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Ex-secretary Habibul Awal made new CEC
06:40 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayFormer Senior Secretary Kazi Habibul Awal has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner. Appointed other four election commissioners are district and session judge (retd) Begum Rashida Sultana, brigadier general (retd) Ahsan Habib Khan, and senior secretaries (retd) Md Alamgir and Anisur Rahman...
198 Ukrainians killed in Russian invasion
05:21 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayA total of 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed amid the Russian invasion, according to the country's Health Minister Viktor Lyashko...
Coronavirus: 8 new deaths, 759 cases
04:47 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayEight more people died from coronavirus and 759 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 29,024 and 19,41,305 respectively, a health directorate press release on Saturday. As many as 18,375 samples were collected and 18,305 tested in the past day...
Analysis: Russia's Ukraine attack forces Beijing into diplomatic dance
04:07 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayRussia's attack on Ukraine, which China refuses to condemn or even call an invasion, has sent Beijing into a diplomatic scramble to limit blowback while standing by a partner with which it has grown increasingly close in opposition to the West...
Ton-up Liton secures Tigers series-clinching victory
03:41 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayBangladesh wrapped up the three-match ODI against Afghanistan series in style, thanks to a sublime century of Liton Das, who scripted the side's facile 88-run over the visitors in the second ODI at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram on Friday...
Isaac Memorial Trust book distribution held in Sakhipur
03:13 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayA book distribution and scholarship giving ceremony of Isaac Memorial Trust has been held at Kachua village in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail.
Missile hits residential building in Ukraine capital Kyiv
02:28 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayTwo missiles hit areas southwest of the Kyiv city centre on Saturday, a Reuters correspondent reported...
Quader returns home from New Delhi following health check-up
01:49 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayRoad Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader returned home today from New Delhi following his regular health check-up...
Russia vetoes UN Security Council action on Ukraine, China abstains
12:53 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayRussia, as expected, vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday (Feb 25) that deplored "in the strongest terms" the country's "aggression" against Ukraine and demanded the immediate withdrawal of its troops...
Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter
12:34 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayRussian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital early Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter...
Every Parent must teach these 5 habits to their children
12:09 PM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayBeing a parent we are always worried about our children, how to do their upbringing, what to teach them, and so on because parents are always responsible not only for the birth of the child but also for their well-being...
Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
11:04 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayPresident Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court...
Zelensky accepts Putin’s proposal, ready for peace talks
10:26 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayUkrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal and is ready to negotiate peace and a ceasefire, Zelensky’s press secretary Sergey Nikiforov said on Saturday...
Mass vaccination campaign for administering 1 crore people begins
09:45 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe day-long countrywide mass vaccination campaign began this morning aiming to vaccinate one crore people with the first dose of COVID-19 jabs. The vaccination will start from 8am and it will continue throughout the day, the health service chief said...
Ukraine invasion: Russia restricts access to Facebook
09:25 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayRussia has limited access to Facebook over the platform's stance on the accounts of several Moscow-backed news outlets amid the invasion of Ukraine...
Battle for Ukrainian capital underway as explosions seen and heard in Kyiv
09:10 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayExplosions have been seen and heard in parts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as the fight by Ukrainian forces to hold back a Russian advance on the capital intensifies in the early hours of Saturday morning...
US, Europe step up Russia sanctions to target Putin directly
08:58 AM, 26 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe United States and European allies said Friday they were stepping up sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by adding measures directly targeting President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister, putting diplomatic appeals to one side as Russia’s forces closed on Ukraine’s capital...
Russia has lost 450 personnel in Ukraine, claims UK
05:51 PM, 25 Feb 2022 FridayRussia has not taken any of its major objectives in the first 24 hours of its invasion of Ukraine and has lost more than 450 personnel, according to the UK's defence secretary. Ben Wallace told Sky News it was the UK government's view that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends "to invade the whole of Ukraine"...
Coronavirus: 11 new deaths, 1406 cases
05:18 PM, 25 Feb 2022 FridayEleven more people died from coronavirus and 1,406 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 29,016 and 19,41,057 respectively, a health directorate press release on Friday. As many as 25,702 samples were collected and 25,667 tested in the past day...
Russian forces in Kyiv, says Ukraine
04:08 PM, 25 Feb 2022 FridayRussian operatives are now in Kyiv, Ukraine officials have confirmed in a tweet. Ukraine's Defence Ministry said "the enemy" were in the district of Obolon, about 9km (5.5miles) north of Kyiv's parliament in the city centre. They've encouraged locals to make Molotov cocktails to fight back, while also advising others to seek shelter...