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Germany lifts travel warning for 27 European countries
03:09 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayGermany has lifted its travel warning for 27 countries in continental Europe, reports CNN...
COVID-19 cases pass 90,000; 38 more die
02:43 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Bangladesh has passed 90,000 as 3,099 more people have been infected in the last 24 hours. The total number of the cases now stands at 90,619. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said while presenting the regular online briefing on Monday...
ADB approves $100m for Bangladesh’s rural road network expansion
01:53 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million loan to expand the coverage of an ongoing rural road network improvement project in Bangladesh, connecting the rural population to agricultural development zones...
Kamran’s body reaches Sylhet
01:26 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe body of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, who died from coronavirus at CMH in Dhaka early Monday, has reached Sylhet. An ambulance carrying him and his younger brother Enam Uddin Ahmed and elder son Doctor Arman Ahmed Shiplu left for Sylhet around 7am and arrived at his house around 12:20pm...
Won’t accept defeat against invisible force fearing death: PM
12:57 PM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that she will not accept defeat against an invisible force like coronavirus fearing death. The Prime Minister said this while addressing a function marking the 34th founding anniversary of SSF through video conference from her official residence Ganobhaban...
Kamran’s body on way to Sylhet
11:29 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayThe body of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran is being taken to his hometown from Dhaka. An ambulance carrying him and his younger brother Enam Uddin Ahmed and elder son Doctor Arman Ahmed Shiplu left for Sylhet around 7am...
Bank official dies with respiratory problems
11:08 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayA bank official died with respiratory problems in Chattogram on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Gias Uddin, 48, Manager of Bank Asia, of Cox’s Bazar branch...
PM mourns death of ex- SCC mayor Kamran
10:21 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League Central Executive Committee member and former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran...
China reports 49 new COVID-19 cases, Beijing begins mass testing
09:37 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayChinese health officials reported 49 new coronavirus cases on Monday, including 36 more in the capital Beijing where a fresh cluster linked to a wholesale food market has fuelled fears of a second wave of infections...
Sushant Singh Rajput’s funeral today
09:21 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondaySushant Singh Rajput's funeral is to take place in Mumbai on Monday, his family told India Today Television. Sushant's father will fly down to the city from Patna today. Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Bandra home in Mumbai on Sunday morning in an apparent suicide...
Ex-SCC mayor Kamran no more
08:38 AM, 15 Jun 2020 MondayFormer Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, who tested Covid-19 positive on June 5, died early hours of Monday. He was 69. Kamran, also the member of Awami League’s central executive committee, breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka around 3am...
Earthquake with 5.7 magnitude hits eastern Turkey
10:06 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayAn earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude shook Bingol province in eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing the collapse of a military observation tower which injured three people, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said...
Suhrawardy hospital director catches Covid-19
09:53 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayProfessor Dr Uttam Kumar Barua, the director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, has been infected with coronavirus...
Bale in squad as Real get set to return
09:02 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayWales forward Gareth Bale could feature for Real Madrid when they return to La Liga action against Eibar on Sunday...
Betar DDG, wife test positive for Covid-19
08:28 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayBangladesh Betar's deputy director general (programme) Salauddin Ahmed and his wife contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus...
Worst-hit areas by COVID-19 will go into lockdown: PM
07:32 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayPrime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina today told the parliament that her government would put the worst hit areas by COVID-19 under lockdown to stop further spread of the lethal virus alongside taking effective measures to run the wheels of economy as none could die from starvation...
As Rohingya boats keep sailing, Southeast Asia turns a blind eye
07:21 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayThe ink was barely dry on a statement by Southeast Asian governments pledging to leave “no one behind” in the coronavirus pandemic when reports of hundreds of Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea emerged in early April...
Former Pabna-3 MP Saiful Azam Suja dies
06:37 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundaySaiful Azam Suja, a former lawmaker from Pabna-3 constituency, died due to old age complications on Sunday morning...
Councilor Khorshed recovers from coronavirus
05:21 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayNarayanganj city ward councillor Maqsoodul Alam Khondaker Khorshed, who is believed to contract coronavirus while performing burial of the virus victims, finally recovered. Khorshed self informed about his recovery in a facebook status on Sunday afternoon, saying, "I recovered from coronavirus with mercy of Allah."..
Barca gets four-goal win on their return to action
04:01 PM, 14 Jun 2020 SundayBarcelona thrashed Real Mallorca 4-0 on Saturday night at Son Moix in their first match back since the coronavirus halt in action, reports Marca English...