Historic May Day today

The historic May Day is being observed in the country and elsewhere across the world with due respect. The day is being observed across the globe since 1886 commemorating the supreme sacrifices of the workers at Hay Market...

PSG crowned Ligue 1 champions

Decision in principle to reopen DSE

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) board of directors has taken decision in principle to reopen the trading activities from May 10...

Coronavirus: Another 3.8 million Americans lose jobs

Another 3.8 million people lost their jobs in the US last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to batter the economy...

Gonoshasthaya gets permission for performance study of its kits

Gonoshasthaya Kendra has finally got the permission to get tested the performance of its Covid-19 rapid testing kits...

How deforestation spreads infectious diseases

Scientists have been repeating the warning for at least two decades: As humans encroach upon forests, their risk of contracting viruses circulating among wild animals increases...

39 journos contract coronavirus in Bangladesh

Another journalist has been infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the country's total cases to 39....

PSC recommends recruiting 2,000 physicians

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) has recommended recruiting 2,000 physicians as health cadre with a view to fight the novel coronavirus, a press release said on Thursday. The doctors would be appointed from the list of those who passed the 39th BCS exam but was not recommended to cadre post...

Analysis: Vietnam offers tough lessons for US on coronavirus

US saw more deaths from the pandemic than the 58,220 Americans who died over nearly two decades of fighting during the Vietnam War...

Russia’s COVID-19 cases surpass 100,000

By now, 11,619 people have recovered and 1,073 have died in the country...

Coronavirus: 5 more die; 564 newly infected

The death toll from novel coronavirus has reached 168 as 5 more died in the last 24 hours in the country. Besides, 564 more tested positive for the virus, raising the total number of such cases to 7,667...

6 new coronavirus cases detected in Lakhshmipur

Six people were diagnosed with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 43 in Lakhshmipur...

Two more cops die from coronavirus

Two more members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) died from coronavirus on Wednesday night. They are Abdul Khalek, 36, Assistant Sub Inspector of DMP’s Public Order Management Division (south), and Ashek Mahmud, 42, traffic constable...

Germany classifies Hezbollah as terrorist organisation, conducts raids

Germany has banned Iran-backed Hezbollah activity on its soil and designated it a terrorist organisation, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday...

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passes away

Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67. He fought a long battle with cancer. Yesterday, his brother Randhir Kapoor confirmed to news agency PTI that the actor had been taken to hospital in the morning...

Coronavirus: Trump says China wants him to lose re-election

US President Donald Trump has said China "will do anything they can" to make him lose his re-election bid, stepping up his criticism of Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a White House interview with Reuters news agency, he said Beijing faced a "lot" of possible consequence from the US for the outbreak...

South Korea reports no new domestic coronavirus cases

South Korea reported on Thursday no new domestic coronavirus cases for the first time since its Feb. 29 peak, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said...

Biden says he’d leave US embassy in Jerusalem if elected

Joe Biden, the presumptive United States Democratic presidential nominee, said on Wednesday that if he was elected, he would keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem even though he does not agree with the context in which US President Donald Trump moved it there from Tel Aviv...

Japan’s parliament to pass $241b extra budget to combat pandemic fallout

Japan's parliament is set to approve on Thursday a $241 billion (£193 billion) supplementary budget to fund a record stimulus package featuring cash payouts and loans to cash-strapped firms to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus: US economy shrinks at fastest rate since 2008

The US economy suffered its most severe contraction in more than a decade in the first quarter of the year, as the country introduced lockdowns to slow the spread of coronavirus...