April 2021

GBNEWS24 DESK// US President Joe Biden marks 100 days in office on Friday, April 30. Judging a president's performance after 100 days in office is an American political tradition that historians say began with Franklin Roosevelt's first…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Iran’s president has ordered a probe into the “conspiracy” of leaked audio in which the foreign minister says the military was too influential in diplomacy, a government spokesman announced Tuesday. President Hassan…

GBNEWS24 DESK// British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been given an additional jail term having already completed a five-year sentence on charges levied by Iranian authorities, the last year of which was spent under…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi-32 here on Tuesday. He also signed…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said the uncertainty over receiving coronavirus vaccine jabs from the Serum Institute of India is likely to be over soon. "We placed an order for three crore…

GBNEWS24 DESK// BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was infected with coronavirus, will be taken to Evercare Hospital tonight (Tuesday night) for some medical tests, including CT scan, said her personal medical team member Dr AZM Zahid…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The government is exploring Covid vaccines from three alternative sources -- Russia, China and the USA— and it will take at least two weeks to complete the process, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday.…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao became the first woman of color to win…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Louvre, shown last summer.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times US tourists vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union in the coming months, European Commission chief Ursula…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The Sinabung volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra erupted with a thick column of ash 1,000 meters above its peak to the east, the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center said on Monday. The eruption…