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  Premier Bank signs MoU to assist Canada-bound students

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:38pm on January 25, 2021

  The Premier Bank Limited authorities had signed a memorandum of understanding with Toronto School of Management to offer educational assistance among students pursuing higher studies...

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  Common drug colchicine reduces COVID-19 risk

  Agence France-Presse . Montreal, Canada | Updated at 10:02am on January 25, 2021

  A major clinical trial in Canada shows that an inexpensive anti-inflammatory drug called colchicine can significantly reduce the risk of complications and death from COVID-19,...

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  Trudeau co-opts Sanders meme to urge Canadians from traveling

  Agence France-Presse . Montreal | Updated at 11:00am on January 24, 2021

  Bernie Sanders may be most familiar in a US political context, but that hasn’t stopped Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau from using a now famous...

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  ‘Leader of Asia’s biggest criminal gang’ arrested in Netherlands

  Agence France-Presse . Sydney | Updated at 10:55am on January 24, 2021

  The alleged ringleader of Asia’s biggest crime syndicate and one of the world’s most wanted men has been arrested in the Netherlands, with Australian authorities...

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  Biden speaks with Trudeau in first foreign leader call as US president

  Agence France-Presse . Ottawa | Updated at 10:37pm on January 23, 2021

  In his first call to a foreign leader as US president, Joe Biden spoke with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau Friday on a number of topics...

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  Canada extends international traveller ban

  Agence France-Presse . Ottawa | Updated at 11:10am on January 21, 2021

  Canada on Wednesday announced a one-month extension of a ban on non-essential international travel into the country, stretching the restrictions until February 21. Travellers allowed...

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  BFIU finds PK Halder’s assets in India, Singapore, Canada

  M Moneruzzaman | Updated at 07:24pm on January 16, 2021

  The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has found information on ‘financial and non-financial assets’ abroad of former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, who...

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  Canadian lawmaker resigns after taking lockdown vacation

  Agence France-Presse . Ottawa | Updated at 10:40am on January 01, 2021

  A Canadian lawmaker resigned on Thursday after being caught taking a family vacation in the sunny Caribbean while his compatriots were urged to avoid non-essential...

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  Biman Bangladesh Airlines gets new aircraft named Dhrubatara

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:25pm on December 27, 2020

  National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines got a new Dash 8-400 aircraft to help it expand operations in the short range, including domestic and South...

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  Canada detects first coronavirus variant cases

  Agence France-Presse . Montreal, Canada | Updated at 10:50am on December 27, 2020

  The first two cases of a particularly infectious coronavirus variant that recently emerged in Britain have been confirmed in Canada, health authorities said on Saturday....