January 18, 2023 – Page 2 – Bangladesh News Gazette

Bangladesh Bank expects first instalment of $4.5 b IMF loan to arrive by next month: Spokesman

·January 18, 2023

The visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, led by its deputy managing director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, on Sunday discussed with Bangladesh Bank officials the country’s economic challenges and the request for a $4.5 billion loan from th...

Industry

Mobile operators must pay their dues: BTRC chairman

·January 18, 2023

Four private telecom operators-Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi and Airtel owe an amount of Tk2,413 crore to the government which remains due as VAT on 2G spectrum fees and licence fees, said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)....

Medical &Health

China reports 60,000 COVID-related deaths since early December

·January 18, 2023

China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December, offering hard numbers for an unprecedented surge that was apparent in overcrowded hospitals and packed crematoriums, even as the government released little...

Medical &Health

Dhaka tops list of cities with worst air quality

·January 18, 2023

Dhaka has topped the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality this morning (January 15, 2023).With an air quality index (AQI) score of 285 at 9:30 am on Sunday, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.An AQI between 15...

Medical &Health

68 confirmed dead as passenger plane with 72 on board crashes near Pokhara airport

·January 18, 2023

Scores of rescue workers and onlookers crowded near a steep gorge outside a resort town in central Nepal where a regional passenger plane crashed Sunday, as rescuers combed the wreckage on the edge of the cliff and in the ravine below.So far, 68 people...

Medical &Health

Mirza Fakhrul hospitalised

·January 18, 2023

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was admitted to Dhaka's Evercare Hospital this morning.He was admitted to the hospital for a health checkup around 10:30am as he was feeling unwell, BNP's Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said.Read m...

Medical &Health

Bangladesh reports one more dengue death: 22 new cases

·January 18, 2023

Another person died from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning.With the new number, the official death toll from dengue rose to three this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Besides, 22 people were hospitalised with t...

Medical &Health

Unity sought to make country tobacco-free

·January 18, 2023

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin has said if his ministry can work in unison with the ministries of health and agriculture, tobacco cultivation can be stopped in the country.“Farmers will require some incentives in that c...

Medical &Health

Fardin death: Probe report submission deferred to February 14

·January 18, 2023

A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till February 14 the submission of the probe report in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam Mallik fixed the fresh date as the investigating officer o...

Medical &Health

Lu pledges US administration’s continuous support, cooperation for all future efforts

·January 18, 2023

US Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu has committed the US administration's continuous support and cooperation for all future endeavours of Bangladesh and referred to the tremendous socio-economic devel...

Medical &Health

Bangladesh 88th among 183 countries in road accident death rate: Minister

·January 18, 2023

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh ranks 88th among 183 countries in road accident death rate.In response to a tabled question from Awami League MP elected from Chattogram M Abdul Latif, the Minister said the i...

Medical &Health

Deaths from strike on Ukraine apartment building rise to 29

·January 18, 2023

The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, the regional governor reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble.Emergency crews worked th...