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Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a trade deal with India that slashes US tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from 50% in exchange for India halting Russian oil purchases and...
Bangla Press Desk: AstraZeneca Plc has paused a late-stage trial of one of the leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates after a suspected serious adverse reaction in a study participant, health news website Stat News reported on Tuesday. It quoted an As...
Banglapress Desk: Pranab Mukherjee, India's former president and one of the country's most respected politicians died on Monday in a Delhi hospital; he was 84. The elder statesman and one of India's most respected politicians had tested positive fo...
Staff Reporter: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Monday announced an extension of the flexibilities in rules related to Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 compliance that was granted earlier this year. Due to the continued p...
Staff Reporter: A three-judge panel in New York is blocking President Donald Trump from excluding undocumented immigrants from the census count for the purpose of congressional reapportionment. The federal judges ruled Thursday that excluding the i...
Staff Reporter: Hundreds of staffers in the New York city mayor’s office and Mayor Bill de Blasio himself will be placed on a weeklong, unpaid furlough as the city grapples with a multibillion-dollar budget gap, the mayor announced Wednesday. All 5...
Staff Reporter: A federal judge on Thursday blocked controversial changes to the United States postal service, saying they were "a politically motivated attack" that had slowed the nation's mail and likely would slow the delivery of ballots in the...
Staff Reporter: Early voting in the presidential election has started from Friday in four states of the United States. Voting begins Friday morning in Minnesota, as well as in the states of Virginia, South Dakota and Wyoming, local time. Democratic...
Chhabed Sathee: The restaurant business has almost come to a standstill after the coronavirus epidemic in the United States banned shoppers from eating inside restaurants. This stalemate has been going on for the last 7 months. As a result, 1 crore...
Staff Reporter: 6 among ten said that former Vice President Joe Biden did the best in Tuesday's debate while just 28 percent supported President Donald Trump in a CNN Poll of debate watchers conducted by SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). When t...
Staff Reporter: A 56-year-old Marshallese man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following his conviction for sexual assault of a five-year-old child in Washington County, Arkansas, passed away Saturday at the Christus...
Staff Reporter: A New Jersey postal worker is accused of dumping nearly 2,000 pieces of mail, including ballots and political flyers for the upcoming election. Nicholas Beauchene started working as a U.S. Postal Service worker in July. Less than fo...
Staff Repoeter: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early today. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came...
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