International Desk : : Reuters, Geneva World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus waves as he arrives for a meeting of G20 finance and health ministers at the Salone delle Fontane (Hall of Fountains) in Rome. The simultaneous circulation of the Delta and Omicron vari...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : : Reuters, Hong Kong Hundreds of Hong Kong national security police raided the office of online pro-democracy media outlet Stand News on Wednesday and arrested six people, including senior staff, for "conspiracy to publish seditious publications". ...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : : AFP The UAE issued its first civil marriage license for a non-Muslim couple, state media reported Monday, as the Gulf country seeks to keep its edge over regional competitors. The United Arab Emirates -- where foreigners make up 90 percent of the approxi...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : :  Reuters Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi attends the joint news conference of the Japan-Mekong Summit Meeting at the Akasaka Palace State Guest House in Tokyo, Japan on October 9, 2018 Reuters Suu Kyi is already serving a two-year sentence at an un...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : :   More than 6,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more were delayed, a tracking website reported Saturday, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions. Compounding the ...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : : Reuters, Washington US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China's Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation. The Uyghur Forced Labor...বিস্তারিত

International Desk : : From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, microplastics are everywhere – even high in the Earth's troposphere where wind speeds allow them to travel vast distances, a study showed Tuesday. Microplastics are tiny fragments -- measuring less than ...বিস্তারিত

Special Desk : :    On December 21, 704,010 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured in Japan arrived at Dhaka International Airport from Japan. This was delivered as an add-on to the 788,200 doses of vaccine that arrived on December 14, totaling approximately 1.5 ...বিস্তারিত

Special Desk : : While mass inoculations are underway, the overall number of Coronavirus cases globally has surpassed 214 million as several countries fight against the tougher Delta variant.   Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reports that the total number of cases re...বিস্তারিত