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Facebook accused of allowing sexist job advertising
07:00 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayFacebook has been accused of breaking equality law in the way it handles job adverts...
58 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:24 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayFifty-eight more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,794. During the period, 2,588 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,24,890, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus...
Court acquitts journo Probir Sikder in ICT case
05:19 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayJournalist Probir Sikder has been acquitted in an ICT case filed for allegedly defaming former LGRD Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain...
PM hopes Bangladesh-EU relations to strengthen further
04:29 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today hoped that the relations between the European Union (EU) and Bangladesh would continue to strength further. "EU-Bangladesh relations will continue to strengthen," she said when EU Ambassador to Bangladesh Rensje Teerink paid her farewell call to the Prime Minister at her official residence here this morning...
For Kangana, big setback in court in case vs Javed Akhtar
03:52 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayActor Kangana Ranaut's request to cancel defamation case filed by poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar was rejected by the Bombay High Court this morning...
PM for making AL more strong as election approaching
03:23 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked her party leaders and workers to make the party more strong at the grassroots as the national election is approaching. The Prime Minister said that it has been possible to handle the Covid-19 situation as AL is in power...
BCB names T20 squad for ICC World Cup
12:44 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayMinhajul Abedin Nannu, the chief selector of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), today announced Bangladesh’s squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, which is scheduled to take place from October 17. He disclosed this at a press conference held at the Press Conference Room of Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium after 12pm...
RMCH counts six more fatalities in Covid-19 unit
12:12 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayRajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded six more fatalities at the Covid-19 unit in the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking the death toll to 60 so far this month...
Afghanistan’s ex-President Ashraf Ghani apologises for fleeing
12:01 PM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayFormer Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has apologised to the people of Afghanistan after fleeing to take refuge in the United Arab Emirates...
Militant hideout raided at Basila, top JMB leader detained
11:11 AM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayRapid Action Battalion conducted a drive at a house suspecting it militant hideout at Basila in the capital’s Mohammadpur on Thursday morning. A top Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader named Emdadul Haque alias Ujjal Master was detained from the spot and was taken to RAB headquarters for interrogation...
Head of new Afghan govt calls on ex-officials to return
09:40 AM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayAfghanistan’s new acting prime minister, in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, has called on former officials who fled when the Taliban seized power last month to return to the country, saying the group “will guarantee their security and safety”...
Afghanistan: Women beaten for demanding their rights
08:46 AM, 09 Sep 2021 Thursday"We want equal rights, we want women in government," dozens of female protesters chanted as they marched down a street in Kabul on Wednesday...
Covid: North Macedonia hospital fire kills 10
08:22 AM, 09 Sep 2021 ThursdayAt least 10 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients in North Macedonia. Footage shared on social media showed a building in flames and a thick cloud of black smoke billowing into the air near a main road in the city of Tetovo...
52 more die of Coronavirus in 24 hours
05:33 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe death toll from COVID-19 has reached 26,736 as 52 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,487 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 15,22,302. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Wednesday...
HC orders to include Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech in textbooks
05:25 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe High Court (HC) today ordered authorities concerned to include the historic speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in textbooks of university, college, secondary and higher secondary levels...
HC allows Japanese mom to spend night with daughters
04:53 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe High Court (HC) today in an order allowed Japanese citizen Nakano Eriko to spend nights with her daughters Makano Jasmine Malika, 11, and Makano Laila Lina, 9, at their Gulshan flat and take them outside...
3 motorcyclists killed in Rangpur road accident
04:03 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayThree motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Khiyarpara point on the Mithapukur-Fulbari regional highway under Badarganj upazila in the district on Tuesday night...
Akshay Kumar’s mother Aruna Bhatia dies
03:00 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayBollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s mother Aruna Bhatia died on Wednesday morning. He took to Twitter to share the news and expressed his grief...
US concerned by new Taliban government
01:54 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe US has said it is concerned after the Taliban unveiled Afghanistan's new all-male government with figures linked to attacks on American forces...
Govt tried to bring land services to people’s hand: PM
01:17 PM, 08 Sep 2021 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government has tried to bring land related services to the hands of people to reduce their sufferings and harassments through digitization of the land management system...