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PM hands over 26,229 more houses to homeless families
12:05 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday distributed 26,229 more houses to homeless families as part of her government's effort to ensure housing for the landless people, declaring 52 upazilas of the country as homeless and landless free...
Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Sri Lankan president
11:22 AM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayRanil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka by the chief justice of the country on Thursday, the president's media office said...
CIA chief says no intelligence that Putin is in bad health
10:39 AM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayThere is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said...
Italy’s Mario Draghi expected to resign as prime minister
08:47 AM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayItaly’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, is expected to confirm his resignation after three key parties in his broad coalition did not participate in a confidence vote on the conditions he set for his government continuing...
Ukraine war: Russia’s Lavrov says ready to expand war aims
08:24 AM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayRussia's military focus in Ukraine is no longer "only" the east, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with longer-range weapons...
Inflation is much lower in Bangladesh than US, UK: Hasan
09:35 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayInformation and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said that inflation is much lower in Bangladesh than the other countries including the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany and Turkey, and even the neighbouring SAARC countries.
Indian fact-checker arrested for a tweet gets bail
08:58 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayIndia's Supreme Court has granted interim bail to Mohammed Zubair, a leading fact-checker and journalist who spotlighted the ruling party spokesperson Nupur Sharma's controversial comments against the Prophet Muhammad...
Govt sets $58b export target for FY23
08:36 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe government on Wednesday fixed the merchandise export target for the current fiscal year (2022-23) at $58.0 billion which is 11.36 percent higher than the real export earnings of the last fiscal year (2021-22)...
Tanushree Dutta says she's being harassed, promises she won't die by suicide
08:01 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayTanushree Dutta said she is being harassed ‘very badly’. On Tuesday, the actor shared a long note explaining her ordeal after being ‘targeted’ by ‘Bollywood mafia, political circuit and anti-national elements’...
Electricity consumption to be reduced by 25pc at govt offices
06:48 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayA decision has been taken to reduce the use of electricity by 24 percent in all government offices. The decision was taken in the meeting of the senior secretaries of different ministries and directorates held at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday. Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Kaikaus presided over the meeting...
70 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
06:15 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySome 70 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Wednesday morning...
One Covid death, 1104 cases recorded in 24 hrs
06:01 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe Bangladesh government reported one COVID-19 death and 1,104 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of fatalities rose to 29,250 and infections stood at 19,99,395. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Wednesday...
Newlywed couple found hanging in Naogaon
04:55 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayPolice recovered the bodies of a newlywed couple from their bedroom in Atrai upazila of Naogaon district on Wednesday morning...
Abdullah Shafique leads Pakistan to historic win against Sri Lanka
04:11 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayAbdullah Shafique hit an unbeaten 160 as Pakistan chased down a record target of 342 in Galle on Wednesday to beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in the first Test...
Man City reject Neymar deal - Wednesday's gossip
04:03 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayParis St-Germain offered Brazil forward Neymar, 30, to Manchester City in exchange for their 27-year-old Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva, but the Premier League champions turned down the deal. (Le Parisien - in French)...
Six killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw in Barishal
03:19 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySix people were killed and another was injured as a bus rammed a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal district on Wednesday afternoon...
New Zealand launches new investor migrant visa
02:37 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe New Zealand government said on Wednesday that it had created a new investor migrant visa to attract experienced, high-value investors to invest in domestic businesses...
PM to handover 26,229 abodes to homeless families on Thursday
02:00 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayAs part of the government's target to ensure housing for the landless and homeless people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over 26,229 more houses to landless and homeless families under the third phase of Ashrayan-2 Project on Thursday...
Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president
01:30 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySri Lankan MPs have elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. Mr Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse and restoring public order after months of mass protests...
Apple reaches $50 mln settlement over defective MacBook keyboards
12:58 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayApple Inc agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the "butterfly" keyboards on its MacBook laptop computers were prone to failure...