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LONDON  – The FA Cup final is set to take place on August 1 after the English Football Association announced provisional dates to finish the competition on Friday. After the Premier League revealed they plan to resume the season on June 17, the FA Cup has now returned to an English fixture list thrown into chaos by the coronavirus. The ... Read More »

Bashundhara Isolation Centre, dedicated for COVID-19 patients at Bashundhara International Convention City (ICCB), will be formally launched on Sunday or Monday, said its Director Dr Tanvir Ahmed. “The 2,000-bed isolation centre would formally start receiving COVID-19 patients from Sunday or Monday,” he told UNB. “We’ll allow only COVID-19 infected patients referred by other hospitals,” he said adding that no patient ... Read More »

BNP will observe the 39th death anniversary of its founder and former President Ziaur Rahman on Saturday. BNP and pro-BNP socio-political organisations have drawn up different programmes, including online discussion meetings, and distribution of food and clothes among the destitute, to mark the day. Zia founded BNP in 1978. He was assassinated by some army officers at Chittagong Circuit House ... Read More »

ROME  – Italy’s Serie A was given the green light on Thursday to resume on June 20 after a three-month absence as one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic begins to ease restrictions. Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said that the government’s Technical and Scientific Committee (CTS) had agreed to the health protocol proposed by Italian football chiefs. ... Read More »

BRASILIA  – A Brazilian judge has suspended Neymar’s payment of a fine of 88 million reais ($16.28 million) to tax authorities for irregularities, notably in connection with his transfer to Barcelona in 2013. The judge, Decio Gabriel Gimenez, at a court in Sao Paulo, suspended the payment of the fine “until further notice”, on the grounds that the exact amount ... Read More »

Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers’ welfare organisation insisted on not hiking the fares of public transports and urged government to reduce oil price and prevent extortion in transport section amid coronavirus pandemic. The organisation’s Secretary General Mozammel Haque came up with the request in a press statement on Friday. Fare hike will impose double the misery on people who are ... Read More »

Bangladesh has communicated with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to bring back the bodies of 26 people who were killed in a gun attack in Libya and sought compensation for their families. Read More »

BNP on Friday strongly opposed the government’s move to reopen the offices and resume public transport services, saying it will put the nation into a risk of serious outbreak of the coronavirus. Read More »

Although public transport remains suspended, thousands of people have started coming back to their workplaces in Dhaka after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr at home, availing all kinds of transport from ferries through river routes to three-wheelers, pickup vans, private cars on roads. Read More »

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said buses will have to keep 25-30 percent seats vacant and cannot carry standing passengers while plying roads from Sunday. Read More »

For the first time in the United Nations Peacekeeping history, the UN chartered a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, the flagship carrier of the country for carrying Bangladeshi UN Peacekeepers to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Read More »

Coronavirus cases in Bangladesh rose to 42,844 with the detection of record 2,523 new cases in the last 24 hours on Friday. Read More »

President Donald Trump escalated his war on Twitter and other social media companies Thursday, signing an executive order challenging the lawsuit protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet. Read More »

Geneva, 28 May (Kanaga Raja) – More than one in six young people have stopped working since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said. According to the fourth edition of the ILO Monitor, among young people who have remained in employment, working hours have fallen by 23 per cent. Read More »

By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar MOGADISHU, May 28 2020 (IPS) – While simultaneously suffering from the coronavirus pandemic, flooding and a locust crisis, Somalia, could well see a rise in the number of people who are susceptible to human trafficking. Read More »

Two siblings were killed in a collision between a truck and a trolley in Patnitala upazila of Naogaon on Friday morning. Read More »

Dhaka, May 29:The number of global coronavirus deaths reached 359,791 on Friday morning while the confirmed cases were 5,803,416 , according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University. Read More »

People with cancer are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those without it, a large study published Thursday found. Read More »

Google warned on Thursday that the EU’s definition of artificial intelligence was too broad and that Brussels must refrain from over-regulating a crucial technology. Read More »

After Dhaka Medical College Hospital, now Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) on experimental basis, aiming to save lives of Covid-19 infected patients. Read More »

Prince Charles in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed sympathy over the losses caused by super cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh. Read More »

By Djaffar Shalchi COPENHAGEN, May 28 2020 (IPS) – For the past few decades, many big corporations and very wealthy individuals have operated according to the myth that they are “self-made”, that their success owed nothing to anyone else. Read More »

Chicago Council on Global Affairs May 27 2020 (IPS) – Between 2002 and 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) faced the first pandemic of the globalized 21st century, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Under the leadership of Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland and through epidemiological, clinical, and logistical coordination, the WHO facilitated a strong and ultimately successful response to the outbreak. Read More »

28 May 2020 – Some 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to projections released on Thursday by the World Food Programme (WFP). Read More »