7-day total lockdown in Tinsukia district from Wednesday
GB Today AVIK CHAKRABORTY:The Tinsukia district administration in upper Assam has announced a 7-day total lockdown in the district in…
August 2020
Assam: Ex-Congress MLA leads protest in Jorhat against patients’ deaths due to “non-treatment”
SMITA BHATTACHARYYA: In the wake of many deaths of Covid19 positive and negative patients allegedly due to lack…
Assam’s filmmaker Xahid Khan’s Nyishi film ‘Nyega Aan’ released
Raju Deuri: Another short film, ‘Nyega Aan’ (Man Mom) by Assam’s award-winning young filmmaker Xahid Khan has been…
Masks help reduce Covid-19 transmission: Study
A new study says US communities that made using face masks in public compulsory saw a decline in…
Climate change protesters burst British GP ‘bubble’
Four climate change protestors were arrested Sunday after breaching security at the behind-closed-doors British Grand Prix to unveil…
Google unveils cheaper Pixel smartphone, teases 5G
Google on Monday unveiled a new. more affordable Pixel smartphone and said it would launch models tailored for…
Golden Globes voters hit with antitrust lawsuit
The exclusive group of film journalists that awards the Golden Globes was accused Monday of sabotaging non-members while…
Bolywood Actor Sushant death case: Bihar CM recommends CBI probe
Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on Tuesday recommended CBI probe into the case over the death of…
Tigers to get Kirsten in its next virtual meeting on Wednesday
Though all types of competitive crickets in Bangladesh remained suspended since March 26 due to the devastating coronavirus…
Bangladesh export earning notches 0.59% growth in July
The country’s export earnings witnessed a 0.59 percent growth in July this year compared to July 2019 despite…
Bangladesh may grab opportunity as Japanese firms plan relocation: Japanese envoy
Bangladesh may grab the opportunity as some Japanese firms are intending to relocate their business and searching new…
Massive explosion shakes Lebanon’s capital Beirut
A number of people were wounded when a massive explosion shook Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, causing massive…
India imposes curfew in parts of Kashmir
The authorities have clamped a curfew in many parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday ahead of the revocation…
Pandemic’s economic fallout will worsen conflicts: UN
The coronavirus pandemic is worsening the humanitarian situation in the world’s deadliest conflicts and threatens to unleash economic…
Covid-19 causes biggest disruption of education system in history
Nearly 1.6 billion learners across the world have been affected by the largest disruption of education systems in…
Coronavirus deaths in Brazil near 95,000
Brazil on Monday recorded 561 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death…
Turkey confirms 995 new Covid-19 cases, 233,851 in total
Turkey reported 995 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the total diagnosed cases to 233,851, Turkish Health Minister…
Africa’s Covid-19 cases hit 957,035 as deaths pass 20,000-mark
The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the African continent reached 20,288 as the number of COVID-19 cases…
ACC prosecutes Jubo Mohila League leader Papia, her husband
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against the expelled general secretary of Jubo Mohila League’s Narsingdi…
ILO Child Labour Convention sees universal ratification
For the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labour Convention has been ratified by all member…