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Bangladesh to extend policy support for investment-friendly environment: PM
02:18 PM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited investors of the world to come up with investment in Bangladesh, saying her country is ready to provide all policy support for creating investment-friendly environment...
PM opens 2-day International Investment Summit
01:34 PM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the two-day International Investment Summit-2021 to brand new Bangladesh among the investors of the world...
Taijul seven-for leaves Bangladesh 44 ahead
12:54 PM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayThe answer to "how do you break a big partnership when the bowlers run out of ideas" clearly seems to be to sleep on it. For the second day in succession, the bowling side found an almost immediate breakthrough in the morning...
Verdict in Abrar murder case deferred to Dec 8
12:30 PM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayA court today deferred till December 8 the delivery of the verdict of BUET student Abrar Fahad murder case. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Abu Jafar Kazmruzzaman set the new date on Sunday. The twenty-two accused were produced before the court but the judge said the verdict is not ready...
Burkina Faso: Tear gas fired at protesters decrying Islamist attacks
11:34 AM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayPolice in Burkina Faso have fired tear gas at people protesting against the state's failure to stop a rise in Islamist violence...
Voting in 3rd phase UP election ends
09:57 AM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayThe voting for the third phase of the Union Parishad (UP) polls has begun amid tensions and fears. Polling began in 1,000 UPs at 8am on Sunday and will continue till 4pm. Electronic voting machines (EVMs) are being used in 33 union parishads in 24 districts...
Hondurans vote to replace controversial leader
09:44 AM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayIn the final hours before polling day in Honduras, a few dozen activists gathered inside the Liberal Party's headquarters in the capital, Tegucigalpa, for some last-minute training on the main plank of their electoral platform...
Reinstated Sudanese PM Hamdok dismisses police chiefs
09:15 AM, 28 Nov 2021 SundaySudan’s reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has replaced the country’s police chiefs, in a move that came after more than 40 people were killed in a crackdown on pro-democracy protests following a military coup last month...
COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert
08:28 AM, 28 Nov 2021 SundayThe new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread...
New Covid variant Omicron found in Israel
09:37 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayAnyone who returned to Israel from an African country in the last week will be asked to be isolated immediately, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other senior officials decided on Friday after one case of the South African variant of concern was detected in the country...
Two cases of new variant of Covid detected in UK
09:16 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayTwo people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new Covid variant, Omicron, the health secretary has said...
Bangladesh progress to Women's World Cup for first time
08:14 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayThe International Cricket Council announced the postponement of the tournament today due to the introduction of travel restrictions from a number of African countries, including the hosts country Zimbabwe, following the breakout of a new COVID-19 variant in southern Africa...
Omicron variant 'likely' already in Germany, says minister
06:57 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayA minister in the western German state of Hesse said Saturday that the potentially highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 has "very likely already arrived" in Germany...
87 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
06:39 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayAs many as 87 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning...
Govt records 155 new Covid cases, 2 deaths
06:04 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayThe government recorded 155 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total infections in the country stood at 15,75,579 and fatalities rose to 27,975, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday. The daily count came from a test of 13,462 samples in the past day...
Big Abid-Shafique stand put Pakistan in control
05:43 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayHasan Ali's fifth Test five-for this year - and sixth overall - put Bangladesh on the back foot before openers Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique cemented Pakistan's dominance on the second day of the Chattogram Test...
France detects highly pathogenic bird flu on poultry farm
05:13 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayFrance has detected a highly pathogenic bird flu virus on a poultry farm in the north of the country, the farm ministry said on Saturday...
Rahmat Ali, Wahida Mollick Jolly catch Covid-19
04:51 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayStar couple Rahmat Ali and Wahida Mollick Jolly tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus...
Short video platforms: The workhorse of content creation
04:22 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayFounded in 2012 by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll, Vine was a six-second looping video app that took the world by storm since its inception. In just about two months, Vine became the most popular and most utilized video-sharing app in the market...
Adele album becomes 2021's fastest seller
03:48 PM, 27 Nov 2021 SaturdayAdele's 30 has shot to number one, overtaking Abba to become the fastest-selling album of the year so far...