Bangladesh today recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 18 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 0.81 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,234 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said here. In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital ...

Novoair, one of the country’s private passenger carriers has started direct flights between Jashore, a significant city of Khulna division, to beach city Cox’s Bazar. The flight was inaugurated by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Chairman Air vice Marshal M Mofidur Rahman at Jashore Airport today while Novoair Managing Director Mofizur Rahman and Jashore airport Manager Reazul Islam Masoud ...

National Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 has recommended inoculating the fourth vaccine dose to elderly persons aged above 60, frontline freedom fighters and pregnant women. Dr Shamsul Haque, member secretary of the Vaccine Deployment Committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said this to media on Wednesday. He also said mass booster dose campaign will continue across the ...

Diabetes related complexities have taken a serious turn in the country as many diseases especially eye-related problems of the diabetic patients have increased here in last few years. According to the report of the International Diabetes Federation, about 1 crore and 31 lakh people are suffering from diabetes in Bangladesh. At the same time, the retinal damage is found in ...

Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests, government sources said, reports AFP. Zheng Zeguang was called into the foreign office after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in Shanghai, which Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday called “deeply disturbing”. Lawrence was hauled away ...

The Bangladesh Bank has allowed Mobile Financial Service Providers (MFSPs) to bring wage earners’ remittances to Bangladesh, reports BSS. “To bring wider flexibility, licensed MFSPs will be allowed to repatriate wage earners’ remittance in association with internationally recognised Online Payment Gateway Service Providers (OPGSPs) or banks or digital wallets or card schemes and/or aggregators abroad [hereinafter referred to as approved ...

In his first major address on Foreign Policy, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday strongly asserted that the “golden era” between Britain and China is “now over” and that it is time to evolve the approach towards China as the country is posing a systemic challenge to UK’s values and interest with its authoritarian rule. During his address at ...

Monkeypox is to be renamed mpox in English, the World Health Organization announced Monday, in a bid to avoid stigmatization stemming from the existing name. Monkeypox received its name because the virus was originally identified in monkeys kept for research in Denmark in 1958, but the disease is found in a number of animals, and most frequently in rodents. “Following ...

The government has shared fiscal data, including for floods and related expenditures, with the IMF, and a team from the agency is expected to visit Islamabad soon, the ministry added. Under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF), Pakistan secured a $6 billion bailout in 2019 that was topped up with another $1 billion earlier this year, reports Reuters. “As part of the 9th review under ...

In a first, a hundred companies in the United Kingdom have decided to move to a permanent four-day working week for all employees with no loss of pay. Around 2,600 employees at 100 companies are set to benefit from the new working pattern, India Today reported. The two biggest companies that have signed up are Atom Bank and global marketing ...