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
Families of POWs, internees to be repatriated
Bangladesh and India have decided to repatriate to Pakistan members of the families of Pakistani civilian internees and prisoners of war as “a humanitarian gesture”, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry announces today.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Relief Misappropriation: UP members alone at fault?
Whenever the issue of relief misappropriation arises, the finger is usually pointed toward public representatives. In many cases, they are found to be involved in relief misappropriation.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Act fast to save the planet
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked global leaders to ensure concessional finance and debt relief and access to technology for all to overcome the impending crisis posed by climate change.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Europe sees first dip in Covid-19 cases in months
The number of new Covid-19 cases declined last week for the first time in over three months, but deaths in the region continued to climb, WHO data showed yesterday.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Govt to buy 40 lakh MRPs for expatriate Bangladeshis
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved a proposal to procure 40 lakh machine-readable passport (MRP) books to meet the immediate requirement of Bangladeshi expatriates.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Robot enforces mask-wearing, distancing at Japan store
A robot has signed on as the newest staff member at a store in Japan, taking on the job of ensuring customers wear masks and practice social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Stop arms race’
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today calls upon peace-loving people of the world to strengthen the movement for
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Watch on drug rehab centres stepped up
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) yesterday closed five drug rehabilitation centres in the capital as those were running without licence.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Siphoning off Money: Govt officials outnumber politicians
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said he was surprised to see the number of government officials who siphoned off money and sent the amounts to Toronto, Canada, outnumbering politicians.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US approves first rapid home Covid-19 test
The US issued an emergency use authorization for the first self-administered rapid coronavirus test Tuesday, as more parts of the country increase restrictions in an attempt to halt a Covid-19 surge.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Delay in Rohingya Return: Myanmar’s lack of sincerity key reason
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Myanmar’s lack of sincerity was the key reason for the delay in Rohingya repatriation.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US hits Iran with fresh sanctions
The United States yesterday imposed sweeping new sanctions targeting Iran, blacklisting a foundation controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and taking aim at what Washington called Iran’s human rights abuses a year after a deadly crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Rejection of Fraud Claims: Trump fires US election security chief
Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the US government’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’s unsubstantiated claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Schoolgirl raped in Lalmonirhat
A female student of class ten was raped in a village of Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila yesterday morning, police said.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Fire at Grid Substation: Power partly restored in Sylhet city after 31 hrs
After almost 31 hours, power supply at many areas in Sylhet city started restoring from 6:10pm yesterday.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Delhi plans curbs as infections rise
As India’s capital battles its worst phase in the coronavirus pandemic, authorities drew up plans yesterday to reinstate some curbs, such as lockdowns of some markets, if necessary, although elsewhere in the nation new infections are falling.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Victory Day Programmes: Threatening letter stops rehearsals at school
A school in Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat suspended all rehearsals for cultural programmes for next month’s Victory Day celebrations after receiving a letter demanding a halt to such activities as Islam does not support it.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden mulling top staff
President-elect Joe Biden will focus on shaping his core White House team on Tuesday while outgoing President Donald Trump presses on with his increasingly tenuous legal fight to reverse his loss in the U.S. election.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Teacher gets life term for raping student
A Kushtia court yesterday sentenced a Qawmi madrasa teacher to life term imprisonment for raping a class eight female student in the district’s Mirpur upazila early last month.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu watches unveiled
A series of special edition wristwatches, designed and commissioned by the High Commission of India in Dhaka, were unveiled yesterday to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM