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Decision of cancelling Zayed Khan’s candidature stayed
02:09 PM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayThe High Court (HC) has stayed the decision made by the appellate board of the Bangladesh Film Artistes’ Association (BFAA) election that cancelled the candidature of actor Zayed Khan...
RMCH records 3 more deaths in Covid-19 unit
01:31 PM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded three more deaths in its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 9am today...
BNP won’t suggest any name to search committee: Fakhrul
01:13 PM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayBNP will not suggest any name to the search committee for the posts of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and other Election Commissioners (ECs). The party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said this after visiting ailing Natore Gurudaspur Upazila BNP President Abdul Aziz...
Macron says a deal to avoid war is within reach
12:44 PM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said he thinks a deal to avoid full scale war in Ukraine is possible and that it is legitimate for Russia to raise its own security concerns...
Truck-bus collision kills 3
12:05 PM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayThree people were killed and thirty others injured in a head-on collision between a mini truck and a bus at Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Bajlu Haque, 40, the driver of the bus, its helper Alal, 35 and Khaled, 28, the driver of the truck...
Ottawa declares emergency over trucker Covid rules protests
11:23 AM, 07 Feb 2022 MondayThe mayor of Canada's capital Ottawa has declared a state of emergency in response to more than a week of truckers' protests against Covid restrictions...
How comic genius Charlie Chaplin survived his hungry childhood
06:14 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayThe extreme poverty endured by Charlie Chaplin while growing up in the slums of Victorian London reduced him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him..
Coronavirus: 29 new deaths, 8345 cases
05:12 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayTwenty-nine more people died from coronavirus and 8,345 newly contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities and infections rose to 28,589 and 18,61,532 respectively, a health directorate press release on Sunday. As many as 38,247 samples were collected, and 38,821 tested in the past day...
City corporation approval required to construct building in capital
04:52 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayLocal Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that it is required to take approval from city corporations besides Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAJUK) to construct any kind of building in the capital...
RFL Best Buy opens three more outlets in Dhaka
03:19 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayRFL Best Buy has opened three more new retail outlets in Dhaka. RN Paul, Managing Director of RFL Group, inaugurated the outlets in the capital recently...
N Korea grows nuclear, missiles programs: UN report
01:48 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayNorth Korea continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the past year and cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges were an important revenue source for Pyongyang...
Plymouth miss extra-time penalty as Chelsea survive scare
01:33 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayPlymouth's Ryan Hardie missed a penalty late in extra time as Chelsea survived a huge scare to beat the League One side in the FA Cup fourth round...
Moroccan boy stuck in well dies before rescue
01:08 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayWorkers retrieved the body of a young boy who was trapped for five days in a well in northern Morocco, a devastating end to a painstaking operation that gripped the nation...
President, PM mourn death of Lata Mangeshkar
12:41 PM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayPresident M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed their profound shock and sorrow at the death of India's legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar...
Mahrez double helps Man City see off Fulham
11:39 AM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayRiyad Mahrez scored twice as Manchester City fought back from a goal down to see off Championship leaders Fulham and book their place in the FA Cup fifth round...
Lata Mangeshkar, India’s nightingale, dies
11:23 AM, 06 Feb 2022 SundayLegendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away in Mumbai on Sunday at the age of 92. The versatile singer, christened the Nightingale of India, had lent her voice to thousands of songs in 36 languages in a career spanning almost eight decades...
Hijab row: Indian state bans clothes that ‘disturb public law and order’
09:59 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayIn a bid to put an end to the simmering hijab (head scarf) controversy in Karnataka, the state government Saturday directed banning clothes “which disturb equality, integrity and public order” in schools and colleges...
Nipun declared Film Artistes Association gen secy
08:56 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayActor Zayed Khan has been stripped of his position as the general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes Association and instead, actress Nipun declared elected unopposed in the post...
14000 die of cervical and breast cancer each year; prevention costs Tk 200cr
07:26 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdaySheuli Akter Jui, 45, resides in Pallabi area of Mirpur in the capital of Dhaka. Her husband Washim Sazzad died five years ago. Since then, she along with her only daughter lives at Pallabi...
Thousands in Mali celebrate expulsion of French ambassador
06:16 PM, 05 Feb 2022 SaturdayThousands of anti-French demonstrators have poured into the street of the Malian capital, Bamako, to cheer at the expulsion of the French ambassador...