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UN urges countries to open borders to Africans fleeing Ukraine
10:04 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayThe UN refugee agency has urged authorities in countries neighbouring Ukraine to open their borders to African citizens fleeing the conflict there amid reports that some were being denied access to safety, UNHCR said on Wednesday...
UK donates 1m more AstraZeneca jabs doses to Bangladesh
09:53 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayThe United Kingdom (UK) has donated another one million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine to Bangladesh bilaterally...
N'ganj double murder: Lone accused remanded
09:30 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayZubayed Swapnil, the lone accused in Narayanganj woman and her daughter's murder case, has been remanded for three days...
Pressure grows in India to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine
07:54 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayIndia's opposition on Wednesday stepped up pressure on the government to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a day after an Indian student died during shelling in the eastern city of Kharkiv...
More than 2,000 civilians killed in Ukraine
07:18 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayIn the last few minutes, the Ukrainian authorities have said more than 2,000 civilians have been killed so far in Russia's invasion, which began nearly a week ago...
PM reaffirms pledge to ensure improved, beautiful life for people
06:48 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her vows to provide an improved and developed life to the countrymen through implementing the spirit and ideology of the War of Liberation...
Russia says it has captured biggest Ukrainian city yet
06:04 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayRussia said it had seized its biggest city yet in Ukraine on Wednesday, while stepping up its lethal bombardment of the main cities that its invasion force has so far failed to tame in the face of strong Ukrainian resistance...
Coronavirus: 8 new deaths, 732 cases
04:43 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayEight more people died from coronavirus and 732 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 29,053 and 19,45,108 respectively, a health directorate press release on Wednesday. As many as 22,727 samples were collected and 22,716 tested in the past day...
Arrest warrant issued against Rizvi
04:23 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayA court in Dhaka on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Joint Secretary Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in two separate cases...
Nike makes online sales unavailable in Russia
03:27 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayNike Inc has made merchandise purchases on its website and app unavailable in Russia as it cannot guarantee delivery of goods to customers in the country, an update on the sportswear maker's website showed on Tuesday...
Appellate board’s decision against Zayed Khan illegal: HC
02:16 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayThe appellate board’s decision that cancelled the candidacy of Zayed Khan and declared Nipun Akter as general secretary of the Film Artistes’ Association is illegal. A virtual bench of the High Court comprising Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman passed the order on Wednesday...
21 killed in shelling of Kharkiv: Ukrainian official
01:25 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayAt least 21 people were killed and 112 wounded in shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in the last 24 hours, regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on Wednesday. The authorities have said Russian missile attacks hit the centre of Ukraine's second-largest city...
Momen presents update info on Bangladesh’s continental shelf to UN
12:48 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayForeign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen has presented updated information on Bangladesh's Continental Shelf in the Bay of Bengal to the United Nations (UN)...
Dozens of diplomats walk out on Russian foreign minister’s speech
12:40 PM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayMore than 100 diplomats from some 40 countries have walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the United Nations in Geneva as a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
Top UN court to hold Ukraine war hearings on March 7, 8
11:36 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayThe International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold genocide hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war in Ukraine, as fighting intensifies...
Covered van-auto rickshaw collision kills 4
10:16 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayFour people were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a covered van and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Cumilla-Sylhet highway at Rampura area in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Wednesday morning...
5 killed in Russian strike on Kyiv TV tower
09:39 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayAn apparent Russian airstrike aimed at Kyiv's main television tower killed five people on Tuesday, officials said, knocking out some broadcasts but leaving the structure intact...
Apple to halt sales and limit services in Russia
09:20 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayApple has become the latest major firm to halt all product sales in Russia, in a widening corporate backlash to the country's invasion of Ukraine...
Russia’s Kharkiv attacks are war crimes, says Zelensky
08:46 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of war crimes after air strikes, including one on a central square, hit the country's second city...
West was ready for Russian invasion, says Biden
08:25 AM, 02 Mar 2022 WednesdayThe West was ready for the "unprovoked" and "premeditated" attack by Russia on Ukraine, US President Joe Biden will say in a primetime speech to Congress. Vladimir Putin "thought the West and Nato wouldn't respond. He thought he could divide us here at home. He was wrong. We were ready," he will say...