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Eid prayer in 2 Holy Mosques in Mecca, Medina without worshippers
08:06 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdaySaudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz has approved the performance of the Eid Al Fitr prayer on Sunday in the two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina, a senior official said...
Quader urges all to follow health rules during Eid
06:16 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged all to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr following health guidelines to contain coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission and check deaths from the disease...
Iran to reopen religious, cultural sites: President
06:01 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayIran on Saturday moved to open businesses, religious and cultural sites as it eased restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic...
Coronavirus: 1,020 Armed Forces members in service, retired infected
05:17 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayA total of 1,364 members of Armed Forces both in-service and retired, their families, and civilians and others, who are employed in various organisations under the Armed Forces, have been infected with COVID-19 till Saturday...
Coronavirus cases in Africa near 104,000
04:28 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayCoronavirus cases in the African continent have jumped to 103,933, according to the Saturday update of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention...
154 more Thai citizens leave Dhaka for Bangkok
04:10 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdaySome 154 more Thai nationals left Bangladesh for Bangkok on Saturday by a special flight. The Royal Thai Embassy in Dhaka arranged the third repatriation flight of the Thai Lion Air, which departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11am, said the embassy...
‘I am a huge MS Dhoni fan,’ admits Mahmudullah
03:50 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayFormer Indian skipper MS Dhoni is one of the legends in the game of cricket. He is not only known for his batting and keeping but his cool and calm persona on the field as a leader which has helped his team cross the final hurdle on so many occasions...
UN chief following cyclone Amphan situation in Bangladesh
03:38 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that he is following the situation in India and Bangladesh after cyclone Amphan struck the two countries and expressed sadness over the loss of lives...
Govt emphasizes PPP basis development in health sector
03:04 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayThe government will emphasize the investment, and increasing extent of services and quality in the health sector post coronavirus on public–private partnership, official said...
Bangladesh coronavirus deaths cross 450
02:36 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayThe coronavirus related deaths in Bangladesh surpassed 450, with 20 more people died from the disease in the past 24 hours. During the period, 1873 more coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike, were recorded, making the country's total infections to 32,078....
Analysis: Pandemic could reshape world order
01:17 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayEurope outright rejected US President Donald Trump's vision of the world this week. Tensions between these historic democratic allies that have been simmering since Trump came to office three years ago have now come to a boil during the coronavirus pandemic...
Thakurgaon poultry farmers brace for huge loss
12:29 PM, 23 May 2020 SaturdaySupply chain disruption and lack of effective measures by authorities concerned during the coronavirus pandemic have led to the closure of dozens of poultry farms in Thakurgaon...
Overextending coronavirus lockdowns could cause ‘irreparable damage’
11:03 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayImposing coronavirus lockdowns for too long could cause “irreparable damage,” said the White House’s top doctor Anthony Fauci Friday...
SI Mosharraf becomes 12th cop to die from coronavirus
10:34 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayBangladesh police force have witnessed deaths of its 12 members from the novel coronavirus, with a significant increase in the virus cases.
Brazil now No 2 in world for coronavirus cases
09:43 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayBrazil has confirmed more than 330,000 cases of the coronavirus, surpassing Russia to become the nation with the second-highest number of infections, behind only the United States, reports Al Jazeera...
Osaka becomes top-earning female athlete
09:27 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayJapanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has become the world's highest-paid female athlete, displacing US rival Serena Williams at the top of the list...
China reports no new coronavirus cases for first time since pandemic began
09:12 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayChina recorded no new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland for May 22, the first time it had seen no daily rise in the number of cases since the pandemic began in the central city of Wuhan late last year...
S Alam Group's director dies from coronavirus
09:00 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayMorshedul Alam, director of Bangladeshi industrial conglomerate S Alam Group, died from the novel coronavirus on Friday night. He breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chattogram General Hospital around 10pm, Chattogram divisional director (health) Hasan Shahriar Kabir told Jago News...
US plans massive coronavirus vaccine testing effort to meet year-end deadline
08:43 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayThe United States plans a massive testing effort involving more than 100,000 volunteers and a half dozen or so of the most promising vaccine candidates...
Death toll in Pak plane crash rises to 97
08:31 AM, 23 May 2020 SaturdayA Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane, with an estimated 99 people onboard, crashed in Karachi's Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport on Friday. Sindh health officials have said that 97 people have been confirmed dead, while two survived the crash...