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
Indian Covid-19 variant: Community transmission in Bangladesh confirmed
Government research confirmed community transmission of the Delta variant, popularly known as Indian variant, in the country and it also found one unidentified variant of coronavirus.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid in Border Areas: Restrictions imposed in 3 districts
In the wake of skyrocketing Covid-19 cases in bordering areas, partial lockdown and night-time travel restrictions were imposed in three more districts yesterday, while Satkhira will go into a seven-day lockdown from tomorrow.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
30 more die of Covid, 1,687 get infected
As Bangladesh continues to fight against the pandemic with rising infections in frontier districts, it recorded 30 more deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours till yesterday morning, raising the death toll to 12,724.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Effort to form new party
Pakistan and the United Nations agreed on relief operations for victims of the war in East Pakistan, a UN spokesman announced today.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Made in Bangladesh’ encouraged in budget
Domestic manufacturing might enjoy a big boost as the government plans to encourage local investment in products labelled “Made in Bangladesh”.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
A boost for ICT
The government is going to bolster the country’s expanding ICT sector with tax exemptions in six more services and VAT waiver on hardware manufacturing as it looks to prepare the nation for the fourth industrial revolution.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Nigeria state in talks to free 136 abducted children
A Nigerian state government said it was negotiating with gunmen who seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at the weekend, the latest in a string of mass kidnappings in the country.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Coup in Myanmar: Shadow govt calls on Rohingyas to join fight
A shadow government in Myanmar yesterday called on the Rohingya minority to help it overthrow the junta, promising citizenship and repatriation for the persecuted Muslim community in a future democratic Myanmar.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Jabs For Poor Countries: Covax secures addl $2.4b for Covid shots
Countries and private donors pledged nearly $2.4 billion to the Covax vaccine-sharing plan, expanding efforts to make Covid-19 shots more available to people in poorer nations.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Crisis: Bangladesh has shown humanity, solidarity
Bangladesh has taken a huge responsibility by hosting almost one million Rohingya refugees in the largest refugee camp in the world, said the UN Refugee Agency, calling on the international community to support Bangladesh and share its burden.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
4,510 illegally migrated to 4 EU countries
At least 4,510 Bangladeshis illegally reached Italy, Malta, Spain and Greece by sea and land last year.
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
All postponed polls scheduled for June 21
The Election Commission will hold all postponed elections, including the by-polls to Laxmipur-2 constituency, the first phase of union parishad, and the sixth phase of municipality polls, on June 21.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We’ll be affected massively’
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh expects the UK to promote the interests and priorities of climate vulnerable countries in international platforms.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
WHO narrows in on Indian variant
The WHO said Tuesday that one strain of a Covid-19 variant first detected in India was now considered “of concern” and had been dubbed “Delta”, while two other strains had been downgraded.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Haris dropped from police wanted list
The name of Haris Ahmed, younger brother of army chief Gen Aziz Ahmed, has been removed from the list of “wanted person” in the police website following his application in March.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Rape at MC College: Principal, super negligent
Negligence of Sylhet’s Murari Chand College’s principal and hostel superintendent “crumbled” the right to life and personal liberty of the woman raped on campus, the High Court observed yesterday, directing that they be suspended.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Human Trafficking: 3 victims share tales of horror
After being held captive by a sex trafficking gang in India’s Bengaluru for 77 days, three victims who managed to flee and return home told police of their ordeal and informed that many others are still being held by the racket.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
NID Services at Home: Move ‘suicidal and irrational’
The shifting of services related to National Identity (NID) cards from the Election Commission to the Ministry of Home Affairs means the nail in the coffin for the election system, said Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
East Pakistan will eventually become independent: Kissinger
A conversation was held on June 3, 1971 between US Ambassador to India Kenneth Keating, Assistant to the US President Henry Kissinger and NSC staff Harold Saunders about the situation of East Pakistan.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Migrants Heading to Oman, Kuwait: 25,000 heave sigh of relief
Uncertainty over the return of around 25,000 Bangladeshi expatriates to work in Oman and Kuwait is over as Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has lifted its restriction on travel to Oman, and Kuwait is allowing domestic workers to fly to that country.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM