Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
Greece to regularise 15,000 undocumented Bangladeshis
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Diplomacy
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
Chakaria Sundarbans nears extinction as shrimp farming takes over
If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.
20 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Lights turning on in Payra region
Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, a coalition of 22 small islands in the Bay, did not have access to electricity just a year ago.
20 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Mutilated body of child found in Bagerhat
Police yesterday recovered the body of a toddler from a field in Morrelganj, Bagerhat.
20 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Stabbed by stalker, teen dies
An 18-year-old madrasa student died in a private hospital in the capital yesterday, just over two days after she was stabbed by her stalker in Shariatpur.
20 March 2022, 18:00 PM
India-Bangladesh train services may resume next month
An inter-ministerial meeting ended yesterday without fixing any date for resuming the operation of trains between Bangladesh and India amid expectations that the service would resume soon.
20 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say
Russia is using the UN Security Council to spread disinformation and propaganda about its invasion of Ukraine, six Western members states said Friday.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Ukraine releases 2 Bangladeshi detainees
The Ukrainian authorities yesterday released two remaining Bangladeshis from a detention centre.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-US dialogue: Dhaka’s priority sanction withdrawal
Bangladesh and the US are going to hold a crucial dialogue in Dhaka today that will help determine the next course of relations between the two nations.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
4 held over provoking man to die by suicide
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested four members of a family in Savar’s Hemayetpur area on Friday evening in a case over provoking a youth named Firoz to die by suicide.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Cyclone brewing in the Bay
It will be a rare instance of a cyclone hitting the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar in March if the low-pressure system brewing in the Bay of Bengal develops into a cyclone -- “Asani”.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
One drown, 2 missing after Holi celebrations
A schoolboy drowned and two others went missing after they went to bathe in the Jamuna and Fuljor rivers in Sirajganj on Friday.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Amir Hamza loses his Swadhinata Padak
The government has scrapped Amir Hamza’s name from the list of Swadhinata Padak winners in 2022.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Finland world’s happiest nation
Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
It’s time to meet, talk
Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow, while Russia admitted using advanced hypersonic missiles for the first time in the conflict.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Tonu murder: Hope for justice fading
The family of Sohagi Jahan Tonu is losing hope that her brutal murder would be solved anytime soon as the killers are still at large six years on.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
TCB’s mega sale begins today
The countrywide mega sale of edible oil, lentil and sugar to one crore families begins today as the government looks to ensure the basic commodities for the poor amid their skyrocketing prices ahead of Ramadan.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
How to prevent osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. The word means “porous bone”. It weakens your bones and makes them more prone to fractures.
17 March 2022, 18:00 PM
‘The mother, not Napa syrup, killed the boys’
It wasn’t the Napa syrup that killed the two children at Durgapur village, after all. It was their mother who had poisoned them so that she could marry her boyfriend.
17 March 2022, 18:00 PM
18 Teknaf fishermen still missing
Eighteen fishermen, who went missing from the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Tuesday, remained traceless till last night.
17 March 2022, 18:00 PM
BNP to wrap up councils by year-end
With the national election in mind, BNP has intensified its efforts to complete the district councils as soon as possible and beef up the party’s organisational strength.
17 March 2022, 18:00 PM