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
Utd Hospital Fire: Pay Tk 25 lakh each to families of 4 victims
The Supreme Court yesterday directed the United Hospital to pay Tk 25 lakh each in initial payment to the families of the four patients killed in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.
29 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Rare tombs from pre-Pharaonic era discovered in Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt’s Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.
29 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh at risk of famine
About four million people in south-central Bangladesh, ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave in November 1970, were facing starvation because the war had halted emergency food distribution, reported the Washington Post.
29 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-Induced Lockdown: RMG workers suffered 35pc pay cut last year
Bangladeshi workers in the readymade garments sector suffered a 35 percent pay cut during the lockdown period amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, which had adverse impacts on their rights to food, health, housing, and even life, says a new study.
29 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Mayhem During Modi Visit: Hefajat hardliner Harun arrested
Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the now-dissolved central committee of Hefazat-e-Islam, has been arrested over the violence during the Indian prime minister’s visit last month.
29 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Third gender family ‘forced’ to leave home
A third gender family filed a case against a group of village arbitrators who they claimed forced them to leave their inherited house at Charghatina village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
India’s virus toll tops 200,000
Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin next month as the country’s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 yesterday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Heavier inflow of refugees feared
A delegation headed by Labour MP John Stonehouse and top officials of War on Want, Christian Aid and Oxfam, called on Sir Alec Douglas Home, British foreign secretary, and told him that Britain should do something so that international relief work could be started in Bangladesh.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Govt starts procurement of paddy
The government started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 27 per kg from yesterday.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Incoming Passengers’ Quarantine: Govt makes it must for all
Considering the global situation and following the advice of public health experts, the government has made quarantine mandatory for all passengers from abroad.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Erfan Salim walks out of jail
Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, walked out of jail yesterday after around six months.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Apollo 11’s Mike Collins passes away
American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died yesterday after battling cancer, his family said.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Two garment worker raped in Sunamganj
Two garment workers were raped while they were trying to get back to Dhaka from their village home in Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila on Monday.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
EU adopts strategy on sending irregular migrants back
The EU is looking to plug a big gap in migration policy by boosting measures to have irregular migrants voluntarily returned to their countries under a strategy adopted on Tuesday.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Hong Kong passes immigration bill with ‘exit ban’ powers
Hong Kong yesterday passed a new immigration law that includes powers to stop people entering or leaving the city, raising fears Chinese mainland-style “exit bans” could be deployed in the international business hub.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
77 deaths, 2,955 new Covid cases in 24 hours
Bangladesh yesterday reported 77 more coronavirus-related deaths and 2,955 new cases as the country grapples with the second wave of the virus.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Tk 1604cr purchase proposals okayed
The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase yesterday approved five proposals for procuring services involving Tk 1604.76 crore.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
8th Phase West Bengal Polls: 3-way battle amid Covid cases surge
It is expected to be a three-way battle as the 8th and final phase of the West Bengal assembly polls takes place today amid a massive surge of Covid-19 cases in India.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Tackling Covid-19: China keen on working with Bangladesh
Chinese Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe yesterday said his country was keen to extend cooperation to Bangladesh in tackling the Covid-19 outbreak.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM
500 Venezuelan healthcare workers have died during pandemic: NGO
More than 500 health workers have died in Venezuela since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a nongovernmental organization said Monday.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM