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Long-haul bus to remain shut during Eid holidays
05:52 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayThe long-route bus services will remain shut during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays aims to stem the spread of the coronavirus....
Japan extends state of emergency to May 31
05:28 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayJapan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he had decided to extend the country’s national state of emergency to May 31...
Number of coronavirus-positive police nears 1000
04:52 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayThe members of Bangladesh police are being infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) significantly, with 60 more caught the virus in the past 24 hours...
Most of Vietnam's 22 million students returns to school
04:05 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayMost of Vietnam's 22 million students returned to class on Monday after a three-month closure to tackle Covid-19, quoting the state-run Vietnam News Agency, CNN reported...
Pandemic slams global factories, activity sinks to new lows
03:40 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayThe coronavirus has infected more than 3.5 million people globally and killed around 247,000. With the public told to stay home in numerous countries, the global economy is expected to suffer its steepest contraction on record this year as supply chains have been massively disrupted....
Bangladesh coronavirus cases pass 10,000
02:37 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayThe confirmed coronavirus cases in Bangladesh have reached 10,143 as 688 more people have been infected with the virus. Besides, the death toll from coronavirus has reached 182 as five patients died in the last 24 hours. Of the deceased, three are from Dhaka and one each from Sylhet and Mymensingh...
PM announces cash assistance for jobless before Eid
02:17 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced that the government will provide cash assistance before Eid to mitigate the sufferings of those rendered jobless amid the coronavirus outbreak...
Minimum Fitra fixed at Tk 70
01:31 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayThis year’s minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 70 per person. The maximum Fitra has been set at Tk 2200, Shayla Sharmeen, Assistant Public Relations Officer of Islamic Foundation told Jago News...
Padma Bridge’s 29th span installed; 4.35 km now visible
01:13 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayAbout 4,350 metres of Padma Bridge has become visible with the installation of its 29th span on Monday...
Police constable commits suicide in capital
01:01 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayA policeman committed suicide jumping from roof of a five-storey building in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday morning...
General holidays to continue until May 15: PM
12:12 PM, 04 May 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that the government wants to extend the tenure of general holidays until May 15. "We declared the general holidays till May 5, now we want to continue it until May 15," she said...
Prof Muntasir hospitalised with coronavirus symptoms
11:08 AM, 04 May 2020 MondayEminent historian and Dhaka University history Professor Muntasir Mamun has been hospitalized with symptoms similar to the coronavirus...
Trump says up to 100,000 Americans may die from coronavirus
10:25 AM, 04 May 2020 MondayU.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he now believes as many as 100,000 Americans could die in the coronavirus pandemic, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but said he was confident a vaccine would be developed by the year’s end...
BTV Director General, wife test positive for coronavirus
10:00 AM, 04 May 2020 MondayDirector General of Bangladesh Television S M Harun-ur-Rashid and his wife have been infected with coronavirus...
447 members of DMP infected with coronavirus
09:07 AM, 04 May 2020 MondayA total of 447 members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have been infected with coronavirus. As of Sunday, two Additional Deputy Commissioners and an Assistant Commissioner are among the infected members of DMP, said Ashik Hasan, Assistant Commissioner of DMP Headquarters...
Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million
08:32 AM, 04 May 2020 MondayGlobal coronavirus cases surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with deaths nearing a quarter of a million, although the rate of fatalities and new cases has slowed from peaks reached last month, a Reuters tally shows...
221 more stranded Bangladeshis return from India
08:56 PM, 03 May 2020 SundaySome 221 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to the country's coronavirus lockdown, returned home on Sunday....
BB asks banks not to take interest for April, May
08:04 PM, 03 May 2020 SundayBangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed all banks to transfer the interest or profit for the month of April and May against the existing loans or investments to transfer an interest free blocked account and not to show it in its income account...
Handful of Rohingyas sent to Bhashan Char: FM
07:26 PM, 03 May 2020 SundayBangladesh has sent a small group of Rohingyas, who entered Bangladesh a couple of days ago from Myanmar in small boats, to Bhasan Char Island...
COVID-19: 406 inmates freed from Dhaka, Rajshahi jails
07:14 PM, 03 May 2020 SundayA batch of 406 inmates who were booked for minor offences, were released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj and Rajshahi jails on Sunday...