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California couple sue clinic for alleged IVF swap ‘horror’
05:54 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayA California couple gave birth to a stranger's child after being given the wrong embryo by a fertility clinic during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), says a lawsuit...
PM asks expatriate Bangladeshis to work for country’s welfare
05:21 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Kingdom (UK) to work for the welfare of the country and its people...
PM reaches Paris from London
04:43 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today left here for French capital Paris wrapping up her official visit to Glasgow and London...
Coronavirus: 3 die, 206 infected
04:32 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayThe death toll from COVID-19 has reached 27,904 as 3 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 206 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,571,434. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Tuesday...
NASA SpaceX crew splashes down in Gulf of Mexico
02:15 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayFour astronauts strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida after a six-month scientific mission on the International Space Station (ISS)...
RMCH records one more fatality in Covid-19 unit
02:02 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded one more fatality in its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 6am today...
Ex-CJ SK Sinha jailed for 11 years
01:31 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayA court today sentenced former Chief Justice SK Sinha to seven years in jail in a money laundering case. He was also sentenced to four years in a case filed over the embezzlement of money. Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of Dhaka’s Special Judges’ Court-4 passed the order...
Singapore urged to halt execution of mentally-impaired man
12:26 PM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayFive United Nations human rights experts have joined the growing calls for Singapore to halt the execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling more than 10 years ago, because of his learning disabilities...
Poland blocks hundreds of migrants at Belarus border
11:44 AM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayPoland says it has repelled attempts by migrants to enter the country at its eastern border with Belarus, warning that thousands more were on the way...
COP26: Obama tells young people to stay angry on climate fight
11:34 AM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayBarack Obama has called on young people to "stay angry" in the fight against climate change at the COP26 summit...
26 children dead in Niger school fire
11:20 AM, 09 Nov 2021 TuesdayAt least 26 children aged between five and six burnt to death on Monday when their straw and wood classrooms caught fire in southern Niger, seven months after a similar tragedy in the capital Niamey. "Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them seriously," said Chaibou Aboubacar, mayor of Maradi city...
Govt records 215 new Covid cases, 6 deaths
06:02 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayThe government recorded 215 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total infections in the country stood at 15,71,228 and fatalities rose to 27,901, the health directorate said in a press release on Monday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Kuwaiti govt resigns, possibly helping to end political standoff
05:55 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayKuwait's government on Monday submitted its resignation to the ruling emir, state news agency KUNA reported, a move that could help end a standoff with opposition lawmakers that has hindered fiscal reform...
Nearly 20 years on, Israeli barrier shapes Palestinian lives
05:39 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayThree days a week, Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Qaffin line up at a yellow gate and show military permits to soldiers in order to tend their crops on the other side of Israel’s separation barrier...
realme GT NEO2 in NEO Green: art combining nature and technology
05:18 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayCreated in-house by realme Design Studio, the mobile industry’s first-ever design studio, the eye-catcher gives off a bold and lively vibe...
Palestinian activists’ mobile phones hacked by NSO: Report
04:50 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayThe mobile phones of six Palestinian human rights defenders who work for organisations that were recently – and controversially – accused by Israel of being terrorist groups were previously hacked by sophisticated spyware made by NSO Group, according to a report...
Australia to tour Pakistan for first time in 24 years
03:55 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayAustralia will tour Pakistan for the first time in 24 years in March and April 2022...
Charges framed against journo Kajol in 3 cases
03:24 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayA court in Dhaka has framed charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in three separate cases filed under the Digital Security Act...
Three schoolboys killed as motorcycle hits tree
01:24 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayThree schoolboys were killed as a motorcycle hit a roadside tree in Ghatail upazila of Tangail on Monday morning. The deceased were Sharif, son of late Samir Uddin, Abu Bakr, son of Shahzalalal, and Shaheen, son of late Ramzan Ali, residents of Jhaipata village in the upazila...
Two killed in Meherpur election violence
12:39 PM, 08 Nov 2021 MondayTwo brothers were killed and at least 20 others injured in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district on Monday morning as the supporters of two candidates in the upcoming Union Parishad elections clashed...