DHAKA —The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is mulling to arrange a tour for their High Performance (HP) team in Sri Lanka as it wants the players to back in the business amid COVID-19 pandemic. The board considers the HP as…
Day: July 23, 2020
‘It’s unbelievable’: Bilic joy as West Brom promoted to Premier League
LONDON – Slaven Bilic hailed West Bromwich Albion’s promotion to the Premier League as one of the proudest moments of his career after a 2-2 draw against QPR sent them up on a dramatic final day of the Championship season.…
National hockey team’s physical fitness camp likely to begin after Eid-Ul-Azha
DHAKA-The Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) will likely start their national team’s physical fitness camp after Eid-Ul-Azha. “Yes we’ll likely start the national team’s physical fitness camp after Eid-Ul-Azha …… we have already sent letter to Youth and Sports Ministry asking…
Gender inequality increases in media during pandemic: IFJ study
Brussels, AP/UNB, July 23 – A survey published by International Federation of Journalists showed that gender inequalities in newsrooms have increased during the coronavirus pandemic.
How exercise boosts memory and thinking ability
Exercise not only helps to preserve muscle strength, keep the heart strong, maintain healthy body weight and stave off chronic diseases such as diabetes it can help boost thinking skills and memory as well.
Dhaka, Delhi maintain multidimensional coop: Info Minister
Dhaka, July 23 – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said there is multidimensional cooperation between Bangladesh and India.
ACC prosecutes 3 BASIC Bank officials for graft
Dhaka, July 23 – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against three bank officials, including a former manager of BASIC Bank’s Gulshan branch, for embezzling around Tk 3 crore.
Abul Kalam should be put on trial: BNP
Dhaka, July 23 – BNP on Thursday demanded the government put Prof Abul Kalam Azad, who resigned from the post of the Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), on trial for his alleged irregularities in…
Test report contains signature of dead physician in Barisal!
3 jailed in Barishal, hospital sealed off Barisal, July 19 – A private diagnostic centre in Barishal town has been sealed off after it issued a pathology test report containing the signature of a dead physician.
Dhaka University adopts Tk8.69 bn budget for 2020-21FY
Dhaka, July 23 – The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) on Thursday approved a Tk 869.56-crore budget for the fiscal year 2020-21.
Remote working—an inflection point?
by Christy Hoffman and Sharan Burrow on 23rd July 2020 @CHoffmanUNI The pandemic has seen a surge in remote working. Collective agreements are needed to ensure individual autonomy, rather than monitored isolation, is the outcome.
Bilic joy as West Brom promoted to Premier League
Slaven Bilic hailed West Bromwich Albion’s promotion to the Premier League as one of the proudest moments of his career after a 2-2 draw against QPR sent them up on a dramatic final day of the Championship season.
2-year-old child killed, 3 hurt in city house fire
A two-year-old boy was killed while three others sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house in city’s Bongshal area on Thursday.
BD economy to bounce back at year end, hopes Minister
Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday hoped that the economy of the country will bounce back at the end of the year as some export products see good demand in the global market amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Flood situation worsens in Madaripur, Kurigram, Sunamganj
Flood situation has taken a severe turn in Madaripur, Kurigram and Sunamganj districts as major rivers adjacent to the districts started to swell again amid the incessant downpour.
Covid-19: Bangladesh sees 2,856 new cases, 50 more deaths
Bangladesh on Thursday recorded 50 more deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, mounting the death tally to 2,801.
PM opens modern housing for climate refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday opened special structures built under ‘Khurushkul Ashrayan Project’ in Cox’s Bazar for 600 climate refugees.
Covid-19 exposes structural weaknesses of food systems
By Elwyn Grainger-Jones MONTPELLIER, France, Jul 22 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the structural weaknesses of today’s food systems, showing how quickly global networks of food production, trade and supply can waver under the impact of a…
The Great Migration Clash
By Joseph Chamie NEW YORK, Jul 23 2020 (IPS) – The world is in the midst of the Great Migration Clash, a bitter struggle between those who “want out” of their countries and those who want others to “keep out”…
Inadequate Water, Sanitation Threatens Women Dev in Senegal
By Stella Paul HYDERABAD, India, Jul 22 2020 (IPS) – With Tabaski (Eid al-Adha) around the corner, 11-year-old Fatoumata Binta from Terrou Mballing district in M’Bour, western Senegal, wakes up early and joins her brothers Iphrahima Tall and Ismaila to…
Nepal ends 4-month lockdown after drop in Covid-19 cases
Xinhua/UNB, July 23 – The government of Nepal has decided to formally end the nearly four-month lockdown imposed on March 24 to prevent transmission of Covid-19, said a senior cabinet minister.
US labs buckle amid testing surge; world virus cases top 15M
WASHINGTON, AP/UNB, July 23 — Laboratories across the U.S. are buckling under a surge of coronavirus tests, creating long processing delays that experts say are undercutting the pandemic response. With the U.S. tally of confirmed infections at nearly 4 million…
100mn people may enter extreme poverty globally in 2020: UN
UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed has said as many as 100 million people are expected to be pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020, the first rise in global poverty since 1998.
The deeper roots of Chinese demonization
By Pepe Escobar Fasten your seat belts: the US hybrid war against China is bound to go on frenetic overdrive, as economic reports are already identifying Covid-19 as the tipping point when the Asian – actually Eurasian – century truly…
Dhaka for equitable, affordable access to Covid-19 vaccines
Dhaka, July 19 – The Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Rabab Fatima has highlighted the need for making the Covid-19 vaccines available, affordable and distributing those equitably to all countries that need those most.
Flood situation turns grim in 18 Bangladesh districts
Dhaka July 23 – The overall flood situation in Kurigram, Natore, Bogura and Sherpur districts have deteriorated further due to rise in water levels in various rivers, cutting off road communications at places and leaving thousands of people marooned.
US orders Chinese consulate in Houston to close
The US has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, by Friday – a move described as “political provocation” by Beijing.
An economic, as well as a monetary, union?
by John Palmer on 22nd July 2020 The mammoth European Council meeting agreed on a diminished recovery package—yet one with still huge ramifications. There is not much of a market just now for optimism about our economic, social, political or…