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  Is an ineffective lockdown affordable?

  Zubair Khaled Huq | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  IN THE last few days, we are seeing new records being broken. The upward trend of the new strain of novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc....

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  India locks Delhi to battle Covid-19

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 09:55am on April 20, 2021

  India locked down its capital New Delhi for a week beginning Monday night seeking to control a raging coronavirus outbreak, as the hard-hit United States...

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  Weeklong lockdown in Delhi

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 01:14am on April 20, 2021

  India’s capital New Delhi will impose a week-long lockdown from Monday night, officials said, as the megacity struggles to contain a huge surge in Covid...

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  Bangladesh braces for ‘another week-long lockdown’

  United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 06:11pm on April 18, 2021

  Bangladesh is likely to go under another weeklong lockdown right after the ongoing one as the Covid-19 situation keeps worsening in the country. ‘The ongoing...

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  Weekend lockdown in Delhi as India faces new coronavirus wave

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 10:56am on April 17, 2021

  New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with more than 200,000 fresh daily cases and...

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  Agencies appear underprepared to enforce restrictions

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 17, 2021

  THE fresh restrictions for eight days on public movement and businesses that the government put into force as part of a preventive measure against the...

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  US-Bangla to operate 4 international flights from Saturday

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 02:22pm on April 16, 2021

  US-Bangla Airlines, one of the country’s leading private airlines, is set to operate four special international flights maintaining health protocols from Saturday...

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  Govt asks expats not to return during lockdown without emergency

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 11:14am on April 16, 2021

  The government has decided to discourage expatriate Bangladeshis from returning home during lockdown, unless facing an emergency...

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  Innovation that makes money move

  Tanvir A Mishuk | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2021

  WE ARE passing through a very tough time because of a surge in the COVID-19 infection and mortality rate. The ongoing lockdown has also burdened...

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  Government launches crackdown on opposition: BNP

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:46pm on April 15, 2021

  Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday claimed that the government had started a crackdown on leaders and activists of opposition...