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Speech-impaired woman found dead in Dhaka
03:54 PM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayPolice recovered the body of a speech-impaired woman in the capital's Gulistan area on Saturday morning...
AL picks Pran Gopal for Cumilla-7 by-polls
03:22 PM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayAwami League has nominated former Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pran Gopal Datta for by-election to Cumilla-7 constituency...
54 lakh more Sinopharm vaccine jabs arrive
02:12 PM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayBangladesh received 54,01,350 more doses of Sinopharm vaccine early Saturday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the consignment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 1 am. The airport health official Dr Sazzad Hossain confirmed the matter to the media...
Biden calls for unity as US marks 9/11
01:04 PM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayUS President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country remembers the victims of the 2001 11 September attacks...
Three killed as truck rams auto-rickshaw
11:40 AM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayIdentities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Mainamati Police Station sub-inspector Abdur Rahman said a truck hit an auto-rickshaw stood beside the road in Mainamati area on the Cumilla-Sylhet Highway around 6 am, leaving the latter vehicle's driver and its two passengers dead...
UN chief calls for action on Covid-19, climate
11:07 AM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayThe United Nations chief warned Friday that the world is "moving in the wrong direction" and exhorted nations to take urgent action to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. "Covid-19 is a wake-up call, and we are oversleeping," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a press conference...
Lebanon gets new government amid deepening crisis
09:55 AM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayA new government has been announced in Lebanon over a year after the previous administration quit following the devastating Beirut port explosion...
US military trial of 9/11 suspects drags on 20 years after attack
09:09 AM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, along with four co-defendants appeared in a military courtroom at Guantanamo Bay this week for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began...
Allen, Latham secure consolation NZ victory
08:16 AM, 11 Sep 2021 SaturdayNew Zealand saved their best batting display for the last game as they revelled in the leniency showed by Shere Bangla National Stadium curator Gamini Silva. On a pitch much more conducive for strokeplay, they piled up 161 for 5 and beat Bangladesh by 27 runs...
WHO more doubtful about vaccines ending pandemic
06:09 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayThe head of the WHO Europe was Friday pessimistic about vaccines' ability to put an end to the Covid pandemic, as new variants dash hopes of reaching herd immunity...
Bangladesh sees lowest Covid-19 deaths after 3 months
05:27 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayBangladesh reported 38 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, hitting the lowest fatalities after three months. With this, the country's coronavirus deaths stood at 26,832, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday. Earlier on June 9, 36 people were reported to have died of COVID-19...
Fifth England-India Test cancelled
05:12 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayEngland's fifth Test against India at Emirates Old Trafford was cancelled after some of the tourists' backroom staff tested positive for Covid-19...
UN warns Afghanistan at risk of 'total breakdown'
03:32 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayThe United Nations has warned that Afghanistan is at risk of “total breakdown” of the international community does not find a way to keep money flowing into Afghanistan despite concerns over the Taliban government. Nearly $10bn of Afghanistan’s central bank assets are currently frozen overseas and considered key leverage over the new administration...
Suspected thief lynched in Dhaka
12:42 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayAn angry mob beat a suspected thief to death at Sabujbag in the capital early Friday...
Messi breaks Pele record as Argentina rout Bolivia, Brazil stroll
12:09 PM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayLionel Messi scored a hat-trick to overtake Pele as the top international goalscorer in South American football history on Thursday as Argentina cruised to a 3-0 victory over Bolivia in their 2022 World Cup qualifier...
Biden and Xi hold first call in seven months
11:51 AM, 10 Sep 2021 FridayChinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with his US counterpart Joe Biden, their first call in seven months. A White House Statement said both leaders had "discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict". This is only the second call between them since President Biden took office...
Bangladesh to decide over Afghanistan Independently: Momen
09:56 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayForeign Minister AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh will take its foreign policy decision over Afghanistan independently, not be reflected by any other country...
PayPal raises fees between UK and Europe
08:53 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayPayPal is introducing new fees for payments between businesses in the UK and those in Europe, from November...
T20 World Cup squads - full list
08:06 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayHere are the 15-man squads for the T20 Men's World Cup, which will be held in UAE and Oman between 17 October and 14 November...
Damaging Asrayan's houses purposely is 'unbelievable': PM
07:46 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said some people have broken with hammer and shovel the houses, given by her to homeless people as the gift of Mujib Borsha under Asrayan-2 project, and published pictures of the broken homes in media...