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'The world's priorities have changed, and Syria has been left aside'
09:51 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayAmjad al-Malah, 32, and his family were finally able to flee the besieged city of Madaya five years ago and headed to northwestern Syria...
Why hailstones are getting bigger
09:40 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayIt was the height of summer in the UK and the country found itself in the grip of a heatwave. In Leicestershire, in the midlands of England, children on their school holidays played in paddling pools to stay cool. Then the sky darkened...
No data limit for Teletalk customers
09:20 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe customers of state-owned mobile phone operator Teletalk will no longer experience internet data limit...
Youth gunned down in Bandarban
08:43 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayA young man was gunned down by the terrorists in Sadar upazila of Bandarban district on Tuesday afternoon...
WB to provide US$120m for climate smart agriculture, deal signed
07:56 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe government of Bangladesh and the World Bank on Tuesday signed a financing agreement under which the lending agency will provide US$120 million for implementing the "Climate Smart Agriculture and Water Management" project...
A film on Kashmir exposes India's new fault lines
06:48 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayA new film on the exodus of Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s has kicked up a storm in India, with even the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) weighing in on its behalf...
One crore people to get special cards to buy essentials: PM
05:55 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said one crore people will get special cards to buy daily essential commodities at lower prices. "We've targeted one crore people. We will give them special cards so they can buy daily essential commodities at a fair price," she said...
Govt records no daily Covid death
04:44 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe government on Tuesday recorded no new daily coronavirus death but reported 217 fresh cases of the virus. A total of 29,112 people, so far, died from the virus, while 19,49,942 caught it, the health directorate said in a press release today. Of the total patients, 18,68,408 recovered, with 1,600 made recovery in the last 24 hours...
Kyiv struck by Russian shelling, curfew announced
04:08 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayRussian shelling struck Kyiv on Tuesday killing at least two people, authorities said, as invading forces tightened their grip on the Ukrainian capital and the mayor announced a 35-hour curfew starting at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT)...
India court upholds school, college hijab ban
03:42 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayA high court in India's Karnataka state has ruled that the hijab is not "essential" to Islam in a landmark case that could have implications across the country...
2 killed in strike on Kyiv housing block: Emergency service
02:29 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayA strike on a housing block in Kyiv killed at least two people on Tuesday, the emergency service said as several areas of the capital came under attack...
10 personalities, one organisation to get Independence Award
01:15 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe government has announced the names of 10 personalities and one organisation for this year’s Independence Award in recognition of their glorious and remarkable contributions to national level...
PM asks to expedite Shahjalal airport’s extension work
12:58 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to speed up the expansion work of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital...
Hoseni Dalan blast: 2 sentenced to jail, 6 acquitted
12:16 PM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayA Dhaka tribunal has sentenced two people to different jail terms and acquitted six others in the case filed over bomb blast at Hoseni Dalan during the preparation for Tajia procession ahead of the holy Ashura in 2015. Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Dhaka passed the order on Tuesday...
Japan imposes new sanctions on Russian billionaire, 16 others
11:36 AM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayJapan has decided to freeze assets of an additional 17 Russian individuals, bringing the total number targeted by sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine to 61, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday...
Refugee exodus reaches 2.8 million as Russia strikes hit west Ukraine
10:21 AM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayPeople fleeing what had been the relative safety of western Ukraine joined thousands crossing into eastern Europe on Monday after Russia attacked a Ukrainian base near the border with NATO-member Poland...
War could be over by May, says Ukrainian presidential adviser
08:51 AM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe war in Ukraine is likely to be over by early May when Russia runs out of resources to attack its neighbour, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, said late on Monday...
Russia keeps up attacks in Ukraine as two sides hold talks
08:44 AM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayRussia and Ukraine kept a fragile diplomatic path open with a new round of talks Monday even as Moscow’s forces pounded away at Kyiv and other cities across the country in a punishing bombardment the Red Cross said has created “nothing short of a nightmare” for civilians...
Joy Bangla slogan a message to world not to bow heads down: PM
08:28 AM, 15 Mar 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government has made the 'Joy Bangla' as the national slogan of Bangladesh to send a message to the world people that the Bangalees wouldn't bow down their heads...
Covid in Bangladesh: 1 dead, 239 infected in 24 hours
05:34 PM, 14 Mar 2022 MondayThe death toll from Coronavirus has reached 29,112 in Bangladesh as 1 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 239 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,949,725...