Crucial Boro Harvest: Labourers more available than last year

Farmers in many areas have started harvesting Boro paddy.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Asia’s Covid cases surge

India and Thailand reported record daily coronavirus cases yesterday, as a new wave of infections, combined with a shortage of hospital beds and vaccines, threatens to slow Asia’s recovery from the pandemic.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Hefajat’s Innocence Claim: Evidence contradicts

Although the top leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam repeatedly denied the organisation’s involvement in recent countrywide vandalism and violence, photographs and footages testify the opposite.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Khaleda with Covid: CT scan tells she is in good shape

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who tested positive for Covid-19 on April 10, was taken to the capital’s Evercare Hospital last night for a CT scan.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Joyless Pahela Baishakh, gloom at iftar tables

When last year the country faced for the first time a Pahela Baishakh indoors, or the first day of Ramadan without family and celebration, the new reality was adopted with much gusto.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Shamsuzzaman Khan laid to eternal rest

Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, president of Bangla Academy, passed away Wednesday afternoon with Covid-19 infection.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Bullets or Bread?’

The swearing-in of the cabinet members of the Bangladesh government-in-exile scheduled to take place on April 15, 1971 was postponed owing to the eruption of fighting in Kushtia.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Pre-Polls Violence: Clash kills one in Madaripur

A man was killed and five people were injured in a clash between supporters of two union parishad chairman candidates in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh defends Chakrir Khoj portal

The job portal -- “Chakrir Khoj” -- launched by the Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia is aimed at facilitating Malaysian government’s ongoing legalisation process and ensuring welfare of the migrants.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

AL supporters are ‘fake Muslims’

Former vice president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union Nurul Haque Nur has called the Awami League supporters as “fake Muslims”.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

100 special flights to take migrants to work

Around 100 special flights will be flown to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE, and Singapore over a week from tomorrow to take migrant workers to their workplaces.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Resume int’l flights, help migrants

Saying that around 20,000 to 25,000 expatriate workers will face uncertainty about reaching their workplaces abroad, Baira and Atab yesterday demanded to keep international flight operation out of the purview of weeklong lockdown begins from this morning.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Two decades gone by, yet no closure

Twenty years on from the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb blasts which killed ten people at Pahela Baishakh celebrations, justice is yet to be delivered to the family members of the victims as the appeals and death reference in connection with the carnage case are still pending with the High Court.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Shipbreaking yard foreman dies in Ctg

A foreman of a shipyard died after a piece of iron sheet fell on him in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on Monday.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

India fast-tracks approval for foreign vaccines

India yesterday said it will fast-track emergency approvals for Covid-19 vaccines that have been authorised by Western countries and Japan, paving the way for possible imports of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna shots.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Top Hefajat leader resigns

Maulana Abdullah Mohammad Hasan, a nayeb-e-ameer of Hefajat-e-Islam, has resigned from the Qawmi madrasa-based organisation, alleging that the Islamist group has turned into a platform that materialises personal agendas of some controversial Hefajat leaders.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

DNA report identifies a man as female

Sirajganj police in October 2019 had recovered the decomposed body in Sadar thana area.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh cabinet approves 7-point plan

The first cabinet meeting of the provincial government of Bangladesh today laid down a seven-point programme for smooth functioning of the administration as far as practicable under the prevailing situation.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Gaibandha Trader’s Death: Call for justice as locals form human chain

Business owners and general public in Gaibandha yesterday participated in a human chain protesting the death of a shoe store owner at the house of a now-suspended Awami League leader.
12 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Global peace more challenging amid pandemic: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said ensuring global peace has become far more challenging than in the past due to the pandemic.
12 April 2021, 18:00 PM