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India looks to lure over 1,000 US companies out of China
03:49 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayIndia is seeking to lure US. businesses, including medical devices giant Abbott Laboratories, to relocate from China as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to blame Beijing for its role in the coronavirus pandemic...
706 more test positive for coronavirus in 24 hours
02:51 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 12,425 as 706 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours in the country. Besides, 130 more recovered from the diseases, raising the total number of cured patients to 1,910...
BCB waiting for government’s signal to resume cricket
02:17 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayBangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is reluctant to resume cricket in the country without a green signal from the government...
Fareast University VC dies from coronavirus
01:50 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayThe Vice Chancellor of Fareast International University (FIU) Professor Dr Nazmul Karim Chowdhury has passed away from coronavirus. He breathed his last at Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medial College Hospital on Thursday morning. Professor Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, Dean of Business Faculty of Dhaka University (DU), confirmed the death...
TCB to sell onions at Tk 25 per kg from Saturday: Minister
01:06 PM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayCommerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling onions at Tk 25 per kg from Saturday across the country. The minister said this while briefing at his secretariat office on Thursday...
India gas leak: 8 dead, over 1000 fall sick
11:24 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least eight people died and more than thousand people fell sick after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from a chemical factory in Indian state Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of Thursday. Andhra Pradesh Director-General of Police Gautam Sawang confirmed the toll at six...
Over 90,000 health workers infected with COVID-19 worldwide
11:07 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least 90,000 health-care workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Wednesday...
50 infected with coronavirus at Mexican retirement home
10:50 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayAt least 47 residents and three workers have been infected with coronavirus at a retirement home in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, authorities said on Wednesday, in one of the biggest outbreaks yet reported in the country...
Will Gilead price its coronavirus drug for public good or company profit?
09:55 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayGilead Sciences Inc faces a new dilemma in deciding how much it should profit from the only treatment so far proven to help patients infected with the novel coronavirus. The drugmaker earned notoriety less than a decade ago, when it introduced a treatment...
Sheikh Hasina’s Homecoming Day today
08:57 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayToday is May 7, a red letter day in the history of the nation, as Awami League President and present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on this day in 2007 defying a ban on her return home during the state of emergency...
Trump says coronavirus worse ‘attack’ than Pearl Harbor
08:37 AM, 07 May 2020 ThursdayUS President Donald Trump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on the United States, pointing the finger at China. Mr Trump said the outbreak had hit the US harder than the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War Two, or the 9/11 attacks two decades ago...
Mushfiqur Bangladesh’s best Test batsman as per ICC rankings
09:40 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayMushfiqur Rahim retained his position as the best Test player of Bangladesh as per the latest ICC rankings for the batsman...
Govt waives tax on PPE, surgical masks
09:16 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayThe Value Added Tax (VAT) on manufacturing, trade and supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and surgical masks to stem the spread of the coronavirus...
Indian troops kill top Kashmir rebel commander
08:46 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayIndian troops have killed four rebel fighters in gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, including the commander of the biggest separatist group fighting New Delhi in the disputed Himalayan region...
28,849 Bangladeshi expats to return home: FM
08:34 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayThe government on Wednesday said 28,849 expatriates, mostly from the Middle East (ME), will return home within the next couple of weeks. So far, 3,695 expatriate Bangladeshis have returned home from the ME...
COVID-19 lockdown costs India 120 million jobs
06:11 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayA lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus has seen 122 million Indians lose their jobs in April alone, new data from a private research agency has shown...
Coronavirus spreads to all districts of Bangladesh
05:53 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayThe hill district of Rangamati became the last district of Bangladesh to report the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases...
US govt whistleblower 'ousted for warning about COVID-19'
05:00 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayA US government scientist has alleged he was ousted after he raised concerns about COVID-19 and a malaria drug pushed by Donald Trump...
Somoyer Alo journalist dies with coronavirus symptoms
04:45 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayA journalist of Daily Somoyer Alo died with coronavirus symptoms- fever, cold and cough- early Wednesday...
Europe faces recession of “historic proportions”
04:09 PM, 06 May 2020 WednesdayThe European Union is forecast to contract by a record 7.5% this year, according to a new forecast from the European Commission, as the coronavirus batters economies around the world...