3 ICU CHIEFS DIE OF CORONAVIRUS IN A WEEK
June 14 ,2020
The country's health sector has lost three incentive care unit (ICU) chiefs in a week.
Professor Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin, the ICU departm...
TWO UN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN ATTACK ON CONVOY IN MALI
June 14 ,2020
Two UN peacekeepers killed in attack on convoy in Mali.
Two peacekeepers with the United Nations (UN) forces in Mali were killed on Sa...
45 RED ZONE AREAS IN DHAKA CITY
June 14 ,2020
The government has finalized the list of red zone areas across the country as per the recommendation of the National Technical Advisory...
COVID-19: CASES TOP 87,000 MARK, 32 DIE IN 24HRS IN BANGLA...
June 14 ,2020
Bangladesh today confirmed 32 more deaths from the novel coronavirus and 3,141 new cases of infection testing 14,505 samples in the l...
MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA PERMITTED TO CONDUCT PRAYERS FIVE TIM...
June 14 ,2020
The Wakfs Board of Sri Lanka has permitted Muslims to conduct Imam Jamaths and Jummah prayers five times with effect from yesterday (13...
Chinese proposal to Bangladesh for sister-city alliance
June 14 ,2020
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has offered to help Bangladesh in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic if the country agrees to form siste...
'EVIDENCE POINTS TO INDIAN INVOLVEMENT IN RAWALPINDI BLAST...
June 14 ,2020
Security agencies have found evidence of Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing’s (RAW) involvement in yesterday’s bl...
CORONAVIRUS: DELHI PLANS TO ADD 20,000 BEDS AT HOTELS, BAN...
June 14 ,2020
The Delhi government plans to add 20,000 beds across the hotels and banquet halls of the city over the coming week -- a quarter o...
AMIT SHAH, ARVIND KEJRIWAL MEET AS CORONAVIRUS CASES RISE...
June 14 ,2020
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met this morning to review the...
6.3-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE JOLTS JAPAN, NO TSUNAMI WARNING I...
June 14 ,2020
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of the Amamioshima Island in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture o...
CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES FLIGHT FROM DHAKA TO GUANGZHOU SUS...
June 14 ,2020
A China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou will be suspended for four weeks from June 22 due to concerns about COVID-19 i...
CORONAVIRUS CASES IN INDIA CROSS 3.2 LAKH MARK, DEATH TOLL...
June 14 ,2020
The coronavirus tally in India has reached 3,20,922 on Sunday according to the ministry of health. While over 1.62 lakh people have rec...
BANGLADESH’S STATE MINISTER FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SHEIKH A...
June 14 ,2020
State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah has passed away on Saturday night at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka....
FRESH CHINA CLUSTER RAISES FEARS FOR PANDEMIC CONTROL
June 14 ,2020
Lockdowns were imposed in parts of Beijing yesterday to try and prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster, highlighting the chall...
89 CIVILIANS KILLED IN ‘TALIBAN ATTACKS’ IN PAST 2 WEEKS:...
June 14 ,2020
Numbers released by the Afghan government indicate that "89 civilians" were killed in "Taliban attacks" in the last two weeks.
The Tal...
FORMER PAK PREMIER YOUSUF RAZA GILANI TESTS POSITIVE FOR C...
June 14 ,2020
Former prime minister and senior PPP leader Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his son, Kasim Gilani, co...
PM MODI MEETS SENIOR MINISTERS TO REVIEW INDIA'S RESPONSE...
June 14 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with ministers and officials on Saturday to review the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, th...
SRI LANKANS STRANDED IN MALDIVES RETURN
June 14 ,2020
A group of Sri Lankans stranded in the Maldives returned to the country yesterday.
The High Commission of Sri Lanka in the Maldives in...
MAN LINKED TO TRAFFICKING OF 26 BANGLADESHIS KILLED IN LIB...
June 14 ,2020
A Dhaka court yesterday placed a member of a gang - linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28 - on a three...
751 BANGLADESHI WORKERS RETURN FROM DUBAI
June 14 ,2020
A total of 751 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Dubai by two special flights yesterday.
A special flight of Emirates Airways, ca...
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