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
Civil Liberties: Rights body classifies Bangladesh as ‘repressed’
Civicus, an international non-profit that fights for civil liberties and civic rights globally, released a report yesterday classifying Bangladesh as “repressed”.
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Inconsistent laws will become void on Dec 16
Substantial progress has been made by the government in scrutinizing existing laws to identify the provisions which will automatically become
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal Shops in Fulbaria: Hundreds torn down
Dhaka South City Corporation yesterday demolished several hundred illegal shops at Fulbaria Supermarket-2 in Gulistan, which was built violating the main design of the supermarket.
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Myanmar armed forces plagued by corruption
Justice For Myanmar yesterday published data from Ministry of Defence budget documents, spanning a period from the 2016-17 financial year to 2020-21, exposing the greed and corruption of the Myanmar military cartel, and its international business networks that enable the military’s continued criminal conduct.
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Stop them from fleeing abroad
Stock market regulator has written to the police to take initiatives so that six directors of three listed companies cannot flee the country.
8 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kill 5 south Yemen separatists
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed five south Yemen separatists in Abyan province yesterday, in the terror group’s biggest attack in the region for months, a secessionist security official said.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh Bank approves new bank
Bangladesh Bank yesterday approved one more commercial bank, taking the total number of banks in the country to 61.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Last month the hottest November on record: EU
Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said yesterday.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam passes away
Valiant freedom fighter Captain Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday morning.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Israel-based channel, UAE broadcaster ink partnership
Israel-based broadcaster i24NEWS and Abu Dhabi Media, a public conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday a content sharing arrangement after the Jewish state and UAE normalised ties.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Defaced Bangabandhu Sculpture: Arrest the culprits immediately
Fifteen eminent citizens, mostly cultural personalities, yesterday demanded immediate arrest of culprits who recently vandalised an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Cuddling in Covid-19: ‘Hug bubble’ lets seniors feel the magic of touch
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, French care home resident Colette Dupas’s contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call, or through a window.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Jashore Correction Facility: Eight teens flee
Eight inmates, aged between 13 and 15, fled from Jashore juvenile correction centre early yesterday.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Cybercrime costs to top $1 trillion this year
Cybercrime is expected to cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year, up more than 50 percent since 2018, a research report said yesterday.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Nuke scientist killed by ‘AI’ machine gun
A satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in last week’s assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards told local media on Sunday night.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Astrazeneca’s Covid Vaccine: India’s Serum Institute seeks urgent approval
Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines by volume and India’s main hope of large-scale supplies, said yesterday it had lodged the first formal application for emergency use approval for AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
2 women raped in Gazipur, Noakhali
Two women were allegedly raped in Gazipur and Noakhali while a youth in Gazipur’s Sreepur was sued over spreading secretly-recorded video footage of a teenage girl on social media.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal Gas Lines: Titas sues 533 for attacking its officials on drive
A case was filed yesterday against 533 people over attacking Titas Gas officials during a drive against illegal gas connections in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Councillor, publisher feud now talk of Sylhet city
The feud between a city corporation councillor and a local daily resulting in cases filed under Digital Security Act in Sylhet have been the talk of the town over the last few days.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden names health team to tackle Covid crisis
President-elect Joe Biden yesterday named the team tasked with turning around the United States’ floundering efforts to quell the Covid-19 pandemic, nominating Xavier Becerra as his secretary of health.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM