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Babul Akter remanded in Banaj Kumar's case
03:44 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayA court in Dhaka on Thursday placed former police superintendent (SP) Babul Akter on a day remand in a case filed by Police Bureau of Investigation Chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arafatul Rakib passed the order after police had produced him before the court...
Man City beat Chelsea to reach EFL Cup fourth round
03:21 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayRiyad Mahrez and Julian Alvarez scored as Manchester City beat Premier League rivals Chelsea to reach the Carabao Cup fourth round...
Ahsan Khan Chowdhury receives Bangladesh C-Suite Award
02:51 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayAhsan Khan Chowdhury, Chairman and Chief Executive of PRAN-RFL Group, has been honored with the ‘Entrepreneur of the year’ award for his outstanding contribution in corporate sector...
Fardin’s friend Bushra on 5-day remand
02:40 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayA Dhaka court has placed Bushra on a five-day remand in a case filed over the murder of her friend Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Nur Parash. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan on Thursday passed the order after Rampura police produced her before the court...
Researchers find difference in brains of boys, girls with binge eating disorder
02:03 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayA team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine at USC conducted the first known comparison of the brains of boys and girls with binge eating disorder and discovered notable changes in brain structure between the sexes...
Over 100,000 Russian troops killed, wounded in Ukraine: US general
01:39 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayAmerica's top general estimated on Wednesday that Russia's military had seen more than 100,000 of its soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine, and added Kyiv's armed forces "probably" suffered a similar level of casualties in the war...
Bangladesh explores alternative sources for wheat import
12:35 PM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayBangladesh has opted to explore alternative overseas sources to meet demands for wheat, even with higher cost, as the war between Russia and Ukraine blocked ways for import of the country’s second major staple from these two wheat producing nations...
BUET student Fardin murder: Case filed, friend arrested
11:35 AM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayA case has been filed over the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Nur Parash, 24. Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed the murder case with Rampura Police Station early Thursday. Rafiqul Islam, Officer-in-charge of the police station, said the case was filed around 3:30am...
Fire in Maldives claims 10 lives
11:12 AM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayAt least ten people died in a fire that broke out in a garage in Male, the Maldivian capital city, early on Thursday, officials said. The victims likely included workers from neighbouring countries, authorities said. “The Maldives Police Service is working to confirm their identities,” a top government official in Male told The Hindu...
Iconic Brazilian singer Gal Costa dies at 77
10:35 AM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdaySinger Gal Costa, an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly six-decade career, died on Wednesday. She was 77...
Elon Musk tells Twitter advertisers he wants to stop fake accounts
09:00 AM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayTwitter's new owner Elon Musk told advertisers on Wednesday he aimed to turn the social media platform into a force for truth and stop fake accounts in an effort to assuage brands and advertising agencies that have increasingly been backing away...
Putin will not attend G20 summit in Bali: Indonesian official
08:31 AM, 10 Nov 2022 ThursdayRussian President Vladimir Putin will not attend a gathering of leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) nations in Bali next week, an Indonesian government official told Reuters on Thursday. Putin will be represented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is due to join one of the meetings virtually...
Jubo League to hold youth grand rally on Friday
09:45 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayAwami Jubo League will arrange a youth grand rally at historic Suhrawardy Udyan in capital Dhaka on November 11 on its golden jubilee as Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be present as the chief guest...
UK army killed 64 children in Afghanistan between 2006-14: Report
09:39 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayBritish forces have paid compensation for the deaths of 64 children in Afghanistan, a toll four times higher than the 16 child deaths publicly acknowledged by the Ministry of Defence, according to a new report...
Can air pollution affect fertility in men and women?
09:32 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayAir pollution, which has once again shrouded the Delhi skies with the air quality reaching ‘severe’ levels...
Foreign travel with govt expense banned
09:08 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayThe government on Wednesday banned foreign travel of all officers and employees of state-owned organisations at their institutions' expense. All orders on the officers' and employees' foreign travel with the funding of the government have been cancelled until further order, said a notification of the Finance Division...
Jamaat Ameer's son Dr Rafat arrested
08:26 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman's son Dr Rafat has been arrested for his alleged involvement in militancy. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) apprehended him from Sylhet district on Wednesday afternoon. CTTC said Dr Rafat is Sylhet region chief coordinator...
Facebook owner Meta to sack 11,000 workers
07:39 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is cutting 11,000 jobs, more than one in eight staff, after a disastrous collapse in revenue has left the company behind Facebook overstaffed and “inefficient”, the chief executive said in a note to staff...
Upazila chairman sued for 'abetting teenager to kill self'
06:48 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayA case has been filed against Pabna's Bera upazila chairman Rezaul Haque Babu and three others for 'abetment to suicide of a teenage girl.'...
Soroj Mehedi becomes brand ambassador of MEDCOM-2023
06:07 PM, 09 Nov 2022 WednesdayUniversity teacher, researcher and young literary persona Soroj Mehedi (Md Mahady Hasan) has been elected the brand ambassador to the 8th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication (MEDCOM-2023)...