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
21 eminent personalities get Ekushey Padak
Twenty-one eminent personalities will get the country’s second highest civilian award, the Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
13 more die from Covid, 485 infected
Bangladesh recorded 13 coronavirus deaths and 485 fresh cases overnight.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Agri-Reform Protests: US urges India to resume talks with farmers
Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US embassy in New Delhi yesterday urged his government to resume talks with farmers angry over agricultural reforms that sparked a months-long protest campaign.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Digital Security Act: Man arrested over Facebook posts on PM, Quader
Police yesterday arrested a man in Birampur upazila after a case had been filed under Digital Security Act in connection with posting two “distorted” images of the prime minister and the Awami League general secretary on Facebook.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Man held for raping woman at gunpoint
Two men, including an assistant station master of Bangladesh Railway, were arrested between Wednesday night and yesterday morning in connection with separate rape incidents in Jashore and Rajshahi.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Nearly 11,000 Hong Kongers moved to Taiwan in 2020
Nearly 11,000 Hong Kongers moved to Taiwan in 2020 -- almost double the number of a year earlier -- after Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on the city.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Repatriation: Bangladesh has confidence in China
Bangladesh has confidence in China that it will continue to help repatriate Rohingyas, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
2 killed as makeshift lift falls
Two workers of a poultry farm in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila were killed as a locally made lift at the factory fell free from the sixth floor yesterday.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Trump Impeachment Trial: Trump lawyers, Democrats spar at pre-trial brief
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers said on Tuesday the US Senate lacks the authority to conduct his impeachment trial now that he has left office, while the Democratic lawmakers due to serve as prosecutors called him singularly responsible for the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Toxic Liquor: 4 homeopathy shop owners held after 13 die in Bogura
Police in Bogura yesterday arrested four homeopathy shop owners accused of selling toxic liquor that may have caused at least 13 deaths in the town since Saturday.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
5 sent to jail for rape in Gazipur
A court in Gazipur yesterday sent five youths to jail in connection with rape of an actress, while a man was sued for raping his sister-in-law in Narayanganj.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Worldwide Covid Vaccination: Weak co-op a major barrier
Covid-19 vaccine nationalism is harmful for all, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, and said weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Nusrat Murder: No offence in digging out info and publishing
Journalists have curious minds which dig out information and if they are given the scope to publish that information, they will surely do it since there is no element of offence in it, the High Court observed yesterday.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Positivity: Daily rate drops below 3 percent
The rate of daily positive coronavirus cases dropped to 2.92 percent yesterday, the lowest in more than nine months.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Deradicalisation Programme: Rab gets warm response on hotline
People looking for a window to shun the path of militancy have been calling a hotline number and writing to an email address the Rab has dedicated for its deradicalisation programme.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Avijit Murder: Prosecution seeks capital punishment for 6 accused
Prosecutors yesterday sought capital punishment for six men accused of killing blogger and writer Avijit Roy in February 2015.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Money Laundering: Punishment should be enhanced
A High Court bench yesterday observed that the punishment for money laundering should be enhanced from existing 12 years’ imprisonment to life imprisonment considering the gravity of the offence.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Australia’s ruling conservatives reckon with conspiracist MP
Australia’s conservative prime minister was forced to bring a vocal party lawmaker to task on Wednesday for spreading pandemic disinformation, after a string of comments that threatened to undermine public safety.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid ICU deaths have plunged, but progress may be stalling: study
Covid-19 treatments and improved hospital care have reduced death rates in intensive care by more than a third since the early months of the pandemic, but this progress might be stalling, according to research published yesterday.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
HK leader defends ‘ambush lockdown’ tactics
Hong Kong’s leader defended her administration’s use of “ambush lockdowns” yesterday after a spate of overnight operations to conduct surprise mandatory coronavirus tests uncovered no new cases.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM