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Ginger, garlic prices go down at wholesale, up at retail
Although the prices of some essential items, including ginger and garlic, have come down at the wholesale market in the capital for lack of customers...
440 physicians get infected, says BDF
Staff Reporter :As coronavirus continues to spread across the country, 440 doctors of both private and public hospitals have so far been infected with the...
Highest daily surge in virus cases in N’ganj
UNB, Narayanganj :A record number of 84 people, including 18 members of a health worker’s family, were infected with coronavirus in Narayanganj in the last...
Global death toll soars 2,19,258
News Desk :Death toll from Covid-19 soared to 2,19,258 while total cases reached 31,60,779 in 210 countries and territories and recovered 9,74,672, according to worldometer.Three...
NY doctor who treated Covid-19 patients commits suicide
AFP, New York :A New York emergency doctor who treated coronavirus patients has killed herself, with family, police and physicians linking her death to trauma...
Johnson, fiancée thrilled by birth of son
Reuters, London :British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, gave birth to a healthy baby boy at a London hospital on Wednesday, slightly earlier...
US economy sinks 4.8pc amid pandemic shutdown
The US economy suffered its most severe contraction in more than a decade in the first quarter of the year, as the country introduced lockdowns...
Fuel truck bomb kills over 40 in northern Syria
AFP :A fuel truck bomb in a market in northern Syria killed at least 46 people including Turkish-backed rebel fighters on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory...
Modi phones Hasina BD, India to work together to boost food production
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh and India on Wednesday decidedto work together to enhance food production to face the possible food crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.Their...
Journo Mohitul Islam passes away
Staff Reporter :Senior journalist Khandaker Mohitul Islam, a permanent member of Jatiya Press Club, died at a private clinic in Dhaka on Tuesday.He was 68.Mohitul...
S Korea construction site fire kills at least 38
Al Jazeera News :A fire at a construction site in South Korea has killed at least 38 people and injured another 10, fire authorities have...