Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Greece to regularise 15,000 undocumented Bangladeshis
22 July 2022, 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
Moscow metro hires first women train drivers
The Moscow metro said Sunday it had hired female drivers for the first time in its recent history, following recent changes in controversial Russian legislation prohibiting women from many professions.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Vietnam jails three critics ahead of major party congress
Vietnam yesterday jailed three pro-democracy bloggers on anti-state charges, one of their lawyers said, weeks ahead of the communist government’s party congress.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Murdered Girl’ Found Alive Cops tortured 3 for fake confessions
A judicial probe committee yesterday submitted its report to the High Court saying officials of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station tortured and forced three people to give confessional statements to magistrates about raping and killing a minor girl who later turned out to be alive after 49 days last year.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
WHO experts to wade into tricky territory in hunt for virus’ origins
A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicised visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a whitewash.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
New infected in triple digits 5 days in row
Coronavirus claimed 20 more lives and infected another 991 people in 24 hours across the country till Tuesday morning.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
World Bank sees global output up 4pc in 2021
The global economy is expected to expand 4 percent in 2021 after shrinking 4.3% in 2020, the World Bank said yesterday, although it warned that rising Covid-19 infections and delays in vaccine distribution could limit the recovery to just 1.6 percent this year.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Botched Bank Robbery: Robbers hurl acid at guard, stab Ansar member
Robbers carried out acid attack on a security guard and stabbed another after failing to rob a bank in Bogura’s Gabtali upazila early yesterday.
5 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Algerian jailed for 3 yrs for political protest memes
An Algerian supporter of the Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for satirical social media posts mocking the government and religion, a campaign group said.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia agree to more Nile dam talks
Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Sunday to hold further talks this month, hoping to resolve their long-running dispute over the latter’s huge dam on the Blue Nile, Sudan’s water ministry said.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
US aircraft carrier to stay in Gulf: Pentagon
The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to “recent threats” by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Parents get to bury Lakingme after 25 days
The family of Lakingme Chakma finally received her body yesterday, 25 days after her mysterious death, and buried her in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Case Under DSA: N’ganj Mayor Ivy sues city AL GS for defamation
Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy yesterday filed a case under the Digital Security Act against Khokon Saha, general secretary of the Narayanganj city unit of the ruling Awami League.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
English Schools: SC stays HC verdict on readmission, session fees
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed a High Court verdict, which had in 2017 declared the fees charged for annual readmission and session by English medium schools illegal.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Adhere to the ideologies of Bangabandhu
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Bangladesh Chhatra League members to build themselves adhering to the ideology of Bangabandhu, imbued with patriotism and keeping the organisation’s tradition in mind to lead the country in the coming years.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Focus on lakes, not just drainage
In order to solve the capital’s perennial waterlogging problem which Dhaka Wasa has failed to do, its managing director yesterday said the two city corporations should now focus on protecting natural reservoirs and not just rely on the artificial drainage systems.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Those who maligned Bangabandhu asked to apologise
The prestigious weekly Time Magazine predicts that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will sweep the first general elections of Bangladesh scheduled for March 7, 1973. It writes,
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma ‘missing’
Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fueled social media speculation over his whereabouts amid a Chinese regulatory clampdown on his sprawling business empire.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Australian ‘lives and homes’ at risk as fire nears Perth
An out-of-control bushfire threatened lives and homes in Australia’s west coast city of Perth yesterday, with locals told to shelter in place from toxic fumes.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Two men get death for rape, murder of girl
A Madaripur court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a seven-year-old girl after rape on November 27, 2012.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM
24 more die, 910 test positive for Covid
The health directorate reported that 910 people were infected with the novel coronavirus in the 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.
4 January 2021, 18:00 PM