Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
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22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Sohan captain for Zim T20Is
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Lanka troops raid main protest camp
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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2 Covid patients die; positivity rate 8.36
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Health
25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Lawmaker stages demo in House demanding dam
Ruling Awami League MP SM Shahjada yesterday wrote “no more demands; don’t want relief, just a dam” on a placard and hung it from his neck inside the House chamber in the hope that he would be heard.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Boro Farming in Barind: Hope lost in debt woes
The yield was good, the weather was favourable for harvesting Boro paddy and the prices too were acceptable, if not fair, to farmers.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
US tops 600,000 Covid deaths
The US death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 600,000 on Tuesday, although officials hailed progress towards a return to normality as its world-leading vaccination program promised to turn the page on one of the worst health crises in American history.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Swatilekha Sengupta passes away
Noted actor Swatilekha Sengupta passed away at a hospital in Kolkata yesterday after a long battle with kidney ailments.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangavax Covid shots: BMRC moves to resume process for clinical trials
Bangladesh Medical Research Council has sought documents of the homegrown Bangavax Covid-19 vaccine to further proceed towards allowing its clinical trial.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Crisis: UNSC efforts fall short of concrete actions
Bangladesh has urged the UN Security Council to take urgent measures to resolve the crisis in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas can return to their homes safely and with security and dignity.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Missing Preacher: Wife asks him to be returned immediately
The wife of Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, a young Islamic preacher who remained missing for six days along with three others, again urged the authorities to take steps for their immediate safe return.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
UN urged to probe sharing of Rohingya data
The UN improperly collected and shared data from more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, passing it on to Myanmar, the country they fled, Human Rights Watch said yesterday, urging an investigation.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Cops arrest ex-Hefajat leader
Detectives yesterday arrested a former leader of Hefajat-e-Islam from the capital’s Jatrabari area over the Islamist outfit’s countrywide mayhem in March.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Plant at least three trees
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the people, including the leaders and workers of Awami League and its associated bodies, to plant at least three saplings to make Bangladesh a much greener country.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
150 migrants try to cross into Spain’s Melilla enclave
Around 150 migrants yesterday tried to cross into Spain’s Melilla enclave from neighbouring Morocco in an attempt which was thwarted but left nine police slightly injured, officials said.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh to host V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit
Bangladesh would host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
S Korea to give $700m in loans
South Korea has decided to provide development cooperation loans of $700 million to Bangladesh between 2021 and 2025.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Virus outpacing vaccine effort
The WHO warned that Covid-19 was moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7’s vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enough.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Grabbing Arable Land: HC orders judicial probe
The High Court yesterday ordered for a judicial inquiry into allegations of grabbing 60 acres of agricultural land at Muhuripara in Cox’s Bazar and converting its nature by earth filling.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Transmission too much for reopening schools
Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said there was no conducive atmosphere for reopening educational institutions as the Covid transmission rate was still high.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Indian foreign minister meets Nixon
Indian Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh carried to US President Richard Nixon today an urgent plea for help to achieve a political settlement in East Pakistan and enable the return of six million Bangladeshi refugees to their homes.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Devouring Jamuna: Despair is all they feel
After the Jamuna river eroded the banks on which his ancestral home stood in Shahzadpur upazila’s Koizuri village a few years ago, Md Shawkat Ali shifted his residence further inland into Koizuri union.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Errant hajj agencies to face music
The Hajj and Umrah Management Bill 2021 was passed in parliament yesterday aiming to ensure the smooth performing of hajj and umrah and remove irregularities and mismanagement in the sector.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Booters lose 3-0 against Oman
Bangladesh suffered a 3-0 defeat against Oman in the last game of the second round of Joint Qualifiers for the World Cup and Asian Cup in Doha last night.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM