May 2020

GBNEWS24 DESK// The UK must avoid lurching from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper climate crisis, the government’s advisers have warned. They recommend that ministers ensure funds earmarked for a post-Covid-19 economic recovery go…

GBNEWS24 DESK// South Korea's intelligence agency has said rumours about Kim Jong-un's health were groundless, and there are no signs he had heart surgery. The North Korean leader recently went 20 days without appearing in public, and…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Pop star Madonna took to Instagram on May 1 with her latest ‘quarantine diary’ video, in which she said she had tested positive for coronavirus antibodies and planned to “breathe in the Covid-19 air”. “Took a test the…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Tom Cruise will film his next Hollywood blockbuster on location -- 250 miles up in the air and orbiting the Earth once every 90 minutes. The "Top Gun" star will fly through the stratosphere to shoot an as-yet-unknown…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The government today extended the ongoing ban on flight operation for the fifth consecutive time till May 16 to and from all European countries and the nations that restricted the entry of Bangladeshis to their…

GBNEWS24 DESK// A patient treated in a hospital near Paris on 27 December for suspected pneumonia actually had the coronavirus, his doctor has said. This means the virus may have arrived in Europe almost a month earlier than…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The global death toll from the coronavirus has reached 258,306 as of Wednesday morning. So far, 3,726,797 cases have been confirmed around the world after disease was first reported in China in December last year,…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Shraddha Kapoor’s latest flims Street Dancer 3D and Baaghi 3 may have not raked in the moolah, but the actress is not worried. Her debut film Teen Patti starring Amitabh Bachchan had not done well at the box office…

GBNEWS24 DESK// As the Chris Hemsworth action film Extraction continues on pace to become Netflix’s most-watched feature film ever, the film’s writer, Joe Russo, has closed a deal to write another installment of the high action film.…

GBNEWS24 DESK// As many as 565 physicians at both government and private hospitals were infected with coronavirus while treating patients, Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF) said Monday. “Of those infected, 404 are from Dhaka…