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  73 Bangladesh citizens to return home from Beirut

  United News of Bangladesh .Dhaka | Updated at 11:06am on August 12, 2020

  A total of 73 Bangladesh citizens would return home from Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday morning. A Bangladesh Air Force aircraft, which handed over relief materials in...

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  Police seizes bomb, explosives raiding house of Neo JMB man

  United News of Bangladesh . Sylhet | Updated at 01:39pm on August 12, 2020

  Police recovered a powerful bomb and materials used to make bombs raidingthe house of suspected Neo-JMB member Sanaul Islam Sadi in Jalalabad residential area of Sylhet Tuesday night...

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  ACC quizzes ex-health directorate DG Azad for 5 hours

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:41am on August 12, 2020

  The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday interrogated former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services Abul Kalam Azad over the N95 mask scam. A commission team, headed by...

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  US-Bangla to resume flights on Dhaka-KL route on Aug 16

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 03:53pm on August 12, 2020

  US-Bangla Airlines is going to resume flights on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka route from August 16 after five months of suspension due to COVID-19...

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  Gonoshasthaya to open plasma centre for COVID-19 patients on Aug 15

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 04:26pm on August 11, 2020

  The Plasma and Blood Donation Centre set up by Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in memory of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be opened...

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  Daily COVID-19 briefing put off

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:43pm on August 11, 2020

  The coronavirus infection claimed 33 more lives in Bangladesh in the 24 hours until 8:00am Tuesday as 2,996 new infections were confirmed during the time. With the latest figures, the country’s death tally rose to 3,471 while the...

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  Another cop dies of COVID-19

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:23pm on August 11, 2020

  Another policeman died of COVID-19 in Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital on Tuesday. Assistant sub-inspector Md Dolil Uddin Biswas, 58, of Jhenaidah police station, was admitted to...

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  Study finds 9pc Dhaka dwellers infected with coronavirus

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:52am on August 11, 2020

  A study jointly conducted by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh found that about...