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'To India our lives are worth less than $1'
08:36 AM, 17 Apr 2020 FridaySome 900,000 female community health workers are on the frontline as part of India’s battle against Covid-19. But they are poorly paid, ill-prepared and vulnerable to attacks and social stigma, reports BBC Marathi’s Shrikant Bangale...
Bangladeshi journalist detained in Jordan
11:40 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayJordan detectives have detained a Bangladeshi expatriate journalist. The detainee is Selim Akash, Jordan Correspondent of Jago News...
Why do you think BCG-vaccination would protect against COVID-19? Is it real?
09:49 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayCOVID-19 is not only successful in infecting people around the world (1), but also obsessed people at the same time with lots of irrelevant things...
Entire Bangladesh at risk of COVID-19 pandemic declared
08:57 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayThe government has declared the entire Bangladesh at risk of the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of the health directorate, issued a circular making the declaration on Thursday evening...
Physician, 20 others diagnosed with coronavirus in Narsingdi
07:03 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayTwenty-one more people, including a physician, were diagnosed with coronavirus in Narsingdi in the last 24 hours, taking the number of cases to 64 in the district. Confirming the matter to Jago News, Narsingdi civil surgeon Dr Ibrahim Titon said samples from 54 have been tested on Wednesday. Of them, 21 have been detected with coronavirus...
Tablighi Jamaat chief booked for culpable homicide
06:23 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayThe Delhi Police has charged the chief of a Delhi-based Tablighi Jamaat Markaz, Maulana Muhammad Saad Khandalvi, under stringent sections for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, officials said...
Music video “Bhalo Thako Bangladesh” released with message of hope
05:39 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayMobile phone operator Banglalink released a new music video titled “Bhalo Thako Bangladesh” conveying message of optimism, reassurance, and hope during this time of uncertainty and fear amid COVID-19 pandemic...
PM sends emergency medicines to Bhutan
05:12 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sent two consignments of emergency medicines for safety of senior citizens of Bhutan to prevent them from COVID-19 pandemic...
Millions face hunger as African cities impose coronavirus lockdowns
05:01 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayShehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat...
Wuhan makeshift hospital retires as epidemic wanes
04:09 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayA makeshift hospital ceased operation in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, on Wednesday as the coronavirus epidemic wanes...
Offer Tarabi prayers at home: PM
03:39 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged Muslim devotees to say their Tarabi prayers at their respective homes instead of mosques during the upcoming month of holy Ramadan...
Bangladesh coronavirus cases jump to 1,572, deaths 60
02:38 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayIn the past 24 hours, samples of 2,019 people were examined. Of them, 341 people tested positive for COVID-19, the highest single-day spike, and 10 died from the virus, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Thursday...
Provide relief materials to right people: PM
01:42 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked her party leaders and activists as well as public representatives to provide relief materials to the right people enlisting the needy ones irrespective of their political affiliations across the country...
Bangladesh rescues 396 Rohingyas in drifting boat; 24 dead
12:33 PM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayAt least two dozen ethnic Rohingya died on a ship that drifted for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia, Bangladesh coastguard officials said on Thursday, following the rescue of 396 starving survivors...
Three more including 5-year-old catch coronavirus in Netrakona
11:39 AM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayThe novel coronavirus cases stood at 16 in Netrakona as of Wednesday after three people, including a five-year-old girl, were newly infected with the deadly virus...
Trump says virus has 'passed peak' in US
10:38 AM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayPresident Donald Trump says the US has "passed the peak" of new Covid-19 cases and predicted some states would reopen this month. At the daily White House virus briefing, Mr Trump said new reopening guidelines would be announced on Thursday after he speaks to governors...
Sherpur locked down after 9 catch coronavirus
09:39 AM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdaySherpur was put on lockdown on Wednesday night after detection of four novel coronavirus patients in the district...
Impact of coronavirus on Asia to be severe: IMF
08:30 AM, 16 Apr 2020 ThursdayThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Asia’s economic growth this year will come to a halt for the first time in 60 years. The lack of growth will be "worse than the annual average growth rates throughout the Global Financial Crisis (4.7%) or the Asian Financial Crisis (1.3%)", it said...
Does Bangladesh have a plan?
09:53 PM, 15 Apr 2020 WednesdayBy now, every individual in Bangladesh understood the meaning of 'Social distancing' whether following or not. It's a democratic country, like USA, thus, you may follow or not, it is up to you...
Global coronavirus cases pass 2,025,000
09:30 PM, 15 Apr 2020 WednesdayGlobal coronavirus cases have reached 2,025,004 as of Wednesday night. Besides, the death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 128,992 around the world, according to Worldometer. Of those infected, 1,403,179 are currently being treated and 51,585 of them are in serious or critical condition...