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19 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Rubaiya Murshed’s ‘Nobody’s Children’: UPL publishes book on struggles of street children
2 July 2022, 13:13 PM
Culture
ACC looking into procurement anomalies at BR
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Dhaka Airport: Passenger leaves behind Saudi riyal worth Tk 6cr
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
70 died in political clashes this year
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
101st birthday of DU
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Youth
‘Enough with mere formalities’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
What steps taken for their birth certificates?
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
‘Corruption, anarchy the new norm’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Dengue cases shot up in June
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Health
Youth stabbed dead in Banani
A 19-year-old youth is stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Dhaka’s Banani area.
20 March 2020, 06:12 AM
Ensure journalist Kajol’s safe return
Demands for locating and ensuring the safe return of journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol continued yesterday, nine days after he went missing.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
406 more Bangladeshis return from Saudi Arabia
A special flight of Saudi Arabian Airlines yesterday brought back 406 Bangladeshis, who had been stranded in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf nation suspended air communication with different countries, including Bangladesh, to contain the spread of coronavirus.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Flouting Quarantine: 2 overseas returnees fined in Mymensingh
A mobile court in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh yesterday sent a recent overseas returnee to mandatory quarantine, and fined his wife.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Don’t bring prisoners to courts for trial
The Supreme Court administration has directed jail authorities not to produce under-trial prisoners before the lower courts during case proceedings till further order, as a precaution to coronavirus outbreak.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Zillur Rahman’s anniversary of death today
Today is the seventh death anniversary of former president Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
BNP demands postponement of six elections
BNP yesterday demanded postponement of elections to Chattogram City Corporation and five other by-polls, in light of the spread of novel coronavirus in the country.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
RMCH interns suspend work for four hours
Four hours after stopping work, demanding of personal protective equipment (PPE), interns at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) have joined back.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Govt inadequacy put countrymen at risk of coronavirus’
Physicians and public health experts yesterday said the government’s inadequate measures have put many countrymen at risk of getting infected by Covid-19, amid its global outbreak.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Testing kits in Ctg soon
The testing kits to detect novel coronavirus will arrive shortly in Chattogram, and Bangladesh Institution of Tropical Infectious Diseases (BITID) at Sitakunda upazila will be prepared to test the virus within 48 hours, said Divisional Commissioner of Chattogram ABM Azad yesterday.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Ashraf Siddiqui passes away
Dr Ashraf Siddiqui -- noted poet, folklorist and former director general of Bangla Academy -- passed away due to old-age complications at a hospital in the capital early yesterday.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Home quarantine cases quadruple in 3 days in Barishal
Number of individuals who are under home quarantine has increased more than four times from Tuesday to yesterday in Barishal division.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
CMP bans social events
Asking owners of hotels, clubs and community centres not to take any reservation, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday imposed a ban on social gatherings until further notice to prevent the risk of spreading coronavirus.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Ctg hospitals not ready
Although doctors, nurses and health workers at port city hospitals are ready to provide treatment to coronavirus-infected persons, the healthcare centres are not yet well equipped to handle such patients.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Returnees in polls campaign!
Relatives, activists and supporters of councillor candidates contesting in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election have been participating in campaigns, defying instruction of home quarantine imposed by government in a bid to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Pyramid-shaped stupa sheds new light on our rich past
For the first time, a group of archaeologists have unearthed a pyramid-shaped stupa in the country.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Vacate dorms by Friday evening
Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday asked its resident students to leave their dormitories by today [Friday] evening, amid fears of coronavirus outbreak in the country.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
IOM, Koica ink deal
International Organization for Migration yesterday signed an agreement with Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) to launch a five-year project on capacity building and awareness-raising to combat human trafficking in Bangladesh.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
DU Student Rape: Case transferred to special court
The case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on January 5 was transferred yesterday to the 7th Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression of Dhaka for its trial.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
icddr,b announces $400,000 grant for women scientists
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) will award grants worth USD 400,000 for women researchers and scientists, in commemoration of birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM