Al Jazeera: [2] The coronavirus pandemic has amplified and exacerbated "the many crises" threatening press freedom across the world, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, lambasting governments for taking advantage of the outbreak to pass repressive media laws, pu ...বিস্তারিত
Al Jazeera: [2] Pakistan has seen its highest rise in deaths in a single day from the coronavirus, with 17 new cases taking the country's death toll from the highly contagious virus to at least 192, according to government data. Monday also saw the highest single-day rise in ...বিস্তারিত
BBC News: [2] A World Health Organization (WHO) driver has been killed in a conflict-riven region of Myanmar while out collecting Covid-19 monitoring samples. Pyae Sone Win Maung was driving a well-marked United Nations vehicle when it was hit by gunfire in Rakhine State. Th ...বিস্তারিত
BBC News: [2] President Donald Trump's immigration ban could be a big blow for the fast-growing US technology sector. A rising number of migrant workers, particularly from Asia, head to the US to work in Silicon Valley. Alongside Mexico, China and India now provide large num ...বিস্তারিত
BBC News: [2] President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus. On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of A ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: [2] A total of 264 UK and 154 Turkey citizens left Dhaka on special flights this afternoon. They had opted to return home amid the Covid-19 outbreak, for which their governments arranged their return flights home. A special chartered flight of the British Airways c ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: [2] Another 164 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, returned home this afternoon by a special flight. The special chartered flight of US-Bangla Airlines carrying the passengers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 3:05pm fr ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: [2] A team of experts has successfully installed a "disinfection room" at Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital in the capital amid intense need for personal protective equipment (PPE) for health service professionals to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Once opera ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: [2] Some 170 doctors -- both in public and private hospitals -- have been infected with coronavirus in the country, says Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), a forum of physicians. “A total of 170 doctors have so far been infected with coronavirus until yesterday ...বিস্তারিত
BBC News: [2] The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history. That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May. Demand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns acros ...বিস্তারিত