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
Bangabandhu’s cable to ICRC president
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman urges the president of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Geneva to urgently take up the issue of stranded Bangalees with the authorities in Islamabad to prevent their persecution and arrange their speedy repatriation to Bangladesh.
14 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Campaigns focus on swing states
President Donald Trump was set to travel to Pennsylvania yesterday for his second campaign rally since his bout with Covid-19, while Democratic rival Joe Biden is heading to Florida as the fight for the White House focuses on two of the biggest battleground states.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
US wants Bangladesh as partner
The US has intensified its engagements with Bangladesh to advance its Indo-Pacific Strategy amid the lowest point in decades of its relationship with China, which is expanding its global footprint.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Hilsa in Rivers: Production can increase by 10pc
Over half the hilsa eggs laid are likely to hatch this year due to favourable environment, researchers and officials said.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Save stranded Bangalees from persecution: Bangabandhu
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a communication to the United Nations Secretary General Dr Kurt Waldheim expresses grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating condition of the stranded Bangalees in Pakistan and seeks his good office’s support in securing their expeditious repatriation.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Sexual Violence: BLAST demands justice for its employee
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has demanded justice for its female employee who became a victim of sexual violence at a checkpoint on Teknaf-Cox’s Bazar road.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Noakhali Gang-Rape: Delwar sent to jail, Sumon on 4-day remand
A court in Noakhali yesterday sent Delwar, chief of Delwar Bahini, to jail in connection with the torture and gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
PBI takes over probe of Rayhan’s death
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) will now probe the case filed in connection with the torture of a man to death in police custody in Sylhet.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Civilians in Rakhine being attacked
Amnesty International has found new evidence of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Rakhine amid serious escalations in the ongoing armed conflict between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Over 3.8 lakh infected, new cases 1,537
Twenty-two people were reported dead from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Sinovac Vaccine: Govt won’t co-fund trial
The government will not co-fund a late-stage domestic trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, Health Minister Zahid Maleque told Reuters yesterday.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Unethical’
The World Health Organization chief warned Monday against just allowing the coronavirus to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying it was “unethical” as China rushed yesterday to test an entire city within days after a minor outbreak.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Trade partners’ failures cost Bangladesh dearly: TIB
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed grave concern over the failure of leading foreign trade partners of Bangladesh in taking steps on foreign bribery.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Man held for raping two sisters in Narayanganj
A woman was raped in Jashore on Monday, while a man was arrested early yesterday for allegedly raping two sisters in Narayanganj.
13 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Work on Auctions: US duo wins Nobel prize for economics
US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies, the Nobel Committee said.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-India flights to resume soon
Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka Vikram Doraiswami yesterday said he was hopeful about resuming air travel between Bangladesh and India “very quickly”.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
US Deputy Secy of State Biegun arrives tomorrow
The repatriation of Rohingya refugees, privileges for readymade garments export and investments in infrastructure will be the main issues that Bangladesh will raise during US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun’s visit beginning tomorrow.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Constituent Assembly passes rules of procedure
The Bangladesh Gono Parishad (Constituent Assembly) passes today the rules of procedure with some minor amendments.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
China to test city of 9m in five days
All nine million people in a major Chinese port city will be tested for Covid-19 following a tiny outbreak, health officials said yesterday, as surging infection numbers in Europe force another round of containment efforts.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Clearing Cable Chaos: ISPs, cable operators threaten shutdown
Internet service providers and cable operators yesterday threatened to shut down internet connectivity and cable televisions for three hours every day from October 18 if Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) did not stop removing hanging cables.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM