Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
10 injured as BNP, police clash in Tangail
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Sohan captain for Zim T20Is
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Lanka troops raid main protest camp
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
2 Covid patients die; positivity rate 8.36
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Chinese man held at border claims to be hotelier
A 35-year-old Chinese national held by India’s Border Security Force, near the border with Bangladesh in West Bengal’s Malda district, for illegal entry on June 10, has claimed he runs a hotel in a posh locality of Gurugram -- a satellite city in Delhi -- along with an Indian partner, police sources said.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 Treatment: India cuts taxes on medicines, equipment
India yesterday cut taxes on medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators and drugs used to treat Covid-19 infections, after widespread criticism over healthcare costs during a devastating second wave of the virus in April and May.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Low forms over Bay
The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no-3 as a low pressure has formed over northwest Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
3 bodies found in Naf river
Three unidentified bodies were found in the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday, said police.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Man traffics wife, her sister to India
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two suspected human traffickers conducting separate raids in Mymensingh early yesterday.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Combined entry test for public univs postponed
Twenty general and science and technology universities have postponed holding of uniform admission tests due to Covid-19.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
River erosion may eat up 28sq km area
Rivers are likely to erode about 28 square kilometres of land this year, which is more than the land eroded last year, according to a research body of the water resources ministry.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh issue will linger: Indira Gandhi
The United States appealed today to India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and urged the Pakistanis to restore normalcy in East Pakistan through “peaceful political accommodation”.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Indonesia dengue fever study offers hope in disease battle
Dengue fever infections dropped dramatically in an Indonesian study where a bacteria was introduced into disease-carrying mosquitoes, offering hope in the battle against an illness that sickens millions annually around the world.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Italy sets up cybersecurity agency after Russia warnings
Italy has created a national cybersecurity agency following warnings by Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Europe needed to protect itself from Russian “interference.”
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Lightning killed 177 in last four months
At least 177 people were killed by lightning strikes, mostly farmers at different parts of the county while 47 others were wounded in the last four months since March.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Delta variant 60pc more transmissible
The British government yesterday said that the new Delta coronavirus variant is 60 percent more transmissible in households than the variant that forced the UK to lock down in January.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Post-Coup Myanmar: Myanmar violence escalating, creating ‘rights catastrophe’
The UN rights chief yesterday said that violence was escalating across Myanmar, warning that the country had plunged into a “human rights catastrophe” since the February 1 coup.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
12 Rohingyas detained in Noakhali
Police yesterday detained 12 Rohingyas in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila for fleeing a refugee camp at Bhasan Char in the district’s Hatiya upazila.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Trafficked by husband into India for Tk 40k
Two years ago, when she was 18, Tania (not her real name) married Jahidul Islam Rony, 27, a conductor of a city bus.
Their days were passing well until she discovered that her husband was a drug addict and irregular in his job.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Khaleda has no post-Covid complications
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia currently does not have any post-Covid complications, but she is still at risk because of her old age, the party said yesterday.
11 June 2021, 18:00 PM
UP member shot dead in Noakhali
A Union Parishad member was shot dead by a group of unidentified miscreants in Noakhali’s Hatia upazila early yesterday.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
EC postpones polls to 163 UPs due to Covid
The Election Commission has postponed polls to 163 union parishads in Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Noakhali, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts due to a surge in Covid-19 cases.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Post-Coup Myanmar: Junta hits Suu Kyi with graft charges
The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported yesterday.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Buddhadeb Dasgupta no more
Noted Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta passed away at his Kolkata residence yesterday.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM