FDA approves Eskayef facility

The US Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a facility of Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd, an achievement that would allow the company to enter the world’s largest drug market.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Classes cancelled due to wedding on school grounds

A wedding ceremony was held on a high school playground, and to make that happen authorities suspended the day’s academic activities yesterday in Barishal city.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Ensure equal inheritance for women

A women’s rights body yesterday demanded amendment of the existing family laws and enact a new one to ensure equal rights for women in inheritance and family property.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

HC issues contempt rule against CEC Awal

The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal for not registering Ganasamhati Andolon as a political party even though the court directed the Election Commission to do so almost three years ago.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

School closed to help students mourn

A general holiday was observed at Bijaypur Government Primary School in Cumilla yesterday, mourning the deaths of its students in a tragic train accident.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

A perennial woe to villagers

Hundreds of people of eight to ten villages have been suffering immensely due to low approach road of a bridge over a canal at Gotampur village in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM

HC directs NCC to protect playground, ponds in Narayanganj

The High Court today directed authorities concerned to protect and maintain the Udyan, playground, and three ponds on seven acres of land inside Chittaranjan Cotton Mill in Godnail area of Narayanganj City Corporation.
10 March 2022, 15:01 PM

Man tortures wife 22 years after marriage over dowry

A man reportedly physically and mentally abused his wife allegedly over dowry, 22 years after marriage, in Rangpur city, police said.
10 March 2022, 14:00 PM

Joy, Yasir included in BCB central contract for first time

Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Yasir Ali were included in the central contract list (from January to December 2022) for Test while Shakib Al Hasan, despite all the recent fuss regarding his future commitment with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), was kept in the central contract list for all formats.
10 March 2022, 13:27 PM

India’s assembly polls: BJP consolidating power with spectacular win

Breaking a 37-year-old jinx, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -- led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- was today poised to storm back to power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.
10 March 2022, 12:59 PM

High Court forms committee to control defamatory content on social media

The High Court today formed a high-powered committee to control defamatory content on social media platforms, including Facebook.
10 March 2022, 12:15 PM

Primary school teacher recruitment test in April

Recruitment tests for appointing 45,000 assistant teachers of government primary schools will be held in April.
10 March 2022, 11:41 AM

Chelsea sale halted

Britain's government halted a planned sale of soccer club Chelsea as well as the sale of players, new tickets and merchandise after it imposed sanctions on its owner, Roman Abramovich, but said the team will be able to play matches.
10 March 2022, 10:41 AM

City sail through to last eight after Sporting stalemate

Manchester City sailed through to the Champions League quarter-finals after they played out a 0-0 draw against Sporting in their last-16 second leg on Wednesday, progressing 5-0 on aggregate.
9 March 2022, 22:44 PM

Stunning Benzema hat-trick sends Real through to quarters

Real Madrid pulled off one of the great Champions League comebacks on Wednesday as Karim Benzema scored a breath-taking hat-trick to upstage Kylian Mbappe and dump Paris Saint-Germain out in the last 16.
9 March 2022, 21:51 PM

‘Why didn’t you come back too?’

As the 28 sailors came out of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s arrivals terminal one after the other, one pained cry stood out among the otherwise cheerful sounds of happy reunions.
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM

On train to Lviv

Now that he was alive and heading towards Lviv, the Ukrainian city near the border with Poland, it was some sort of a miracle for Rubaiyat Habib.
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Bangabandhu satellite-2: War casts uncertainty over timely launch

The timely launching of the country’s second satellite by a Russian company could face uncertainty amid sanctions imposed by the US and its allies to punish Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Matarbari plant: Japanese firm Sumitomo won’t bid for phase-2

Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation, a member of the consortium building the Matarbari coal-fired power plant under phase-1, has announced it will not participate in the second phase’s bidding process because of its revised policy on decarbonisation.
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM

2 injured in Ctg gas cylinder explosion

Two people sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded at the Steel Mill Bazaar area at Patenga in Chattogram tonight.
9 March 2022, 17:22 PM