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 Variant: 3 more cases detected
Three more cases of the Indian Covid-19 variant have been detected at the Genome Centre of Jashore University of Science and Technology.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Graft case for South Africa’s Zuma delayed to May 26
The start of the corruption trial of South Africa’s scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma, which was slated to start yesterday, has been postponed to May 26, a judge said.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Civilian killings in DR Congo blamed on notorious militia
At least 10 civilians were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s restive east this week, a local administrator and a rights group said, blaming the violence on the ADF militia.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
No one can distort history now: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she firmly believes that no one can erase the country’s real history now.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Babul sent to jail, refuses to confess
Former police superintendent Babul Akter was sent to jail yesterday on completion of his five-day remand period.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Crisis in India: Positive tests ominously high
World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan pointed to the “very high” national positivity rate in India, at about 20 percent of tests conducted, as a sign that there could be worse to come.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
New Covid cases double in two days
The amount of new daily Covid-19 cases has doubled in the past two days till yesterday as people started returning to the capital after Eid holidays, defying health safety guidelines.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
War criminal’s relatives assault Birangana
The family of Birangana Peara Begum in Sunamganj’s Shalla upazila filed a complaint on Sunday against an accused war criminal’s relative over humiliating her the previous day.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Income per capita increases to $2,227
Amid the general economic gloom caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s per capita gross national income jumped by more than 9 percent to $2,227 in the current fiscal year from $2,024 in 2019-20.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Pakistan seeks UN aid
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi warned Pakistan today that India “is fully prepared to fight if the situation is forced on us”.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Long working hours are a killer: WHO
Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Graft Probe Against VCs: UGC irked as ministry keeps mum
Over the last year and a half, the University Grants Commission had recommended taking action against at least four vice-chancellors of public universities upon investigation of their alleged corruption and irregularities.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
US looking into Bangladesh-made Covid shots
The US ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller yesterday said the US is exploring the possibilities of producing vaccines in Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
ASI held for raping woman quarantine
An assistant sub-inspector of police was arrested in Khulna yesterday for raping a woman while she was under institutional quarantine on her return from India.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Rohingya leader shot dead
Alleged robbers gunned down a Rohingya community leader at Lambersia refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday evening.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Violence in Middle East: Bangladesh urges UNSC to act
Bangladesh has urged the UN Security Council to take up the issue of violence and breach of security in the occupied land of Palestine and work for a durable solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Come back after 14 days
The health directorate requested those who had left Dhaka for Eid to return after 14 days.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Britain to treble tree planting by 2024 to fight climate change
Britain said it planned to treble tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of efforts to fight climate change.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM
India’s Covid-19 2nd wave ‘slows’
India reported a smaller rise in daily coronavirus infections for a third straight day yesterday, as the government said it was working to boost vaccine supplies to avert deaths beyond the pandemic toll of more than 270,000.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Heatwave to continue for a few days
A mild heat wave is sweeping Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barishal divisions, said Bangladesh Metrology Department.
16 May 2021, 18:00 PM