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
S’pore allows sale of lab-grown meat
Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
International Day Of Persons With Disabilities: Pandemic paused their education
Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Amnesty slams Egypt ‘execution spree’
Amnesty International yesterday denounced a “horrifying execution spree” in Egypt, saying dozens of people had been put to death in the past two months.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Man sentenced to death for rape, murder
A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death and fined him Tk 1 lakh for killing a minor girl after rape in the district’s Pirganj upazila in 2016.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
World’s loneliest elephant makes new friend
It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Passport Issuance: JS body for home wants to see process in 9 countries
The parliamentary body on the home affairs ministry wants to visit different foreign missions of Bangladesh to inspect passport and visa issuance activities in order to get a comprehensive idea on how to make them more dynamic and effective.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Railway mulls anti-collision system
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has planned to introduce an automatic train protection system (ATPS) to avoid any head-on collisions and maloperation, and to ensure safe train operations, officials said.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bhutto envisages special relationship with Bangladesh
Pakistani President ZA Bhutto envisages a special relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh in which there would be certain special trade agreements and no visas for the people of one country visiting the other.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bancovid Trials: Globe Biotech cancels deal with icddr,b over delays
Globe Biotech Ltd has cancelled the contract with the icddr,b to conduct clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine Bancovid.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi doctor gets highest marks in MRCP test
Bangladesh physician Mahmudul Hoque Jassy has secured a record-breaking highest mark in the MRCP examination this year, after scoring 906 out of 1,000, where the pass mark was 454.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Chinese Dam Upstream: India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset impact
India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said yesterday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
SC yet to settle CHT regional council issue
Nine years have passed after two separate appeals were filed with the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that declared the Chattogram Hill Tracts Regional Council illegal and unconstitutional.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Covishield ‘safe’
The Serum Institute of India (SII) said yesterday that vaccine candidate ‘Covishield’, which is being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), is “safe and immunogenic”. The SII is testing the candidate in India.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Couple held with 28 gold bars
Police arrested a suspected gold smuggler couple with 28 gold bars worth Tk 3 crore near Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban yesterday.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Vaccine coming by February’
As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to go up, Health Secretary Abdul Mannan yesterday said the country would receive the vaccine hopefully by February next year or earlier.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Australia bush fire rips through heritage island
Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bush fire that already destroyed 40 percent of the Unesco world heritage-listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hit yesterday.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Turkish ship leaves disputed waters in east Med
A Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over potential gas riches in the eastern Mediterranean has returned to port, Turkey’s energy ministry said yesterday.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM
MC College Rape: DNA test of 4 accused finds evidence
DNA test found evidence that four accused were involved in the rape of a woman at Sylhet’s Murari Chand (MC) College, police say.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Jail Gate Marriage: HC grants 1-yr bail to rape accused
Zahirul Islam alias Zia Uddin, an accused in a rape case in Feni, secured bail for one year from the High Court yesterday, 11 days after he married the complainant at the jail gate in line with a condition set by the court.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM
China defence minister’s visit postponed
Chinese Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe has suspended his visit to Dhaka scheduled this week.
30 November 2020, 18:00 PM