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Import-export thru' Burimari land port resumes
04:10 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayImport-export activities with neighbouring India through Burimari land port, Lalmonirhat restarted on Wednesday morning after around two and a half month closure due to coronavirus. Earlier on Monday businesses of the two countries held a discussion at zero line of Burimari Integrated Check Post (ICP) and decided to begin trade through the port from June 10...
PCB wants to stage Asia Cup in UAE this year
03:40 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe Pakistan Cricket Board wants to stage the Asia Cup T20 this year as per schedule, but in the UAE and is also in talks with Sri Lanka as an alternate venue for the event...
Restaurant worker fired for not wearing 'Trump 2020' mask
03:13 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayA restaurant worker says she has been dismissed from her job after she refused to wear 'Trump 2020' mask...
Coronavirus death toll passes 1000
02:41 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh has reached 1,012 as 37 more people died in the last 24 hours. Besides, 3,190 more tested positive for coronavirus, raising the number of such cases to 74,865. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this in the regular health bulletin through online on Wednesday...
Hong Kong police arrest 53 pro-democracy activists
01:40 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayHong Kong police arrested 53 people during protests on Tuesday evening that saw hundreds of activists take to the streets, at times blocking roads in the heart of the global financial hub, before police fired pepper spray to disperse crowds...
Shortage of passenger forces Biman to cancel flights of Wednesday, Thursday
12:24 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe shortage of passengers has forced Biman Bangladesh Airlines to cancel its flights scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday on three domestic routes...
Singapore to start clinical trials for potential Covid-19 treatment
12:07 PM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdaySingapore will embark on human clinical trials next week on 23 healthy individuals for a potential treatment of Covid-19...
India’s COVID-19 cases cross 2.7 lakh, death toll at 7,745
10:56 AM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayIndia’s tally of coronavirus cases reached 2,76,583 on Wednesday according to ministry of health. Out of which 1,33,632 are active cases and 1,35,205 have been cured. The death toll due to the virus rose to 7,745...
Boko Haram kills 69, razes village in northern Nigeria
09:48 AM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayBoko Haram gunman killed at least 69 people and razed a village to the ground in northern Nigeria’s Borno state on Tuesday afternoon, three sources told Reuters. The men attacked the village of Faduma Koloram, in Gubio local government area of Borno state, starting about noon...
JS goes into budget session today
09:28 AM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayAmid the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) is going to short budget session for 2020-21 fiscal today. The budget session will begin at 5pm in the parliament with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair...
Mumbai, with 51,100 coronavirus cases, crosses Wuhan
08:47 AM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayMumbai, the country's financial, art and entertainment capital, crossed 51,000 coronavirus cases on Tuesday - around 700 more than China's Wuhan...
George Floyd’s funeral hears calls for racial justice
08:31 AM, 10 Jun 2020 WednesdayThe funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice...
'You guys know who you are'
09:45 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayFormer West Indies skipper Darren Sammy has released a video, alleging racism within the SunRisers Hyderabad camp...
Bangladesh to be voice of climate vulnerable countries: FM
09:11 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayBangladesh has taken over the presidency of Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Ministers of Finance for the term 2020-2022 from Marshal Island and urge all to attach highest priority to CVF and V20...
Burundi president dies of 'heart attack'
08:46 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayBurundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died of a heart attack, the government says, reports BBC...
Sylhet shopkeepers get one month's rent waiver
07:48 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayThe owners of the all shopping malls, and commercial complex in Sylhet have waived half rent of April and May each considering their losses caused by the coronavirus lockdown...
Markets, shopping malls in Khulna shut from Thursday
06:35 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayShopping malls and markets in Khulna city will stay shut from Thursday as the coronavirus infections in the district rose significantly. The hawkers will also not be allowed in footpath aims to limit the outbreak...
Middle East's migrant workers look for way home amid pandemic
05:23 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayDuring 14 years in Lebanon, Jevie Olido’s four children have grown up without her, her marriage has failed and her parents have grown old. Now, the income that kept her far from her home in the Philippines has also gone...
Sexagenarian rapes minor girl luring nut
04:38 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayA sixty-year-old man has confessed to rapping a three-year-old girl luring her nut in city's Hazaribag. Sujan Mia made his confessional statement before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Judge Abu Sufian on Tuesday...
Turkey orders arrest of 275 military personnel
03:55 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayTurkish authorities have ordered the detention of 275 people, mainly military personnel, over suspected links to the network that Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, police, security sources and state media said on Tuesday, quoting Anadolu Agency, reports Reuters...