must not be undermined with false propaganda: PM
02:47 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked all concerned to highlight the facts of any incident alongside protesting the spread of rumours and false propaganda in the name of freedom of speech...
Timing of India-US 2+2 talks conveys a lot about where bilateral ties are heading
02:00 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayThere is bipartisan recognition in the US of the need to counter Chinese belligerence and the fact that the 2+2 dialogue was held just a week before the presidential elections reflects the confidence that India and US have in the robustness of their relationship, according to a Europe-based think tank...
Hefajat’s protest rally against Macron halts traffic in Dhaka
01:44 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayVehicular movement from the city’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to Nightingale intersection remained suspended since Monday morning as several hundred activists of Hefajat-e-Islam staged sit-in protesting the recent comments made by France President...
Reduce air pollution to avert Covid surge in winter: Experts
01:16 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayAs the densely-populated Dhaka city braces for serious air pollution in the dry season like previous years, health experts warn that dirty air during this winter may help coronavirus turn deadlier in terms of mortality rate. They said the exposure to a high level of air pollution weakens people’s respiratory and immune systems...
Gazipur double murder: Condemned convict hanged at Kashimpur Jail
12:58 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayA condemned convict was hanged on Sunday night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter in 2006...
Soumitra given blood transfusion, remains critical, says doctor
12:14 PM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayVeteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee's health condition remained critical on Sunday and he was given a blood transfusion after his haemoglobin count fluctuated considerably, one of the doctors attending to the actor said in a statement...
New Zealand PM names finmin Robertson as new deputy PM
11:45 AM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday named finance minister Grant Robertson as deputy prime minister in her new government after Labour Party deputy leader Kelvin Davis ruled himself out from standing...
Britain’s Prince William contracted COVID-19 in April: media
11:28 AM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayBritain’s Prince William contracted COVID-19 in April at a similar time to his father Prince Charles, British media reported late on Sunday, citing Kensington Palace sources...
“Identified as contact of someone Covid+”: WHO chief self-isolates
11:14 AM, 02 Nov 2020 MondayThe World Health Organization chief said late Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for Covid-19, but stressed he had no symptoms...
Canada: Court to hear challenge to ‘religious symbols’ law
09:47 PM, 01 Nov 2020 SundayA long-awaited court case gets under way this week in the Canadian province of Quebec, where civil rights groups say a law that prohibits the wearing of religious garb by some public servants violates the country’s constitution...
'Selling per kg onion at below Tk 55 impossible'
08:40 PM, 01 Nov 2020 SundayCommerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Sunday said onion import has begun with the government help but for the time being it is not possible to reduce prices of the key cooking ingredient at below Tk 55 per kg at the consumer level...
Pakistan: Protesters attempt to storm French Embassy
06:51 PM, 01 Nov 2020 SundayPakistan police on Friday fired teargas on protesters who attempted to storm the French Embassy in Islamabad to protests against the printing of images depicting the Prophet Mohammad and President Emmanuel Macron defending the same...