November2020

Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) is a citizens’ platform for improved accountability of the country’s healthcare system through evidence based policy review and citizen feedback. The key objective of BHW is to provide a strong platform through...

General Motors Co will roll out details of an expanded and accelerated electric vehicle strategy on Thursday in an effort to convince investors it can be a serious competitor to Tesla Inc, people familiar with the...

New Zealand Police have introduced a hijab into their official uniform to encourage more Muslim women to join. New recruit Constable Zeena Ali will become the first officer to wear the official hijab. A spokesperson said...

New cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. But some hybrids would still be allowed, he confirmed. It is...

Swedish truckmaker Scania plans to invest more than 1 billion Swedish crowns ($116 million) over several years in a battery assembly plant in Sodertalje, near Stockholm, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The company, owned...

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com’s cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers. NXP is one of the biggest suppliers of computing chips to...

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday it was expanding a probe into nearly 159,000 Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles, upgrading it to an engineering analysis, a step required before...

Pfizer Inc has launched a pilot delivery program for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in four U.S. states, as the U.S. drugmaker seeks to address distribution challenges facing its ultra-cold storage requirements. Pfizer’s vaccine, which was shown...

Hurricane Iota has made landfall in Nicaragua two weeks after another devastating storm hit. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm crossed the coast on Monday evening. It had strengthened at sea to a...

Ranks Petroleum Limited, macro distributor of lubricant supplier Shell has launched two new fully synthetic engine oil in Bangladesh for two-wheeler segment. Shell Advance Long Ride 10w-40 & Shell Advance Fuel Save 10w-30; two fully synthetic...