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'You guys know who you are'
09:45 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayFormer West Indies skipper Darren Sammy has released a video, alleging racism within the SunRisers Hyderabad camp...
Bangladesh to be voice of climate vulnerable countries: FM
09:11 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayBangladesh has taken over the presidency of Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Ministers of Finance for the term 2020-2022 from Marshal Island and urge all to attach highest priority to CVF and V20...
Burundi president dies of 'heart attack'
08:46 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayBurundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died of a heart attack, the government says, reports BBC...
Sylhet shopkeepers get one month's rent waiver
07:48 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayThe owners of the all shopping malls, and commercial complex in Sylhet have waived half rent of April and May each considering their losses caused by the coronavirus lockdown...
Markets, shopping malls in Khulna shut from Thursday
06:35 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayShopping malls and markets in Khulna city will stay shut from Thursday as the coronavirus infections in the district rose significantly. The hawkers will also not be allowed in footpath aims to limit the outbreak...
Middle East's migrant workers look for way home amid pandemic
05:23 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayDuring 14 years in Lebanon, Jevie Olido’s four children have grown up without her, her marriage has failed and her parents have grown old. Now, the income that kept her far from her home in the Philippines has also gone...
Sexagenarian rapes minor girl luring nut
04:38 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayA sixty-year-old man has confessed to rapping a three-year-old girl luring her nut in city's Hazaribag. Sujan Mia made his confessional statement before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Judge Abu Sufian on Tuesday...
Turkey orders arrest of 275 military personnel
03:55 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayTurkish authorities have ordered the detention of 275 people, mainly military personnel, over suspected links to the network that Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, police, security sources and state media said on Tuesday, quoting Anadolu Agency, reports Reuters...
Coronavirus cases in police force cross 7000
03:37 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayThe coronavirus cases in police force surpassed 7000 as more than 400 policemen newly contracted the disease. There is no sign of decrease but the force have been witnessing newer records of infections since the outbreak.
Indonesia reports biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases
03:14 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayIndonesia’s health ministry reported 1,043 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, its biggest daily rise in cases, taking the total number of infections to 33,076...
COVID-19: 45 more die, 3171 test positive
02:43 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayBangladesh on Tuesday confirmed 45 more deaths and 3,171 more infections from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. The latest official figures took the total number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus to 975 and the total number of people infected with the disease to 71,675...
COVID-19: US Bangla to take 45 Indian sailors home Wednesday
01:52 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayA special flight of US-Bangla is scheduled to take back 45 Indian sailors home on Wednesday from Dhaka...
North Korea halts all communications with South in row over leafleting
01:10 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayNorth Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations' leaders...
CMP Commissioner infected with coronavirus
12:04 PM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayChattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Mahbubur Rahman was diagnosed with coronavirus early Tuesday...
Lakshmipur-2 lawmaker Paplu put on remand in Kuwait
11:21 AM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayLakshmipur-2 lawmaker Kazi Shahidul Islam Paplu, who was arrested in Kuwait for his alleged involvement in human trafficking and money laundering, has been put on remand, reports Gulf News...
Women Affairs Dept Director dies from coronavirus
10:55 AM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayDirector of Department of Women Affairs Md Fakhrul Kabir died from coronavirus in the wee hours of Tuesday. He breathed his last at Square Hospitals in the capital around 2:30am. Ministry of Women and Children Affairs confirmed the death in a press release this morning...
Jashore-4 lawmaker Ranjit tests positive for COVID-19
09:35 AM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayRanjit Kumar Roy, a Member of Parliament from Jashore-4 (Abhaynagar-Bagharpara) constituency has been infected with coronavirus. His sample was tested at the Genome Center of Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST) around 11:45pm on Monday and the test report came positive...
Floyd murder suspect Chauvin has bail set at $1.25m
08:56 AM, 09 Jun 2020 TuesdayThe Minneapolis ex-policeman accused of killing unarmed black man George Floyd has made his first court appearance, where his bail was set at $1.25m (£1m)...
Parliament's 43 officials catch coronavirus
09:29 PM, 08 Jun 2020 MondaySome 43 officials working of the National Parliament, and 82 ansar members engaged in its security have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus...
Coronavirus claims 258 lives, infects 16790 in a week
08:34 PM, 08 Jun 2020 MondayThree months passed after Bangladesh had first confirmed its coronavirus cases on March 8, and during the period the country saw nearly 70000 infections. In an efforts to curb the spread of the deadly virus, it had announced more than two months long general holidays but infections did not decrease rather witnessed newer records...