BNP Rally in Khulna: Curbed by cops, transport strike

Due to law enforcers’ obstructions and a 24-hour transport strike, the BNP rally in Khulna was held on a limited scale yesterday.
27 February 2021, 18:00 PM

School girl raped in Jashore

Police in Jashore are looking for a man accused of raping a school girl on Friday.
27 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Back words with action

The WHO has urged the UN Security Council to back up its call for increased vaccine supply to poorer nations with concrete action to ensure production gets ramped up.
27 February 2021, 18:00 PM

11 more die, 470 get Covid

Bangladesh’s novel coronavirus caseload climbed to 545,424 yesterday after the health authorities detected 470 new cases in 24 hours till the morning.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Rejoinder, our reply

Zahirul Islam, managing director of Lama Rubber Industries Limited, in a rejoinder claimed that the news report on the grabbing of indigenous Mro people’s jhum land carried by this paper on February 13 was “completely one sided, fake and very harmful” for its shareholders.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Grabbing, Filling Bhadra, Hori Rivers: HC orders status quo

The High Court has ordered the authorities to maintain status quo on land grabbing, earth filling and operating brick kilns on the land of the Bhadra and Hori rivers in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila for three months.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Cop arrested, sent to jail for raping teen

A police constable landed in jail yesterday on charge of raping a teenaged girl in Feni’s Fulgaji.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Indian coast guard finds 81 Rohingyas adrift at sea

India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said yesterday.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Coup in Myanmar: Cops fire to break up protests

Police dispersed protesters in Myanmar’s two biggest cities yesterday, firing stun grenades, rubber bullets and guns into the air, witnesses said, as the challenge to the army’s bid to re-impose its rule showed no sign of slackening.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

UK SC rejects Shamima’s legal bid to return

Britain’s highest court yesterday rejected a bid by a woman who was stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State group to return to challenge the decision.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Driverless bus hits streets in southern Spain

A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, in a project presented as a first in Europe.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Empty-handed they returned

Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home from Libya on Wednesday went through severe hardship as their livelihoods were hampered due to economic uncertainty and deterioration of law and order.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Remains of old bridge narrowing Sari river

The road that connects Bangladesh’s Sylhet to Indian’s Shillong through Jaintapur-Tamabil was constructed in 1932.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Boeing 777 makes emergency landing in Moscow after engine trouble

A Boeing 777 airliner yesterday made an emergency landing in Moscow with engine problems, the operating airline said, days after another model rained down engine debris over the United States.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

France to extend lifetime of old nuclear power plants

French safety officials yesterday gave the green light to extend the lifetime of the country’s oldest of nuclear power plants as it seeks to boost the share of renewables in its power mix.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM

AL man beaten to death in Ctg

An Awami League (AL) leader was beaten to death at his in-law’s place at Tayarpur village in Satkania upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Probe, arrest, try killers of journo Muzakkir

Family members of a journalist who was killed during a clash in Noakhali’s Companyganj upazila on February 19 have demanded trial of the killers.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Dhaka-NJP train service to start on March 26

A new passenger train between Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri (NJP) of India’s West Bengal state will start its service on March 26 as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Five die, 410 get infected with Covid

Five more Covid-19-related deaths and 410 new cases were reported in the country in 24 hours till yesterday morning.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Follow Covid guidelines after shots: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to the people to strictly maintain the health protection guidelines even after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM