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Power returns to Lebanon after 24-hour blackout
08:24 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPower has been restored in Lebanon, officials say, after a 24-hour shutdown of the country's energy supply...
Ex-joint secretary sued for embezzling Tk 1.75cr
08:04 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayThe Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against former joint secretary, and director of the Directorate General of Family Planning Dr Ashrafunnesa for allegedly swindling around Tk 1.76 crore...
14 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:23 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayFifteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,688. During the period, 481 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,62,359, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Charge-sheet against Pori Moni, others in drugs case accepted
04:47 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayA Dhaka court on Sunday accepted charge-sheet filed against actress Pori Moni and two others in a case lodged under the Narcotics Control Act...
Female doctor found dead in Dhaka
04:06 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPolice have recovered the body of a female physician from Khilkhet area in the capital...
Hindu women abused for travelling in Muslim man’s car
03:42 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayIn yet another moral policing incident, the police in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka on Saturday arrested two persons for allegedly abusing two Hindu women for travelling in a Muslim man’s car...
16 feared dead after plane crashes in Russia
02:36 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayAn aircraft carrying parachutists crashed in central Russia on Sunday, the emergencies ministry said, with sixteen people feared dead...
Govt mulling to construct another nuclear power plant: PM
02:21 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government has been mulling to set up another nuclear power plant in the southern region to meet the increased demand for electricity which was a prerequisite to ensure country's overall development...
RMCH records two more fatalities in Covid-19 unit
01:41 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded two more fatalities in its Covid-19 unit in the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking the death toll to 32 in the first ten days of this month...
PM opens Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor installation work
12:57 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated reactor pressure vessel installation work of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), calling the day as "very important" for the country and herself as well...
Rafiqul Haque Dadubhai no more
12:45 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayRenowned journalist, dramatist and poet Rafiqul Haque, popularly known as Dadubhai, has passed away. He breathed his last at his own residence at 11 am on Sunday. He left behind two sons and one daughter and many well-wishers to mourn his death...
Pakistan’s nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan dies
12:13 PM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPakistan's renowned nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, 85, passed away Sunday after his health deteriorated...
Gunmen raid Nigeria market, kill 20 people
11:56 AM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayAt least 20 people have been killed in Nigeria’s Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, according to a state official and local Member of Parliament...
Guatemala police free 126 migrants from abandoned container
10:28 AM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayPolice in Guatemala have rescued 126 migrants who were abandoned inside a shipping container at the side of a road...
Covid vaccine: Why these US workers won’t get jabbed
09:37 AM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayJoe Biden has been urging US employers to issue ultimatums to their staff: get vaccinated, or lose your job...
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian resigns amid corruption inquiry
09:15 AM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayAustria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down, after pressure triggered by a corruption scandal...
Taliban say they won’t work with US to contain Islamic State
08:23 AM, 10 Oct 2021 SundayThe Taliban on Saturday ruled out cooperation with the United States to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan, staking out an uncompromising position on a key issue ahead of the first direct talks between the former foes since America withdrew from the country in August...
realme GT Master Edition now available nationwide
09:20 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayTop 1 Smartphone brand in Q2, 2021 realme has recently launched their flagship killer phone from its GT series - realme GT Master Edition...
10 lakh AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive from India
08:36 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayThe third commercial shipment of 10 lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived around 5.30 pm on Saturday afternoon at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka...
Jatiya Party's new Secy Gen Chunnu
07:32 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayJatiya Party has chosen Mujibul Haque Chunnu as its new secretary general...