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2 police officers among 6 killed in gunfight in rural Australia
08:39 AM, 13 Dec 2022 TuesdaySix people were killed, including two police officers, at a remote property in Australia's Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited the place to investigate reports of a missing person...
Covid-19: 1 dead, 19 infected in 24 hours
05:52 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayThe death toll from Coronavirus has reached 29,437 in Bangladesh as one more person died from the disease in the last 24 hours...
224 dengue patients hospitalized in 24 hrs
05:40 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayA total of 224 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8am on Monday).
Metro rail expected to open at end of Dec
05:15 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayThe country’s first-ever elevated metro rail is expected to be inaugurated partially in the last week of this month from Uttara to Agargaon as the much-awaited metro rail service is ready for commercial operation...
Fakhrul, Abbas, 222 BNP leaders denied bail
04:28 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayA Dhaka court has sent 224 leaders and activists of BNP including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas to jail in a case filed over the clash between police and BNP men at Nayapaltan on Wednesday...
Team NUB wins 2nd place at BDApps National Hackathon
03:35 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayThe award and closing ceremony of the country’s largest mobile app competition ‘BDApps National Hackathon 2022’ was held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) where the 10 best teams were recognized recently...
Iran protests: Second execution carried out
02:39 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayIran has carried out its second execution linked to the nearly three-month wave of anti-government protests...
BNP to hold protest rally at Nayapaltan on Tuesday
02:20 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold a protest rally at Nayapaltan in the capital on Tuesday over allegedly vandalizing the party’s central office...
Smart Bangladesh to be built by 2041: PM
01:17 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government is working to transform the country into "Smart Bangladesh" from a digital one by 2041. "We will build Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous country by 2041. That Bangladesh will be a Smart Bangladesh. We will transform into Smart Bangladesh from the digital one," she said.
Italy shooting: 3 women shot dead in Rome cafe
12:43 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayThree women including a friend of Italy's new prime minister were killed when a man opened fire at a cafe in Rome, injuring four other people...
Gazette issued declaring 6 seats of BNP MPs vacant
12:01 PM, 12 Dec 2022 MondayThe Parliament Secretariat on Sunday published a gazette notification declaring the seats of six lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vacant...
6 Pakistanis, 1 Afghan soldier killed in cross-border clash
11:27 AM, 12 Dec 2022 MondaySix Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in cross border shelling and gunfire, according to officials on both sides of the frontier...
Five parliamentary seats now vacant as BNP lawmakers resign: Speaker
09:34 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayJatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said that five JS seats have become vacant as five BNP lawmakers submitted their resignation letters in person on Sunday...
Sheikh Hasina ranked 42nd in Forbes' most powerful women list
08:55 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked 42nd in 19th annual Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. She was ranked 43rd in the previous year’s list of Forbes. The premier has also been ranked 11th in the special category of Politics and Policy among 22. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen sits atop...
Gallstones: Causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
08:43 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayGallstones can be termed as a collection of bile materials in one’s gallbladder but are you aware they can be as small as a sand particle in size or even as large as a ball size?...
BB asks banks to relax LC margin rate for Ramadan items
07:47 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayBangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks to relax the opening margin rate for the settlement of Letter of Credit (LC) against eight food items at the minimum level based on banker-customer relations. The central bank has given the instruction to keep the prices tolerable and ensure adequate supply...
Special police drives: 307 held in Dhaka in a day
07:33 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayPolice arrested 307 people in special drives conducted in capital Dhaka in the last 24 hours...
Australia crush West Indies to claim series
07:10 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayAustralia wrapped up a series victory against West Indies with a dominant 419-run win in the second day-night Test in Adelaide...
BNP lawmakers resign to obstruct country's democracy: Hasan
06:21 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayInformation and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is on the path of violence and terrorism and lawmakers of the party are resigning from parliament to obstruct the prevailing democracy of the country...
Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
05:47 PM, 11 Dec 2022 SundayA teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. All other treatments for Alyssa's leukaemia had failed. So doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used "base editing" to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug...