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First COVID-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing
09:08 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayThe first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday - as the shots are poised to begin key final testing...
Sahed arrested in Satkhira, flown to Dhaka by helicopter
08:31 AM, 15 Jul 2020 WednesdayChairman of Regent Group Sahed Karim alias Md Sahed has been arrested from the border area of Debhata upazila in Satkhira in providing fake coronavirus certificates and embezzling money from patients. Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested him with a firearms in a special drive...
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
09:58 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027...
Fake Covid-19 certificates: Regent Group MD held
08:54 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Regent Group's managing director Masud Parvez in a case filed for issuing fake COVID-19 certificates. He is the second accused in the case and believed to be one of the aides of the group chairman Sahed's deception. He was arrested from Gazipur on Tuesday night, the elite force confirmed...
DGHS, Health Ministry not at loggerheads: Zahid Maleque
07:24 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayHealth Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the ministry and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) do not have any problem with each other. He came up with the remark while responding to reporters at a briefing in his office, reports UNB...
China uses corrupt leaders to make inroads into economically weaker countries like Nepal: Report
07:01 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayChina uses corrupt leaders of economically weak countries to make inroads into those nations- Nepal being a case in point, suggests a report in Global Watch Analysis...
ECNEC approves 8 projects with Tk 10,102cr
06:45 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved eight projects with an overall estimated cost of Taka 10,102.03 crore, including a Tk 4,025.62 crore project to develop road infrastructures and drainage system in newly included 18 wards under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)...
UK prepares to change course on Huawei
05:51 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe UK government is preparing to change course over the role of Huawei in its 5G telecoms network...
China's incursions into India really all about Tibet
05:45 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayIf a stone rolls down a mountain and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?..
Jamuna Group chairman Babul laid to rest
05:08 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayJamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul, who died of COVID-19 on Monday, has been laid to rest. The freedom fighter and eminent businessman was buried with state honours at Banani graveyard around 2:50pm on Tuesday...
America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
04:27 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayState and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot...
DPDC faces delay in project implementation
03:49 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayAlthough six months have elapsed after coronavirus struck in China, still Chinese engineers and workers could not return to Bangladesh from their homeland causing excessive delay in a top priority project of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC)...
Coronavirus: Singapore slumps into recession
03:25 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdaySingapore’s economy plunged into recession last quarter as an extended lockdown shuttered businesses and decimated retail spending, a sign of the pain the pandemic is wreaking across export-reliant Asian nations...
Coronavirus recoveries pass 1 lakh in Bangladesh
02:42 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Bangladesh has crossed 1 lakh. New recoveries jumped by 4,910, bringing the nationwide total to 103,227. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this while presenting the daily health bulletin on Tuesday...
Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G
02:23 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayFinnish telecom equipment maker Nokia launched on Tuesday software which enables mobile operators to upgrade their 4G radio stations to new 5G technology without visiting the site or replacing equipment...
Andrew Kishore’s funeral tomorrow
01:57 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayLegendary playback singer Andrew Kishore’s funeral will be held in Rajshahi city tomorrow (Wednesday), his brother-in-law Dr Patrick Bipul Biswas said today...
Ershad’s first death anniversary today
01:22 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayJatiya Party (JP) has taken elaborate programmes to observe the first death anniversary of the party’s founder Hussain Muhammad Ershad today, maintaining the social distancing in wake of the COVID-19 situation...
Rhea pens emotional note for Sushant
12:31 PM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdaySushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty has penned an emotional note on the actor, saying she is yet to come to terms with the actor’s death. She has shared two pictures of them together along with an open letter to the late actor...
No Eid holidays for govt, private, autonomous officials
11:21 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe government officials including officials of private and autonomous organisations have been asked not to leave their work stations during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holiday to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country...
CPJ names Shahidul among 4 for Int’l Press Freedom Awards 2020
10:49 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe Committee to Protect Journalists named prominent Bangladeshi photo journalist Shahidul Alam and three others from Iran, Nigeria, and Russia for the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards...