Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
10 injured as BNP, police clash in Tangail
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Crime & Justice
Sohan captain for Zim T20Is
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Cricket
Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Lanka troops raid main protest camp
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
South Asia
BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
2 Covid patients die; positivity rate 8.36
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus
25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Accidents & Fires
Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Crime & Justice
Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Diplomacy
Top HK court upholds emergency protest mask ban
The Hong Kong government’s decision to use a colonial-era emergency law to ban face masks at protests last year was both proportionate and legal, the city’s top court ruled yesterday.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Vaccine Shipments: Interpol expects ‘dramatic’ jump in crime
Interpol chief Juergen Stock yesterday predicted a sharp rise in crimes with robbers seeking to get their hands on precious vaccines aimed at stopping the coronavirus pandemic.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kill journo in Afghanistan
Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni yesterday, the third reporter in the violence-plagued country to be killed in the last two months.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Mercury may rise
Day-to-day life in many districts is being hampered due to the bone-chilling cold and daily wage-earners are the ones suffering most.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
CMCH doc dies from Covid-19
A doctor of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in the port city early yesterday morning.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Sinha Murder Case: Court accepts charge sheet
A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday accepted the charge sheet in Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
32 more die, 1,470 get Covid-19
Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,312 with 32 more deaths in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Remittance Inflow: Holding on to surge is key
Stressing the importance of remittance in the country economy, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said Bangladesh needs to send more skilled workers abroad to hold on the surge in remittance inflow.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Ex-Ducsu VP Nur sued for ‘defaming government’
Former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur has been sued for “making derogatory remarks on the government and several government institutions”.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
2 hundi traders held with half million dollars
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel yesterday detained two hundi traders with half a million US dollars (Tk 4.40 crore) from Jashore’s Ulashi area.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Manzoor-e-Mawla no more
Poet and former director general of Bangla Academy Manzoor-e-Mawla died with Covid-19 at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 80.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Ice man’ sets new world record in freezing cabin
Frenchman Romain Vandendorpe on Saturday set a world record for sitting immersed in ice cubes for the longest time, enduring the extreme challenge to raise money for childhood cancers.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Friendship with India based on reality’
R.R. Cunninghame, high commissioner of New Zealand in Bangladesh, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Middlemen in Labour Migration: Invisible they cannot remain
The government is considering bringing informal grassroots service providers into the labour migration sector under a framework to tackle fraudulence.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Pro-AL Blue Panel wins Duta polls uncontested
The pro-Awami League teachers of Blue Panel of Dhaka University won the DU Teachers’ Association (Duta) polls without contest, as no other panel submitted nomination form by the stipulated time.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Eight dead in Philippine floods as thousands flee homes
Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the northeastern Philippines as heavy rain across the country left at least eight people dead, authorities said yesterday.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
German factory races to churn out Covid-19 syringes
The battle against Covid-19 has delivered not just a vaccine at record speed but also a spike in demand for the billions of syringes needed to administer it.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Country shivers as mercury stays low
Bitter cold coupled with fog has been disrupting people’s daily lives across the country.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Process on to buy modern fighter jets
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said process was on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden and Mexico leader discuss migration
US President-elect Joe Biden told Mexico’s president Saturday he was committed to addressing the root causes of poor Latino migrants crossing the border into America.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM