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Rangpur records highest ever 44.88pc Covid-19 positivity
02:02 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayRangpur division recorded the highest ever 44.88 percent Covid-19 positivity rate on Tuesday since the outbreak of the pandemic amid a faster community spread of the lethal virus...
Omicron risk remains very high: WHO
01:29 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the WHO said late Tuesday, with the numbers of new Covid-19 cases hitting another record high last week...
Bill on EC formation report placed in parliament
01:01 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe report on the bill titled "Appointment of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners Bill-2022" was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday as the next commission will come into existence under the new law...
France posts new daily Covid case record
12:36 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayFrance posted 501,635 new cases of coronavirus for the past 24 hours on Tuesday, a new daily record and the first time the headline number has surpassed half a million...
3 workers killed as train hits auto-rickshaw
12:08 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThree workers were killed and four others injured when the Barendra Express train hit an auto-rickshaw at Daroani area in Nilphamari on Wednesday morning...
SUST students end hunger strike after 7 days
10:39 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayA group of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students, who went on a fast unto death on January 19 demanding the removal of the Vice Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin, ended their strike on Wednesday morning...
Covid: Netherlands to ease restrictions despite rising case numbers
10:10 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe Dutch government has said it will ease its Covid-19 restrictions, among Europe's toughest, from Wednesday...
US could sanction Putin if Russia invades Ukraine: Biden
08:13 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayUS President Joe Biden says he would consider personal sanctions on Vladimir Putin if Russia invades Ukraine. Mr Biden said there would be "enormous consequences" for the world if Russia made a move on the nation, which sits on its south-western border...
Comilla thrash Barishal to go top in points table
09:59 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayComilla Victorians thrashed Fortune Barishal in the eighth match of Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka on Tuesday...
President asks police to ensure 'hassle free' services
09:21 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayPresident M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday asked police personnel to ensure that no service seekers are harassed anyway as he was virtually addressing a function marking "the Police Week 2022" from Bangabhaban...
Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted vaccine
08:49 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayPfizer and BioNTech said on Tuesday they started a clinical trial to test a new version of their vaccine specifically designed to target the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has eluded some of the protection provided by the original two-dose vaccine regimen...
Actress Shabnaz infected with coronavirus
08:16 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayPopular film actress of 90s Shabnaz has been infected with coronavirus, her co-artist and husband Nayeem has confirmed.
Seven Bangladeshis die in Mediterranean Sea
06:56 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdaySeven Bangladeshi migrants who were on a boat from Libya heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Agrigento Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio said in a statement on Tuesday...
Barty to face Madison Keys in semi-final
05:22 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayAshleigh Barty underlined why she is the Australian Open favourite as she thrashed Jessica Pegula to set up a semi-final against Madison Keys...
Govt records second-highest daily Covid cases
04:56 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayThe Bangladesh government on Tuesday recorded the second-highest daily COVID-19 cases of 16,033 and 18 new deaths. With this, the total infections stood at 16,85,136 and fatalities rose to 28,223, a health directorate press release said today. Earlier on July 28 last year, 16,230 cases were reported...
Mashrafe shines amid Dhaka’s third defeat in BPL
04:31 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayStar studded Minister Group Dhaka conceded third defeat in four games in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after their seven-wicket defeat to Sylhet Sunrisers at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium today...
Battling Nadal into Melbourne semis
04:04 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayRafael Nadal again showed the immense fight which has characterised his career as he overcame physical issues to beat Canada's Denis Shapovalov and reach the Australian Open semi-finals...
Why Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor
03:41 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayFilm historian Peter Kramer, in his essay The Makings of a Comic Star, contends that Keaton's "deadpan performance was seen as a highly inappropriate response to the task of creating characters which were rounded and believable"...
ECNEC approves 10 projects with Tk 4,621cr
02:48 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved 10 projects including flood and riverbank erosion risk management in Padma and Jamuna rivers involving Taka 4,621.34 crore...
North Korea appears to have fired two cruise missiles: Report
02:21 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayNorth Korea has fired what appeared to be two cruise missiles into the sea off its east coast, Yonhap news reported, citing military sources, following a series of banned ballistic missile tests earlier this month...