OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA COVID VACCINE STUDY SHOWS DUAL IMMUNE A...
July 20 ,2020
An experimental Covid-19 vaccine the University of Oxford is developing with AstraZeneca Plc showed promising results in early human te...
BANGLADESH TO BE AMONG FIRST TO GET FREE COVID-19 VACCINE:...
July 20 ,2020
Health Services Division Secretary Abdul Mannan today said Bangladesh would be among the first to get any Covid-19 vaccine developed in...
PHYSICIAN GETS FOUR MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT FOR ISSUING FAKE...
July 20 ,2020
A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has sentenced a physician to four months' imprisonment and fined him Tk1 lakh for is...
LET MFIS ACCEPT DEPOSITS FROM PEOPLE: DR YUNUS TO INDIAN A...
July 20 ,2020
Dr Muhammad Yunus. File photo
Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has recommended allowing micro-finance institutions (MFIs) in India...
DOUBLE DIGITS CONTINUE WITH 21 NEW COVID-19 CASES
July 20 ,2020
Twenty-one new Covid-19 cases were reported by the health ministry today, continuing the double-digit trend in the last few days.
This...
MUHYIDDIN WARNS MALAYSIANS AGAINST COVID-19 COMPLACENCY, C...
July 20 ,2020
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the government could reimpose the movement control order (MCO) and call for a lockdown if...
BANGLADESH COVID-19: 50 DIE, 2,928 NEW CASES IN 24HRS
July 20 ,2020
Bangladesh has recorded 50 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 2,668.
Besides, as...
US-China tensions: why is Malaysia so quiet about the Sout...
July 20 ,2020
Malaysia’s South China Sea policy has come under the spotlight after a public rebuke of its foreign minister Hishammuddin Hussein...
Pakistan to send lonely elephant to Cambodia
July 20 ,2020
A Pakistani court approved the relocation of a lonely and mistreated elephant to Cambodia after the pachyderm became the subject of a h...
POPULATION IN PAKISTAN CONTINUES TO GROW RAPIDLY: REPORT
July 20 ,2020
Pakistan’s total population is estimated at 220.9 million and it is growing rapidly with an annual fertility rate of 3.6 children...
JINNAH’S BIRTHPLACE - FLOODED AND FORGOTTEN
July 20 ,2020
As the second spell of monsoon rains lashed Karachi on Friday, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's birthplace, Wazir Mansion in Kharadar...
TURKEY SUSPENDS FLIGHTS TO AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN
July 20 ,2020
Turkey on Sunday suspended flights to Iran and Afghanistan in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Transport and Infr...
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LAUNCHES MISSION TO MARS
July 20 ,2020
The Hope Probe blasted off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center for a seven-month journey to the red planet, where it will orbit and s...
23 LAKH MAROONED AND IT CAN GET WORSE
July 20 ,2020
Floodwater was still flowing above the danger mark at 22 points in different districts across the country as of Saturday, affecting mor...
INDIA OFFERS SAFETY TO AFGHAN HINDU AND SIKH MINORITIES FA...
July 20 ,2020
Members of the Afghan Sikh community mourn as bodies of people killed in a suicide bombing are cremated in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2...
ELEPHANTS MYSTERIOUSLY DYING IN BOTSWANA SINCE MARCH, MORE...
July 20 ,2020
More than 350 elephants have been found mysteriously dead in Botswana’s Okavango Panhandle after conservationists from Elephants...
BANGLADESH’S 4,200 HEALTH WORKERS TO JOIN CHINESE VACCINE...
July 20 ,2020
The Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) has given the go-ahead to Phase 3 trial of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese c...
SAUDI ARABIA'S KING SALMAN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL FOR CHECKS
July 20 ,2020
Saudi Arabia's 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflam...
INDIAN-ORIGIN DOCTORS WARN OF RACIAL BIAS IN MEDICAL RESEA...
July 20 ,2020
A group of Indian-origin doctors has warned that inherent racial bias in medical research and practice could be exacerbating the dispro...
IRAN DOES NOT TRUST US INTENTIONS FOR AFGHAN PEACE: ARAGHC...
July 20 ,2020
A top Iranian diplomat who visited Kabul last week said Iran doubts the US’s will for the peace process in Afghanistan for many r...
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