Online News Portals: Exclusion of leading dailies from list surprising

The Editors’ Council yesterday expressed surprise over the exclusion of leading newspapers from the government list of online news portals.
24 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Journo Kajol denied bail yet again

A Dhaka court yesterday again refused to grant bail to photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
24 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Ailing Kajol stuck in jail hospital

Not knowing how ill is his father and whether or not he is receiving proper medical care are now Monorom Polok’s biggest fears.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Mother, son, daughters beaten up, humiliated

Five people, including three women, have been tortured in broad daylight following a “cattle theft” incident at Harbang union in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakoria.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Return of normalcy their only hope

At least 78,043 Bangladeshi workers returned home from 26 countries since April amid the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, according to statistics of the expatriates’ welfare ministry.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Govt moves to normalise bus service

Although the number of new infections and deaths from Covid-19 are still on the rise, authorities concerned have undertaken moves to normalise operations of public transport.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Pradeep made fortune, wife washed dirt off it

When he was the officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, Pradeep Kumar Das used to make money from bribes and corruption.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Zia ‘involved in Bangabandhu killing’: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her allegations that Khaleda Zia was involved in the August 21, 2004, grenade attack as her husband Ziaur Rahman was behind the August 15, 1975 killings.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Rangunia Forest: Plundered by illegal loggers

People living near Chiria Reserve Forest are sometimes woken up at night by the sound of trespassers felling trees on the hills.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Ruthless Bayern crowned Europe’s kings

Bayern Munich made Champions League history by winning the final 1-0, courtesy of Kingsley Coman’s 59th-minute strike, against Paris Saint-Germain at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon yesterday.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Pandemic may be over in two years

The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization said, as the number of deaths from the disease surpassed 800,000 around the world yesterday.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Rab trying to frame’ trader

The family of a businessman has accused a Rab team of arresting him in a false arms case because of his rivalry with a business partner in Anwara upazila of Chattogram.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Sultan of swindle

He created some businesses that exist only on papers, took loans from one non-banking financial institution and used the money to buy shares of another to gain control of the latter.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

8 killed in Mymensingh road crashes

Eight people, including four of a family, were killed and five others injured in two road crashes in Mymensingh yesterday morning.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Rayhan returns, head held high

He faced tough times for speaking out against Malaysia’s mistreatment of migrants
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Import of 20 products drop by a quarter

Import of 20 items dropped by 25 percent in the fiscal year 2019-20 compared to the previous fiscal year, shows customs and NBR data.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Only 4pc of over 1 lakh patients now in hospital

Only four percent of active Covid-19 cases are undergoing treatment at hospitals while the rest are taking treatment at home, says the Directorate General of Health Services.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Stand beside newspaper industry

Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh has urged the government to firmly stand beside the newspaper industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Gas crisis hits parts of Dhaka

A disruption due to bad weather in the gas supply in the Liquefied Natural Gas terminal in Moheshkhali has led to a severe gas crisis in the capital over the last week.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Sinha Killing Probe: 3 cops taken to the spot to reenact scene

Officer-in-Charge Pradeep Kumar Das in handcuffs -- this is not a sight that the villagers of Shamlapur in Teknaf thought they’d ever see in their lifetimes.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM