The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 565 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 565,319,719 and the death toll from the virus…
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained 18 people with 2,000 kg of gel-injected shrimps from the Koiya Bazar area of Khulna’s Horintana upazila.Acting on a tip-off that the accused were coming to Khulna from Satkhira with a large consignment of shrim…
Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory — a key step toward normalization between the two nations as President Joe Biden visits the region.I…
Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris in a central Ukrainian city on Friday looking for people still missing after a Russian missile strike a day earlier that killed at least 23 people.Russian forces, meanwhile, pounded other sites in a …
A construction worker of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project died after a crane fell on him in Gazipur’s Chandna Chourasta area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway on Friday afternoon.The identity of the worker couldn’t be known yet.Some others were injured in…
At the end of June, gas prices in Europe increased six times year-on-year and are still rising, Sputnik quoted European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni in a report on Thursday.”Commodity prices are being showing signs of easing lately, in …
Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader on Friday feared that the debt burden can make Bangladesh bankrupt. “The country’s debt is 16 lakh crore. The situation of the country can be dire when this loan will have to be repaid with interest in the future,” he sa…
Thirty-one more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Friday morning amid a rise in the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Among them, 30 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka…
The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published by WHO and UNICEF on Friday.The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus an…
Two more people died from Covid, and 1,051 tested positive for the virus in the 24 hours to Friday.While the country’s total fatalities reached 29,225, the new number took its caseload to 1,994,433, according to the Directorate General of Health Servic…
President Joe Biden says he remains supportive of an independent Palestinian state but says the “ground is not ripe” for restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.Biden delivered the assessment at a news conference with the Palestinian…
Legendary pop singer Ferdous Wahid was admitted to a Dhaka hospital Friday after he suffered a heart attack in the morning.The 69-year-old musician is now undergoing treatment at Birdem General Hospital, said his cousin Tayeba Nabi Tannu while confirmi…
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