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Hundreds queue for food parcels in wealthy Geneva

04:02 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

More than 1,000 people queued on Saturday to get free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland...

Gausia market workers stage protest demanding arrears

03:34 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Shop employees of Gausia market staged demonstrations and blocked Mirpur Road for an hour on Sunday demanding their arrears...

Bangladesh records highest daily deaths, new cases of COVID-19

02:42 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Bangladesh today confirmed 14 more deaths from coronavirus or COVID-19 and 887 new cases of infection. With this, the death toll has risen to 228 from the virus and a total of 14,657 people have been infected so far...

PM receives donations to fight COVID-19

02:21 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today received contributions from 57 organisations and individual mostly from various ministries, universities, and associations, for the PM’s Relief and Welfare Fund to effectively combat the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic...

2000 newly recruited doctors asked to join by May 15

01:31 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

A total of 2,000 doctors recently recruited as assistant surgeons have been asked to join their workplaces within May 15. A gazette notification on their appointment signed by Dr Md Belal Hossen, Director of Health Directorate (administration) was issued on Saturday...

Some shopping malls, markets reopen amid virus fear

12:23 PM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

As businesspeople have been permitted to keep shopping malls and markets open on a limited scale from Sunday, some of them reopened their shops in different parts of the country, including Dhaka and Chattogram, while some kept their businesses shut...

Webinar on COVID-19 challenges for food manufacturing companies held

11:58 AM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

A webinar titled “COVID-19 challenges for the food and beverage supply chain professionals” was held on Friday...

Rare syndrome tied to COVID-19 kills 3 children in New York

10:38 AM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Three children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for the very young...

Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dies

10:11 AM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock ‘n’ roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died Saturday after battling bone cancer. He was 87...

5 migrant workers killed as truck overturns in Madhya Pradesh

09:36 AM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Five migrant labourers died and 15 were injured in Indian state Madhya Pradesh late last night when a truck they were travelling in overturned in a village, about 200 km away from state capital Bhopal...

Obama slams Trump response to coronavirus as ‘chaotic disaster’

09:10 AM, 10 May 2020 Sunday

Former United States President Barack Obama has reportedly described President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as "an absolute chaotic disaster"...

Coronavirus: One lakh RMG workers to get free telemedicine service

10:01 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Common Health Bangladesh have signed an agreement to provide free telemedicine service to one lakh garment workers...

Coronavirus claims 7 lives in police force

09:55 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Another police member died from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Saturday night, taking such number of deaths in the force to seven....

Ankara pledges Dhaka raising Rohingya issue at UNSC

09:21 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Ankara today assured Dhaka that Turkey will raise the Rohingya repatriation issue at the next United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting...

Thousands gather for military parade, defying coronavirus concerns

08:50 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Thousands of people gathered in Minsk on Saturday to attend a Victory Day military parade, despite increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in Belarus...

Lightning kills 3 in Faridpur

08:30 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Three people were killed in two incidents of lightning strikes in Sadar upazila of Faridpur on Saturday afternoon...

S Korea faces new flare-up in virus cases tied to nightclubs

06:10 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

A potential second wave of coronavirus infections could be possible in South Korea after confirmed cases suddenly increased after a lull, with a surge tied to nightclubs in Seoul...

Army’s vegetable procurement reduces farmers’ woes

05:58 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

When vegetables growers of Kushtia were passing days in great worries about marketing of the produces, the army came forward to give them relief to some extent by buying vegetable directly from the field...

Rice blast disease detected in Feni

05:31 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

The blast disease has been detected in half ripe rice fields in Parshuram upazila of Feni, leaving the farmers worried about losses...

Slovakia records no new coronavirus cases

04:15 PM, 09 May 2020 Saturday

Slovakia on Friday recorded no new cases of coronavirus for the first time since March 10, government figures showed...