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Finance Minister places Tk 568,000 cr budget for 2020-21FY
03:15 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has started presenting the national budget of Tk 568,000 crore for the 2020-21 fiscal in Parliament. The Finance Minister began the rolling out the budget around 3:04pm...
Coronavirus cases pass 78000, 37 new cases
02:49 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThe number of coronavirus cases has reached 78,052 as 3,187 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours. Besides, 37 more people died from COVID-19, raising the death toll to 1,049. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said while presenting the regular health bulletin through online on Thursday...
Int’l flights to resume from June 16
02:36 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThe Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has planned to resume regular flight operations on international routes on a limited scale from June 16. Primarily, the flights will operate on Dhaka-London route and Dhaka-Qatar route. CAAB Chairman Air Vice-Marshal Md Mafidur Rahman confirmed the matter to Jago News on Thursday...
India’s coronavirus cases cross 2.86 lakh, deaths reach 8,102
02:02 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThe coronavirus cases in India rose to 2,86,579 on Thursday out of which 1,37,448 cases are active and 1,41,028 number of patients have recovered according to ministry of health. The death toll due to the infection rose to 8,102...
Budget documents to be available on websites
01:05 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThe budget documents for the next fiscal year (FY21) will be available on the website of the Finance Division - www.mof.gov.bd - once Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal places it in parliament today
Chronology of national budgets
12:30 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayFinance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal is set to place the national budget for 2020-21 fiscal (FY21) at the Jatiya Sangsad today. This will be the country’s 49th budget and the 21st by the Awami League government in five terms while Tajuddin Ahmed presented the first budget...
A R Rahman joins Farooki’s film as composer, co-producer
12:13 PM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayOscar-, BAFTA- and Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”) has joined U.S.-India-Bangladesh film “No Land’s Man” as co-producer and composer...
Kohl’s cancelled $50m Bangladesh orders before big dividends
11:24 AM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayKohl’s, one of the US’s largest clothing retailers, cancelled millions of dollars worth of existing orders from Bangladeshi and Korean garment factories just weeks before paying out $109m (£85m) in dividends to shareholders, The Guardian reported on Wednesday...
UN General Assembly will be virtual for the first time
10:59 AM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThis year’s UN General Assembly will be held virtually for the first time in history because of the coronavirus pandemic, its president announced Wednesday...
US could reach 200,000 coronavirus deaths in September, expert says
09:47 AM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayThe United States may see 200,000 deaths because of the coronavirus at some point in September, a leading expert said, while total U.S. coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday as governments relax restrictions...
Coronavirus: Latin America hits 70,000 pandemic deaths
09:04 AM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayLatin America's coronavirus crisis reached a grim new milestone on Wednesday (June 10), with total deaths exceeding 70,000, according to a Reuters count, as Mexico hit a daily record for confirmed infections...
Ctg-8 MP, 9 family members infected with COVID-19
08:39 AM, 11 Jun 2020 ThursdayChattogram-8 lawmaker Moslem Uddin and nine members of his family have been infected with coronavirus. His wife, son and grandchildren are among the infected. Confirming the matter to Jago News, Civil Surgeon of Chattogram Doctor Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, said the information was confirmed after Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious...
733 ICU beds at govt hospitals: DGHS informs HC
10:05 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday informed the High Court that there are a total of 733 intensive care unit (ICU) beds at government hospitals across the country...
WHO urges Pakistan two-week lockdown, more tests
09:45 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 countries in the world reporting the highest number of new cases of Covid-19...
Nothing to fear, when death is settled: PM
08:30 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she was not afraid of coronavirus rather has been working for the country's sake, and keeping people's livelihood normal amid the pandemic...
Share burden of humanitarian situations: Dhaka to int'l community
07:50 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayBangladesh has said the principle of burden- and responsibility- sharing should be central to the actions of the international community in addressing humanitarian situations...
JS budget session begins
07:44 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe second budget session (8th session) of the 11th parliament began with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudury in the chair on Wednesday afternoon amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, reports UNB...
20 workers dead in Afghanistan mine collapse
06:22 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayAll 20 miners trapped in a coal mine that collapsed in Afghanistan’s northern Samangan province a day earlier have died, officials confirmed on Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency....
Canada deserves our vote in UNSC: CanCham
05:50 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayCanada Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CanCham Bangladesh) has said voting for Canada in the Security Council by Bangladesh will accelerate the growing bilateral trade to a new height...
Global economy to take 2yrs to recover from coronavirus
04:31 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe global economy will take at least two years to recover from the impact of coronavirus, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which is formed of 37 nations worldwide, reports CNN...