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Australia sees biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in 2 months
09:03 AM, 29 Jun 2020 MondayAustralia’s second most populous state said on Monday it is considering reimposing social distancing restrictions after the country reported its biggest one-day rise in new coronavirus infections in more than two months...
Chinese mainland reports 12 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
08:50 AM, 29 Jun 2020 MondayChinese health authority said Monday it received reports of 12 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Sunday, including seven domestically transmitted and five imported ones...
JS to pass Finance Bill today
08:28 AM, 29 Jun 2020 MondayThe Jatiya Sangsad (JS) is set to pass the Finance Bill 2020 today with some possible changes, including the withdrawal of the proposed supplementary duty on telecom services. Besides, the JS will approve the Appropriations Bill 2020 on June 30 through which the Taka 5.68 lakh crore national budget for FY21 will be passed...
Coronavirus: Kit shortage hampering testing
10:09 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayAlthough the government is trying to enhance testing facilities amid the rising cases of coronavirus, experts said the shortage of kit supply is continuing to hamper the efforts...
Sri Lanka lifts coronavirus lockdown
10:00 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundaySri Lanka's nationwide lockdown was lifted on Sunday (June 28) after a selective curfew a month ago was reimposed during a surge in coronavirus infections, the country's president said, reports AFP...
Prices of spices soar; Cardamom hits Tk 3,600 per kg
09:46 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayThe merchants have hiked the prices of spices around one month before the Eid-ul-Azha, with prices of Cardamom raised by about Tk 1200 per kg...
Scotland reports no Covid-19 deaths
08:29 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayScotland has reported no new deaths of people who had tested positive for coronavirus for the third day running, reports Sky News...
UK Labour calls to ban imports from Israel's settlements
08:06 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayUK Labour’s leadership called for a ban on imported goods from settlements if Israel applies its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank....
Covid-19 cases in police force cross 10000
07:37 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayCoronavirus cases in police force reached 10,160 and deaths from the disease 41 as of Sunday...
US cuts its ties to rest of the world
06:50 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayThe United States is in uncharted territory, on an exponential path to becoming a Covid-19 pariah and an unreliable ally to its friends...
Declare COVID-19 vaccines a global common good: Global leaders
05:56 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundaySome 105 global leaders including 18 Nobel Laureates have signed a call initiated by Yunus Centre to declare COVID-19 Vaccines as a global common good...
Three bandits killed in 'shootout' in Sundarbans
05:16 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayThree bandits were killed in a reported gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Satkhira Range area of Sundarbans on Saturday night...
World leaders should take notice of Imran Khan's statement
04:22 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayMuttahidda Qaumi Movement's (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain has asked the world leadership to take serious note of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's declaration of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a martyred hero...
Flash floods submerge 50 Netrakona villages
04:06 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayFlash floods caused by onrush of water from the upstream and last two days' heavy rains submerged the low-lying areas in Kalmakanda Upazila of Netrakona...
China's aggressive expansion of territorial claims may provoke future clash with US
03:14 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayChina may be pressing its territorial claims aggressively from the Himalayas to the South China Sea, raising possibilities of additional deadly clashes with the United States in the near future...
3809 new infected with COVID-19; 43 more die
02:45 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayThree thousand and eight hundred nine more people have been infected with the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the confirmed cases in Bangladesh to 137,787. Besides, the death toll stood at 1,738 as 43 more people died from the disease. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said in the daily health bulletin...
Ex-JaPa MP Shahjahan dies from coronavirus
02:24 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayFormer Jatiya Party (JaPa) lawmaker from Bagura-5 constituency advocate Dr Shahjahan Ali Talukder died from coronavirus on Sunday morning. He was 65. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka around 11am...
DSA case: Photojournalist Kajol put on 2-day remand
01:24 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayA virtual court in Dhaka has placed photojournalist and the editor of Daily Pokkhokal Shafiqul Islam Kajol on a two-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA). Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the remand order on Sunday...
Nearly 20,000 coronavirus cases in India in 24-hr for first time
12:58 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayIndia recorded its biggest surge in the number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 19,906 new patients on Sunday, taking the total to 5,28,859 infections, the Union Health Ministry said this morning...
Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say
12:33 PM, 28 Jun 2020 SundayThousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said.