Covid-19 vaccine to be free in India's West Bengal: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said her government is making arrangements for providing Covid-19 vaccines free of cost to all the people of the state.
10 January 2021, 11:15 AM

Rape at MC College hostel: hearing on charge sheet deferred again

A tribunal in Sylhet today again deferred the hearing on charge sheet of a case filed for gang-rape at Murari Chand College hostel in Sylhet on September 25 last year.
10 January 2021, 10:03 AM

Covid-19: 25 die, 1,071 infected, 737 recover in 24 hours

Twenty-five people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
10 January 2021, 10:00 AM

Video released marking Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day

A short video was released today paying tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his historic Homecoming Day.
10 January 2021, 09:43 AM

Kakrail double murder: Court to deliver verdict on January 17

A Dhaka court today set January 17 for delivery of the judgment in a case filed over the murders of Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka’s Kakrail area in 2017.
10 January 2021, 08:41 AM

Corruption allegations are Khokon’s ‘personal remark’, don’t hold any importance: Taposh

Referring to Sayeed Khokon’s claim yesterday that Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh is ineligible to hold the post, the latter today said it is Khokon’s personal comment, and does not hold any importance.
10 January 2021, 08:37 AM

Bangladeshi imprisoned for trafficking fellow countrymen into US via Mexico

A Bangladeshi man was sentenced to 46 months in prison followed by “three years of supervised release” for his role in trafficking Bangladeshis into the United States via Mexico.
10 January 2021, 08:08 AM

US, Canada, Britain, Australia condemn Hong Kong arrests of activists

Foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia condemned last week’s arrest of over 50 democracy activists in Hong Kong in a joint statement on Sunday, calling on China to respect the freedom of the people on the island.
10 January 2021, 07:49 AM

Indonesia landslides kill 11, injure 18 in West Java

Landslides caused by heavy rain in western Indonesia killed 11 and injured 18, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) said on Sunday.
10 January 2021, 07:45 AM

Drive against illegal brick kilns on Turag river bank begins

The Department of Environment has launched a drive against illegal brick kilns on the banks of Turag river in Ashulia of Savar.
10 January 2021, 07:43 AM

Graft case: Samrat not produced at court due to illness; March 31 set for next hearing

A Dhaka court today could not take cognisance of charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore, as he was not produced before it due to illness.
10 January 2021, 07:42 AM

Missing Madaripur schoolgirl: decomposed body recovered after 11 months

Almost eleven months into the disappearance of a schoolgirl from MAdaripur, her decomposed body was recovered from a septic tank of East Bottola area under Baligram upazila of the district yesterday night, Detective Branch of police said.
10 January 2021, 07:34 AM

Rohingya man killed in gunfight between 2 groups in Cox’s Bazar: APBn

A man was killed and 10 others were injured in a gunfight between two groups of Rohingyas at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar early today.
10 January 2021, 07:07 AM

Deceiving job seekers: 4 arrested from Ashulia

Rab arrested four members of a fraud gang from Ashulia area on charge of deceiving job seekers with promise of employment in their name-only company.
10 January 2021, 06:18 AM

College student found dead in Habiganj

A college student was stabbed to death by unknown criminals in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj last night.
10 January 2021, 06:17 AM

New Zealand central bank says its data system was breached

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said on Sunday that it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems.
10 January 2021, 06:10 AM

40 BNP men sued for 'threatening to oust govt’

A case was filed against 40 leaders and activists of BNP for threatening to oust government through an armed movement.
10 January 2021, 05:35 AM

National power grid breakdown plunges Pakistan into darkness

A massive power breakdown plunged the entire Pakistan into darkness minutes before midnight on Saturday, Energy Minister Omar Ayub confirmed in a statement.
10 January 2021, 05:35 AM

Indonesia finds body parts, debris, detects emergency signal of crashed jet

Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.
10 January 2021, 04:05 AM

10 injured in AL factional clashes during Shariatpur municipality election campaign

At least ten people were injured as two factions of ruling Awami League clashed at the Swarnaghosh area of Shariatpur over a speech against drugs in an election campaign of Shariatpur municipality yesterday.
9 January 2021, 18:32 PM