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Five dead, two missing in Turag trawler capsize
07:04 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayAt least four children and a woman died and two others went missing as a trawler capsized in the river Turag at Amin Bazar area in Savar upazila on the outskirts of capital Dhaka early Saturday...
6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu region
06:06 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayA magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Vanuatu region, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Saturday...
20 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:20 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayTwenty more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,674. During the period, 415 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,61,878, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Over 50 dead, more missing in Congo boat capsize
04:50 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayMore than 50 people have died and more are believed to be missing following the capsizing of a makeshift vessel on the Congo River earlier this week, according to provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...
Ex-Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris
04:17 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayAbolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88...
Struggling Air India sold to Tata Sons
03:48 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayIndia's loss making national carrier Air India has been sold to the Tata group, the country's largest conglomerate...
Romania to donate 200,000 AstraZeneca jabs to Bangladesh
03:28 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayRomania government has announced donating 200,000 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh...
Bangladesh, UN sign MoU on Rohingya humanitarian assistance
02:42 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayBangladesh government and the United Nations (UN) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a common protection and policy framework for humanitarian response to Rohingya in Bhasan Char...
Trawler capsize in Turag: 3 bodies recovered, 4 missing
01:31 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayBodies of three people were recovered and four others went missing after a trawler capsized in Turag River at Amin Bazar area in the capital on Saturday. Three teams of divers are working to rescue the missing people...
Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again
12:30 PM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayFacebook has apologised after again reporting problems with its services, days after a major outage hit WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook for hours...
3 Bangladeshis among 10 injured in drone attack at Saudi airport
10:11 AM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayAt least 10 people have been reported injured in an attack on an airport in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jazan, near the border with Yemen. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said the attack on Friday evening targeted the King Abdullah Airport...
President off to Germany, UK for health checkup
10:01 AM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayPresident M Abdul Hamid left here early today on a 12-day visit to Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) for health checkup and treatment of eyes...
Israeli judge upholds ban on Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa compound
09:07 AM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayAn Israeli court has upheld a ban on Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, overturning a lower court’s decision that had sparked fury among Palestinians and the Muslim world...
Durga Puja to begin Monday with Maha Shasthi
08:41 AM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayDurga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will begin on Monday with holding Maha Shasthi puja at temples across the country amid festivity and religious fervor with maintaining health guidelines...
Trump must give documents to Capitol riot probe: Biden
08:29 AM, 09 Oct 2021 SaturdayPresident Biden has rejected an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold documents from the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot. Mr Trump had asked that the records the committee requested remain hidden under executive privilege, which shields some presidential communications...
Watmore stands down as ECB chairman
05:46 PM, 08 Oct 2021 FridayIan Watmore has stood down as chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) with immediate effect after just over a year in the role...
Lowest 7 coronavirus deaths in 30 weeks
04:53 PM, 08 Oct 2021 FridaySeven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,654. During the period, 645 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,61,463, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Two journalists win Nobel Peace Prize
03:57 PM, 08 Oct 2021 FridayJournalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their "courageous fight" to defend freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. The committee called the pair "representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal". The winners of the prestigious prize, worth 10m Swedish krona (£836,000; $1.1m)...
India approves vaccine export to 4 countries including Bangladesh
02:59 PM, 08 Oct 2021 FridayThe Pune-based pharma company SII has also been allowed to supply bulk Covishield vaccine, which is equivalent to around 3 crore doses, to AstraZeneca in the UK, they told PTI...
Bahrain lifts travel ban for Bangladesh
01:15 PM, 08 Oct 2021 FridayBahrain has lifted the ban on entry from Bangladesh and 10 other countries as the country's coronavirus situation improved. Civil Aviation Affairs, the aviation authority of the Middle East country, announced the decision with affecting from October 10...