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15 killed, 3 missing as rainstorms hit north China’s Shanxi
10:39 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayContinuous rainstorms have left 15 people dead and three others missing in north China's Shanxi Province, according to a press conference held on Tuesday by the provincial government. From Oct. 2 to 7, Shanxi experienced the strongest autumn flood on record...
COVID response one of worst ever ‘public health failures’ in UK
09:52 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayThe United Kingdom government’s early response to COVID-19 and the delay in imposing a lockdown early last year was “one of the most important public health failures” in the country’s history and cost thousands of lives, a damning parliamentary report has found...
Interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 leaves Afghanistan
08:50 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayAn Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then-senator Joe Biden from the harsh Afghanistan countryside has managed to evacuate the region with his family...
Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas - top scientist
08:30 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayThe head of the academy that awards the Nobel Prizes in science has said it will not introduce gender quotas...
11 die of COVID-19 in 24 hours
05:17 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayThe death toll from Coronavirus has reached 27,699 as 11 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 599 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,562,958. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
Noted actor Enamul Haque dies
04:42 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayVeteran actor and cultural personality Dr Enamul Haque has passed away. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital on Monday noon. His daughter Hridy Haque confirmed her father’s death to Jago News...
3 US-based economists receive economics Nobel Prize
04:19 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayThree U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called “natural experiments.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three have “completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.”
PM seeks Russian cooperation to install another nuclear power plant
04:10 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought Russian support and cooperation to set up another nuclear power plant in the country's southern region...
Amitabh Bachchan turns 79
03:42 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayBollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan turned a year older on Monday, and the actor marked his special day with an uber-cool social media post...
Man sentenced to death for killing mother
03:02 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayA court has sentenced a man to death for killing his mother at Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh. Mymensingh District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Uddin passed the order on Monday. The death-row convict is Md Mostofa, son of late Abdul Jabbar Miah of Jamirdia Dubuliapara in the upazila...
Nizamul Huq appointed as Chairman of Press Council
02:40 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayThe government has appointed retired justice of the appellate division of the Supreme Court Md Nizamul Huq as the Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council. The Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Monday...
Aryan case: No bail for him today, next hearing on Wednesday
01:45 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayBollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan did not get bail today for the third time since his arrest a week ago in the drugs-on-cruise case...
RMCH counts five more deaths in Covid-19 unit
01:21 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayRajshahi 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 37 in the last eleven days of this month...
Met office forecasts rain in 3 divisions
01:09 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayRain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions, a met office release said today. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country, it said...
Vaccine efficacy against Delta upto 92% for people aged 50-75: Study
12:37 PM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayVaccination is highly effective at preventing severe cases of Covid-19, even against the Delta variant, a vast study in France has shown...
China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province
11:59 AM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayMore than 1.76 million people have been affected by severe flooding in China's northern Shanxi province, according to local media...
Covid Australia: Sydney celebrates end of 107-day lockdown
11:33 AM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayThe Australian city of Sydney has emerged from lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new freedoms...
US concludes first direct talks with Taliban since withdrawal
11:17 AM, 11 Oct 2021 MondayThe first talks between the US and Taliban leaders since the withdrawal of American troops in August have concluded in Doha. The talks in Qatar focused on containing extremist groups, the evacuation of US citizens and humanitarian aid...
Italy beat Belgium to claim third
09:59 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayItaly withstood a late Belgium fightback to return to winning ways and claim third in the Nations League...
‘I’m open to anything’: Xavi-to-Barca rumours heat up again
09:02 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayXavi Hernandez has done nothing to quash reports that he could replace Ronald Koeman at embattled La Liga giants Barcelona, saying he is “open to anything”...