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
India’s Covid infections ebb
India’s official tally of daily infections of coronavirus fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks in the past 24 hours, offering hope that a devastating second wave is ebbing, but government leaders said shortages of vaccines were a big concern.
25 May 2021, 18:00 PM
College Girl’s Death: Cops to miss deadline for probe report
Investigators are unlikely to submit a probe report in the case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir over the death of a college girl at a Gulshan flat in the capital.
25 May 2021, 18:00 PM
200 hurt in Malaysia train crash
More than 200 passengers were injured in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur yesterday when two metro trains collided in a tunnel, police said.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Party will ‘exist as long as people exist’
Detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said her ousted party would “exist as long as the people exist” during her first in-person court appearance since a February coup, her lawyer told AFP yesterday.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Genocide against Rohingyas not abating
The genocide against the Rohingyas shows no sign of abating in Myanmar, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said in a new briefing yesterday.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Shahinuddin Murder: Prime accused confesses, implicates ex-MP Awal
Sumon Bepari, prime accused in the Shahinuddin murder case, confessed to a magistrate yesterday that he hired 12 other goons to kill the trader at the direction of former lawmaker MA Awal.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Meghalaya border shelled
On May 25, Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra was shifted to Calcutta where it started functioning the same day.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Japanese premium melons go for $24,800
In what might be the unlikeliest indicator of a post-pandemic recovery, a pair of premium Japanese melons have sold for $24,800 at auction, over 22 times more than last year’s virus-hit price.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Nazrul’s 122nd birthday today
The 122nd birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed today in the country in a befitting manner.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Minimising Climate Vulnerabilities: Hasina seeks Commonwealth’s attention
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the Commonwealth to play its crucial role in eradicating poverty and minimising climate vulnerabilities of the underprivileged people.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
CTTC arrests Hamza in Kushtia for spreading extremism
Mufti Amir Hamza, a prominent speaker on Islam, was arrested yesterday evening in connection with “misinterpreting the religion and spreading extremism at waz mahfils (religious programmes)”.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Rozina has more tests done
Journalist Rozina Islam has underwent further medical check-ups at a private hospital yesterday.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Poet Sirajee passes away
Director General of Bangla Academy Poet Habibullah Sirajee passed away last night.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Turkey detains top IS suspect wanted by US
Turkish intelligence officers have arrested an Egyptian-born terror suspect wanted by Washington who was a top explosives expert for the Islamic State group, state media reported yesterday.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
UNGA president arrives today
UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkır arrives on a two-day visit to Bangladesh at the invitation of the government today.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Cyclone threatens Chalanbeel farmers
Farmer Kazem Pramanik of Pabna’s Chatmohar, who cultivated two bighas of Boro paddy last year, could not harvest most of the crops as they were damaged by cyclone Amphan and early floods.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Former aide says UK’s Johnson lied over Covid response
Ahead of a much-anticipated hearing into Britain’s coronavirus response, former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of lying about pursuing a strategy of herd immunity when the pandemic first hit.
23 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Mitu Murder: Handwriting experts called into service
PBI officials probing the Mitu murder case will send the two books, seized from her husband and ex-police official Babul Akter as “evidence of his extramarital affairs”, to the CID for forensic examination.
23 May 2021, 18:00 PM
India Covid Variant: Pfizer, Astra jabs highly effective
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines have been found to be highly effective against the coronavirus variant that was first identified in India, according to a study by Public Health England (PHE).
23 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Shahinuddin Murder: Another suspect killed in ‘gunfight’
Another accused in Shahinuddin murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in the capital’s Pallabi area early yesterday.
23 May 2021, 18:00 PM