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Iqbal put on fresh 5-day remand
03:56 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayA court in Cumilla on Friday put Iqbal Hossain, who placed the Holy Quran in a puja mandap in the district town, and three others on a fresh five-day remand. The district Senior Judicial Magistrate Farhana Sultana passed the order after police had produced them before the court, seeking a seven-day remand...
S.Korea eases curbs in first step toward 'living with Covid-19'
03:05 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridaySouth Korea said on Friday it will drop all operating-hour curbs on restaurants and cafes and implement its first vaccine passport for high-risk venues such as gyms, saunas and bars, as it tries to "live with COVID-19"...
Saifuddin set to miss Pakistan home series
02:44 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayBangladesh's injured pace bowling all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin, who was replaced in the ongoing ICC World T20 due to a back injury, is all set to miss the upcoming home series against Pakistan, slated from November...
Sirajganj couple found dead in bedroom
12:55 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayThe body of the man bore scratches, and his hand veins were found severed but no injury marks were found on his wife's body, he said. Police primarily assume that the man first might have strangulated his wife to death and then he committed suicide. Actual cause of the deaths would be known after autopsy report...
EU suspends funding to WHO programmes in Congo after sex scandal
12:15 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayThe European Commission has suspended funding to the World Health Organization's programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to concerns over the U.N. agency's handling of the sexual abuse scandal...
Facebook changes name to Meta to highlight virtual reality shift
11:48 AM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayFacebook Inc. is re-christening itself Meta, decoupling its corporate identity from the eponymous social network mired in toxic content, and highlighting a shift to an emerging computing platform focused on virtual reality...
Australia cruise home against Sri Lanka
11:23 AM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayAustralia maintained their 100% record at the Men's T20 World Cup with a dominant seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka...
Maintain health guidelines as Coronavirus may resurge in winter: PM
10:00 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon all the people to maintain the health protocol including wearing masks as the Coronavirus might hit the country again as the winter is approaching...
HC orders judicial inquiry into communal violence
09:03 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayThe High Court on Thursday ordered a judiciary inquiry into the communal violence in the country's six districts...
173 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
07:43 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayAs many as 173 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning...
Barjuan appointed Barca boss on interim basis
07:12 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdaySergi Barjuan has been announced as Barcelona's interim head coach, following the dismissal of Ronald Koeman late on Wednesday night...
Aryan Khan secures bail in drugs case
06:19 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayThe Bombay High Court on Thursday granted Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, bail three weeks after he was arrested in connection with a drug bust case onboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 3...
Cabinet asks e-commerce organisations to register in 2 months
05:46 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayThe cabinet on Thursday ordered all e-commerce organisations to get registered with the Commerce Ministry within the next two months as the government moves to bring them under a legal framework...
Six more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:14 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdaySix more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,847. During the period, 294 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,68,857, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Myanmar military uses systematic torture across country
05:06 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayThe soldiers in rural Myanmar twisted the young man’s skin with pliers and kicked him in the chest until he couldn’t breathe. Then they taunted him about his family until his heart ached, too: “Your mom,” they jeered, “cannot save you anymore.”..
Barca in Xavi talks after Koeman exit: Sources
04:29 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayBarcelona president Joan Laporta will hold talks with Xavi Hernandez on Thursday over the managerial vacancy at Camp Nou following the dismissal of Ronald Koeman, sources have confirmed to ESPN...
No more super skyscrapers, says China
04:05 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayChina has restricted smaller cities in the country from building "super high-rise buildings", as part of a larger bid to crack down on vanity projects...
Cabinet approves 22 public holidays in 2022
02:35 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdaySix out of twenty-two public holidays will fall on the weekends next year. The number of public holidays was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today virtually. Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said this at a press briefing held at the Secretariat...
Climate change: Human activity makes forests emit carbon
01:40 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayTen of the world's most highly protected forests have become net sources of carbon, as they are degraded by human activity and climate change...
RMCH counts five more fatalities in Covid-19 unit
12:14 PM, 28 Oct 2021 ThursdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded five more fatalities in its Covid-19 unit in the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking the death toll to 96, so far, this month...