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
Edible oil prices hiked again
The government increased prices of edible oil yesterday, less than a month after doing the same citing price hike in the international market.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Road to Freedom: This Day in Bangladesh Liberation War History
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman met President Yahya Khan this morning. He arrived at the President’s House in a car flying a black flag to mourn the death of those killed during the ongoing non-cooperation movement. It was an hourlong discussion.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Laxmipur By-Polls: AL nominee had close link with Papul
Several members of the Awami League Parliamentary Board have questioned its decision nominating Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayan, general secretary of Laxmipur district AL, for contesting the Laxmipur-2 by-election.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
China offers Bangladesh 1 lakh Covid shots
China yesterday offered to provide 100,000 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh for emergency use.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
NYC pays emotional tribute to more than 30,000 Covid deaths
New York, the US city most bereaved by the coronavirus, paid a moving tribute Sunday to its 30,258 dead, one year after the start of the pandemic.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Info ministry renamed
The Ministry of Information has been renamed as the “Ministry of Information and Broadcasting”.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Indo-Bangla Water Sharing: Secys start talks in Delhi today
Bangladesh and India hold the water-secretary level meeting in Delhi today ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh on March 26-27.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Vaccine can be taken while fasting
Muslims can receive Covid-19 vaccine shots during the fasting of Ramadan, said Islamic Foundation.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Coup in Myanmar: 11 more protesters killed
Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators yesterday, killing 11 people, media and witnesses said, a day after dozens of protesters were shot dead and attackers torched several Chinese-financed factories in the city of Yangon.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Violence in Noakhali: Badal sued in another case
Another case was filed yesterday in connection with the February 19 clash between two Awami League factions in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila, which left a local journalist dead.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
PK Halder’s Scams: Why ex-BB dy governor, ED not arrested yet
The High Court yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission why ex-deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank SK Sur Chowdhury and its Executive Director Shah Alam have not been arrested for helping PK Halder embezzle and launder a huge amount of public money from four non-banking financial institutions.
15 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Increasing capacity a big challenge
TDS: Jails are always found to be overcrowded. What steps are being taken to improve these conditions?
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia deploys giant space telescope in Lake Baikal
Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world’s biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Quader Mirza sued over violence, death
Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality and younger brother of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, was sued yesterday over the death of an auto-rickshaw driver in an incident of violence in Companiganj upazila.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
No student can be tortured, intimidated
The High Court yesterday observed that no student can be tortured, intimidated and pressurised physically or mentally as per an earlier directive of the court .
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
President Yahya arrives
President Yahya Khan arrived in Dhaka today. No local political leader went to the airport to meet him. All the entries of the airport were heavily guarded. Siddiq Salik, then public relations officer in the Pakistan army in Dhaka, recounts,
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
A decade of war in Syria killed over 388,000: monitor
The overall death toll for Syria’s civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said yesterday.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Protesters in Argentina attack bus carrying president
Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday as he visited an area devastated by forest fires, TV footage showed.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
PK Halder’s Scams: BFIU seeks bank info on ex-BB dy governor, 7 more
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit asked banks to provide detailed information of accounts and transactions of eight persons, including former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, current Executive Director Md Shah Alam and their spouses.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
US orders emergency agency to help with child migrant surge
The Biden administration ordered the government’s disaster emergency agency Saturday to help with a surge in migrant children crossing the southern border that has overwhelmed processing facilities.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM