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3 MPs-elect take oath
04:49 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayThree Awami League lawmakers-elect in the by-polls took oath as members of the 11th parliament on Saturday afternoon. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, while Parliament Secretariat’s Senior Secretary Dr Zafar Ahmed Khan conducted the oath-taking ceremony...
Confirmed Japan coronavirus cases hit 10,000
03:53 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayThe number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Japan rose to 10,000 on Saturday, NHK public broadcaster said, just days after a state of emergency was extended to the entire nation in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus...
Singapore reports 942 new COVID-19 cases in record daily jump
03:41 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdaySingapore’s health ministry confirmed 942 more coronavirus infections on Saturday, a new daily record, the vast majority of which are among migrant workers living in dormitories...
Thousands join Janaza in B’baria flouting social distancing rule
03:09 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdaySeveral thousand people attended the namaz-e-janaza of Mawlana Jubayer Ahmed Ansari at Bertola village in Sarail upazila here on Saturday ignoring the risk of coronavirus transmission...
Bangladesh coronavirus death toll rises to 84
02:37 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayBangladesh on Saturday recorded nine more deaths from the novel coronavirus, taking the death toll to 84. The number of the virus (COVID-19) cases reached 2,144 after 306 people were newly infected with the epidemic in the past 24 hours...
Salaries, wages of 95.89 pc workers cleared: BGMEA
01:37 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayBangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has said they have so far cleared salaries and wages of around 95.89 percent workers for the month of March...
Nigerian President’s Chief of Staff dies of COVID-19
01:10 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayAbba Kyari, one of the closest advisers to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, died Friday after contracting the novel coronavirus, becoming the highest-profile casualty of the virus in Africa’s biggest economy...
375 more Bangladeshis catch coronavirus in Singapore
12:33 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdaySome 375 more Bangladeshi migrants have been infected with the novel coronavirus in Singapore, taking the total to 2030 ones, said the island nation's health ministry on Friday. The country yesterday recorded 623 new COVID-19 patients, including 375 Bangladeshis. With this, total caes hit 5,050...
Taylor Swift cancels live appearances for rest of year
12:28 PM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayWhile some US governors on Friday started announcing plans to resume economic activity amid calls from President Donald Trump to “liberate” states from coronavirus-related lockdowns, Taylor Swift won’t be a part of it...
Iran lifts Tehran's lockdown
11:36 AM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayWith the coronavirus outbreak still raging within its borders, Iran on Saturday lifted the lockdown on its capital and called on government and private-sector employees to return to work...
Official of BD mission in Jeddah catches coronavirus
10:53 AM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayThe labour counsellor of Bangladesh Mission in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Md Aminul Islam has contracted the novel coronavirus, confirmed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here on Saturday...
'Obama-Biden ‘incompetence’ caused 17,000 to die of swine flu'
10:24 AM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayPresident Trump tore into his presumptive Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden on Friday, saying the “incompetence” of former President Barack Obama and his then-vice president caused 17,000 people to die from swine flu...
Barguna locked down as virus cases keep rising
09:35 AM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayThe local administration in Barguna locked down the Bangladesh's southern district from this noon in an effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus...
Global coronavirus deaths hit 150,000
08:32 AM, 18 Apr 2020 SaturdayWorld coronavirus deaths passed 150,000 Friday as US President Donald Trump accused China of continuing to cover up its toll, even after Beijing revised figures sharply upward for Wuhan, the original epicenter of the global pandemic...
Tarabih, Eid prayers in Saudi to be done at home amid coronavirus
09:44 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridaySaudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said that Muslim prayers during Ramadan and for the subsequent Eid al-Fitr feast should be performed at home...
3 cops among 5 infected with coronavirus in Bhairab
09:09 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridayFive more people - a doctor, a nurse and three members of police - have been infected with coronavirus at Bhairab upazila in Kishoreganj. Samples from six people were sent to Dhaka from the upazila health complex on Thursday. Of them, five tested positive for coronavirus on Friday...
16 journalists tested Covid-19 positive so far, says DUJ
08:18 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridayLeaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Friday expressed deep concerns as 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka alone, were infected with coronavirus. In a statement, DUJ President Quddus Afrad and General Secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu said journalists along with their family members are getting infected with coronavirus...
Africa coronavirus cases could hit 10 million in 6 months: WHO
06:43 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridayCoronavirus cases in Africa could surge from just thousands now to 10 million within three to six months, according to provisional modelling, a regional World Health Organization (WHO) official said...
48 stranded Bangladeshis return home from Thailand
06:09 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridayA total of 48 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Thailand due to flight suspension amid outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, reached Dhaka on Friday afternoon...
Quader condemns BNP for unnecessarily criticising health sector
05:07 PM, 17 Apr 2020 FridayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today came down heavily on BNP, saying the party has been making unnecessary criticisms of the country’s health sector over the coronavirus outbreak...