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
Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: NGOs, experts content with arrangements
The government move to relocate 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char has invited some negative international scrutiny, but local NGOs and experts have said international aid agencies might change their minds if they visited the island.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Stop building 5-star hotel in Bandarban
Members of the Mro community yesterday demanded that the construction of a five-star hotel and amusement park in the Chimbuk Naitong hills be stopped, saying that the project was destroying the ecological balance and risking indigenous life in the area.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhasan Char gets its youngest inhabitant
Saidul Bashar, a seven-pound baby boy became the first child to be born in Bhasan Char.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
IUB honours its freedom fighter trustees
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) honoured six of its freedom fighter trustees at a programme on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Thursday, says a press release.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
EU clinches deal on tougher 2030 climate goal
EU leaders yesterday agreed an ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions after unlocking the bloc’s landmark budget and coronavirus recovery fund at a marathon summit.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Family Dispute: Man sets alight wife
A 30-year-old woman suffered serious burn injuries after her husband set her on fire in Croke area of Barguna town Thursday evening, said police.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
AL leader hacked to death in Pabna
A local Awami League leader was hacked to death by his rivals in Pabna’s Anonto Bazar area yesterday evening over protesting collection of extortion money.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
NHRC needs to play its due role
Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has to play an adequate role in preventing human rights violations in the country.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh always sympathetic to Arab cause: Bangabandhu
The visiting four-member Egyptian trade delegation today calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the secretariat.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Filmmaker Kim Ki-duk dies from Covid-19
South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, a controve-rsial figure both for his work and in his personal life, died in Latvia from coronavirus complications yesterday, a Latvian film official said.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
US blacklists Chinese crime boss, others in anti-corruption sanctions
The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on Wan Kuok Koi, a leader of China’s 14K Triad organized crime group, and three entities “owned or controlled” by him, the US Treasury said in a statement.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
TV journalist shot dead in Afghanistan
A female Afghan news anchor and activist was shot dead by assailants yesterday, her employer said, the second journalist killed in a month in Afghanistan.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Tk 148.41Cr Graft Case: HC rejects bail to MP Shahid’s wife, daughter
The High Court yesterday rejected the bail petition of lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam’s wife Selina Islam MP and their daughter Wafa Islam in a corruption case involving Tk 148.41 crore.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Salim Khan no more
Sangeeta founder Salim Khan, who produced albums for almost every major singer in the 1980s and 90s, died with Covid-19 yesterday at Impulse Hospital in the capital.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
HC grants 1-yr bail to rape convict
The High Court yesterday granted one-year conditional bail to a rape convict after eight years of his imprisonment as he married the victim in line with the court’s directive.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Hackers steal vaccine data in Europe
US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
5-yr plan draft outline in June
Dr Nurul Islam, deputy chairman of the planning commission, discloses today that the draft outline of the first five-year plan would be
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Top US negotiator on N Korea blames Pyongyang for deadlock
The outgoing US point man on North Korea admitted yesterday that the Trump administration had not achieved what it sought with Kim Jong Un, but blamed Pyongyang for squandering the opportunity for progress.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
YouTube bans new videos claiming US election fraud
YouTube on Wednesday banned new videos with bogus claims of election fraud, saying enough states have certified Joe Biden as the next US president to make it official.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Moments of joy for people on both sides
People on both banks of the Padma gathered yesterday morning to witness the auspicious event of the installation of the last span of the Padma bridge.
10 December 2020, 18:00 PM