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Almost 2,000 schools in South Korea have suspended in-person classes following the latest spike in the cases of novel coronavirus. The country’s Ministry of Education made the announcement on August 24. The country recorded at least 266…

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (59) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is in a critical condition. Tymoshenko’s press secretary Marina Soroka said in a Facebook post on August 23. The post states that…

Fortunately, there are still 12 countries or territories where no coronavirus cases are reported yet, though the virus has already spread to over 185 countries, infecting over 51.3 million people and killing more than 1.2 million as of…

Economic Zones are vital to attracting investment, creating employment and driving economy of any country. With that in mind, Bangladesh is going for establishing more of such zones for the sake of boosting its economic landscape. In…

United Nations Development Programme in Bangladesh announces Vacancy for several positions under Special Contract Modality. The positions to be recruited are for a climate change project. The deadline to post application is September 2.…

The line of fatalities from the covid-19 is getting longer as the total toll from the disease has already crossed 800k globally. According to an AFP tally, there are now 801,447 fatalities in total out of 23,003,079 declared infections.…

Russia has now begun production of its own coronavirus vaccine `Sputnik V’ on August 15. The state news agency TASS reported quoting the country’s health ministry the same day, reports CNN. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on…

HBH Nursing Institute, a proposed model nursing institute to be built in Dhaka city, has issued vacancy notice for a good number of positions. The personnel will be recruited provisionally at the initial stage. The positions to be filled…

The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus has very well crossed 21 million mark globally as the total number of cases across the world now is at least 21.8 million as of August 18, according to data from worldometer. Across…

Schools in the United Kingdom must be reopening full-time in September, says the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on August 10, adding that it’s the moral duty to reopen for children’s wellbeing. Schools in England were shut in…

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (84) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Pranab himself confirmed this in a post on his Twitter account on August 10. In the post, Pranab wrote, ‘on a visit to the hospital for a…

Children in Gaza Strip returned to schools on August 8 after five months of shutdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, reports Reuters. But authorities have also expressed caution that they are ready to close schools again if…

The US economy added 1.8 million jobs in July amid the covid-19 pandemic, ignoring economists’ forecasts of 1.5 million new jobs in a survey by Bloomberg. With new employment figures, the unemployment rate in the country now decreases…

The official unemployment rate in Brazil, the second worst affected country by the novel coronavirus in the world, now stands at 13.3% in the last quarter ended in June. The rate of joblessness of 13.3% means there are now 12.8 million…

The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle American economy as another 1.2 million people in the USA filed for first-time jobless benefits last week. But the figure is down from earlier period when 1.4 million did the same. The…

Job 1 : World Health Organization (WHO) Bangladesh wing floats vacancy notice for the position ‘National Consultant-Risk Communication'. The position falls under Special Service Agreement of the organization. Interested and eligible…

Uber, an American multinational ride-hailing company based in San Francisco, California, has decided to allow its corporate employees to voluntarily work-from-home through June 2021 due to corona pandemic. The company announced in a…

The line of fatality from the Covid-19 in Bangladesh is getting longer since the first death was recorded on March 18. The country logged 3,740 deaths so far now with 46 more in the last 24 hours till August 18. Over the period, there have…

Latin American nation Bolivia has been any way quite forced to cancel the school year for the rest of the year of 2020 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The minister of the presidency Yerko Nunez announced this August 5 in a statement.…

Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti (44) has tested positive for Covid-19. But he is now in good health and will stay at home for the next two weeks on doctor’s advice. The PM’s press office confirmed it on August 4, reports CNN. In a…