Bangladesh on Monday witnessed three Covid-19 deaths and 367 coronavirus positive cases in 24 hours. Bangladesh reported 9.19 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 3,994 samples were tested during the last 24 hours, a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the ...

India’s retail inflation accelerated to a five month high of 7.30% in September due to surging food prices, staying well above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) upper tolerance band for a ninth month, a Reuters poll found. Fueled by erratic rainfall and supply shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices of daily consumables like cereals and vegetables which form ...

Bangladesh reported another death from Covid-19 and 409 fresh cases in 24 hours till Sun morning. The country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,381 with no deaths reported while the new cases raised the country’s total caseload to 2,029, 723, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The latest deceased was a man from Dhaka devision The daily ...

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formed a human chain outside Britain’s parliament on Saturday to demand an end to an attempt by the United States to have him extradited to face criminal charges. Hundreds of protesters, including Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, gathered in a line which stretched from parliament’s perimeter railings and snaked ...

The number of people suffering from hypertension or high blood pressure, a major risk factor for NCDs (Non-communicable Diseases), especially cardiovascular disease, has been increasing in Bangladesh day by day, which has posed an alarming threat to human health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), hypertension, also known as high or raised blood pressure, is a condition in which ...

Bangladesh reported zero death from Covid-19 and 299 fresh cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning. The country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,380 with no deaths reported while the new cases raised the country’s total caseload to 2,029, 314, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The daily case test positivity rate rose to 13.60 per cent ...

The overall number of global Covid cases has now crossed 626 million. According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 626,084,363 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,559,360 on Saturday morning. The US has recorded 98,523,168 cases so far while 1,087,655 people have died from the virus in the country, both highest counts around ...

Spot market LNG imports could cost Bangladesh about $11 billion between 2022 and 2024, according to a mini briefing published by Ember, a global energy think tank. Heavy reliance on gas generation, diminishing domestic gas reserves, lack of alternative renewable generation capacity and new coal power becoming increasingly unviable have all led Bangladesh to rely more and more on Liquefied ...

The World Bank has lowered its forecast for Bangladesh’s economic growth for fiscal 2022-23 by a 0.6 percentage point to 6.1 per cent. While economic distress is weighing down all South Asian countries, some are coping better than others, the World Bank said in a new report released on Thursday. Bangladesh is one of them. The World Bank cut its ...

A US judge on Thursday suspended litigation in the saga over Elon Musk’s proposed $44-billion takeover of Twitter, giving the parties until October 28 to finalize the on-again, off-again megadeal. Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick, ruling on a Musk request to freeze the case that had drawn a biting retort from Twitter, said a trial originally scheduled to begin in 11 ...