May 15, 2020

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: Latest updates

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Deaths near 300,000 The novel coronavirus has killed at least 297,259 people since the outbreak first emerged […]
May 15, 2020

India to feed millions of migrant workers

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown […]
May 15, 2020

Flight ban in place till May 30

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh yesterday extended the ban on passenger flight operations with all countries, except […]
May 15, 2020

March will be viewed as watershed for digital Bangladesh

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 The pandemic, it seems, was the big bang the digital Bangladesh charge needed to level up. Holed […]
May 15, 2020

RMG owners want to give worker’s half pay as bonus

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Garment factory owners yesterday proposed paying workers 50 percent of their basic salaries as Eid bonus. Union […]
May 15, 2020

Global death toll rises to 300,000

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 The European Union’s medicines agency suggested yesterday that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready in […]
May 15, 2020

Containment successful in 2 areas

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Although Dhaka has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, two neighbourhoods at […]
May 15, 2020

Company launches ‘anti-coronavirus fabrics’

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Limited (Z&Z), a sister concern of local garment exporter Noman Group, formally launched […]
May 15, 2020

First Covid-19 case detected at Rohingya camp

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 May 2020 A Rohingya refugee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus at the Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox’s […]