India, China agree to ease tensions at disputed border
India and China agreed Wednesday to ease tensions at their disputed Himalayan border, even as they traded blame for a brawl that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead.
GK COVID-19 testing kit not effective: BSMMU
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Wednesday said that the COVID-19 Rapid Dot Blot Immunoassay Kit submitted by Gonoshasthaya Kendra ..
PM issues directives to contain COVID-19
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday gave necessary directives to the authorities concerned to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Flushing toilets can spread coronavirus, says report
A recent study by researchers at Yangzhou University in China claimedthat the novel coronavirus could survive in the human digestive tract and appear in faeces ..
Bangladesh expecting 7.5pc growth in FY2021: ADB
Bangladesh’s GDP is expected to grow by 4.5 per cent in fiscal year 2020 and 7.5 per cent in FY2021, the Asian Development Bank said in the update report..
Public debt sees record surge, to soar further
The outstanding public debt surged by a record 1.5 percentage point of the gross domestic product in the outgoing fiscal year 2020–21 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus
There's a common motivation in the White House's attempt to suppress John Bolton's book and its state of denial over alarming new trends..
China plays down deadly India border skirmish
Beijing's state media on Wednesday played down a deadly border confrontation between Chinese and Indian troops and did not reveal casualties..
Dexamethasone plays significant role in Covid-19 treatment: Researchers
A cheap and widely available drug, Dexamethasone, has been able to play a significant role in the treatment of Covid-19 patients, claimed a recent research from the United Kingdom.
Red zone declaration process in a mess
A series of uncoordinated instructions passed by the government agencies for restricting COVID-19 contamination in the past three days unsettled the public mind..
