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2000 newly recruited doctors asked to join by May 15
01:31 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayA 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 SundayAs 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 SundayA 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 SundayThree 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 SundayLittle 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 SundayFive 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 SundayFormer 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 SaturdayBangladesh 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 SaturdayAnother 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 SaturdayAnkara 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 SaturdayThousands 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 SaturdayThree 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 SaturdayA 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 SaturdayWhen 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 SaturdayThe 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 SaturdaySlovakia on Friday recorded no new cases of coronavirus for the first time since March 10, government figures showed...
Help jobless instead shopping, Quader to party leader-activist
03:58 PM, 09 May 2020 SaturdayAwami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged the party leaders and activists to support the poor-helpless and jobless people instead of shopping in this Eid-ul-Fitr....
Coronavirus: 8 more die, 636 new cases
02:42 PM, 09 May 2020 SaturdayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 214 as 8 more died in the last 24 hour. Besides, 636 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 13,770. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said in the regular health bulletin through online on Saturday...
Coronavirus cases in police force pass 1500
02:27 PM, 09 May 2020 SaturdayA total of 80 police personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the police force to 1,509 across the country. Of them, 708 are the members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)...
Dr Wazed’s 11th death anniversary today
01:54 PM, 09 May 2020 SaturdayToday is the 11th death anniversary of renowned nuclear scientist and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr. M A Wazed Miah...