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Maldives President phones Hasina; thanks her for sending medical equipment
01:14 PM, 22 Apr 2020 WednesdayMaldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sending medical equipment and relief materials to the Maldives to face the COVID-19 situation there...
Bangladesh RMG workers face ruin as global brands cancel order
12:49 PM, 22 Apr 2020 WednesdayThe coronavirus pandemic has led factories to furlough or lay off more than half of the country's nearly 4.1 million garment workers, according to estimates from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA)...
41 physicians contract coronavirus in Kishoreganj
10:49 AM, 22 Apr 2020 WednesdayA total of 141 people, including 41 doctors, 10 nurses and 42 hospital staff, were infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of April 17 in Kishoreganj...
Covid-19 cases pass 25 lakh; deaths 177,619
09:07 AM, 22 Apr 2020 WednesdayThe global death toll from coronavirus has reached 177,619 as of Wednesday morning. So far, 2,556,745 cases have been confirmed around the world after the disease was first reported in China in December last, according to Worldometer...
$484bn funding for US small businesses, hospitals approved
08:54 AM, 22 Apr 2020 WednesdayUS has committed more than $2.2 trillion in emergency spending, and legislators are already talking about a fifth bill...
27 Bangladeshi expats die from coronavirus in Saudi Arabia
09:49 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayA total of 27 Bangladeshi expatriates died from coronavirus so far in Saudi Arabia. Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia Golam Masih confirmed the deaths to Jago News on Tuesday. The burial of all the deceased has not been completed yet. All of them will be buried in Saudi Arabia, he said...
General holidays likely to be extended: State Minister
09:13 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayAs both the death toll and infections from coronavirus continue to surge in Bangladesh, the government is likely to extend the ongoing general holidays in a bid to tackle the worsening situation...
Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO
08:03 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory...
UNHCR warns of severe implications for annual monsoon response in Bangladesh
07:12 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today of life-threatening consequences if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time in Bangladesh amid the global outbreak of COVID-19...
Sampadak Parishad demands withdrawal of case against 2 editors
06:39 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe Sampadak Parishad has expressed its deep and serious concern at the filing of the case under the Digital Security Act (DSA) against Mohiuddin Sarker, acting editor of Jago News and Toufique Imrose Khaledi, editor-in-chief of Bdnews for reporting on misappropriation of OMS rice at Baliadangi upazila in Thakurgaon...
Kim Jong-un illness rumours denied amid intense speculation
05:36 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayReports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seriously ill after heart surgery are not true, officials in South Korea have said...
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
04:48 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayPresident Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus...
No discrimination in relief distribution to be allowed: Quader
04:26 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayRoad, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday urged all to continue the relief distribution work properly and warned that no discrimination in it will be allowed...
Biman to bring back Bangladeshis from Delhi on Friday
04:14 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayBiman Bangladesh Airlines will operate a special chartered flight from New Delhi to bring back stranded Bangladeshi citizens on Friday while US-Bangla Airlines is continuing such flights from Chennai for the same purpose since Monday...
Dhaka to join OIC’s EC meeting over COVID-19 on Wednesday
04:00 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayOrganization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary foreign ministerial level meeting of its Executive Committee (EC) as a part of its effort to address issues of COVID-19 pandemic via video conferencing on Wednesday...
Bangladesh coronavirus cases pass 3,000
02:32 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe number of novel coronavirus cases in Bangladesh passed 3,000 on Tuesday, with 434 were newly infected with the virus. The deadly virus also claimed nine more lives, said prof Nasima Sultana, ADG of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)...
25 personnel of a police station catch coronavirus
02:06 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThirty two police personnel have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Gazipur...
People of 60+ account for ‘50 pc coronavirus deaths’ in Bangladesh
01:38 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThough the people of 60 years of age or above make up only 10 percent of coronavirus patients in Bangladesh, they account for 50 percent of fatalities from the virus. Responding to queries from UNB, experts have attributed this to comorbidities and weakened immune system of senior people...
Haor pry schools to remain open for paddy harvesting labourers
01:16 PM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe government has directed to keep open the all primary schools in the country's haor areas to accommodate the paddy harvesting labourers. The direction was made in a letter issued by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education on Monday...
Muslims face a Ramadan like never before
11:34 AM, 21 Apr 2020 TuesdayDays before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: enforced separation at a time when socialising is almost sacred...