Moulvibazar Correspondent : A massive fire broke out at Nixon Shopping Market under Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. Locals said the fired started on Saturday morning around 4.00 am and at least 43 shops and a parked truck were burnt in that massive fire. Locals informed Fire Service immediately after the fire broke out in the market. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the 27th edition of the ‘Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF)-2023’ on Sunday with the aim to put up locals products on the international markets. The largest annual commercial and trade event of the country is going to be held at its permanent venue – “Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre” – at Purbachal ...

The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China’s health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the COVID-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections. The agency has asked Chinese officials to share more genetic sequencing data, as well as data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations, reports Reuters. Official ...

South Korean tech giant Samsung has unveiled a new laptop, Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, which will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chipset. According to GSMArena, the new model was announced in South Korea and will be released on January 16, 2023. Earlier this year, the 8cx Gen 3 chipset was launched for Windows-on-ARM devices bringing major performance ...

US energy giant ExxonMobil is suing the European Union (EU) in a bid to stop its new windfall tax on oil firms. A windfall tax is imposed on firms that benefited from something they were not responsible for. Energy firms are getting much more money for their oil and gas, partly due to supply concerns after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ...

Bangladesh on Friday recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 13 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 0.58 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,254 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. During the period, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital is five ...

Uzbekistan’s health ministry has said that 18 children have died after drinking a cough syrup manufactured by Indian drug maker Marion Biotech. The ministry said that preliminary tests showed a batch of the medicine contained ethylene glycol, a toxic substance. The children were given the Dok-1 Max syrup without a doctor’s prescription, it said. The amount they consumed also exceeded ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who in recent weeks has faced fresh revolt from within the Conservative party, and his wife Akshata Murthy undertook a makeover of their Number 10 flat, a report said. As per the Guardian, the couple has installed opulent curtains and velvet sofas in jewel colours at their own expense when they got rid of decor ...

The United States will impose mandatory COVID-19 tests on travelers from China, US health officials said on Wednesday, joining India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan in taking new measures after Beijing’s decision to lift stringent zero-COVID policies. The officials told reporters that beginning on Jan 5, all air passengers 2 years old and older will require a negative result from a ...

The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase has approved three proposals to purchase some 2.9 crore litres of soybean oil spending Tk 334 crore from different local and foreign companies. The approval was given at the 39th meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase on Thursday (December 29, 2022) held with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair. Cabinet ...