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The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has imposed a travel ban on seven individuals, including six officials of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), accused in a case of supplying fake N-95 masks, reports UNB.ACC Secretary Dilwar Bakht informed the media about the move Monday.The accused are- Dep...
Canada on Wednesday extended a ban on non-essential international entries until the end of October as the country was gripped by a surge in coronavirus cases, report BSS/AFP.The extension comes amid a second wave of infections caused in part by the return to school or work of millions of Canadians a...
World
Singapore will allow entry to travelers from Vietnam and Australia, excluding its coronavirus hot spot Victoria state, beginning next week, reports AP.The tiny city-state last month welcomed visitors from Brunei and New Zealand, and is cautiously reopening its borders after a virus closure to help r...
All Section,Entertainment & Glomour
After a wonderful event in Deauville, the Festival de Cannes is continuing to join the films from its Official Selection that were not able to be shown on La Croisette. The event will be held in San Sebastián, with a unique and exceptional collaboration. During the opening evening,...
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled 137 million km, said sources with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration, reports Xinhua. As of 9 a.m. Friday, the probe was in stable condition at a distance of more than 15.3 million km away from ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Doha for the start of long-delayed peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government negotiators, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, reports AFP.“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be departing this evening on a historic trip to Doh...
The work of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway is progressing despite coronavirus pandemic slows everything. Before the virus outbreak, construction of more than half of the expressway phase has already been completed with the government targeting to open it for public by March 2022. The 46.73km exp...
Business & Commerce
G20 foreign ministers on Thursday sought international cooperation over easing travel restrictions and reopening borders, as months of coronavirus shutdowns exert a drag on the global economy, reports BSS/AFP.National shutdowns of varying intensity and duration have taken a toll on livelihoods aroun...
National,Front Page
Bangladesh Railway has relaxed the rule that made it mandatory for the passengers to show National Identity Card (NID) while buying train tickets and travelling.From now on, four members of a family can purchase tickets by showing one NID, said a press release issued by the Ministry of Railways on T...
This week the eyes of US voters turn to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democratic convention — unless they swivel first to Republican distracter-in-chief Donald Trump, reports AFP.For the Democrats, the convention is the real 2020 campaign launch, culminating on Thursday when Biden accepts t...
Airline passengers are set to pay extra money for traveling as the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has imposed new fees styled "passenger safety fee" and "airport development fee".As per the CAAB decision, passengers will have to pay US$ 6 for passenger safety and U...
National
Aiming to check the misuse of rail ticket, Bangladesh Railway is going to introduce a new system of ticketing for rail travel. Under the new rules rail tickets cannot be purchased without an National Identity Card (NID).As a result, if the identity cannot be confirmed through national identity card,...
Tangail CorrespondentAfter being closed for 9 hours, the northern rail communication with Dhaka has been restored. Three bogies of Kurigram Express derailed on the east side of Bangabandhu Bridge in Tangail around 12 midnight on Saturday. This closed the northern rail link with Dhaka.This morning, a...
After months of working from home, stir-crazy Americans have finally reached the long, hot days of summer only to watch their vacation horizons dim, with travel options shrinking as the country’s coronavirus cases soar, reports AFP.“All I’ve been doing this year is canceling trips,...
The health ministry has streamlined the Covid-19 testing facilities for the international passengers amid fake certificate scam and asked all to use 16 designated centres across Bangladesh for the testing before travelling.Those are the National Institute of Laboratory Medicine & Referral Centre...
The National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 recommended preventing all home bound people from traveling during Eid-ul-Azha festival to minimize transmission of coronavirus.The committee earlier had also suggested not allowing to set up cattle markets in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Chit...
The government on Sunday decided not to allow any Bangladeshis to go abroad without a coronavirus negative certificate.Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen chaired the inter-ministerial meeting, the foreign ministry said.The meeting decided that all Bangladeshis going abroad would have to go with a co...
Sports,Cricket
All-rounder Shoaib Malik has been allowed to join the Pakistan squad in England late after spending time with his immediate family, whom he has not met for five months due to the COVID-19 crisis, the country’s cricket board (PCB) said on Saturday, reports Reuters. Pakistan is scheduled to...
The government has slapped a travel ban on a batch of top officials of the capital’s United Hospital where five Covid-19 patients died in a fire on May 27 as the investigation is on over the incident, police sources say.Chairman of the hospital Hasan Mahmud Raja, and its managing director, Far...
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