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Coronavirus: China gets back to work as death toll rises to 1,868
12:42 PM, 18 Feb 2020 TuesdayChina’s health authorities on Tuesday reported 1,886 new coronavirus cases and 98 deaths on the mainland, taking the totals to 72,436 and 1,868 respectively, as of midnight on Monday. Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 1,807 new cases - 1,600 of them in the provincial capital Wuhan...
Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk
12:08 PM, 18 Feb 2020 TuesdayHealth officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began. Data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) found that more than 80% of the cases have been mild with the sick and elderly most at risk...
Actor-politician Tapas Pal dies of cardiac arrest
11:46 AM, 18 Feb 2020 TuesdayVeteran Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal died of cardiac arrest early this morning, a family source said. He was 61...
BNP finalizes candidates for JS by-polls
10:04 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayBNP has finalized its candidates for vying in the by-polls to Dhaka-10, Bagerhat-4, and Gaibandha-3 parliamentary constituencies. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the names of the candidates at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday night...
A Dean Koontz book from 1981 predicted coronavirus in bizarre coincidence
09:37 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayAuthor Dean Koontz eerily predicted the coronavirus outbreak in his 1981 thriller "The Eyes of Darkness."
All China, Singapore-returnees don’t need hospital isolation: IEDCR
08:58 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThere is no need to keep all the China and Singapore returnees in hospital quarantine, said director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora on Monday...
Bangladesh Children Hospital and Institute Act gets cabinet nod
07:46 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThe cabinet today approved in principle the draft of a law keeping a provision of merging Dhaka Children Hospital and Bangladesh Institute of Child Health for providing better treatment facilities to the children...
Nirbhaya convicts to now hang on March 3
06:49 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThe four convicts, who got death penalty for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi - dubbed Nirbhaya by the media -- more than seven years ago, will be hanged on March 3, at 6 am...
US coronavirus patient was ‘world’s first’ treated with experimental drug
06:02 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayFor Robin Addison, January 20 was like any other Monday night. She had just slipped into her pyjamas after a long day of work at Providence Regional Medical Centre in Everett...
Faf du Plessis steps down as South Africa Test & T20 captain
04:16 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayFaf du Plessis has stepped down as South Africa Test and Twenty20 captain, saying it is in the teams' "best interests"...
Exiled Bangladeshi poet Haider falls victim to credit card fraud in India
03:59 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayExiled Bangladeshi poet and columnist Daud Haider has fallen victim to credit card fraud in India...
Technical issues hindering return of remaining Bangladeshis in Hubei: Li Jiming
02:56 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayLi Jiming on Monday said that some technical issues were obstructing the return of remaining 171 Bangladeshis from Hubei province, the epicentre of a new virus outbreak...
Mobile radiation exposure not harmful to health, environment, BTRC claims
02:11 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThe Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) says the level of radiation emitted by mobile phone towers is not harmful for human health risks and the environment...
A reminder: Cops just can't beat up people
12:59 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayChilling footage of police brutality in what looks like a reading room of Jamia Millia Islamia university in the capital has emerged. The raw scenes echo testimonies of several students who complained of indiscriminate assault on the evening of December 15...
Women army officers can get command roles: Indian SC
12:35 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThe Indian Supreme Court today said women officers in the Army can get commanding positions - not combat roles -- on par with male officers...
N'ganj fire: One dies at DMCH
12:16 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayAn elderly woman who suffered burns after a fire broke out at a house in Sahebapara of Siddhirganj upazila early Monday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). The deceased was identified as Nurjahan Begum, 60...
Death of Abrar: Prothom Alo Editor gets bail
12:09 PM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayA court in Dhaka on Monday granted bail to Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat.
Eight of a family sustain burns in N'ganj fire
11:31 AM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayEight members of a family have received burn injuries in a fire in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj early Monday. The injured are Nurzahan, 60, Md Kiran Mia, 45, Md Abul Hossain, 25, Md Hiran Mia, 25, Mukta, 20, Md Kawsar, 16, Apon, 10, and Lima, 3....
How to protect yourself from coronavirus
09:12 AM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayThe novel coronavirus is now a "public health emergency of international concern," killing 1,770 people and infecting more than 70,548 worldwide...
The Kashmir journalist forced into manual labour
08:55 AM, 17 Feb 2020 MondayJournalists in Indian-administered Kashmir are struggling to make ends meet amid a months-long communications blockade that has only partially been lifted. The BBC's Priyanka Dubey visited the region to find out more...