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Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) has pledged BDT 200 million to help the nation in its fight against COVID – 19. The commitment includes wide-ranging measures such as product...
Reflecting on the past two months, people in Wuhan, whose lives have been upended by a 76-day city lockdown to contain the coronavirus, believe simple words are far from enough...
With the financial support from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh funded HALOW+ (Health Access and Linkage Opportunities for Workers Plus) project, GSK recently distributed personal protective equipment (PPE), disposable hand gloves,...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has allowed the members of the E-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (ECAB) to run their online delivery services as emergency products or services in the city...
A fire broke out at the 230/132 KV Sub-Station at Rampura in the capital at around 4:00pm on Saturday. The blaze originated from an explosion in a transformer inside the...
The "National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)", situated in India's north-eastern state of Assam, has come out with two innovative products to help the country fight COVID-19, said...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking into reports of some COVID-19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge. South Korean...
The ongoing restriction on vehicular movement has been extended to April 25 in line with the government’s decision in a bid to continue the lockdown in the country for checking...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was back on his feet in his recovery from COVID-19 on Friday as Britain recorded its deadliest day yet in the coronavirus pandemic, with 980 more...
The government has ordered all shops, except drugstores, to shut by 6:00 pm everyday in an effort to stem the coronvirus outbreak. According to bdnews24.com, it also asked citizens not...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on Saturday with states to decide whether to extend its own stringent restrictions beyond next week. India’s 21-day lockdown ends on Tuesday...
FM Associates, a full-service leading law firm in Dhaka and Chittagong, has stood by the poor people, providing them with essential commodities, amid the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus...
More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc., according to new data based...
Three more people in Bangladesh have died from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 58 tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, health minister Zahid Maleque said during...
Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) urged its customers to pay monthly bills in time amid the coronavirus shutdown. The internet service providers (ISPs) are providing internet services round...
The first term examination of primary schools has been suspended amid coronavirus outbreak. The examination was scheduled to take place on April 15-24. Fasiullah, director general of Directorate of Primary...
In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines would go to...
A six-month-old baby suffering from cold, fever, cough and pneumonia died at the Isolation Unit of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) early Saturday. KMCH Corona Unit Doctor Shailendranath Biswas said...
The Government of Bangladesh has identified water stress as a critical issue at a time when population growth and urbanisation in Asia and the Pacific are rising fast creating stress...
Uber is partnering with grocery chains and small independent businesses in Dhaka to deliver essential supplies to customers at their doorstep so that the ridesharing company can help contain the...
China reported on Saturday a rise in new coronavirus cases, as authorities try to head off a second wave of infections, particularly from imported and asymptomatic cases, as curbs on...
A Bangladesh armed forces medical team, along with necessary healthcare logistics, reached Kuwait recently in order to help fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the oil-rich gulf country. The team...
About 4,200 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge has become visible with the installation of its 28th span on Saturday. The 4B span, weighing 3,200 tonnes, was installed on pillars...
Switzerland has said it stands by Bangladesh in facing the COVID-19 crisis and implementing an effective response as nations around the globe suffer from challenges posed by the pandemic. The...
Vietnam is challenging China’s dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a...
Bangladeshi nationals, employed in Middle Eastern (ME) countries and now on vacation at home, will not lose their jobs for returning late to their respective job stations under the current...
Tunisia’s economy is expected to contract by 4.3 per cent in 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis, the deepest contraction since its independence in 1956, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said...
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing...
The air of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka showed a slight improvement on Saturday morning. It ranked 12th in the Air Quality Index (AQI) with a score of 112 at 08:35am,...
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) has decided to use its burn and plastic surgery unit for isolating COVID -19 suspects as well as lab for coronavirus test. “People coming to...
The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France jumped by nearly 987 or 8 per cent to 13,197 as nursing home deaths swelled but fewer people...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking...
The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally. The first death...
Earnings of most of the listed cement manufacturers slumped in the recent quarters compared to the same period in the previous year. Out of the seven cement makers listed on...
Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd (CSE) said a taskforce can be developed by the government for the proper implementation of the bail-out package, announced by the Prime Minister to stave off...
MJL Bangladesh, the country's largest lubricant company, distributed almost same amount of dividends in last three fiscal years (FY) amid its mixed performance observed in EPS during the same period....
After losing their seasonal sales on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh due to the coronavirus pandemic, the fashion and boutique industry is facing uncertainty over business viability during the upcoming...
The domestic tourism industry, hardest hit by coronavirus, has downsized its manpower by 5,085 in the past three months since January, according to a survey. In its report styled 'Impacts...
Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will send back Bangladeshis, serving in jails there, as a part of their move to free the prisons to help control further spread...
Online marketeers have been suffering from supply chain disruptions, inadequate manpower and assistance from law-enforcement agencies amid the countrywide lockdown to check COVID-19, sector insiders said. There has been a...
VAT (value added tax) circle offices will remain open from April 12 to April 15, 2020 on limited scale for facilitating submission of VAT returns during the ongoing general holidays....
The retail markets in the city saw prices of rice, pulse and onion go up further this week, adding to the woes of consumers during the stay-at-home orders. Disruption in...
The government has sought US$500 million budgetary support from the World Bank to help finance the annual public expenditure, officials said on Friday. The Economic Relations Division, or ERD, has...
The average waiting time for vessels in Chittagong port has risen to seven days after the operator delays berthing amid space shortage, caused in part to COVID-19-linked shutdown. Some vessels...
Experts and virologists are still divided on the corona test procedure, although there is a strong demand for increasing the number of tests from the very beginning. The number of...
The backdrop of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1985 novel Love in the Time of Cholera is not even distantly related to that dreadful disease. It is a story of relations between...
Two sisters drowned in a pond in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sadia and Samia, daughters of Sadir Mia of Shohagpur Chowdhurypara. One...
East Asian countries are outperforming the United States and Europe in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the outbreak began in China, to which the rest of East...
Infecting about a million-and-half people, and taking nearly 100,000 lives thus far, coronavirus (Covid-19) seems set to leave an epochal economic footprint. With developed countries (DCs) at or near lockdown...
Volunteers distribute face masks to students of Taiyuan University of Technology at the entrance of the school in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province on April 10, 2020. The first batch...
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