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Court orders to grill Evaly's Rassel at jail gate
04:12 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayA court in Dhaka on Thursday ordered police to interrogate Evaly's Managing Director Md Rassel at jail gate for a day in a fraud case filed with the capital's Dhanmondi Police Station. Dhaka's Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the order after police had produced him before the court following the completion of a one-day remand in the same case...
Hat-trick for Asensio as Real score six
03:51 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayMarco Asensio scored a superb hat-trick as Real Madrid reclaimed top spot in La Liga with an emphatic victory over Mallorca at the Bernabeu...
West Ham knock out Man Utd
03:38 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayWest Ham gained revenge for Sunday's Premier League defeat against Manchester United by knocking their hosts out of the Carabao Cup at Old Trafford...
Aukus pact: France and US seek to mend rift
02:21 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayFrance and the US have made efforts to end a row which started last week with the announcement of the Aukus defence pact between the US, UK and Australia...
US announces $180m additional assistance for Rohingyas
02:08 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayThe United States (US) has announced nearly 180 million US dollar in additional assistance for Rohingyas facing humanitarian crisis in and outside Myanmar and affected host communities in Bangladesh...
Jhumon Das gets one-year bail
01:21 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayThe High Court has granted one year bail to Sunamganj resident Jhumon Das, who was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on charge of defaming Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on social media...
UK PM tells world to ‘grow up’ and tackle climate change
12:32 PM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told global leaders to “grow up” and tackle climate change, as the world faces a now-or-never moment to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels...
Global inaction over Rohingya repatriation shocks Bangladesh: PM
11:30 AM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has demanded intensified global actions with "real urgency" to repatriate Rohingyas, saying major international powers inaction over the crisis shocked Bangladesh as it extended them makeshift refuge on humanitarian grounds...
COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff
11:16 AM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayOne desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students’ lunchboxes, telling parents it’s “now hiring.” Elsewhere, principals are filling in as crossing guards, teachers are being offered signing bonuses and schools are moving back to online learning...
Myanmar: Whole town flees amid fierce fighting
09:49 AM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayNearly all the 8,000 residents of a town in Myanmar have fled following fighting between the army and militia forces opposed to the military coup...
PM calls for declaring Covid-19 vaccine as “global public goods”
08:36 AM, 23 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to declare the Covid-19 vaccine as a "global public goods" as she joined a summit on Covid-19 in the US presidential palace, White House...
Marlon Samuels charged under ICC's anti-corruption code
08:47 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayMarlon Samuels, the architect of West Indies' twin T20 World Cup triumphs in 2012 and 2016, has been charged by the ICC's anti-corruption unit on four counts of breaching the Emirates Cricket Board's anti-corruption code. In a media statement on Wednesday, the ICC said the charges related to the T10 tournament conducted by the ECB.
‘I have learned a lot from Irrfan Khan’: Nawazuddin Siddiqui
08:27 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayIt’s been eight years since Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox hit screens. The film, starring Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur, resonated with audiences across the globe, especially with the ones who hail from Mumbai...
Cop accused of raping teenager
07:50 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayA teenage girl has filed a case against a police constable in Mymensingh accusing him of raping her...
Lithuania tells citizens to throw out Chinese phones
07:13 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayLithuania’s Defence Ministry has recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now, after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities...
Missing female UP member found dead
06:40 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayPolice recovered the body of a female UP member from a paddy field in Dhunat upazila of Bogura on Wednesday afternoon, five days after she had gone missing.
36 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:25 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayThirty six more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,313. During the period, 1,376 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,47,176, the health directorate said in a press release on Wednesday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
World is on edge of abyss: UN chief
05:05 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned that the world is on the edge of an abyss and moving in the wrong direction...
22-day ban on catching hilsa from Oct 4
04:31 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe government has decided to impose a ban on catching, selling, hoarding, and transporting hilsa for 22 days from October 4 to 25 to increase its production...
Why job adverts don't include salaries
04:01 PM, 22 Sep 2021 WednesdayYou’re scrolling through LinkedIn when you come across a promising job ad. The description is inspiring, the team members look compatible and you meet most of the qualifications for the role. Then, when you get to the part about the expected salary, you find that instead of an actual figure there are phrases like “depending on experience” or simply “competitive”...