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Bomb threat to Rajinikanth, police conduct search operation
11:57 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayAn unidentified person has reportedly issued a bomb threat to superstar Rajinikanth on Thursday. As per news reports, Chennai police is currently conducting a search operation at the actor’s residence to verify the authenticity of the caller...
Philippine citizen dies with breathing problem in Chattogram
11:30 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayA Philippine citizen who had been suffering from breathing problem died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Friday night...
Kamal Lohani dies of COVID-19
11:01 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayVeteran journalist and cultural activist Kamal Lohani, who tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, has passed away. He was 85. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Sheikh Russell Gastro Liver Institute and Hospital in the capital’s Mohakhali on Saturday morning...
Nepal on its side, China now woos Bangladesh: Times of India
10:37 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayJust when India-China ties suffered a new low following the recent clashes at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Beijing seems to be aggressively wooing Bangladesh, a strong ally of India in the neighbourhood, with a host of sops...
Zimbabwe health minister arrested
08:51 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayZimbabwe Health Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested by police on Friday over allegations of corruption in government procurement of around $60 million worth of medical equipment, the Daily News newspaper reported...
109th birth anniversary of Sufia Kamal today
08:41 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayThe 109th birth anniversary of poet Sufia Kamal is being observed today virtually in the wake of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak...
Coronavirus: Brazil becomes 2nd country to hit 1 million cases
08:31 AM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayBrazil has become the second country in the world to confirm more than one million cases of Covid-19, as the disease continues to spread. The health ministry also posted a record number of new cases in the past 24 hours - more than 54,000...
97pc Bangladeshi products to get duty-free access to China
10:11 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayChinese government has granted duty-free access to 97 percent Bangladeshi products to its market from July 1 while Dhaka termed it as a success of Bangladesh’s economic diplomacy...
Emirate Airlines gets nod to operate flights from Dhaka
09:38 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayCovid-19 pandemic grounded flights across the world, disrupting air communication and forcing the aviation industry to count unprecedented losses...
DGHS director Iqbal Kabir tests positive for Covid-19
08:00 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayProfessor Dr Iqbal Kabir, director (planning and research) of the Directorate General of Health Services, contracted the novel coronavirus...
‘I’ll be glad if I get close to what Mashrafe, Shakib did,’ says Saifuddin
07:39 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayBangladesh all rounder Mohammad Saifuddin insisted that he will be glad if he gets close to what Masrhafe Bin Mortaza and Shakib Al Hasan did for Bangladesh cricket...
Swechchasebok League president contracts coronavirus
06:35 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridaySwechchasebok League president Nirmal Ranjan Guha has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...
Woman dies of Covid-19 after husband
06:09 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayA woman died of COVID-19 in Barura Upazila of Cumilla early Friday, nine days after her husband also died from the disease caused by novel coronavirus...
Malaysia planning to send Rohingya Refugees back out to sea
05:21 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayOnce their damaged boat is fixed, 269 Rohingya refugees now docked in Malaysia will be sent back out to sea if officials follow through with their current plan, sparking an outcry from rights groups...
India lifts export ban on hydroxychloroquine
04:48 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayIndia has lifted a ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine -- the anti-malaria drug that was being studied as possible therapy for coronavirus, according to India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry...
Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf tests positive for Covid-19
03:55 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayFormer Local Government, Rural Development & Co-operatives Minister and Faridpur-3 MP Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has tested positive for COVID-19...
Mobile phone subscribers reach 162.920 million in April
03:42 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayThe number of mobile subscribers reached 162.920 million at the end of April, according to the data prepared by Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC)...
China ban will hurt India more
03:09 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayThe Indian government has tried to respond to the border dispute with China by training its guns on trade. The idea resonating in Indian streets is that Indians should boycott Chinese goods and thus “teach China a lesson”...
45 die from coronavirus in 24-hr
02:48 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayThe number of coronavirus cases has reached 105,535 as 3,243 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours. Besides, 45 more people died from the disease, raising the death toll to 1,388. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this during the daily health bulleting briefing on Friday...
375 expatriate Bangladeshis die of corona in Saudi Arabia
02:18 PM, 19 Jun 2020 FridayA total of 375 expatriate Bangladeshis, including four doctors, have so far died of coronavirus or with its symptom in Saudi Arabia since the outbreak of the pandemic, said Bangladesh ambassador in Riyad Golam Moshi today...