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18 die of Coronavirus in 24 hours
05:45 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe death toll from COVID-19 has reached 27,591 as 18 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 794 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,558,758. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
Quader asks AL grassroots leaders not to misuse power
05:25 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged AL grass root leaders not to misuse power, instructing them to send the names of competent and acceptable aspirants for the upcoming union parishad elections to the party...
Qcoom CEO remanded in DSA case
05:17 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayA court here today placed e-commerce platform Qcoom owner and chief executive officer (CEO) Ripon Miah on two-day remand in a case lodged under Digital Security Act (DSA) for embezzling money through online fraudulence...
UNGA discussion will help continue int’l pressure for Rohingya repatriation
04:56 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said international pressure on Myanmar would continue for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis...
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to David and Ardem
03:52 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. The two US-based scientists received the accolade for describing the mechanics of how humans perceive temperature and pressure through nerve impulses...
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi detained
03:07 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayIndia’s Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was detained by Uttar Pradesh police on Monday, while on her way to meet the kin of four farmers who died in Lakhimpur Kheri...
All universities to reopen from this month
02:01 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe government has decided to reopen all universities from this month. Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam said this at a press briefing after a meeting on Monday...
Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed
01:28 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents...
Qcoom CEO Ripon Miah arrested
12:27 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested the controversial e-commerce site Qcoom’s Chief Executive Officer Ripon Mia over fraudulence and embezzlement of money from their customers...
Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks reportedly dies in car crash
12:05 PM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayThe Swedish artist Lars Vilks - who has lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch caricaturing the prophet Muhammad brought death threats - has died in a car crash, according to multiple Swedish media reports...
Japan’s new PM Fumio Kishida takes office
11:47 AM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayFumio Kishida has formally taken office as Japan's new prime minister, succeeding Yoshihide Suga who resigned after just one year in office...
PM to brief media this afternoon on UNGA session
11:33 AM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference this afternoon to brief the media about her recently-concluded visit to the United States to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...
Milan plane crash: 8 dead as private jet hits building
11:25 AM, 04 Oct 2021 MondayA private plane has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board. The plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport...
Neha Dhupia, Angad Bedi welcome baby boy
09:58 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayActor couple Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi on Sunday welcomed their second child, a baby boy. Angad Bedi took to Instagram to share the new with fans. Posting a picture of himself with Neha, Angad wrote that their older child, daughter Mehr has now passed the “baby” title to her new-born brother...
Alim exam to begin on December 2
09:24 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayThis year's Alim examination, equivalent to the HSC, under the Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board will begin on December 2...
Mohibullah's killers to be brought to justice soon: Kamal
08:32 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said killers of Rohingya leader Md Mohibullah will be brought to justice soon...
PSG 110% start ends with loss at Rennes
07:54 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayParis St-Germain's 100% start in Ligue 1 was ended by Rennes as Lionel Messi suffered his first defeat since arriving at the club...
Blast kills at least two civilians near Kabul mosque
06:13 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayA bomb targeted the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday leaving a “number of civilians dead,” a Taliban spokesman said. The blast struck near the entrance of the Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul where a memorial service was being held for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid...
194 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
06:05 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayAs many as 194 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning...
18 more die of Covid-19 in a day
04:47 PM, 03 Oct 2021 SundayEighteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,573. During the period, 617 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,57,964, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...