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11 killed in Kabul airport bomb attacks
09:06 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA Taliban official has said that at least 11 people have been killed in an attack on Kabul airport in Afghanistan. The official said the number included women and children and that a number of Taliban guards had also been wounded...
Politico to be sold for over $1 billion
08:53 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayAxel Springer, the German media conglomerate, has agreed to buy the Washington-based Politico franchise for more than $1 billion...
Shamim Hossen's short film 'Kathgoray Mayer Somman' released
08:25 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayShamim Hossen's new short film 'Kathgoray Mayer Somman' has been released. The short film was released on the MK Entertain YouTube channel on Monday night. Written and Directed by Shamim Hossen. Co-directed and supervised by Ismail Hossain Sourav. Filmed by Sagir Khan...
267 with dengue fever hospitalized in a day
07:24 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySome 267 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning...
Trial suggests malaria sickness could be cut by 70%
06:53 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA new approach to protecting young African children from malaria could reduce deaths and illness from the disease by 70%, a study suggests...
Nusrat Jahan becomes mother of Baby Boy
06:17 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayTrinamool Congress MP and actor Nusrat Jahan gave birth to a baby boy at a private hospital in Kolkata on Thursday afternoon, sources said.
102 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:39 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySome 102 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 25,729. During the period, 4,698 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 14,82,628, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday...
Woman gets life for killing husband
05:13 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA court in Meherpur on Thursday sentenced a woman and three others to life term imprisonment for killing her husband in 2007...
Ex-England captain Dexter dies
04:49 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayFormer England and Sussex captain Ted Dexter has died aged 86...
Williams to step away from int'l cricket
04:35 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySean Williams has informed the Zimbabwe team management of his intention to step away from international cricket after the team's current tour of Ireland, but he remains open to the possibility of playing white-ball cricket for the country in the future...
School closure extended to Sept 11
04:07 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayEducation Minister Dipu Moni on Thursday afternoon said the educational institutions of the country will remain shut till September 11. She came up with the disclosure after a meeting with the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, and the National Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19. The government ordered all educational institutions to close on March 17 last year following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country...
PRAN's food assistance program ‘Ahar Hobe Shobar Ghore’
03:55 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayThe needy people will be able to get emergency food assistance at home by dialing the number 02222281792. Under the ‘Pashe Asi Bangladesh’ initiative, the country’s leading conglomerate PRAN-RFL group has taken the campaign titled ‘Ahar Hobe Shobar Ghore’...
Midland Bank, BB ink deal on ACS
03:47 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayMidland Bank Limited and Bangladesh Bank have signed an agreement to collect Treasury Challan through Automated Challan System (ACS)...
RMCH counts six more death at Covid-19 unit
02:14 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySix more people died at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) during the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking the death toll to 302 so far this month...
7 burnt at Mirpur gas explosion
02:07 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayAt least seven people including a child were burnt in fire following an explosion due to pipeline gas leakage at the city’s Mirpur area early today...
Banks in Kabul reopen, drawing crowds of cash-starved Afghans
11:48 AM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayAfter more than a week of closures, banks in Afghanistan are starting to reopen, drawing crowds of hundreds of people eager to finally have physical cash in their hands once again...
Death toll rises to at least 20 in western Venezuela floods
11:07 AM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayAt least 20 people have died in the western Venezuelan state of Merida following intense rains that caused mudslides and rivers to overflow...
Coronavirus origins: US intelligence report ‘inconclusive’
09:52 AM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA US intelligence report requested by President Biden into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic is inconclusive, US media reports say...
US says 1,500 Americans may still await Kabul evacuation
09:21 AM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySecretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests the U.S. may accomplish its highest priority for the Kabul airlift...
Terror attack warning issued for Kabul airport
09:03 AM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA number of nations say there is a high threat of a terrorist attack at Kabul airport and have warned their citizens not to travel there. Australia, the US and UK have issued alerts to their citizens. Those already outside the airport are advised to leave the area immediately...