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Chinese hospitals ‘extremely busy’ as COVID spreads out of control

“Almost all patients have COVID,” said an emergency department pharmacy staff member. He said the hospital does not have any stock of Covid-specific medicine and can instead provide medicines for specific symptoms like cough. Zhang Yuhua, an official at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, said the patients who have come in recently are mainly elderly and suffer […]

UN Security Council condemns Taliban ban on women in Afghanistan

The council said the ban on women humanitarian workers, announced on Saturday, “will have a significant and immediate impact on humanitarian work in the country, including for the United Nations”. “These sanctions are contrary to the expectations of the Afghan people as well as the international community,” said the Security Council, which expressed its full […]

Mustafizur Rahman of JAPA re-elected mayor of Rangpur city

In addition, Bangladesh Congress’s mayoral candidate Mohd Abu Rehan with green coconut election symbol got 10,549 votes, Khilafat Majlis’s Mohd Tauhidur Rahman Mondal got 2,864 votes and Jatiya Samajwadi Dal’s Mohd Shafir Rahman got 5,156 votes. Mohd Mehdi Hasan, an independent candidate from Moshal got 2,679 votes and Zekar Party’s Mohd Khurshid Alam got 5,809 […]

Cash-strapped Islamic bank tries to lure Nagad to deposit large sums with higher interest rates

Defending the move, the bank’s Managing Director, MD Monirul Moula told bdnews24.com that the rate is practical as the entire banking sector is grappling with cash crunch. “However, this is still an estimated ‘profit’ rate, which may fluctuate after we prepare our annual financial reports depending on whether we make an actual profit,” he added. […]