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Bangladesh to work with India for prosperous region
08:08 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh looks forward to working together with India in the next 50 years and beyond towards realizing the shared vision of building a peaceful and prosperous region...
Five killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw
07:41 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdaySherpur Fire Service and Civil Defence official Nader Hossain said a bus of 'Hanif Paribahan' rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Mirzapur Ambagan area on the Dhaka-Bogura highway around 5 pm, leaving five passengers of the latter vehicle dead on the spot and 10 others injured...
Perera retires from international cricket
06:53 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayDilruwan Perera has announced his from international cricket after 43 Tests, 13 ODIs and five T20Is. The allrounder scored 1456 runs across formats and picked 177 wickets at the international stage...
15527 new Covid cases, 17 deaths in 24 hrs
05:53 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe Bangladesh government recorded 15,527 new COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total infections stood at 17,31,524 and fatalities rose to 28,273, a health directorate press release said on Wednesday. As many as 49,275 samples were collected and 49,073 tested in the past day...
Dispelling misconceptions Bangladesh is advancing at indomitable pace: PM
05:47 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament that Bangladesh is advancing towards progress dissipating all the misconceptions regarding the future of independent Bangladesh...
Microsoft beats expectations with $18.8bn profit
05:10 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayMicrosoft reported a profit of $18.8bn for the last three months of 2021, ahead of analysts expectations, but its share price initially slumped over 5% after another rocky day on Wall Street...
IMF urges EI Salvador to reverse Bitcoin policy
04:32 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged El Salvador to reverse its decision to make Bitcoin legal tender...
Dominant Tsitspas reaches semi-finals
03:45 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayFourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas reached the Australian Open semi-finals for the third time with a dominant straight sets victory over Jannik Sinner...
Yuvraj becomes father of baby boy
03:33 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayFormer cricketer Yuvraj Singh and his wife, Hazel Keech, announced that they’ve become parents to a baby boy. The couple tied the knot in 2016...
Dhaka seeks UN’s effective role in resolving Rohingya crisis
02:33 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayBangladesh has urged the United Nations (UN) to play an effective role in a durable solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis...
Rangpur records highest ever 44.88pc Covid-19 positivity
02:02 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayRangpur division recorded the highest ever 44.88 percent Covid-19 positivity rate on Tuesday since the outbreak of the pandemic amid a faster community spread of the lethal virus...
Omicron risk remains very high: WHO
01:29 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the WHO said late Tuesday, with the numbers of new Covid-19 cases hitting another record high last week...
Bill on EC formation report placed in parliament
01:01 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe report on the bill titled "Appointment of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners Bill-2022" was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday as the next commission will come into existence under the new law...
France posts new daily Covid case record
12:36 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayFrance posted 501,635 new cases of coronavirus for the past 24 hours on Tuesday, a new daily record and the first time the headline number has surpassed half a million...
3 workers killed as train hits auto-rickshaw
12:08 PM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThree workers were killed and four others injured when the Barendra Express train hit an auto-rickshaw at Daroani area in Nilphamari on Wednesday morning...
SUST students end hunger strike after 7 days
10:39 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayA group of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students, who went on a fast unto death on January 19 demanding the removal of the Vice Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin, ended their strike on Wednesday morning...
Covid: Netherlands to ease restrictions despite rising case numbers
10:10 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayThe Dutch government has said it will ease its Covid-19 restrictions, among Europe's toughest, from Wednesday...
US could sanction Putin if Russia invades Ukraine: Biden
08:13 AM, 26 Jan 2022 WednesdayUS President Joe Biden says he would consider personal sanctions on Vladimir Putin if Russia invades Ukraine. Mr Biden said there would be "enormous consequences" for the world if Russia made a move on the nation, which sits on its south-western border...
Comilla thrash Barishal to go top in points table
09:59 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayComilla Victorians thrashed Fortune Barishal in the eighth match of Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka on Tuesday...
President asks police to ensure 'hassle free' services
09:21 PM, 25 Jan 2022 TuesdayPresident M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday asked police personnel to ensure that no service seekers are harassed anyway as he was virtually addressing a function marking "the Police Week 2022" from Bangabhaban...