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Flights on international routes resume
12:50 PM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayFlight operations on international routes from Bangladesh resumed on Tuesday after over two months of suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic. A flight of Qatar Airways left Dhaka at 2am, he said adding that another flight from Doha arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3am...
Allama Shafi discharged from hospital
12:03 PM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayHefajat-e Islam Ameer and director of Hathajari Bara Madrasa Allam Shah Ahmed Shafi has been discharged from Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH)...
Global coronavirus cases reach over 8 million
10:53 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayGlobal cases of the novel coronavirus reached over 8 million on Monday, as infections surge in Latin America and the United States and China grapple with fresh outbreaks. The United States still leads the world with the highest number of infections, about 2 million or 25% of all reported cases...
Unable to bear loss, Sushant’s sister-in-law dies in Bihar
10:40 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayUnable to come to terms with Sushant Singh Rajput's sudden demise, the actor's sister-in-law, Sudha Devi, has passed away at native, Purnia in Bihar...
Oscars 2021 ceremony postponed for 2 months
09:31 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayNext year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak...
New Zealand confirms 2 new cases of coronavirus
09:00 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayNew Zealand said on Tuesday that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the UK, ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country...
China reports 40 new coronavirus cases in mainland, 27 in Beijing
08:43 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayMainland China reported 40 new confirmed coronavirus cases for June 15, down from 49 a day earlier, the National Health Authority said on Monday...
Coronavirus: US withdraws emergency use of hydroxychloroquine
08:33 AM, 16 Jun 2020 TuesdayEmergency use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus has been withdrawn by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Top US court backs protection for LGBT workers
10:05 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe US Supreme Court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country's civil rights laws...
Patient’s death for negligence in treatment is criminal offence: HC
09:52 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe High Court (HC) on Monday said that people’s deaths due to negligence in providing treatment is a criminal offence and directed the authorities concerned to take legal action if patients are denied treatment...
Norway suspends virus-tracing app due to privacy concerns
09:30 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayNorway’s health authorities said they suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of coronavirus after the country’s data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy...
Fatullah Police Station OC contracts coronavirus
08:50 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayAslam Hossain, officer in-charge of Fatullah Model Police Station, Narayanganj has been infected with coronavirus...
Badaruddin Kamran laid to rest in Sylhet
08:04 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayFormer Mayor of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Badaruddin Ahmad Kamran was laid to eternal rest besides his parents graves near Manikpir Tila in the city after Johr prayers...
Why US blogger at centre of controversy in Pakistan
07:59 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayHer apparent free access to the country's remote tribal region and, by her own admission, tacit support by the security forces, have raised eyebrows in Pakistan...
Samakal acting editor catches Covid-19
06:55 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayDaily Samakal's acting editor Mustafiz Shafi has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...
15000 win battle against coronavirus in 24hrs
06:31 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayIn span of more than three months, 18,730 people recovered from coronavirus in Bangladesh but the country declared 15,297 recovered from the disease in a single day...
Offices to remain open till June 30
04:54 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe government and private offices will remain open, and public transport stay in operation on limited scale for 15 more days following the health guidelines imposed to curb coronavirus' spread.
Closure of educational institutions extended until Aug 6
04:01 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe government has extended the closure of all the educational institutions of the country until August 6 considering the worsening coronavirus situation...
Ex-US Marine jailed for 16yrs in Russia
03:52 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayA Russian court sentenced an American to 16 years in prison on spying charges a sentence he rejected as political, reports New York post...
AL leader dies with fever, breathing problems
03:29 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayA local leader of Awami league suffering from severe fever and breathing problems has died in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali...