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Bangla Press Desk: At least 16 people, including five police personnel, were killed in northwest Pakistan on Friday after a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into a police facility as pe...
Banglapress Desk: A New Zealand court sentenced a man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s deadliest shooting to life in prison without parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the country. Brenton Tarrant, a 29-y...
Bangla Press Desk: United Airlines is preparing for the biggest pilot furloughs of its history after announcing on Thursday the need to cut 2,850 pilot jobs this year, or about 21% of the total, without further US government aid. Airlines, reeling...
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...
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