Bera mayor ‘misbehaves’ with UNO

Bera Municipality Mayor Abdul Baten allegedly misbehaved with UNO Asif Anam Siddiquee during a meeting at the latter’s office yesterday over endorsing a proposal placed by the mayor.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM

HK leader postpones policy speech after Beijing summons

Hong Kong’s leader yesterday announced she had postponed a policy speech after being ordered to travel to mainland China for meetings with central government officials.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM

5 to die for killing minor girl after abduction

A Joypurhat court yesterday sentenced five people to death for killing a minor girl after her abduction around five years ago.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Man’s Death in ‘Custody’: Cops’ cooked up story falters

Four police personnel of Sylhet city’s Bandarbazar police outpost, where a man was allegedly tortured to death on Sunday night, were suspended and three others withdrawn yesterday due to their negligence in duties.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM

More than half of French nurses approaching burn-out: survey

More than half of French nurses are close to burning out, according to a survey of nearly 60,000 of them published on Sunday, which found they were struggling with cancelled holidays and increased work due to coronavirus.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM

NZ PM Ardern touts success in tackling pandemic in poll push

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday burnished her leadership credentials on the back of her successful response to the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally six days ahead of the country’s election on October 17.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

3 die, 11 hurt as bus-train collide

At least three people were killed and 11 more injured as a bus collided head-on with a mail train at Fatehpur level crossing on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Feni around 5:45am yesterday.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

24 more die, 1,193 infected

Twenty-four people died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

City Drainage Handover: Key meeting postponed as mayor, officials fall sick

A spate of illnesses among officials of the two city corporations, including the Dhaka North mayor, caused the LGRD ministry yesterday to postpone a meeting that would have paved the way to handing control of the city’s drainage management from Dhaka Wasa to the city corporations.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Padma bridge now as long as Bangabandhu bridge

Another span of the Padma bridge was installed yesterday, ending a four-month stalemate over installing spans due to flood situation and strong currents in the Padma.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Repatriation: Start delay concerns Beijing

Beijing is concerned over the delay in the start of Rohingya repatriation, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said yesterday during his call on Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Trump back to campaigning

Donald Trump is no longer a transmission risk for Covid-19, his doctor said late on Saturday, as the US president seeks to put his bout with coronavirus behind him and return to the campaign fray.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

India’s Covid cases top 7 million

India’s coronavirus caseload topped 7 million yesterday when the health ministry reported 74,383 new infections in the previous 24 hours, with a rise in infections in southern states offsetting a drop in western regions.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Nadal wins 13th French Open title

Spain’s Rafael Nadal demolished world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-0 6-2 7-5 in the French Open final to claim a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title on Sunday.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Constitution written in martyrs’ blood: Bangabandhu

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman maintains today that the Gono Parishad (Constituent Assembly) would soon present the country a constitution that would be “a beacon of light to the people”.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM

AL organising committee suggests constitutional amendments

The Awami League Organising Committee (ALOC) suggests some amendments to the draft constitution, mainly related to fundamental rights,
10 October 2020, 18:00 PM

EU commissioner tests positive for Covid-19

EU commissioner Mariya Gabriel has tested positive for Covid-19, she said yesterday, the first top Brussels official known to have caught the coronavirus.
10 October 2020, 18:00 PM

Tortured Rohingya boy dies in hospital

A 14-year-old Rohingya boy died of his wounds at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital early yesterday, four days after he was brutally beaten up inside a refugee camp and abducted by some Rohgingya criminals.
10 October 2020, 18:00 PM

World reels from Covid-19 2nd wave

New cases of Covid-19 in the United States hit a two-month high with over 58,000 infections as the number of cases surged in Europe yesterday, and breached 10 million in Latin America and the Caribbean.
10 October 2020, 18:00 PM

PBI officials visit gang-rape spot in Noakhali

Along with three accused, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) officials yesterday visited the spot in Noakhali where a woman was gang-raped last month.
10 October 2020, 18:00 PM