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Trying to eliminate Bangabandhu’s name world’s biggest crime: Zafar Iqbal
05:08 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayIf assassinating Bangabandhu along with his family is a notorious crime, trying to eliminate his name from history is a hundred times bigger crime, said eminent writer, Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal...
Covid in Bangladesh: 13 dead, 2150 infected in 24 hours
04:24 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe death toll from Coronavirus has reached 28,944 in Bangladesh as 13 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,150 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,931,304. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Saturday...
India reports 14% decline, logs 22,270 new Covid cases
03:31 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayIn the last 24 hours, India registered 22,270 new Covid-19 cases, marking an additional 14 per cent decline, said the Union Health Ministry on Saturday...
EC search committee makes list of 20
02:28 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayThe Election Commission search committee has made a shortlist of 20 people from a list of 322 nominees for the posts of chief election commissioner and other election commissioners. The shortlist was made at the fifth meeting of the search committee held at Supreme Court Judges Lounge on Saturday...
Johnson says ‘still a chance’ to avoid war in Ukraine
01:07 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday there was "still a chance to avoid unnecessary bloodshed" that would follow any Russian invasion of Ukraine...
RMCH counts 2 more fatalities in Covid-19 unit
12:51 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded two more fatalities in its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 9am today...
Ottawa crackdown: Police arrest 100 after 3-week protest
12:39 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayPolice arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure...
9 dead as Storm Eunice batters Europe
12:11 PM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayStorm Eunice killed at least nine people in Europe on Friday, pummelling Britain with record-breaking winds and forcing millions to take shelter as it disrupted flights, trains and ferries across Western Europe...
Biden now ‘convinced’ Russia will launch invasion of Ukraine
11:36 AM, 19 Feb 2022 SaturdayU.S. President Joe Biden says he is now “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine and assault the capital, an ominous assessment that emerged as the country’s war-torn east saw more attacks that the West said could be designed to establish a pretext for an attack...
How did we get here
06:15 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayThe historic Bangla language movement of the mid-twentieth century is an inspirational part of Bangladeshi heritage...
24 die from Coronavirus in 24 hours
04:51 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayThe death toll from Coronavirus has reached 28,931 in Bangladesh as 24 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,584 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,929,154. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Friday...
Maj Gen Sakil Ahmed appointed as new DG of BGB
03:36 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayMajor General Sakil Ahmed has been appointed as the new Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB). Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Thursday night. Sakil Ahmed also served his duty as the Director General of the Immigration and Passports Department...
Ahmedabad 2008 blasts: India court sentences 38 to death
03:15 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayA court in India has sentenced 38 people to death for their role in a series of bomb blasts in 2008 in the western state of Gujarat. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds injured in the bombings, which took place in Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of Gujarat...
Primary schools to reopen on March 1
02:20 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayThe government has decided to reopen primary schools from March 1. In-person classes will be started from the day...
Death toll from flooding and mudslides in Brazil passes 100
12:34 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayFloods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the Brazilian city of Petropolis have killed at least 117 people, local officials said. But even as families prepared to bury their dead on Thursday, 116 other people remained missing...
Ukraine tensions: Russia looking for excuse to invade, US says
12:14 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayRussia is preparing to fabricate a reason to invade Ukraine and launch an attack in the coming days, the US says...
5 killed as truck runs over auto-rickshaw in Cumilla
12:00 PM, 18 Feb 2022 FridayFive people were killed and two others injured when a garbage truck ran over a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Cumilla-Sylhet highway at Mainamati Tut Bagan area in Burichang upazila in Cumilla early Friday. Of the deceased, four were identified as Julhas Miah, the auto-rickshaw driver and its passengers Jahirul Islam, Jalal and Saiful Islam...
Opinion: What the hijab ban is really about
03:45 PM, 17 Feb 2022 ThursdayAnother day, another scene of intimidation for the hundreds of Muslim girls and women across Karnataka who find themselves locked out of schools and colleges, threatened, isolated, and even segregated into classrooms...
Charges pressed against actress Eka in drug case
03:15 PM, 17 Feb 2022 ThursdayPolice have pressed charges against film actress Eka in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act. Hatirjheel Police Station deputy inspector Monir Mondal confirmed the matter to Jago News on Thursday...
More Polish opposition figures found to have been targeted by Pegasus
02:56 PM, 17 Feb 2022 ThursdayThe use of intrusive spyware by members of the European Union is expected to face new scrutiny following revelations that the mobile phones of two more Polish citizens with close links to an opposition senator were targeted by a client of NSO Group, according to security experts...