UNB: Bangladesh government on Wednesday approved a proposal of the Health Service Division to import Sinofarm Covid-19 vaccine. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal. Shahida Aktar, additional secretary to the Cabinet Division, disclosed this while briefing reporters after a meeting of the committee. She, however, did not […]

Eminent film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta died at his residence in Kolkata early Thursday, 10 June, due to old-age related ailments, family members said, reported the Hindu. He was 77. Dasgupta is survived by his wife and two daughters from his previous marriage. The national award-winning director was having kidney ailments […]

AFP: Sri Lanka began injecting pregnant women with a Chinese coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday and Nepal resumed inoculations with a China-made jab as India’s neighbours turn to Beijing and Moscow for help with supplies. Nepal halted inoculations at the end of May after its stock of AstraZeneca shots and Chinese […]

By NICOLE PERLROTH, KATIE BENNER and Erin Griffith When Bitcoin burst onto the scene in 2009, fans heralded the cryptocurrency as a secure, decentralized and anonymous way to conduct transactions outside the traditional financial system. Criminals, often operating in hidden reaches of the internet, flocked to Bitcoin to do illicit […]

JOSEPH CHOI writes: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday called the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario a “terrorist attack,” and vowed to take action against far-right groups. “What happened on Sunday in London, this act of terrorism and Islamophobia is sickening. It is […]

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury writes: The government has launched a negotiation with the Chinese authorities to procure the Sinovac Covid vaccine while continuing talks on buying the Sinopharm vaccine from the country. ‘Discussion on procurement of Sinovac vaccine has begun as there is no problem in bringing in the vaccine after […]

Brussels ready to slap tariffs and quotas on UK exports – and even to ‘suspend cooperation in certain sectors’ Rob Merrick writes: The EU will “suspend” parts of the Brexit trade agreement unless the UK ends its refusal to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol, Boris Johnson has been warned. Speaking […]

By Rachel Elbaum and David K. Li LONDON — A massive international sting involving 16 countries, including the U.S., has netted more than 800 suspects, the seizure of 8 tons of cocaine and more than $48 million, officials said Tuesday. The FBI and Australian law enforcement developed and operated an […]

Mousumi Nargis Lucky from Dhaka: Li Jiming, China’s ambassador to Bangladesh, compared the ongoing dispute between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the Rohingya issue to a quarrel between ‘husband and wife.’ He was speaking at a function of the Diplomatic Correspondents Association of Bangladesh (DICAB) at the National Press Club on […]

ERIC TUCKER Writes: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has recovered most of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment made to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to seize cryptocurrency paid to the […]