Giant vertical farm opens in Denmark

A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe’s biggest “vertical farms” which has just opened in a warehouse in an industrial zone in Copenhagen.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Lok Sabha debate on Bangladesh and POWs

Indian External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh says today that unless Pakistan recognises Bangladesh and unless Bangladesh is admitted to the
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Remembered forever

The horror and the deaths had turned it into hell on earth in 1971.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Eviction Drive: Haji Selim’s unauthorised structures torn down

Associates of lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim had pre-emptively torn down parts of an illegal structure that he had allegedly built ahead of yesterday’s eviction drive by the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority in Old Dhaka’s Shoari Ghat.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Power Supply Failure: 30,000 govt websites go offline

More than 30,000 government websites of the Bangladesh National Portal were inaccessible since yesterday morning due to an electrical fault in the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited server.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Relocation to Bhasan Char: Businesses eye boom as Rohingyas arrive

Javed Iqbal lived in Oman for 11 years and returned home to Swandip in 2016 with a plan to settle down in the country.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Maduro eyes victory in Venezuela poll amid opposition boycott

Venezuelans voted yesterday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and further weaken his US-backed opposition rival Juan Guaido, who is leading a boycott of the polls he calls a fraud.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

US sets daily record for Covid cases

For the third day in a row, the United States on Saturday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching nearly 230,000 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid Vaccine in India: Pfizer seeks urgent approval

Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said yesterday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

14 Rohingyas, 2 traffickers detained in Sylhet

Rab members yesterday detained 14 Rohingyas and two alleged human traffickers from Habibur Rahman Chattar of Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Two held over rape

Police arrested a man early yesterday on charge of raping a minor girl in Cox’s Bazar and another man was arrested on Saturday allegedly for raping his daughters in Khagrachhari.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Cabinet meeting held

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat in Dhaka.
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

PCJS member shot dead in Rangamati

A member of Parbatya Chattogram Jubo Samity was shot dead at his home in Baghaichari upazila early yesterday
6 December 2020, 18:00 PM

BGB seizes 60 gold bars in Jashore

Border Guard Bangladesh officers seized 60 gold bars on Shahajatpur border in Chaugachha, Jashore early yesterday.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Rape victim, rapist married at Rajshahi jail

The Rajshahi Central Jail authorities arranged the marriage of a rapist with the victim at the jail gate yesterday in line with a recent High Court order.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

US sets record of Covid cases

For the second day in a row, the United States on Friday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching 225,201 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Brexit Impasse: UK, EU call in leaders to save trade talks

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was scheduled to speak to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday to try to break an impasse in trade talks with time running out to avoid a chaotic end to the Brexit saga.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Many univs keen on final year exams

Many public universities are in favour of holding semester exams for final year students to negate session jam and make students qualified for sitting in the upcoming BCS exams.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Ring with 12,638 diamonds sets world record

An elaborate floral-shaped ring sporting 12,638 tiny diamonds has earned a place in the Guinness World Records -- but its Indian creator has no plans to sell his priceless design just yet.
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Anti-socials must be routed: Mujib

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reiterates today that miscreants must be wiped out from the country, and corruption eradicated from
5 December 2020, 18:00 PM