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Poland President tests positive for coronavirus
05:13 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayPolish President Andrzej Duda has contracted Covid-19 but is feeling "fine", a presidential minister says, reports BBC...
Bangladesh coronavirus death toll climbs to 5780
04:12 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayBangladesh on Saturday recorded 1,094 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,97,507. Of the total patients, 3,13,563 recovered, with 1,498 made recovery in the last 24 hours. The daily count came from test of 10,998 samples in the past day. As of today, the number of total sample test stood at 22,46,486...
Emirates adjudged as the Best Airline Worldwide
04:04 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayEmirates has earned top spot at the Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2020, sweeping four awards including the coveted ‘Best Airline Worldwide’ award for the seventh consecutive year...
China terms US remarks on its role over Rohingya issue ‘inappropriate’
03:34 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe Chinese Embassy in Dhaka has reacted to US' claim that China has done very little to resolve the Rohingya issue terming it "inappropriate and not constructive at all"...
Egypt begins voting to elect new parliament
02:52 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayPolls opened in Egypt on Saturday for parliamentary elections that will stretch over several weeks and are set to be dominated by supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
Coronavirus: US cases reach record high amid new wave of infections
02:19 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayUS coronavirus cases have hit a record daily high as states grapple with a renewed wave of infections...
Asia becomes 2nd region to exceed 10 million coronavirus cases
01:15 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayAsia surpassed 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according to a Reuters tally, as cases continue to mount in India despite a slowdown and sharp declines elsewhere...
Speed boat capsize: 4 bodies retrieved in Patuakhali
12:23 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayMembers of Coast Guard on Saturday recovered the bodies of four people, who went missing after a speed boat capsized in Agunmukha river in Rangabali upazila on Thursday amid inclement weather. Mashfaqur Rahman, Rangabali Upazila Nirbahi Officer, said a speed boat carrying 17 people sank in the middle of Agunmukha river...
Rock-solid India-Bangladesh ties
12:01 PM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe government of Bangladesh has been enjoying great cooperation from India ever since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power in January 2009...
PM mourns death of eminent lawyer Rafique-ul Haque
10:46 AM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed profound shock and sorrow at the demise of renowned lawyer and former attorney general Barrister Rafique-ul-Huq...
Sudan-Israel relations agreed, Trump announces
09:59 AM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdaySudan is to normalise relations with Israel - the latest in a series of Arab League countries to do so...
Barrister Rafique-ul Haque dies
09:18 AM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayProminent lawyer and former attorney general Barrister Rafique-ul Haque has passed away. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Ad-din Hospital in Dhaka around 8am on Saturday. The hospital’s Director General Dr Nahid Yasmin confirmed his death to Jago News. He was suffering from various old-aged complications including anaemia...
Saudia to resume services to Dhaka, 32 int’l destinations in Nov
08:58 AM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdaySaudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) will resume services to 33 international destinations in November following the partial lifting of the travel suspension on Sept. 15, the airline made the announcement on its Twitter account on Friday...
Virus to stay ‘at least until next summer’: French President
08:22 AM, 24 Oct 2020 SaturdayFrench President Emmanuel Macron says his country will be fighting the virus until at least the middle of next year as cases there surged past a million. On Friday France recorded more than 40,000 new cases and 298 deaths. Other nations including Russia, Poland, Italy and Switzerland also saw new highs...
Depression in Bay: Rain across Bangladesh continues; more expected
05:36 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayThe weather office said 44mm rainfall was recorded in Dhaka in the last 24 hours till 6am on Friday. The highest amount of rain, 254mm, has been recorded in Khepupara of Barishal district...
Trump calls India, China air ‘filthy’
04:19 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayUS President Donald Trump describing the air in India and China as “filthy” has triggered mixed reactions on social media, with many amused or embarrassed by the statement...
Kapil Dev suffers heart attack, hospitalised
04:16 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayIn an unfortunate turn of events, former Team India captain Kapil Dev suffered a massive heart attack on Friday morning following which he was immediately hospitalised at the Fortis Escort Hospital in Delhi...
Barca treatment of Messi 'barbaric': Pique
04:03 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayGerard Pique said the behaviour of Barcelona's hierarchy has been “barbaric” amid allegations they have spent money on criticising and discrediting their players through social networks, and says he would have handled Lionel Messi's burofax drama very differently if he was president of the club...
Bangladesh coronavirus death toll rises to 5761
03:49 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayBangladesh on Friday recorded 1,586 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,96,413...
China to initiate ‘tripartite talks’ over Rohingya after Myanmar polls
03:17 PM, 23 Oct 2020 FridayBeijing has assured Dhaka that it would take initiatives to arrange second round of foreign ministerial level ‘tripartite talks’ among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar over Rohingya repatriation after next month’s Myanmar general elections...