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Hanoi, Aug 2 : Vietnam recorded 8,620 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, including 8,597 locally transmitted and 23 imported, according to its Ministry of Health.The new infections brought the total tally to 154,306, with at least 1,306 deaths, the minist…

Dhaka, Aug 1 : After 56 years, India and Bangladeshi freight trains have restarted operations on the Chilahati-Haldibari route, with the first stone-laden freight train from India’s Damdim station entering Bangladesh on Sunday.This rail link was rela…

Dhaka, Aug 1 : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the perpetrators behind the conspiracy to assassinate Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, would be unmasked someday. Virtually addressing a programme organised…

London, Aug 1 : Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has restrained Sky News Australia from uploading new videos or live streams for a week over spreading of misinformation on Covid-19 pandemic, media reports said on Sunday.YouTube did not dis…

London, Aug 1 : Pulse oximeters used extensively during the coronavirus pandemic to detect falls in oxygen levels in Covid patients, work less well in people with darker skin, warned experts from NHS England and medicines regulator the MHRA.The devic…

London, Aug 1 : The third wave of Covid-19 lashing countries across the world is creating fertile breeding grounds for extra infectious and probably vaccine-resistant new variants, scientists warn.The World Health Organisation has announced an 80 per…

Moscow, Aug 1 : Russia confirmed 22,804 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 6,288,677, the official monitoring and response centre said on Sunday.The nationwide death toll rose by 789 to 159,352, while the tot…

Sydney, Aug 1 : Covid-19 cannot enter a person’s DNA, say Australian researchers refuting claims of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the infectious disease, integrating its genetic material into the human genome.The study, published in the journal C…

Jakarta, Aug 1 : The number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 30,738 within one day to 3,440,396, with the death toll adding by 1,604 to 95,723 on Sunday.During the past 24 hours, 39,446 recovered patients were discharged from hospitals, raising…

New Delhi/New York, Aug 1 : Taliban forces in Afghanistan are targeting known critics for attack despite claiming that they have ordered their fighters to act with restraint, Human Rights Watch said.The International Criminal Court is currently inves…