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
Case Against Nixon: Section 144 imposed in Faridpur
The local administration yesterday imposed a one-day ban on holding any public gathering in Faridpur’s Sadarpur upazila town.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘The Covid Election’: Ardern scores landslide win in New Zealand
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victory in New Zealand’s general election yesterday, leveraging success battling Covid-19 into an unprecedented majority she said gave her a mandate for progressive reform.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Housewife gang-raped in Patuakhali
A housewife was gang-raped, allegedly by three people, in a remote char area under Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali on Friday night.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Police hold anti-rape rallies across the country
Police yesterday held countrywide rallies against rape and all sorts of violence against women in a bid to create public awareness.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Telescopes capture black hole devouring star
Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our sun, releasing images that show the devastating process in unprecedented details.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump, Biden spar over virus response
President Donald Trump delivered a combative defense on Thursday of his Covid-19 response while election challenger Joe Biden -- offering a glaring contrast in style in a rival town hall -- accused him of doing “nothing” to end the pandemic.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
College girl gang-raped in Gazipur
A college student was gang-raped in Gazipur on Thursday evening and a 10-year-old girl was raped in Khulna on Wednesday.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Scientists throw lifeline to world’s rarest primate
Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China’s coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Over 3 lakh recovered from Covid
One thousand five hundred and nine people recovered from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, taking the total number of recovery cases to 300,738.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Back from the dead
A newborn girl, declared dead by a doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday, was found alive hours later, just before she was about to be buried at a city graveyard.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
While in coma, army official promoted on retirement day
On the day Lt Col Dewan Mohammad Tasawwar Raja, who has been in a coma for more than seven years, was supposed to retire, he was instead promoted to colonel.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Tea in, tobacco out
Tea is fast replacing tobacco in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari as favourable weather and soil conditions along with a ready market next door mean large profits for farmers.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh enters UN as observer
Bangladesh has become a permanent observer of the United Nations, informs a spokesman for UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Fashion brands accused of exploiting workers at risk of layoffs
Millions of garment workers could lose their jobs as global brands are demanding price cuts and delaying payments to suppliers who are desperate for orders to survive the new coronavirus pandemic, US researchers said yesterday.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Philippines lifts ban on oil, gas exploration in South China Sea
The Philippines has lifted a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the disputed South China Sea, which the government said yesterday could fast-track talks with Beijing on a joint energy project.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Rape, Sexual Assault: Protesters begin long march to Noakhali
Anti-rape protesters started their long-march programme from Dhaka to Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women across the country in recent times and the culture of impunity.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid patients have to spend Tk 12,000 each for medicine
A study conducted by Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) reported that coronavirus patients spent Tk 12,000 each on average as medicine cost.
15 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Take measures to prevent rape
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the administration to take extensive measures against rape and raise public awareness against such incidents in society.
15 October 2020, 18:00 PM
EU sanctions senior Putin aides over Navalny, Libya
The EU yesterday sanctioned senior aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin, including the man known as his chef, over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny and Kremlin meddling in Libya’s civil war.
15 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump can’t count on last-minute deciders
Four years ago, US President Donald Trump rode a wave of late-deciding voters to a shocking election victory. But those voters are unlikely to rescue him again, new Reuters/Ipsos polling shows.
15 October 2020, 18:00 PM