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WHO sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by 1 million in 5 days
10:33 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be no return...
Tiger population at risk in Sundarbans: 38 tigers died in 20 years
10:08 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayA total of 38 tigers died in the last 20 years in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Within a gap of five months, the Forest Department found two dead tigers one in the Sundarbans West Andharmanki Forest Camp area and the other in Sundarban West Division area...
Voting in Bogura-1, Jashore-6 by-polls begins
09:18 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayVoting in Bogura-1 and Jashore-4 by-polls began this morning amid public health concerns over coronavirus. The voting began at 9am and will continue till 5pm without any break. Six candidates are running in Bogura-1, while three in Jashore-6...
California shuts down businesses, schools as coronavirus outbreak grows
09:05 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayCalifornia’s governor on Monday clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August...
Nations heading in wrong direction with COVID-19: WHO
08:27 AM, 14 Jul 2020 TuesdayThe coronavirus pandemic will get "worse and worse" if governments fail to take more decisive action, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "too many countries [were] headed in the wrong direction"...
Sheikh Hasina Medical University to be built in Khulna
05:38 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayThe cabinet today in principle gave a nod to a draft law to build a medical university in Khulna division to be named after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as a part of the government’s measures to expand and develop the scope for higher medical education, research, and healthcare services in the country...
Embryo
04:55 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayWhile washing clothes, Ramija mutters something. In forty-two years of her life, she has got little peace. Now, she’s not only a mother of three children, but a grandmother too. She was married off at fifteen, so is her daughter...
Jamuna Group Chairman Babul dies of COVID-19
04:08 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayJamuna Group Chairman Md Nurul Islam Babul has died from coronavirus. He was 74. Babul, also the owner of the Daily Jugantor and Jamuna Television, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. He left behind his wife and three sons and many well-wishers to mourn his death...
Bangladesh receives first parcel train carrying dry chilies from India
04:04 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayBangladesh has received the first parcel train at Benapole carrying dry Chilies from Andhra Pradesh, India...
Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindzi dies
03:23 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayZindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa's anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported...
39 more coronavirus patients die
02:44 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayThirty-nine more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,391. Besides, the confirmed coronavirus cases in the country reached 186,894 as 3,099 more cases were detected in the last 24 hours...
Maj Gen Ashikuzzaman made Bangladesh ambassador to Kuwait
02:31 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayThe government has appointed Major General Md Ashikuzzaman as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the State of Kuwait. He would replace incumbent ambassador SM Abul Kalam as his contractual tenure is set to end on July 31...
10 million kids ‘may never return to school’ after COVID-19
01:39 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayThe coronavirus pandemic has caused an "unprecedented education emergency" with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday (Jul 13)...
Dr Sabrina on 3-day remand
12:28 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayA Dhaka court has placed JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on a 3-day remand in a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station for issuing fake COVID-19 certificates. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahinur Rahman passed the order on Monday...
Biopic on Raqibul Hasan announced
12:09 PM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayA biographical film on cricketer Raqibul Hasan has been announced on Sunday. It will be the first film on any cricketer of Bangladesh...
Buriganga launch capsize: Moyur-2 launch master arrested
11:47 AM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayAbul Bashar, master of MV Moyur-2 launch, has been arrested in a case filed over the launch capsize in Buriganga River. Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from South Keraniganj area on Sunday night...
CMP's Deputy Commissioner dies from coronavirus
11:22 AM, 13 Jul 2020 MondayMd Mizanur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), died in Dhaka from coronavirus early Monday. He breathed his last at 3:30am at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Central Police Hospital at Rajarbagh. He was working in the Detective Branch (South) of CMP...
73 catch Covid-19 after outbreak on UK farm
09:53 PM, 12 Jul 2020 SundayDozens of key workers picking and packing vegetables at a farm in Herefordshire of England have tested positive for coronavirus...
Eid-ul-Azha prayers also in mosque
09:11 PM, 12 Jul 2020 SundayThe government has asked the Muslims to say Eid-ul-Azha prayers inside nearby mosques instead of eidgah or other open places following the coronavirus health guidelines. The government also asked to avoid hugging each other after prayers to help it limit the spread of coronavirus...
Road crash fatalities jump 57pc in June
08:24 PM, 12 Jul 2020 SundayThe number of road accidents in the country rose by 56 percent and fatalities by 57 percent in June compared to May, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers’ welfare organisation, reports UNB...