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Lata Mangeshkar, India’s nightingale, dies
11:23 AM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayLegendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away in Mumbai on Sunday at the age of 92. The versatile singer, christened the Nightingale of India, had lent her voice to thousands of songs in 36 languages in a career spanning almost eight decades...
Hijab row: Indian state bans clothes that ‘disturb public law and order’
09:59 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayIn a bid to put an end to the simmering hijab (head scarf) controversy in Karnataka, the state government Saturday directed banning clothes “which disturb equality, integrity and public order” in schools and colleges...
Nipun declared Film Artistes Association gen secy
08:56 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayActor Zayed Khan has been stripped of his position as the general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes Association and instead, actress Nipun declared elected unopposed in the post...
14000 die of cervical and breast cancer each year; prevention costs Tk 200cr
07:26 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdaySheuli Akter Jui, 45, resides in Pallabi area of Mirpur in the capital of Dhaka. Her husband Washim Sazzad died five years ago. Since then, she along with her only daughter lives at Pallabi...
Thousands in Mali celebrate expulsion of French ambassador
06:16 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayThousands of anti-French demonstrators have poured into the street of the Malian capital, Bamako, to cheer at the expulsion of the French ambassador...
Coronavirus: 36 new deaths, 8359 cases
04:31 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayThirty-six more people died from coronavirus and 8,359 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 28,560 and 18,53,187 respectively, a health directorate press release on Saturday...
Journalist Peer Habibur Rahman no more
04:21 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdaySenior journalist, political analyst, coloumnist and Bangladesh Pratidin's executive editor Peer Habibur Rahman passed away on Saturday afternoon. He was 58. He breathed his last around 4:08 pm while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Labaid Specialized Hospital in the capital...
US restores sanctions waiver to Iran with nuclear talks in final phase
03:40 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayPresident Joe Biden's administration on Friday restored sanctions waivers to Iran to allow international nuclear cooperation projects, as indirect American-Iranian talks on reviving the 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran enter the final stretch...
Moroccan rescuers inch nearer to boy stuck in well for days
02:45 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayRescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation...
EC formation: 6-member search committee formed
01:34 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe search committee, which will suggests names for the appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners, has been formed. In the direction of President M Abdul Hamid, the Cabinet Division formed the six-member committee on Saturday...
Langer delivers shock resignation as Australia cricket coach
12:48 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayAustralian men's cricket coach Justin Langer announced his surprise resignation Saturday, just weeks after trouncing archrivals England in a lopsided Ashes series and months after winning the T20 World Cup...
RMCH records 2 more deaths in Covid-19 unit
12:31 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded two more deaths in its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 9am today...
5.7-magnitude quake hits 45 km SW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan - USGS
12:21 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayAn earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted 45 km SW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan at 04:16:01 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said...
Peru president sacks PM accused of domestic violence
11:45 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayPeruvian President Pedro Castillo dumped his prime minister Friday just three days after appointing him, amid outrage over revelations he was accused of domestic violence in 2016...
Saraswati Puja today
10:43 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe Hindu community is celebrating Saraswati Puja, worshiping the goddess of knowledge, music, art and culture, across the country today, maintaining health safety guidelines...
7 dead as tourist plane crashes near Peru’s Nazca lines
09:59 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayFive tourists and two crew died Friday when their plane crashed on a trip to view Peru's famous Nazca lines, the transport ministry said...
China joins Russia in opposing Nato expansion
08:56 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayChina has joined Russia in opposing further Nato expansion as the two countries move closer together in the face of Western pressure...
Trump was wrong to seek to overturn Biden win: Pence
08:44 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayFormer US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year...
US death toll from COVID-19 hits 900,000, sped by omicron
08:21 AM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayPropelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000...
UK for strengthening bond with Bangladesh in next 50yrs
05:50 PM, 04 Feb 2022 FridayBritish High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson today said the United Kingdom (UK) looks forward to strengthen bonds of kinship and culture with Bangladesh in the next 50 years and beyond.