Business & Commerce
Mastercard Inc has signaled a near-term rebound in business as it expects an uptick in travel due to easing lockdowns and improved Covid-19 vaccination efforts, after the credit-card giant beat estimates for fourth-quarter profit.In the December quarter, the company’s revenue declined at a slo...
National,Front Page
BSS, Sangsad BhabanBangladesh Travel Agency (Registration and Control) Amendment Bill, 2021 was passed in the parliament to make it time befitting after bringing necessary changes in the draft law related to the issue.State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali moved the bill in the H...
World
President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials, reports AP.The officials, who spoke on the ...
Bernie Sanders may be most familiar in a US political context, but that hasn’t stopped Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from using a now famous meme of the Vermont senator to warn people to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, reports AFP.On Saturday, Trudeau posted a photo of hims...
President Joe Biden on Thursdaytightened mask wearing rules and ordered quarantine for people flying intothe United States, as he got to work on tackling the coronavirus pandemic onhis first full day in power, reports AFP.Signing 10 executive orders in the White House, Biden told the nation thatthe ...
EU leaders on Thursday “stronglydiscouraged” Europeans from non-essential travel and warned tougherrestrictions on trips could come within days if efforts to curb thecoronavirus fell short, reports AFP.EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel issued the warning aftera four-hour ...
Emirates has launched its much-awaited global sale to inspire and encourage travellers to reconnect with family and friends or explore new destinations in the New Year.To avail the special fares, bookings have to be made between 19 January and 1 February 2021, for travel between 20 January and 30 Ju...
Opinion
It bears asking: How is it that an island nation ended up in the seventh circle of Covid hell?The UK left the European Union in part because it hated the idea of allowing people free movement, and yet during the public health emergency its borders have been a sieve. That was excusable in the early f...
The UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to "protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains" of Covid, the PM has said, reports BBC.Anyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negativeCovid test before setting off.It comes as a ...
All Section,Entertainment & Glomour
Singer Madonna has reportedly visited five countries in three weeks amidst the pandemic. The 62-year-old flew from Los Angeles to London with her backing dancer and boyfriend Ahlamalik Williams.They were accompanied on the Christmas Eve trip by her son David Banda, daughter Mercy James, and twin chi...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday imposed a travel ban on 25 people including Lilaboti Halder, mother of former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder and former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank SK Shur, reports BSS.A High Court division bench...
Turkey is enacting precautions for international travel, requiring a negative COVID-19 test for passengers to enter the country starting Monday until March, reports AP.Health Minister FahrettinKocatweeted a statement Friday saying travelers would need to present a negative result from a PCR test tak...
France will relax a temporary UK travel ban introduced after a new variant of coronavirus emerged, the prime minister’s office said on Tuesday, reports AFP.EU nationals and residents of EU countries will be allowed to enter from Wednesday providing they can show a negative Covid-19 test no mor...
Britain said Friday it is to cut its period of self-isolation from 14 to 10 days for travellers arriving from overseas and people who come into contact with positive coronavirus cases, reports AFP.The chief medics for the four nations of the UK said in a joint statement they were “confident&rd...
If you could contact the past, what would you change? That is the question posed in Korean director Lee Chung-hyun’s deliriously bonkers thriller The Call. Pitching Park Shin-hye against Jun Jong-seo in an escalating supernatural tête-à-tête, the movie explores the repercuss...
Millions of Americans are already travelling home to celebrate Thanksgiving, despite warnings from health officials amid a significant wave of coronavirus cases and deaths, reports BBC.Thanksgiving, traditionally a large family get-together that rivals Christmas in size, is on Thursday.Three million...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a "global mechanism" that would use QR codes to open up international travel, reports BBC."We need to further harmonise policies and standards and establish 'fast tracks' to facilitate the orderly flow of people," he said.The co...
National,Back Page
The return of more than 25,000 stranded Bangladeshi migrant workers to Malaysia has become uncertain as the country made a sudden ban on the entry of overseas workers.The country's government has announced that it will not allow them to enter Malaysia suddenlyto contain spread of deadly coronavi...
The government has given permission to ten private hospitals for providing COVID-19 negative certificates to the passengers, who will travel abroad, an official release said today, reports BSS.The 10 hospitals permitted by health service division are – International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disea...
Japan is reportedly planning to ease travel restrictions to China and 11 other countries and regions next month, local media reported here Thursday.According to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, the 11 countries and regions also include Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia ...
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