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Mirza Abbas gets bail in 6 cases

02:22 PM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

A Dhaka court has granted bail to BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas in six separate cases. Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sultan Sohag Uddin on Monday passed the order after a hearing.

10 killed in attack on police station in Pakistan

02:09 PM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

At least 10 police personnel were killed and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack on Monday by militants on a police station in northwest Pakistan, police said, as violence escalated ahead of general elections this week.

10 get death penalty in Subarnachar gang rape case

01:16 PM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

A Noakhali court has sentenced ten people to death and six others to life-term imprisonment in a case filed over the gang rape of a woman in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali in 2019. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Judge Fatema Ferdous passed the order on Monday.

PRAN group manager attacked in Natore

12:49 PM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

An official of the country’s largest food-beverage company PRAN was critically injured in an attack by the miscreants at Kafuria area in Natore on Saturday morning.

South African President greets PM on her reelection

11:43 AM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her reelection as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Forest fires kill 112 in Chile’s worst disaster since 2010 earthquake

11:32 AM, 05 Feb 2024 Monday

Firefighters in central Chile on Sunday battled to quell fierce forest fires that have killed 112 people so far and razed entire neighborhoods, while President Gabriel Boric warned the country faces a "tragedy of very great magnitude".

Six educational institutions shut along Ghumdhum border

10:02 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Bandarban district administration has directed six educational institutions in Naikhongchhari upazila to close for an indefinite period amid firing inside Myanmar territory along the Ghumdhum-Tumbru border...

Facebook turns 20: How the social media giant grew to 3 billion users

09:22 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

In 2004, as broadband was replacing dial-up internet and mobile phones with colour screens were gaining popularity, on February 4, a social network, named “TheFacebook”, was launched by 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates at Harvard University...

PRAN-RFL looking for Sales Manager in Canada

08:52 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

PRAN-RFL Group, a distinguished conglomerate in Bangladesh since 1981, has been a pioneer in diverse sectors...

58 Myanmar border guards take refuge in Bangladesh

08:08 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

At least 58 members of Myanmar's paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) on Sunday took refuge in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebels in the junta-run country...

BCL leader remanded over housewife gang rape at JU

06:57 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Four people, including a leader of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), have been put on a three-day remand in a case over the gang rape of a housewife on the campus. They are Mostafizur Rahman, international affairs secretary of JU unit BCL, and students Sabbir Hasan, Sagor Siddique, and Hasanuzzaman...

Govt has no plan to arrest Dr Yunus unnecessarily: Anisul

05:08 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said the government has no plan to arrest or send to jail Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus unnecessarily...

Ivory Coast net 122nd-minute winner to reach semis

04:18 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Host nation Ivory Coast produced another amazing Africa Cup of Nations escape act as Oumar Diakite's 122nd-minute winner sent the 10-man Elephants into the semi-finals at heartbroken Mali's expense...

12 kg LPG price hiked by Tk 41

03:38 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission has increased the prices of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) by Tk 41 to Tk 1,474 per 12 kg cylinder. The new prices will come into effect from 6 pm on Sunday (February 4)...

Bangladesh, US to work for combating climate change: Saber

02:44 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on Sunday said Bangladesh and the United States (US) will work together to protect the environment and fight climate change.

14 Myanmar BGP members take shelter at BGB camp in Bandarban

02:14 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

A total of fourteen members of the Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar have fled and taken refuge in Bangladesh after being attacked by the insurgent group Arakan Army.

Bangladeshi injured in firing from Myanmar

12:54 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

A Bangladeshi man was killed by firing from Myanmar side of the border at Tombru area in Naikhongchhari of Bandarban on Sunday morning. The injured is Prabir Dhar, 58, son of Judhistir Dhar of Tmobru camp area.

4 more devotees die at Ijtema venue

12:19 PM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Four more devotees died at the Biswa Ijtema venue on Saturday night, taking the death toll to 19.

Russia says 20 killed in Ukraine attack on bakery in occupied east

11:49 AM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Russia's emergencies ministry said its workers had retrieved the bodies of 20 people from the rubble following a Ukrainian attack on a building housing a bakery in the city of Lysychansk in the occupied eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk on Saturday.

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob dies

11:07 AM, 04 Feb 2024 Sunday

Namibia's President Hage Geingob has died while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek. Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba announced that Mr Geingob had died in the early hours of Sunday morning.