10- member Armed Forces Medical Team to provide coronavirus treatment to Bangladeshi nationals in Maldives Photo:ISPR An aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force ( BAF) left Dhaka for Maldives on Monday with 71 Maldivians and a 10- member Armed Forces Medical Team for providing coronavirus treatment to infected Bangladeshi nationals in Maldives. Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Operations) Air Vice Marshal ...

Sylhet Office : A total of eight people tested positive for coronavirus or COVID-19 in the district since April 7. Health Division Assistant Director Dr Anisur Rahman confirmed the matter and said samples of 81 more people were collected for testing in the last 24 hours. Currently, five people are undergoing treatment at Sylhet Sahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, he said. ...

Death toll from coronavirus continues to rise in Bangladesh as 10 more people died from the virus infection in the last 24 hours on Monday, taking the death toll in the country to 101. Besides, a record number of 492 people tested positive for coronavirus during the period, taking the number of such cases in the country to 2948. Director ...

Novak Djokovic has said he would be against a compulsory coronavirus vaccination if it became a requirement for tennis players to travel to tournaments. “Personally I’m against vaccination. I wouldn’t like that someone forces me to get a vaccine in order to be able to travel,” the world number one said late Sunday. The Serbian star was speaking from Spain, ...

Idris Elba said he and his wife had their lives “turned around” after contracting coronavirus and although they had only mild symptoms, he said the experience was “definitely scary and unsettling and nervous”. “You know, everyone’s sort of feeling the way we have been feeling, but it has definitely been sort of just a complete upheaval,” he told The Associated ...

A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was shot dead by officers after a 12-hour manhunt in Nova Scotia province ended Sunday morning. Among the victims was a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged all concerned to produce and preserve foodgrains in the country mentioning that the world might face famine in the coming days as coronavirus will create a shortage of food. “There’ll be a food recession due to coronavirus. In the future, there might be a global famine,” she said. The Prime Minister said this ...

When physically fit women exercise during pregnancy they could be setting their children up for better fitness too, say researchers, adding that regular workout during pregnancy may reduce obesity among offspring. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, found exercise during pregnancy stimulates the production of brown adipose tissue, commonly known as brown fat, in a developing fetus. Brown ...

Risaldar Moslehuddin Khan, another convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, might have been arrested from his dwelling at North 24 Parganas of India. Police may have arrested him with the help of Indian indigence agency, reports Indian Anandabazar Patrika. Anandabazar published the report titaling “Mujiber Ar Ak Khuni Ki Ai Bongay” on Monday. Moslehuddin is living in West Bengal ...

The number of people who have died in hospital after contracting coronavirus  has hit 16,060 today. The UK death toll is up by 596 from on Saturday, according to the Department of Health. The number of cases recorded in Britain has risen to 120,067- up from 114,217 yesterday. A total of 16,060 patients have died in hospital after testing positive ...