PM to open Cox’s Bazar airport runway expansion works tomorrow

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to officially inaugurate the expansion work on the Cox's Bazar Airport runway online on Sunday as part of a project to make it an international standard one...

Two minors drown in pond

Two minor girls drowned in a pond in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh district on Saturday morning...

B’baria trawler capsize: Case filed, 5 detained

A case has been filed against seven people mentioning their names and some unnamed persons over the trawler capsize that claimed 22 lives in Brahmanbaria. Selim Miah, son of late Abdul Hasim, of Champaknagar area in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila, filed the case with Bijoynagar Police Station on Saturday noon...

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2 die in Japan after shots from suspended Moderna vaccines

Two people died after receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the discovery of contaminants, Japan’s health ministry said on Saturday...

RMCH counts eight more deaths in Covid-19 unit

Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) has recorded eight more deaths at its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking its toll to 314 so far this month. However, yesterday's fatality figure from the lethal virus was just four, which was the lowest-ever since the second wave of coronavirus hit the country...

Kamal leaves for Geneva

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal left here for Geneva today to attend the Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting on the implementation of IPoA in preparation for the 5th UN Conference on the LDC (UNLDC-5)...

8 die of Coronavirus in Mymensingh

Eight people died at the Corona unit of Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital in the last 24 hours. Three of them died from the disease and the rest five died with its symptoms. Dr Mohiuddin Khan Mun, Focal Person of MMCH’s Corona unit, confirmed the deaths to Saturday...

Afghanistan: US drone strike ‘kills Isis-K planner’

The US military says it believes it has killed a planner for a branch of the Islamic State (IS) group in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. The suspected member of the IS-K group was targeted in Nangahar Province...

Cristiano Ronaldo agrees to Manchester United return

Cristiano Ronaldo has left Juventus and will return to Manchester United, the Premier League club announced on Friday, in a €15 million deal with a potential further €8m in add-ons, according to ESPN sources...

American forces keep up airlift under high threat warnings

American forces working under heightened security and threats of another attack pressed ahead in the closing days of the U.S.-led evacuation from Afghanistan...

US airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan

The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport...

117 more die of Covid-19 in a day

Some 117 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 25,846. 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...

Turkey holds first talks with the Taliban: Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey has held its first talks with the Taliban in Kabul, adding that Ankara was still assessing the Islamist group's offer to run the Afghan capital's airport...

Youth beaten dead, 10 Padma Bridge workers held

The security guards and workers of Padma Bridge project have allegedly beaten a young man to death in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj district on suspicion of thief. Deceased Zulhas Hawlader, 35, was the son of late Hasan Hawlader, a resident of Kumarbhog rehabilitation center in the upazila. By profession, he was an auto-rickshaw driver...

Taiban has not suffered casualties: Mujahid

The Taliban has not suffered any casualties in bomb attacks on the Hamid Karzai airport in Afghanistan's Kabul, the group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the BBC's Pashto service. "We (Taliban) have not suffered any casualties. The incident took place in an area that is controlled by US forces," he said...

Jorginho wins Uefa Player of the Year

Chelsea and Italy midfielder Jorginho has been named Uefa men's Player of the Year 2020-21...

‘We will hunt you down,’ Biden warns Kabul attackers

United States President Joe Biden vowed to retaliate against Thursday’s attack in Kabul, saying that he will hunt down those responsible and make them pay...

Real rise Mbappe offer to 180 million euros: Report

Real Madrid on Thursday increased their offer for Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe to 180 million euros, sports daily L'Equipe claimed...

Death toll from Kabul airport bomb attacks rises to 90

The death toll from yesterday's bomb attacks on Afghanistan's Kabul airport has risen to 90. An official from the ministry of public health, who does not want to be identified, has told the BBC that the number of people killed in yesterday's airport attack has risen to 90 people with more than 150 injured...