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20% increase in water prices proposed
04:02 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayThe Dhaka Water Supply And Sewerage Authority has proposed to the government to increase the prices of water up to 20 percent in a bid to decrease subsidiary. WASA Managing Director Taksim A Khan said this after a view exchange meeting with the journalists at the agency building at Karwan Bazar in the capital on Wednesday...
Rodriguez strike denies Man Utd
03:40 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayManchester United tumbled out of the Premier League's top four as Jay Rodriguez's first goal in 50 league games earned bottom club Burnley a precious point at Turf Moor...
N’ganj city polls proved again people don’t mistake: PM
02:49 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls proved again that the people never make any mistake as they have elected their favorite candidates in a free, fair and neutral election. "The people never do mistakes and that's the reality... It has been proved again in the NCC elections,” she said...
Hijab row: Tense situation continues in Karnataka
02:21 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayTense situation continued in the southern Indian state of Karnataka in the backdrop of incidents of violence reported due to the hijab row. The police have arrested 15 persons so far...
“Bikini, Ghoonghat or Hijab - it’s woman’s right”: Priyanka Gandhi
01:53 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayCongress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday spoke up in support of college students in Karnataka who have been banned from wearing the hijab in classrooms, tweeting that the choice of what clothes to wear was theirs alone, and that this right is protected by the Constitution...
Court frames charges against cricketer Nasir, Tamima
12:52 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayA court has framed charges against cricketer Nasir Hossain and his wife Tamima Sultana Tammi in a case filed over ‘illegal marriage’. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain passed the order on Wednesday...
Narayanganj mayor, councillors take oaths
12:25 PM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayNewly elected mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, 36 councillors, including nine councillors of reserved seats, have been sworn in. The oath-taking ceremony was held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina joined it from her official residence Gonobhaban...
WHO laments ‘tragic’ 5 lakh Covid death toll since Omicron
11:21 AM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayThe World Health Organization lamented Tuesday that half a million Covid-19 deaths had been recorded since the Omicron variant was discovered, calling the toll "beyond tragic". The WHO's incident manager Abdi Mahamud said that 130 million cases and 500,000 deaths had been recorded globally...
Saudi secures 2,450 wells after Moroccan boy’s death
10:06 AM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdaySaudi Arabia has said it filled and fortified thousands of abandoned wells across the country, after the tragic death of a boy in Morocco following failed rescue efforts...
14 dead in Colombia mudslide
09:41 AM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayAt least 14 people died and 34 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster agency said...
Malala weighs into Karnataka hijab row
08:54 AM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayNobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has spoken out in support of six Indian students fighting for their right to wear the hijab in class...
Macron says Putin pledges no new Ukraine escalation
08:37 AM, 09 Feb 2022 WednesdayFrench President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters that President Vladimir Putin assured him that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine's borders. "I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation," he said before meeting Ukraine's leader...
3957 appointed from 42nd special BCS
10:02 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayThe government has recruited as many as 3,957 doctors who qualifed the 42nd special Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS)...
PM hopes people will vote for AL in next election
09:42 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the people of the country would vote for the Awami League (AL) in the next general election as it has changed the country and transformed it into a developing nation. "We hope that the people will vote for us in the next general election as we have changed the country," she said...
Zafrullah proposes to make Shakhawat CEC
08:11 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayGanaswastha Kendra's Trustee and Bhashani Onusari Parishad Chairman Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has proposed to the government to make former election commissioner Brigadier General (retd) M Shakhawat Hossain chief election commissioner (CEC)...
Hijab row: All schools, colleges in Karnataka shut for 3 days
07:01 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayAll schools and colleges in Karnataka will be shut for the next three days amid the row over wearing hijab by students. Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai tweeted he has ordered all high schools and colleges to remain shut "to maintain peace and harmony"...
GDP size stands at $416b, per capita income $2,591 in FY21
06:30 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayCountry’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate reached 6.94 percent in FY21 while the per capita income increased to $2,591...
US approves $100 million sale for Taiwan missile upgrades
05:08 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayThe United States has approved a possible $100 million sale of equipment and services to Taiwan to "sustain, maintain, and improve" its Patriot missile defense system, the Pentagon said on Monday, drawing an angry threat of retaliation from Beijing...
Coronavirus: 43 new deaths, 8354 cases
04:27 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayForty-three more people died from coronavirus and 8,354 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 28,670 and 18,79,255 respectively, a health directorate press release on Tuesday. As many as 41,879 samples were collected, and 41,698 tested in the past day...
ECNEC okays Tk 1,503.32cr project to set up frontier technology institute
04:01 PM, 08 Feb 2022 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 1,503.32 crore project to set up an institute of frontier technology...