Rail staff held for raping teen on train

A physically challenged teenager was raped in a moving train allegedly by a staff of Bangladesh Railways in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila Friday night.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Virus relief tax takes effect in Argentina

A one-off tax on Argentina’s richest people to help pay for medical supplies and relief for small businesses battered by the global coronavirus pandemic entered into force on Friday.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Lowest daily Covid cases in 9 months

The health authorities confirmed 17 more new coronavirus-related deaths and 363 new cases in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Municipality Polls 3rd Phase: Marred again by violence, irregularities

Elections to 62 municipalities in 36 districts ended yesterday amid reports of clashes, stuffing of ballot boxes and driving polling agents out of voting centres.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

MP Papul’s Conviction: Sad, shameful

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the conviction of lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul is a matter of sadness and shame for the country.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

UAE says will cooperate with UN, US on Libya conflict

The United Arab Emirates, accused this week by the United States of military intervention in Libya’s protracted civil war, issued a statement Friday stating its readiness to work “closely” with the new US administration for a peaceful solution to the conflict.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Navalny brother, aides under house arrest ahead of Russia protests

The brother and aides of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were placed under house arrest on Friday ahead of new rallies, as Russian authorities warned that protesters could face charges of taking part in “mass unrest”.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

US Capitol police officer who died after riot to lie in honor

The US Capitol police officer who died after being injured in the January 6 attack by pro-Trump rioters will lie in honor at the building’s Rotunda, lawmakers said Friday, a mark of respect rarely bestowed.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Car bomb kills 5 in pro-Turkey north Syria

A car bomb in the Turkish-controlled region of Afrin in northern Syria yesterday killed five people including a child, a British-based war monitor said.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Don’t repeat ‘bad history’

Rich countries squabbling over Covid-19 vaccine supplies must consider the situation in poorer parts of the world, WHO said, as the EU backtracked on a threat to restrict exports of shots to Northern Ireland in its growing row with Britain.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Bomb police station, frame lawyer’

Jeshore-6 MP Shaheen Chaklader is facing criticisms after a leaked phone conversation revealed that he asked a police officer to bomb a police station and frame a lawyer for it.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Covid strands 1,000 Cuban, Haitian migrants in Colombia

The closing of Panama’s border due to Covid has stranded a thousand migrants -- most from Haiti and Cuba -- in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across on their way to the United States, officials said Thursday.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Covid Deaths: Country sees lowest daily death toll in nine months

Bangladesh yesterday recorded seven coronavirus deaths, the lowest daily count since early May.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Refugee Relocation to Bhasanchar: 1,776 more arrive with new hopes

Shafika and Jhunjhuni are inseparable. Fondly named after Shafika’s favourite toy from when she was a toddler, the Black Bengal follows Shafika everywhere.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Cops bust ‘weapon factory’ in port city

Police claimed to have busted a makeshift weapon-making factory on a building’s rooftop in Chattogram city’s Bangshal Para early yesterday.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Election today in 62 more municipalities

A total of 62 municipalities would go to polls today amid worries of violence.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

EU regulator okays AstraZeneca vaccine

Europe’s medicines regulator yesterday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people over the age of 18, as concerns grow around the world over the effectiveness of different jabs against new strains of Covid-19.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

India Farmers’ Protests: Fresh clashes raise tensions

Clashes erupted yesterday between hundreds of opponents and supporters of a major farmers protest that has disrupted the Indian capital for more than eight weeks.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Rare Botticelli portrait sells for record $92.2m

A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Duty Dodging at CTG Port: Tricks not so secret

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, four expatriates returned from Saudi Arabia by air on November 29 last year.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM