Google appeals against €500m French fine

Google is appealing against a €500m (£430m) fine imposed by France’s antitrust watchdog after a dispute with local media about paying for news content...

Reddit communities ‘go dark’ in protest over Covid misinformation

Reddit has been hit by a user rebellion over the online discussion forum’s failure to tackle misinformation related to Covid and vaccines...

10 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine arrive in Bangladesh

A total of 10 lakh doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 5:30 pm today...

295 with dengue fever hospitalized in a day

Some 295 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Wednesday morning...

PSG keep Mbappe but future uncertain

Paris St-Germain managed to keep Kylian Mbappe despite strong interest from Real Madrid, but face losing the France striker for nothing next summer...

Bangladesh get first-ever T20I victory over New Zealand

For New Zealand, it was the stuff nightmares are made of. They crashed and burned to 60 all out on a challenging Mirpur surface, failing to utilise their full complement of overs...

Momen for int’l community’s responsibility to establish justice for Rohingya

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has stressed on the international community’s responsibility towards establishing and supporting accountability and justice for the massive human rights violations perpetrated against Rohingyas in Myanmar...

Roaring Tigers dismiss New Zealand for 60 in first T20

Bangladesh raised a prospect of registering their first T20 International victory against New Zealand after dismissing the visitors for just 60 in 16.5 overs in the opening game of the five-match series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium...

79 more die of Covid-19 in a day

Seventy nine more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,274. 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. Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories...

WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named 'Mu'

The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January...

Saira Banu hospitalised due to low BP

Veteran Bollywood actress Saira Banu was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Mumbai earlier this week following complaints of low blood pressure and is doing well now, a hospital official said on Wednesday...

Barca sign De Jong as Griezmann leaves

Barcelona have signed Netherlands striker Luuk De Jong from Sevilla on a season-long loan after France's Antoine Griezmann left the Nou Camp to rejoin Atletico Madrid on a similar deal...

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Tamim withdraws from the T20 World Cup 2021

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal has withdrawn from the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE and Oman. ''As I did not play in the last 15 to 20 T20 matches, and whoever replaced me, I don't think it would be fair on them if I take their place," the southpaw noted through a video message...

Kiron: A visionary sports organizer

Mahfuza Akhter Kiron is a member of FIFA Council. She has become the first sports organizer in the country and achieve this through her organizational skills...

Weather disasters killed 2 million in last 50 years

The number of disasters, such as floods and heatwaves, driven by climate change have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, killing more than 2 million people and costing $3.64 trillion in total losses, a U.N. agency said on Wednesday...

Ex-Lt Col Shahid, his wife jailed for 10 years

A Dhaka court has sentenced sacked lieutenant colonel Shahid Uddin Khan and his wife Farjana Anjum Khan to 10 years in jail in a case filed under the Special Power Act (SPA). Judge Syeda Hafcha Jhuma of Eight Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday...

Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance

Japan's Kanagawa prefecture said it has found another vial of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine suspected of containing a foreign substance and has put the rest of the lot on hold...

32 dead as bus plunges off cliff near Peruvian capital Lima

At least 32 passengers have died, including two children, and more than 20 were injured when a bus plummeted from a cliff in Peru, officials said, in the country’s third multiple-victim transport accident in four days...

Pori Moni released on bail

Dhallywood actress Porimoni was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Women’s Jail in Gazipur on Wednesday morning. She walked out of the jail at 9:30am. Earlier on Tuesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge K M Imrul Kayesh granted the bail to her in a drug case...