Companies in Singapore that have traditionally relied on migrant workers from India and Bangladesh are now looking further afield for labour, Channel News Asia has reported quoting several firms.

Consumption protection and employment promotion should be the dual priorities of the upcoming national budget during the pandemic, said renowned economist and public policy analyst Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya.

China said yesterday the risk of damage from a rocket falling back to Earth was “extremely low”, after the United States warned it could crash down on to an inhabited area.

Five doctors of Tangail General Hospital’s gynecology department were sued on Thursday for leaving a piece of gauze inside a woman’s abdomen during her C-section.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said the United States may consider accepting a good number of forcibly-displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh for filling up a large portion of its new refugee admission quota set for 2021 and 2022.

Malaysia has imposed an entry ban on foreign nationals, including Bangladeshis, to curb further spread of coronavirus in the country.

Pakistan Martial Law authorities ordered the domolition of the Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, reported Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).

The 160th birth anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore is being observed in the country today.

Four areas of the capital are at risk of dengue infection due to the presence of Aedes mosquitoes, which are carriers of the disease.

The appointment of a former additional secretary as treasurer of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur has irked teachers of public universities.

Freedom fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Anup Bhattacharya passed away at a city hospital around 7:30pm yesterday. He was 77.

The United Nations warned Wednesday that the world faces an acute shortage of midwives, saying millions of lives could be saved if the shortfall were addressed.

An Indian virologist has warned the third wave of Covid-19 is expected to affect children in the country in a big way between October and November and both the Central and state governments should be ready to handle the situation.

Mowlana Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, was one of the financers of Chattogram mayhem, said police.

The United States threw its weight behind a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as the GAVI vaccine alliance urged Washington to help manufacturers transfer know-how to boost global production.

Industry could cheaply and easily slash humanity’s methane emissions by at least 30 percent in a decade, the United Nations said yesterday, adding that such cuts would slow global warming and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Amid the declining trend in Covid-19 infections and fatalities after an alarming surge in April, Bangladesh registered 41 coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours until yesterday, pushing up the total fatalities to 11,796.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee after she was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for a third straight term.

US President Richard Nixon in a letter issued today to Pakistan President Yahya Khan expressed his concern over the loss of life and human suffering in East Pakistan. However, he sympathised with Yahya and said, “I understand the anguish you must have felt in making the difficult decisions you have faced.”

Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of Covid-19 was about to peak were swept away yesterday as it posted record daily infections and deaths and as the virus spread from cities to villages across the world’s second-most populous nation.