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Top Indian actor Puneeth Rajkumar dies at age 46
03:54 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayPuneeth Rajkumar, a prominent film actor from southern India, has died at the age of 46...
Tonga records first case of coronavirus
03:37 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayTongans have been rushing to vaccinate themselves against coronavirus after the Pacific island nation confirmed its first case on Friday...
Tigers taste 3-run defeat to West Indies in T20 WC
03:27 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayBangladesh conceded their third straight defeat in the Super 12 phase of the Twenty20 World Cup following their heartbreaking 3-run defeat to West Indies today at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium...
DMP arrests 77 for selling, consuming drugs in city
02:32 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayDetective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in anti-drug drives arrested 77 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city in the last 24 hours till 6am today...
Adyan Mart CEO, 3 others arrested
01:32 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 have arrested four people including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adyan Mart, an ecommerce site, Jubayer Siddiki in Chuadanga...
Two women among 3 found dead in Tangail
12:36 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayThree people including two women were found dead at a house at Kashtola Khamarpara area under Dighar union in Ghatail upazila of Tangail on Saturday morning. The deceased are Jomela Begum, 65, wife of late Hazrat Ali, her daughter-in-law Sumi Begum, 26 and an unidentified youth...
Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan walks out of Arthur Road jail
12:01 PM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayAryan Khan, son of India’s Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, walked out of Mumbai's Arthur Road jail today at 11.05 am after officials picked up his bail order earlier on Saturday morning...
Queen advised to rest for two more weeks
11:38 AM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayThe Queen has been advised by doctors to rest for two further weeks and will not undertake official visits during this time, Buckingham Palace has said...
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain expel Lebanese ambassadors
09:14 AM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdaySaudi Arabia on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Lebanon, a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen as Saudi “aggression.”
Myanmar military shells restive town, destroying dozens of homes
09:06 AM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayMyanmar troops have shelled a restive western town, destroying dozens of houses amid an ongoing crackdown against towns resisting the military coup...
Japan election: Ruling LDP struggles over COVID, inequality
08:52 AM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayVoters in Japan will head to the polls on Sunday with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s party fighting to save its majority in the lower house, amid frustration over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic as well as worsening economic inequality...
US FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11
08:38 AM, 30 Oct 2021 SaturdayThe US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization on Friday for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized in the United States for younger children...
Covid-19: New deaths 7, cases 305
05:19 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridaySeven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,854. During the period, 305 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,69,162, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...
Iqbal put on fresh 5-day remand
03:56 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayA court in Cumilla on Friday put Iqbal Hossain, who placed the Holy Quran in a puja mandap in the district town, and three others on a fresh five-day remand. The district Senior Judicial Magistrate Farhana Sultana passed the order after police had produced them before the court, seeking a seven-day remand...
S.Korea eases curbs in first step toward 'living with Covid-19'
03:05 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridaySouth Korea said on Friday it will drop all operating-hour curbs on restaurants and cafes and implement its first vaccine passport for high-risk venues such as gyms, saunas and bars, as it tries to "live with COVID-19"...
Saifuddin set to miss Pakistan home series
02:44 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayBangladesh's injured pace bowling all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin, who was replaced in the ongoing ICC World T20 due to a back injury, is all set to miss the upcoming home series against Pakistan, slated from November...
Sirajganj couple found dead in bedroom
12:55 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayThe body of the man bore scratches, and his hand veins were found severed but no injury marks were found on his wife's body, he said. Police primarily assume that the man first might have strangulated his wife to death and then he committed suicide. Actual cause of the deaths would be known after autopsy report...
EU suspends funding to WHO programmes in Congo after sex scandal
12:15 PM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayThe European Commission has suspended funding to the World Health Organization's programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to concerns over the U.N. agency's handling of the sexual abuse scandal...
Facebook changes name to Meta to highlight virtual reality shift
11:48 AM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayFacebook Inc. is re-christening itself Meta, decoupling its corporate identity from the eponymous social network mired in toxic content, and highlighting a shift to an emerging computing platform focused on virtual reality...
Australia cruise home against Sri Lanka
11:23 AM, 29 Oct 2021 FridayAustralia maintained their 100% record at the Men's T20 World Cup with a dominant seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka...