Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 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
Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
5 doctors sued
Five doctors of Tangail General Hospital’s gynecology department were sued on Thursday for leaving a piece of gauze inside a woman’s abdomen during her C-section.
7 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Hefajat Mayhem in Ctg: Fayezi, several others financed, organised it
Mowlana Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, was one of the financers of Chattogram mayhem, said police.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver: World powers back US plan
The United States threw its weight behind a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as the GAVI vaccine alliance urged Washington to help manufacturers transfer know-how to boost global production.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Methane Emission: Its reduction by 30pc can slow global warming
Industry could cheaply and easily slash humanity’s methane emissions by at least 30 percent in a decade, the United Nations said yesterday, adding that such cuts would slow global warming and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Country sees lowest daily Covid deaths in 39 days
Amid the declining trend in Covid-19 infections and fatalities after an alarming surge in April, Bangladesh registered 41 coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours until yesterday, pushing up the total fatalities to 11,796.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Hasina greets Mamata over polls victory
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee after she was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for a third straight term.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Road to Freedom: This Day in Bangladesh Liberation War History
US President Richard Nixon in a letter issued today to Pakistan President Yahya Khan expressed his concern over the loss of life and human suffering in East Pakistan. However, he sympathised with Yahya and said, “I understand the anguish you must have felt in making the difficult decisions you have faced.”
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Spread of Covid in rural India deepens crisis
Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of Covid-19 was about to peak were swept away yesterday as it posted record daily infections and deaths and as the virus spread from cities to villages across the world’s second-most populous nation.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa
A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Mamata takes centre stage
It may be too early to tell, but the signs seem promising for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Ex-bureaucrat’s appointment at public university irks teachers
The appointment of a former additional secretary as treasurer of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur has irked teachers of public universities.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Singer Anup Bhattacharya no more
Freedom fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Anup Bhattacharya passed away at a city hospital around 7:30pm yesterday. He was 77.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
UN says global midwife shortage putting lives at risk
The United Nations warned Wednesday that the world faces an acute shortage of midwives, saying millions of lives could be saved if the shortfall were addressed.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid may affect children big way
An Indian virologist has warned the third wave of Covid-19 is expected to affect children in the country in a big way between October and November and both the Central and state governments should be ready to handle the situation.
6 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Padma bridge deadline now June next year
The government approved a proposal to extend the deadline for the much-talked-about Padma bridge project to June 23, 2022.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Pak says 4 soldiers killed in ambush by Afghan militants along border
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and six others were wounded along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border yesterday in an ambush by militants from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military said, as the soldiers were doing controversial border fencing work.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
FBCCI’s office building had no design approval
The country’s apex trade body FBCCI has constructed a multi-storey building in Old Dhaka’s Hatkhola without an approved design and that’s why it could not use the high-rise for a long time.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Alarming’ malnutrition in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray: MSF
Doctors Without Borders yesterday described “alarming” malnutrition in parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region and said the situation was likely to worsen with the coming rainy season.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
US climate envoy Kerry says islands face ‘beyond existential’ threat
US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday island nations faced a situation “beyond existential” due to climate change, as he called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and coal plant financing.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Rayhan’s Death: Charges pressed against 5 cops, one youth
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed over the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM