Covid deaths cross 12,000 DGHS fears rise in cases after Eid
Bangladesh on Tuesday recorded 33 more Covid deaths and 1,230 new cases, with the country’s death toll from the disease crossing the 12,000 mark. It took just 16 days to count the latest 1,000 deaths as…
Read More »Apocalypse engulfs India
WEST Bengal elections results could not have been, to put it mildly, more disappointing for the Indian prime minister and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. Never in India’s electoral history has the party/alliance in…
Read More »Group show Dui under way at Dwip, Studio 6/6
A group art exhibition featuring artworks by young artists under the rubric Dui is under way at Dwip Gallery and Studio 6/6 in the capital. Dui is the second chapter of a series exhibition, Ek, curated…
Read More »Let us celebrate Eid at home: celebs
Celebrities belonging to different fraternities urged all to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr at home with their family members like the past year as the country’s Covid situation is looking bleak and many people have passed away.…
Read More »Programmed for war
WHY don’t America’s wars ever end? I know, I know: president Joe Biden has announced that our combat troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11 of this year, marking the 20th anniversary of the colossal…
Read More »India Covid deaths soar toll past 250,000
India’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, official data showed, as the pandemic raged across the vast country of 1.3 billion people. According to the Indian health ministry, 4,205 people died in the past 24…
Read More »China hands over 5 lakh doses of Covid vaccine to Bangladesh
Some 5 lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by the Chinese government to Bangladesh, were handed over to the Bangladesh government on Wednesday. Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming formally handed over the doses…
Read More »Banks’ interest rate spread rises to 3.05pts
The overall weighted average interest rate spread in the country’s banking sector rose to 3.05 percentage points in March after remaining below 3 percentage points for several months after the implementation of 9-per cent lending rate.…
Read More »NBR finalises draft rules on faster release of perishable goods
The National Board of Revenue has finalised draft rules on a faster release and disposal of perishable goods to ensure that quality and standards of the goods remain intact. Customs wing of the revenue board on…
Read More »Liberation war ministry to review Suhrawardy Udyan’s tree felling
Liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Huq on Tuesday said that they would review the decision of tree felling at historic Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka. The minster came up with the statement while addressing a…
Read More »Iraq’s heritage battered by desert sun, state apathy
One of the world’s oldest churches is crumbling deep in Iraq’s desert, another victim of years of conflict, government negligence and climate change in a country with a rich heritage. After Pope Francis made a historic…
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