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
The last of the Kharia speakers
Since her husband Abrahm Soreng died two years ago, 70-year-old Veronica Kerketa doesn’t get the chance to talk in her mother tongue at home. None of her children or grandchildren speak the Kharia language.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Huge scope for private sectors’
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said there is an enormous scope for private sectors of Bangladesh and Japan to engage in trade and investment for mutual benefit.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Govt working for recognition of skills certification: officials
The government is working to sign mutual recognition agreements (MRA) with different countries and regional bodies so Bangladeshi migrant workers’ skills certifications are accepted internationally, two officials said yesterday.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
1 killed in clash over sand trade
A man was killed and at least 20 others were injured in sporadic clashes over establishing supremacy and business rivalry between two groups in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Global Coronavirus Inoculation: Over 200m doses administered
More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
National Vaccination: Over 20.82 lakh gets the first jab
Some 1.5 percent of the target people have been inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines as 2,34,564 new people received the first jab yesterday.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Teen held for murder of stepmother, her 2 kids
Police arrested a 17-year old boy and sent him to jail on Friday for the murder of his stepmother and her two children in Sylhet Sadar upazila.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Councillor held for ‘forcing minor into prostitution’
A local court yesterday placed Gazipur City Corporation Councillor Roksana Ahmed Rozi on one-day remand in a case over forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Anti-coup Protests in Myanmar: 2 killed as cops open fire
Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second city Mandalay yesterday when police fired to disperse protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, emergency workers said, the bloodiest day in more than two weeks of demonstrations.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
JU students break into their dorms
Several hundred students of Jahangirnagar University broke open the locks to all 16 residential halls yesterday, a day after at least 35 students were injured in clashes with villagers just outside the campus.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Woman, 90, treks miles in snow to get vaccinated
A 90-year-old American woman trudged six miles in a foot of snow with two walking sticks to get her coronavirus vaccination.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden for deepening ties with Bangladesh
US President Joe Biden has welcomed the new Bangladesh ambassador to his country and expressed his government’s desire to advance common goals and deepen the strong and abiding friendship between the two countries.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
President, PM pay rich tributes to language heros
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the Language Movement heroes in the first minute of the day.
20 February 2021, 18:00 PM
US consults Japan, S Korea on N Korea review
The United States Thursday consulted jointly with South Korea and Japan, allies often at odds with each other, as President Joe Biden reviews how to move forward on North Korea.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Algeria’s president appeases protesters with pardons
Algerian President Abdelmadjid declared pardons for jailed anti-government activists and called early elections Thursday, as the crisis-hit country grapples with renewed protests on the second anniversary of a popular uprising.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Dr Sharif Ahmed passes away
Dr Sharif Ahmed, a dental surgeon, died at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 66, said a press release.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Man held over rape of teenager
Police yesterday arrested a man in Jashore for his alleged involvement in the rape of a teenage girl in the district’s Jhikargachha upazila.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
7 hurt as three-storey building topples
At least seven people were injured as a three-storey building, constructed on a pond without permission from the authorities, collapsed in Maddha Charail Playground area of Keraniganj yesterday.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
8 more die, 406 infected with Covid
Eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Drug dealer’ killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab
Rab officials said a drug dealer was shot dead early yesterday in a gunfight with officers in Shopnodhora area of Keraniganj, Dhaka.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM