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245 more die of Coronavirus
06:10 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayThe death toll from COVID-19 has reached 22,897 as 245 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 11,463 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 13,65,158. The Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
Quader asks BNP to learn from Hasina’s welfare-oriented politics
05:41 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged BNP to take lessons from the welfare-oriented politics of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’
04:48 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayHumanity's damaging impact on the climate is a "statement of fact", say UN scientists in a landmark study. The report says that ongoing emissions of warming gases could also see a key temperature limit broken in just over a decade...
Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya actor Anupam Shyam dies
03:55 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayBollywood actor Anupam Shyam died in Mumbai today at the age of 63 of multiple organ failure. The actor had been suffering from kidney ailment for the last few years and was hospitalised about a week ago...
‘Smallest baby at birth’ home after 13 months in hospital
03:02 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayA baby thought to be the world's smallest at birth has been discharged from a Singapore hospital after 13 months of intensive treatment...
US provides additional $11.4m to Bangladesh as COVID assistance
01:43 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayThe United States (US) has announced to provide an additional 11.4 million US dollars to Bangladesh as urgent COVID-19 assistance to accelerate the country’s efforts to roll out an effective COVID-19 vaccination campaign...
Heavy rain in China’s Sichuan forces evacuation of 80,000 people
01:25 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayMore than 80,000 people have been evacuated because of heavy rains and floods in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, state media reported on Monday...
Cuomo’s top aide resigns as governor faces harassment furor
01:01 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayMelissa DeRosa, a fixture next to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for months during his coronavirus news conferences, resigned late Sunday on the heels of a report that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women...
RMCH records 11 more deaths at its Covid-19 unit
12:45 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondaySome 11 more people died at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) during the last 24-hour till 6am today, taking the death toll to 139 so far this month against 566 in July and 405 in June...
Taliban captures 3 more Afghan provincial capitals in a day
12:09 PM, 09 Aug 2021 MondayThe Taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent months. The group has seized five provincial capitals in Afghanistan since Friday in a lightning offensive...
Police headquarters to probe 'affair' of Saklain, Pori Moni
10:06 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayThe Police Headquarters has formed a three-member committee to investigate into the reported affair of Additional Deputy Commissioner Md Golam Saklain Shithil, who has been removed from his post in the DMP's Detective Branch, with Dhallywood actress Pori Moni...
Shakib nominated for ICC player of the month in July
08:40 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayA day after registering his worst figure in T20 International cricket, ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan got a good news as the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced him as one of the three players nominated for the ICC player of the month in July...
Taliban captures Kunduz, third provincial capital in 3 days
08:04 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayThe Taliban has captured the city of Kunduz, the armed group said, the third provincial capital it has taken over in the last three days...
Bangamata contributed to taking exact political decision timely: PM
07:50 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangamata Begum Fazilatun Nesa Mujib had contributed to taking right political decisions timely for the country alongside managing her house and family...
Emotional Messi says he wasn't prepared to leave Barca
06:46 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayStruggling to control his emotions, Lionel Messi said Sunday in his farewell to Barcelona that he wasn’t prepared to leave the club...
241 more die of Covid-19 in a day
06:24 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundaySome 241 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 22,652. During the period, 10,299 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 13,53,695, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday...
Story of a newsreader who becomes successful businessman
06:20 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayAlthough his full name is Sharif Al Jawad, everyone knows him as Jawad Sharif. He is working as a newsreader at private television channel NTV...
Lockdown relaxed; everything opens on Aug 11
05:10 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayThe Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification in this regard on Sunday. The notification said public transports will ply with full passenger capacity during the relaxation but the number of buses on the road will be half compared to that of the usual period...
Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account "temporarily locked"
04:30 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayIndia's opposition Congress on Saturday said its leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account had been "temporarily locked" after the social media platform countered the party's claim that his handle had been "temporarily suspended" amid a controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago...
Six killed as pickup van plunges into ditch
03:58 PM, 08 Aug 2021 SundayBonpara Highway Police Station officer in-charge Mozaffar Hossain said a pickup van carrying 11 passengers overturned on road and then it plunged into a ditch near Kachhikata bus stand around 1:45pm as its driver lost control over steering, leaving five dead on the spot and six hurt...