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Joint India-Bangladesh feasibility study on CEPA gains momentum United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- The Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI) virtually organised the first stakeholder consultation meeting of the joint study on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Bangladesh and India on Wednesday. The meeting was solely focused on the investment section of the joint study. Dr Md JafarUddin, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and...

Bangladesh, May 19 -- Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged journalists to be patient and play a responsible role over Rozina Islam issue.He came up with the call while addressing a discussion at 23 Bangabandhu Avenue in the morning.Awami League's Relief and Social Welfare Sub-Committee organised the event where Obaidul Quader was virtually connected from his official...

Covid-19: Bangladesh again sees steep rise in deaths, new cases United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- Bangladesh on Wednesday witnessed 37 more Covid-19 related deaths in 24 hours till 8am on Wednesday. The overall death toll now stands at 12,248 with the latest figure and the mortality rate remains static at 1.56%. Read: 11 more India returnees test positive for Covid-19 Besides, the country saw 1,608 new cases with an increased number of tests as 20,538 samples...

Bangladesh, May 19 -- South Korea has decided to provide $4 million this year to international agencies having presence in Bangladesh with a view to support the Rohingya refugees and their host communities.The contribution will be used for the humanitarian activities of UN agencies and other international organizations to support the Rohingya refugees and their host communities in Bangladesh under the recently announced 2021 Joint Response Plan...

China receives photos from Mars: state-run media United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- Chinas space authorities have received photos from Mars after the countrys unmanned probe safely landed on the surface of the red planet earlier this month for the first time, state-run media reported Wednesday. One of the photos showed the separation of the lander and rover. Another was taken by the rover after landing, the official China Global Television Network quoted the C...

Writ petition seeks cancellation of MBBS admission result United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Wednesday seeking cancellation of the "faulty results" of the MBBS admission test for the 2020-2021 academic year and formulation of a new merit list. The petition was submitted by Supreme Court lawyer Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallab on behalf of 324 admission seekers. Also read: Legal notice to government seeks cancellati...

Tecno launches 1st shopping cart campaign on Likee United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Techno has launched the Spark 7 Pro hashtag campaign #SmileSnapshot on popular global short video platform Likee. The campaign, the first hashtag event with the shopping cart function on Likee in Bangladesh, started on May 11 and will continue till May 25. With the name #SmileSnapshot, Techno wants to represent the main feature of smile-snaps...

KATHMANDU, May 19 -- As many as 7,889 COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease on Wednesday.The health ministry also confirmed 8,173 new cases of COVID-19 on the same day.According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 8,064 people tested positive through PCR tests and 109 through antigen tests.Likewise, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 2,486 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. Of them, 228 were detected in...

Journalist Rozina must get justice: Law Minister United News of Bangladesh (UNB) Bangladesh, May 19 -- Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam must get justice. He said this to reporters at his residential office in the capitals Gulshan on Tuesday night. The minister said, "I will just say that in such an incident if there is any suspicion of creating a gap between the government and journalists, then the governmen...

What are Nepali youth thinking? My Republica Nepal, May 16 -- The findings of the survey paint a rather somber picture. Of the 2,000 youth surveyed between 18 to 40 years of age, only around a third (34%) believe that the country is headed in the right direction. This is significantly less than a 2018 National Governance Survey that found 80 percent of respondents between 18 to 39 years of age considered the country to be heading in the right direction. The COVID-19 pandemic has...