April2020

Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority (CAAB) confirmed a contract with a Chinese company for the expansion of Osmani International Airport in Sylhet at a cost of Taka 2116 crore to expand its passenger handling capacity to 20...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced Can$1.7 billion (US$1.2 billion) to help Canada’s oil sector, struggling with low prices, survive a pandemic-related downturn by cleaning up environmental messes. The money will go specifically to clean...

Iran allowed some shuttered Tehran businesses to reopen Saturday despite the Middle East’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, as many faced a bitter choice between risking infection and economic ruin. Top officials argue that Iran’s sanctions-hit economy cannot...

Notable face in various TV shows and movies, Ferdousi Ahmed Lina inhaled her last breath at 63 years old around 12:00am on Saturday. She was additionally an official of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA). An official of...

Disadvantaged teenagers in England will be able to borrow laptops to help them study at home when schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic. The Department for Education is also supporting free online lessons for primary...

Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo were among 50 global football icons to pay tribute to workers striving to combat the coronavirus pandemic in a video posted by FIFA on Saturday. The video, which lasts almost one-and-a-half minutes,...

Facebook today announced the launch of its third-party fact-checking program in Bangladesh as a part of its ongoing integrity efforts to scale back the spread of misinformation and improve the standard of the news people find...

The US Defense Department said Saturday it would extend travel restrictions through June 30 in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but will allow for some redeployments and repatriation of troops serving abroad....

Save the Children is urgently calling for international assistance to help Bangladesh meet a surge in demand for ventilators to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak and to help avert a humanitarian disaster in the country. Most...

Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years. The rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy...