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
Work for people
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the public representatives of local government bodies to stand beside people and work for their welfare with a service mentality.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
3 held for forcing girls into porn
Rab yesterday arrested three people, including two women, for allegedly forcing college girls to take part in pornographic clips in Joypurhat.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Murder of Jewel: Four more suspects held
Police yesterday arrested four more suspects on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, in Patgram, Lalmonirhat.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
No tests for DU ‘Gha’, ‘Cha’ units being mulled
Dhaka University would not arrange admission tests for “Gha” and “Cha” units under social science and fine arts faculties from the next academic year, decided the university’s Deans’ Committee primarily.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
18 more die, 1,474 test positive
Eighteen more people died from Covid-19 in past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi shot dead by ‘Myanmar border troops’
A man died hours after he was shot allegedly by Myanmar Border Guard Police in the Naf river of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Woman raped, tortured in Ctg, four held
Police arrested four people for allegedly raping and then mugging a woman in the port city’s Lalkhan Bazar area.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Freight train derails in Sreemangal
Rail communication between Sylhet and the rest of the country was suspended for hours yesterday after the derailment of a fuel oil-laden train in Sreemangal. Meanwhile, two people died after a train hit a bus in Gazipur.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Jewel’s Murder: Suspect ‘who started the rumour’ held
Detectives yesterday arrested Abul Hossain alias Hossain Ali, who allegedly spread the rumour that Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel demeaned the Holy Quran, in the capital’s Kuril Bishwa Road area.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Unending holiday hurting a lot
Over 3,000 Bangladeshi expatriate workers have been stranded at home for several months as they cannot fly to Kuwait to rejoin work due to suspension of air communications between the two countries amid the pandemic.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Ethiopia vows to replace Tigray govt as conflict escalates
Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday voted to replace the current government of the federal state of Tigray, after the army launched air strikes to destroy military assets in the region in a worsening internal conflict.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bomb attack kills former Afghan TV presenter
A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a Kabul bombing yesterday, in an attack officials blamed on a group linked to the Taliban.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Storm Eta leaves 150 dead or missing in Guatemala
About 150 people have died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which devastated an indigenous village in the country’s north, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Sangsad begins special session today
A special session of the Jatiya Sangsad will begin at 6:00pm today on the occasion of Mujib Barsha, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Pandemic hikes concern over much-needed climate finance for poorest
Rich nations will need to boost efforts to provide funding for pandemic-hit poorer countries to battle climate change if they are to meet a promise of raising $100 billion a year from 2020, climate finance officials and analysts said on Friday.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Rural cooperatives can remove poverty
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there would be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Heavy fighting near key town in Karabakh
Armenia yesterday reported that “fierce combat” with Azerbaijani forces took place overnight near the town of Shusha, a key stronghold in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US job growth slows; millions experiencing long bouts of unemployment
The US economy created the fewest jobs in five months in October and more Americans are working part time, underscoring the challenges the next president faces to keep the recovery from the pandemic on track as fiscal stimulus dries up and new COVID-19 cases explode across the country.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US sees record Covid cases 3rd day in a row
The United States reported record new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as Joe Biden vowed to act against the pandemic on “day one” if he wins the presidential election in the world’s worst-hit nation.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
13 more die, 1,289 test positive
Thirteen people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM