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
Bangabandhu Killers: Suspend their gallantry awards
The High Court yesterday ordered the government to suspend the state gallantry awards for four convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM
facebook.com.bd: Court stops domain use as facebook files case
Following a hearing of a case filed by the authorities of social media giant Facebook against a Bangladeshi firm called A1 Software, a Dhaka court has banned the “facebook.com.bd” domain in Bangladesh.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
37 more die, 1,799 infected
At least 37 people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the DGHS.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
8 to die for murder, rape of 9-yr-old
A court in Chattogram yesterday sentenced eight people to death and fined them Tk 1 lakh each for murdering a nine-year-old girl after gang-raping her in the port city’s Akbar Shah area in 2018.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
US Elections: Electoral college votes to confirm Biden win
Electors gathered in state capitols across the country yesterday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next US president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing attempt to overturn his loss in the November 3 election.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Govt plans to evict forest grabbers
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change yesterday decided to conduct drives to evict illegal grabbers of protected forest land.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Farming After Floods: Battered, they keep on trying
Abdus Samad could not harvest a single grain of coriander (dhoney) or sesame (til) or an ounce of jute from his five bighas of land due to this year’s prolonged flood.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Indira felicitates Bangabandhu
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi has sent a message today felicitating Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Healing is coming’
An intensive care unit nurse became the first person in the United States to receive the newly authorized Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, calling it a sign that “healing is coming” as the US coronavirus death toll approaches 300,000.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
5 sentenced to death get acquitted
The High Court yesterday acquitted all five people, who were sentenced to death by a lower court in Netrokona, in a case filed for the abduction and gang rape of a teenage girl in 2002, as the allegations brought against them were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Two die after falling sick in shipbreaking yards
Two employees, including a security guard, of two shipbreaking firms in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila died yesterday morning after falling sick at their workplaces.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
A teacher at last
Five government officials yesterday apologised to the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division for failing to comply with its order to appoint a woman as a primary school teacher in 15 days.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Canada begins vaccine roll-out
Canada yesterday began a roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, just days after becoming one of the first countries to approve the treatment.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Virtual book fair plan scrapped
Amar Ekushey Boi Mela-2021 will be held as usual, not virtually as previously reported, but will start later than the scheduled February 1.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Profits over people’
Bangladeshi migrant worker Sheikh Kibria recalls with horror the filthy, overcrowded dormitory where he was housed by the world’s biggest rubber glove manufacturer when a coronavirus outbreak erupted and infected thousands.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Ensure fees for medical tests are displayed at gates
The High Court yesterday directed the government to ensure display of charts containing fees for medical tests of Covid-19 patients at the main gates of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres across the country.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Brexit Trade Deal: UK, EU agree to go ‘extra mile’
London and Brussels agreed to “go the extra mile” in coming days to try to reach an elusive trade agreement despite missing their latest deadline to avert a turbulent ‘no deal’ exit for Britain from the European Union’s orbit at the end of the month.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Abused at every turn
A 13-year-old girl from a village in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila was abducted, gang raped for more than a month, and then left unconscious by a road on August 24. Her sufferings, however, were still not over.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
I am a proud man today: Bangabandhu
Formalities for the commencement of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on December 16 are being undertaken by the Gono Parishad (Constituent Assembly) at its two-day special session.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Iran summons German, France envoys over criticism of journalist’s execution
Iran yesterday summoned the envoys of Germany, current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, and of France over criticism of the execution of an Iranian journalist, Iranian media reported.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM