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DGHS driver Malek jailed for 15 years
12:24 PM, 20 Sep 2021 MondayA court has sentenced Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) driver Abdul Malek to 15 years in jail in a case filed under Arms Act. Judge Rabiul Alam Dhaka of Dhaka’s Additional 3rd Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court passed the order on Monday...
Aukus: France pulls out of UK defence talks amid row
11:50 AM, 20 Sep 2021 MondayFrance's defence minister has cancelled talks with her UK counterpart amid the row prompted by a new security deal between Britain, the US and Australia...
PM reaches New York to attend 76th UNGA
11:21 AM, 20 Sep 2021 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached here in USA on Sunday evening to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Bangladesh Ambassador to USA M Shahidul Islam and Bangladesh Permanent Representative to United Nations (UN) Ambassador Rabab Fatima received the Premier at the airport, he said...
11 lawyers secure bail in DSA case
09:01 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayThe High Court has granted bail to 11 lawyers, including the former president of Mymensingh District Bar Association Md Nurul Haque, for eight weeks in a case filed under the Digital Security Act...
Indian doctor, advocate, photographer held for raping woman
08:19 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayThree men – a doctor, an advocate, and a photographer – have been arrested by the police in Anand for allegedly raping a woman multiple times and circulating her private pictures and videos...
Japan lifts travel ban on Bangladesh
07:57 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayJapan has lifted a travel ban imposed on six countries, including Bangladesh, reports Sri Lanka based News First...
241 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
07:33 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayAs many as 241 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning...
Boxer Amir Khan removed from US flight
07:15 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayBritish boxer Amir Khan has been removed from a flight in the US after a reported row over face coverings...
Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit
06:43 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayTaiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organisation on Sunday (Sept 19) after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island over pest concerns, in the latest spat between the two over fruit...
World's first all-civilian orbital crew returns to Earth
06:24 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayThe SpaceX Dragon capsule, whose heat shield allowed it to withstand descent, was slowed down by four large parachutes before splashing into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida...
43 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:23 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayForty three more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,225. During the period, 1,383 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,42,683, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday. The daily count came from a test of 24,683 samples in the past day...
BTRC approves IP-based data services only for licensed ISPs
04:56 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayBangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has shut down the services of unregistered 59 Internet Protocol Televisions (IPTV)...
Youth gets life in prison for raping woman
04:29 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayA Joypurhat court on Sunday sentenced a young man to life in prison for raping a woman luring her a job in 2007...
Tottenhamd and England legend Jimmy Greaves dies
03:31 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayTottenham Hotspur and England legend Jimmy Greaves has died aged 81...
Huge fake, foreign drugs seized from Mitford
03:11 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayThe detectives have seized a huge quantity of fake, and foreign drugs from different pharmacies and godowns in Mitford area of Old Dhaka...
Najib may seek re-election to Parliament despite conviction
02:43 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to Parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, undeterred by a corruption conviction that would block him from running...
Govt extends Khaleda’s release for 6 more months
02:05 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayThe government has extended BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s parole for six more months suspending her prison term in two cases over corruption. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told journalists at the Secretariat on Sunday...
Another case filed against Evaly CEO, 19 others
01:05 PM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayEvaly CEO Md Rassel and its nineteen officials have been sued in another case filed over embezzlement of money. A man named Md Kamrul Islam Chakdar filed the case with Dhanmandi Police Station on Saturday midnight...
French minister condemns US and Australia ‘lies’ over security pact
11:43 AM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayFrance's foreign minister has accused Australia and the US of lying over a new security pact that prompted Paris to recall its ambassadors...
8 killed, 7 missing after passenger ship overturns in China
10:34 AM, 19 Sep 2021 SundayEight people were killed, and seven others remained missing as of 8:10 a.m. Sunday after a passenger ship overturned in a river in southwest China's Guizhou Province, according to local authorities...