The Bangladesh Cricket Board hinted that the cricketers will start practice, keeping the Asia Cup and Twenty20 World Cup in mind if the situation allows them to begin cricketing activities in the country. Since all the Test matches that the Tigers were scheduled to play was postponed due to the …

Parliament on Tuesday passed the Tk 568,000 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2020-21, with the slogan ‘Economic Transition and Pathway to Progress’. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved the Appropriations Bill, 2020 seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 7,59,642.44 crore which was passed by voice vote. Following the …

CanSino Biologics company of China on Monday announced that a Covid-19 vaccine they have developed is safe and somewhat efficient. The vaccine candidate was developed jointly by CanSino and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology in the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, reports NDTV. The military of China received the green …

The state government of Delhi decides to install a plasma bank in view of growing demands for such a facility to treat serious Covid-19 patients, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a virtual media briefing here today. “The bank will start working by next two days,” he said adding that the …

Bangladesh sees the casualty figure as the country recorded the highest single-day 64 Covid-19 deaths and 3,682 new cases in the last 24 hours ending at 12 pm on Tuesday. With these,  the national death tally from the virus rose to 1,847. During the same period, 3,682 new patients have …

The EU has named 14 countries whose citizens are deemed “safe” to be let in from 1 July, despite the pandemic – but the US, Brazil and China are excluded. Those named include Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco and South Korea. The EU is ready to add China if the Chinese …

A new strain of flu which has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. The researchers are concerned that it could mutate further so that it can spread easily from …

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, that the Covid-19 pandemic is ‘not even close to being over.’ Speaking on the eve of the grim milestone, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called for renewed global commitment to save lives as …

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked for Interpol’s help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others over the drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday that Trump, along with more than 30 others Iran …

All four terrorists, who attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi this morning, have been shot dead, police said. At least six other people were killed in the attack, according to the officials.The gunmen attacked the building, which is in a high security zone that also houses the head offices …