In to­day’s dai­ly COVID up­date The Min­istry of Health stat­ed that 6 ad­di­tion­al peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. Six have been dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties while there have been 19 re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es. The to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es now stands at 304 with 39 in hos­pi­tal of which 3 are in ICU. The death toll re­mains at 134.

A deep wa­ter bid round is ex­pect­ed to take place be­fore the end of this year, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan has said.

CHAT­TOGRAM, Bangladesh, Jan 25, CMC – West In­dies suf­fered a chas­ten­ing 3-0 white­wash af­ter go­ing down to Bangladesh by 120 runs in the third One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Mon­day.

When an ice cream ven­dor at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Mis­souri, USA, in 1904 ran out of pa­per cups, he was next to a waf­fle ven­dor who rolled the waf­fles in­to cones to hold the ice cream and this was where the ice-cream cone was cre­at­ed.

Oil and gas have been a bless­ing and a curse for this coun­try. A bless­ing be­cause of the eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty it once brought our way, a curse be­cause it has blind­ed us to all of the oth­er abun­dant nat­ur­al re­sources that could have sus­tained us through the times of plung­ing en­er­gy prices.