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Bangladesh joins UN Group of Friends on climate adaptation, resilience
03:21 PM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayBangladesh has joined as a member of the Steering Committee of the UN Group of Friends on climate adaptation and resilience. Dr Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment of Egypt, and Baroness Saag, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development of the UK launched the Group as its convenors...
44 die from COVID-19 in 24-hr
02:43 PM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayThe number of coronavirus cases has reached 84,379 as 2,856 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours. Besides, 44 more people died from the disease, raising the death toll to 1,139. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this during an online briefing on Saturday...
Nasim to be buried beside mother’s grave
02:14 PM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayAwami League presidium member and former Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim, who died on Saturday morning, will be buried beside the grave of his mother at Banani graveyard on Sunday morning...
PM mourns death of Mohammad Nasim
01:10 PM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed profound shock at the death of Awami League presidium member and spokesperson of central 14-party Mohammad Nasim...
Nasim passes away
11:27 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayAwami League presidium member and former Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim died on Saturday morning. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in the capital. His Personal Assistant Secretary Meer Mosharaf confirmed the death to Jago News...
Burnt journalist Nannu dies
11:16 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayMoazzem Hossain Nannu, a crime reporter of Daily Jugantor, succumbed to his burns at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka on Saturday morning...
5 more die from COVID-19 in Chattogram in a day
10:41 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayFive more deaths were reported from coronavirus in the span of 24 hours in the district till Friday night. Besides, 222 new cases were detected during the period, said district civil surgeon Sheikh Fazle Rabbi from regular briefing on Saturday...
This 4-month-old spent 18 days on ventilator, beat Covid-19
10:21 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayA four-month-old baby, who was on ventilator support for 18 days, has been discharged from a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam after testing negative for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)...
George Floyd: Trump ‘generally’ supports ending chokeholds for police
09:06 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayUS President Donald Trump has said the controversial chokehold method for restraining some suspects should "generally speaking" be ended...
Coronavirus: How pandemic turned political in Brazil
08:45 AM, 13 Jun 2020 SaturdayBrazil's handling of the pandemic has turned highly political. The country has swiftly risen up the grim leader board of coronavirus statistics and its death toll - 41,828 - is now the world's second highest...
Dr Zafrullah’s condition improving gradually
10:05 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayThe overall health condition of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, infected with coronavirus and pneumonia, is improving gradually...
Singapore may open almost all businesses this month
09:32 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridaySingapore is on track to lift more restrictions on companies and residents by the end of June, and expects practically the entire economy to reopen in that phase, according to a top minister...
How is Shah Rukh Khan in person?
08:54 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayA Shah Rukh Khan fan took to Quora to share his experience of meeting the actor for the first time. In his detailed account, he explained how humble and well behaved the star was while meeting people even at midnight...
Rohingya cyclists share Covid-19 info in refugee camps
08:15 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridaySocial distancing is a crucial aspect in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. But that poses challenges to the flow of key information during a time when being well-informed also is critical to public health. Which is where bicycles and rickshaws come in...
Liberation War minister, wife catch coronavirus
07:34 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayLiberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and his wife Layla Arzumand Banu have been infected with coronavirus...
Pabna SP tests positive for Covid-19
06:43 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayPabna Police Superintendent Sheikh Rafiqul Islam has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus...
Protests rock Lebanon as currency collapses
06:17 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayHassan Diab's government is facing growing calls to resign after the currency lost 25 percent of its value in two days...
This budget to save people, says Finance Minister
05:41 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that this budget has been proposed emphasizing mainly saving people. He said, "We have given importance on providing food to people, job to jobless ones, and treatment to sick in this budget aims to save them."..
A balanced budget to tackle economic fallout from COVID-19, says Quader
04:21 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayRoad, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the budget proposed for 2020-21FY is a balanced one to recover the country’s economy hit by COVID-19 pandemic...
UK economy shrinks by a quarter in depths of lockdown
03:07 PM, 12 Jun 2020 FridayBritain’s economy shrank by a quarter in the March-April period as entire sectors were shuttered by the coronavirus lockdown, reaching what looks likely to be the bottom of a “catastrophic” crash before a long and slow recovery, reports Reuters....