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Trump’s White House Navy valet tests positive for coronavirus
09:59 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayA Navy official who acts as one of US President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for the coronavirus. President Trump was upset upon learning the news, CNN reported...
Next budget to be placed in time: Kamal
09:22 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said that there would not be any delay for placing the national budget in parliament for the next fiscal year (FY21) due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation...
Coronavirus deaths in Bangladesh near 200
06:07 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayBangladesh on Thursday recorded 13 more deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the country's tally to 199...
BoE sees worst slump in 300yrs as coronavirus bites
05:43 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe Bank of England said Britain could be headed for its biggest economic slump in over 300 years due to the coronavirus lockdown and kept the door open on Thursday for more stimulus next month...
Cabinet okays law to hold trials digitally
05:00 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe cabinet on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing the courts to hold trails digitally using the information technology in view of the coronavirus pandemic...
Black people four times more likely to die of Covid-19
04:38 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayMembers of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom, especially black men and women, face a higher risk of dying from Covid-19, according to data from England and Wales released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Thursday...
Number of coronavirus-positive police rises to 1285
04:07 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe members of Bangladesh police are being infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) significantly, with 95 more caught the virus in the past 24 hours...
India looks to lure over 1,000 US companies out of China
03:49 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayIndia is seeking to lure US. businesses, including medical devices giant Abbott Laboratories, to relocate from China as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to blame Beijing for its role in the coronavirus pandemic...
706 more test positive for coronavirus in 24 hours
02:51 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 12,425 as 706 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours in the country. Besides, 130 more recovered from the diseases, raising the total number of cured patients to 1,910...
BCB waiting for government’s signal to resume cricket
02:17 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayBangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is reluctant to resume cricket in the country without a green signal from the government...
Fareast University VC dies from coronavirus
01:50 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe Vice Chancellor of Fareast International University (FIU) Professor Dr Nazmul Karim Chowdhury has passed away from coronavirus. He breathed his last at Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medial College Hospital on Thursday morning. Professor Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, Dean of Business Faculty of Dhaka University (DU), confirmed the death...
TCB to sell onions at Tk 25 per kg from Saturday: Minister
01:06 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayCommerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling onions at Tk 25 per kg from Saturday across the country. The minister said this while briefing at his secretariat office on Thursday...
India gas leak: 8 dead, over 1000 fall sick
11:24 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least eight people died and more than thousand people fell sick after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from a chemical factory in Indian state Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of Thursday. Andhra Pradesh Director-General of Police Gautam Sawang confirmed the toll at six...
Over 90,000 health workers infected with COVID-19 worldwide
11:07 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least 90,000 health-care workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Wednesday...
50 infected with coronavirus at Mexican retirement home
10:50 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least 47 residents and three workers have been infected with coronavirus at a retirement home in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, authorities said on Wednesday, in one of the biggest outbreaks yet reported in the country...
Will Gilead price its coronavirus drug for public good or company profit?
09:55 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayGilead Sciences Inc faces a new dilemma in deciding how much it should profit from the only treatment so far proven to help patients infected with the novel coronavirus. The drugmaker earned notoriety less than a decade ago, when it introduced a treatment...
Sheikh Hasina’s Homecoming Day today
08:57 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayToday is May 7, a red letter day in the history of the nation, as Awami League President and present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on this day in 2007 defying a ban on her return home during the state of emergency...
Trump says coronavirus worse ‘attack’ than Pearl Harbor
08:37 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayUS President Donald Trump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on the United States, pointing the finger at China. Mr Trump said the outbreak had hit the US harder than the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War Two, or the 9/11 attacks two decades ago...
Mushfiqur Bangladesh’s best Test batsman as per ICC rankings
09:40 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayMushfiqur Rahim retained his position as the best Test player of Bangladesh as per the latest ICC rankings for the batsman...
Govt waives tax on PPE, surgical masks
09:16 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayThe Value Added Tax (VAT) on manufacturing, trade and supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and surgical masks to stem the spread of the coronavirus...