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Large explosions heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, Kramatorsk city
11:29 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayA large blast was heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv while at least two big explosions were heard in the city of Kramatorsk in the country’s eastern Donbas region early Thursday...
NATO chief condemns Russia’s ‘reckless and unprovoked attack’ on Ukraine
11:13 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayNATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday denounced Russia's "reckless and unprovoked attack" on Ukraine, warning it put "countless" lives in jeopardy...
UN chief tells Putin: ‘Stop your troops from attacking Ukraine’
09:57 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Wednesday made a personal appeal to Vladimir Putin to not attack Ukraine, minutes before the Russian president announced a military operation against its ex-Soviet neighbor...
Putin announces a military operation in Ukraine’s Donbas
09:35 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayRussian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine early Thursday local time. In the address, broadcast on Russian national television, Putin urged Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms and go home...
Ukraine: EU sanctions Russia defence minister, military chief
09:25 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayThe European Union has imposed sanctions on Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu, the country’s military chiefs, and other people close to the Kremlin in response to the escalating crisis in Ukraine. The 27-nation group says it is freezing assets and imposing visa bans on high-ranking officials...
Ukraine imposes state of emergency, summons citizens home
08:29 AM, 24 Feb 2022 ThursdayUkraine has imposed a state of emergency and told its citizens in Russia to leave immediately, as Moscow began evacuating its Kyiv embassy in the latest ominous signs of an all-out Russian military onslaught...
Police use of Pegasus malware not illegal, Israeli inquiry finds
09:56 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayAn inquiry into allegations that Israel’s police force systematically hacked into the mobile phones of Israeli citizens has found that while the police did use NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus malware, there is no evidence suggesting illegality...
Ashulia shoe factory fire kills 3
08:40 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayThree people, including a woman, were killed as a fire broke out at a shoe factory in Ashulia on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon...
Afif, Mehidy give Bangladesh stunning win from 45 for 6
07:50 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayThe Shakib Al Hasan-Mahmudullah partnership in Cardiff is often regarded as the greatest comeback story in Bangladesh cricket history, as it helped the team to the Champions Trophy semis...
Khaleda receives booster dose
05:53 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayBNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia received the third (booster) dose of coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday afternoon...
Coronavirus: new cases 1298, deaths 5
05:04 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayThe government recorded 1,298 more coronavirus cases and five deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the country's total infections and fatalities rose to 19,38,135 and 28,995 respectively. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Wednesday...
Wildfires likely to increase by a third by 2050, warns UN
04:49 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayWildfires that have devastated California, Australia and Siberia will become 50% more common by the end of the century, according to a new report that warns of uncontrollable blazes ravaging previously unaffected parts of the planet...
Bangladesh to get more FDI: Kamal
04:32 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday expressed his high optimism that Bangladesh would get more foreign direct investment (FDI) in the coming days since the country is a very good destination for making investments...
'Wearing hijab doesn't make Muslim women oppressed'
03:46 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayNabeela Shaikh was 30 when she started wearing the hijab. She was the last of three sisters to take to it...
D-8 can emerge as powerful economic block: PM
02:34 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the Developing-8 countries collectively have a great potentiality to emerge as a powerful economic block...
PM asks Biman to adopt new technology, improve service
01:53 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid emphasis on improving service quality of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, asking the national flag carrier to put concentration on learning and adopting new technologies to cut dependency on others...
3 die as trawler capsizes in Arial Khan river
01:30 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayThree people have died and two others went missing after a Barishal’s Charmonai-bound trawler with 45 passengers capsized after being hit by a launch in Arial Khan river at Nalchar area in Barishal Sadar upazila...
Ex-DIG Mizan jailed for 3 years, Basir gets 8 years
12:51 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayA Dhaka court today has sentenced 3 years of imprisonment to suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman and 8 years to suspended Director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir in a graft case...
PM releases postage stamp on Biman’s golden jubilee
12:08 PM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today released a special commemorative postage stamp, an opening day cover and a data card on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines...
Afghanistan opt to bat, Yasir Ali debuts for Bangladesh
11:00 AM, 23 Feb 2022 WednesdayAfghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the first ODI in Chattogram...