BERLIN – Bayern Munich players have accepted a salary cut which will last until the “end of the season” to help the Bundesliga champions through the coronavirus crisis, club president Herbert Hainer said on Saturday. In April, the Bayern squad took a 20-percent reduction in salary, but Hainer did not specify how large the cut was this time. “It is ... Read More »
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – West Indies cricket chiefs have given their approval to a Test tour of England where the team will stay in a “bio-secure environment”. The Windies were due to play three Tests in England in June but the threat of the coronavirus has pushed the visit back to July at the earliest. “The Cricket West ... Read More »
DHAKA —The Dhaka Premier League (DPL), the country’s most coveted 50-over cricket tournament, will not restart soon even though the government has lifted the countrywide shutdown over the Covid-19 outbreak. The List A tournament has been postponed for an indefinite period after the first round in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The Cricket Committee of Dhaka ... Read More »
Bangladesh, with other countries across the world, is going to observe the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on Sunday. The day is going to be observed focusing on “protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”. For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract the youth to tobacco and ... Read More »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday directed the authorities concerned to engage the local public representatives in a greater way in containing novel coronavirus in the country. “The Prime Minister issued the directives while addressing a meeting of the National Technical Advisory Committee formed to fight COVID-19 in the country,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told UNB. The meeting was ... Read More »
Former national footballer, Football Federation member and Dhaka Abahani Director Golam Rabbani Helal, passed away around Saturday noon. The 67-year-old was on life support at Square Hospital since last Thursday where he was admitted after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He left behind his wife, two daughters and a large number of admirers to mourn his death. In the morning, his ... Read More »
RAJSHAHI, May 30, 2020 (BSS) – Oceanic birds of four species are now on an unusual surprise visit to Padma River in this northwestern city, miles off the country’s southern coastlines, even where they are not generally seen. Read More »
Saarc countries will come together on Sunday through a videoconference to chalk out a strong strategy for combating coronavirus in the region. Read More »
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) on Saturday recommended raising bus fare by 80 percent as bus owners have been directed to carry 50 percent passengers to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. Read More »
Launch and steamer services on 34 river routes across the country will resume on Sunday after about two months. Read More »
Bangladesh on Saturday recorded the highest number of deaths due to COVID-1 as 28 more patients died in the last 24 hours, raising the death tally to 610. Read More »
by Henrik Poulsen, Mads Nipper, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen COPENHAGEN – The COVID-19 pandemic must not lead governments to lower their climate ambitions. Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy can both drive the recovery and build resilience for the future. Read More »
BEIRUT / GENEVA, May 28 2020 (IPS) – Health systems around the world are prioritising health care services and equipment to treat people diagnosed with Covid-19, which means that many procedures deemed to be elective and non-essential are being suspended or simply not provided. Abortion, for instance, has been categorised as a non-essential health service by some States, while others ... Read More »
Sudhirendar Sharma No contemporary poet has been capable of engineering thoughts on social awakening through poetic lyricism. Such has been its lyrical contemporariness that ‘main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya’ has been taken to heart by even the millennial generation, justifying the adage ‘you can’t have enough of Sahir’ which best describes the work of iconic poet and lyricist ... Read More »
By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS, May 29 2020 (IPS) – Unless global leaders act now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause unimaginable suffering and devastation around the world, the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres said yesterday, May 28. He painted a picture of hunger and famine at historic proportions, with some 60 million people pushed into extreme poverty and ... Read More »
A man who was undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Khulna Medical College Hospital, died on Saturday morning. Read More »
About 4.5 kilometers of Padma Bridge has become visible with the installation of its 30th span on Saturday. Read More »
A final decision on a launch attempt for SpaceX’s milestone mission to the International Space Station on Saturday afternoon will take place after assessing the weather that morning, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said Friday. Read More »
President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the World Health Organization, which he says failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus. Read More »
Mostafa Kamal Majumder If anybody asks me if I have come to the profession of journalism by conscious choice, my answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Yes, because after coming to this profession I have really made no serious effort to change to another. No, because had I not come to journalism during my student life it would have ... Read More »
13 Rab members infected with coronavirus in SylhetThirteen members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have been infected with coronavirus in Sylhet. Read More »
Dhaka’s air quality showed significant improvement on Saturday morning as it ranked 68th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI). Read More »
শফকত হোসাইন চাটগামী করোনা ভাইরাস এটি বিশ্ব স্বাস্থ্য সংস্থার মতে একটি ছোয়াঁছে রোগ। এটি একজন থেকে অন্যজনে ছড়ায়। এজন্য এই রোগ হলেই তার কাছে আর যাওয়া যাবেনা!, করোনা রোগ মানেই মৃত্যু এমন ধারণা সৃষ্টি হয়েছে আমাদের মাঝে। চীন থেকে শুরু হয়ে এই মরণব্যাধি ভাইরাসটি আজ বিশ্বময় ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে। আক্রান্ত হয়েছে ৬০ লাখেরও বেশী মানুষ আর মৃত্যু হয়েছে প্রায় সাড়ে ৩ ... Read More »
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