32 more die, 1,470 get Covid-19

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,312 with 32 more deaths in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Remittance Inflow: Holding on to surge is key

Stressing the importance of remittance in the country economy, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said Bangladesh needs to send more skilled workers abroad to hold on the surge in remittance inflow.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Ex-Ducsu VP Nur sued for ‘defaming government’

Former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur has been sued for “making derogatory remarks on the government and several government institutions”.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

2 hundi traders held with half million dollars

Border Guard Bangladesh personnel yesterday detained two hundi traders with half a million US dollars (Tk 4.40 crore) from Jashore’s Ulashi area.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Manzoor-e-Mawla no more

Poet and former director general of Bangla Academy Manzoor-e-Mawla died with Covid-19 at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 80.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Ice man’ sets new world record in freezing cabin

Frenchman Romain Vandendorpe on Saturday set a world record for sitting immersed in ice cubes for the longest time, enduring the extreme challenge to raise money for childhood cancers.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Friendship with India based on reality’

R.R. Cunninghame, high commissioner of New Zealand in Bangladesh, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Middlemen in Labour Migration: Invisible they cannot remain

The government is considering bringing informal grassroots service providers into the labour migration sector under a framework to tackle fraudulence.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Pro-AL Blue Panel wins Duta polls uncontested

The pro-Awami League teachers of Blue Panel of Dhaka University won the DU Teachers’ Association (Duta) polls without contest, as no other panel submitted nomination form by the stipulated time.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Eight dead in Philippine floods as thousands flee homes

Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the northeastern Philippines as heavy rain across the country left at least eight people dead, authorities said yesterday.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

German factory races to churn out Covid-19 syringes

The battle against Covid-19 has delivered not just a vaccine at record speed but also a spike in demand for the billions of syringes needed to administer it.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Country shivers as mercury stays low

Bitter cold coupled with fog has been disrupting people’s daily lives across the country.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Process on to buy modern fighter jets

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said process was on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Biden and Mexico leader discuss migration

US President-elect Joe Biden told Mexico’s president Saturday he was committed to addressing the root causes of poor Latino migrants crossing the border into America.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Deadly Fiji super cyclone sparks disease fears

Disease threatens to worsen an already desperate situation in Fiji, an official warned yesterday, where thousands of lives have been devastated in the wake of the deadly super cyclone Yasa.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Post-Brexit talks stall

British and EU negotiators had dug in their heels and were each demanding more concessions from the other as post-Brexit trade talks dragged on into yesterday, deadlocked on fishing rights.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

New Covid strain ‘out of control’

European countries started banning flights coming from the UK yesterday as government in London warned that a potent new strain of the virus was “out of control”.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Grabbing Buriganga: MP Aslamul seeks SC order to avoid eviction

Awami League lawmaker Aslamul Haque, also the owner of Maisha Group, has filed a petition with the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division seeking to stay a High Court verdict that allowed the authorities to conduct eviction drives and recover the land of the Buriganga from the possession of three companies of his group.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Ex-PBCP man killed in drive-by in Khulna

A former member of radical group Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a drive-by shooting Friday night in Phultala, Khulna.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Rajshahi Zilla Parishad CEO held with drugs

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained Md Nuruzzaman, chief executive officer of Rajshahi Zilla Parishad, from Chapainawabganj while he was carrying banned phensidyl in a government vehicle.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM