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Bangladesh to share ‘climate prosperity plan’ at COP26
01:23 PM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayBangladesh plans to present its “climate prosperity plan” aimed at mitigating the effects of global warming on economic development at the forthcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, a Bangladeshi climate official says...
BGB member commits suicide
12:26 PM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayA member of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) has committed suicide after shooting himself using a pistol in Mymensingh...
Mohib Ullah murder: One more arrested
11:51 AM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayOne more person was arrested in a case filed for the murder of Rohingya leader and the chairman of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights Mohib Ullah. With this, five people were arrested so far in the case...
Uttarakhand rains: Death toll rises to 68; 12 trekkers found dead
11:16 AM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayAmidst massive rescue efforts in Indian State of Uttarakhand following a bout of extreme weather earlier this week, the death count on Friday rose to 68, PTI reported...
US kills senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria with drone strike
09:35 AM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayThe US military has killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar in a drone strike in Syria, a US Central Command Spokesman said...
Myanmar decries move to block coup leader from ASEAN summit
09:18 AM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayMyanmar’s military government has decried a decision by its Southeast Asian neighbours to invite only a non-political figure to an upcoming regional summit in a snub to the leader of the February 1 coup...
Delta ‘Plus’ Covid variant may be more transmissible
08:31 AM, 23 Oct 2021 SaturdayA new mutated form of coronavirus that some are calling "Delta Plus" may spread more easily than regular Delta, UK experts now say.
Lowest Covid deaths in one and a half years
05:54 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayBangladesh reported four deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, hitting the lowest fatalities in one and a half years. With this, the country's coronavirus deaths stood at 27,805, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday...
Anti-drugs agency questions Bollywood actress
05:11 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayIndia's anti-drugs agency is questioning Bollywood actress Ananya Panday just weeks after it arrested superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son for allegedly doing recreational drugs...
China's 'Piano Prince' detained for prostitution
04:52 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayCelebrated Chinese pianist Li Yundi has been detained for soliciting a prostitute, state media has said...
Prop gun fired by Alec Balwin kills woman on set: police
04:04 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayUS actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico, US law enforcement officers said Thursday...
Man who put Quran in puja mandap detained
03:10 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayPolice have detained Iqbal Hossain who put the Holy Quran at Nanua Dighir Par puja mandap in Cumilla city from Cox's Bazar. He was held from Sugandha Point of Cox's Bazar sea beach around 10:30 pm on Thursday, and the 30-year-old was brought to Cumilla Police Lines from there on Friday afternoon...
Seven killed in Rohingya camp attack
12:24 PM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayThe miscreants attacked Darul Ulum Nadwatul Ulama Al-Islamia Madrasa at Block H-52 under FDMN Camp-18 around 4:15 am, leaving four FDMN members staying there dead on the spot and several others injured, 8th APBN deputy captain Kamran Hossain working there told Jago News...
Covid may have killed up to 180,000 health workers globally
11:48 AM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayA WHO paper on Thursday estimated that out of the world’s 135 million health staff, “between 80,000 to 180,000 health and care workers could have died from Covid-19 in the period between January 2020 to May 2021”...
Biden says US will defend Taiwan if China attacks
11:31 AM, 22 Oct 2021 FridayPresident Joe Biden said the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked, in an apparent departure from a long-held policy. "Yes, we have a commitment to do that," he said when asked during a townhall if the US would defend Taiwan...
Shakib equals Afridi to be leading wicket taker of T20 WC
10:05 PM, 21 Oct 2021 ThursdayShakib Al Hasan equaled Shahid Afridi as the highest wicket-taker of the T20 World Cup after claiming four wickets for just nine runs against Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Thursday at Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Muscat...
Islamic orator held for 'provocative speech'
09:28 PM, 21 Oct 2021 ThursdayPolice have arrested an Islamic orator from Dhaka's Keraniganj upazila on charge of delivering provocative speech over the reported desecration of Holy Quran in Cumilla...
UN sets up trust fund for Afghanistan amid cash shortages
08:03 PM, 21 Oct 2021 ThursdayThe United Nations says it has set up a special trust fund to provide urgently-needed cash directly to Afghans through a system that taps into donor funds frozen since the Taliban takeover in August...
Pfizer says Covid booster shot 95.6% effective
07:05 PM, 21 Oct 2021 ThursdayA booster shot of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech is 95.6 percent effective against symptomatic infection, according to trial data published by the makers on Thursday...
10 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:16 PM, 21 Oct 2021 ThursdayTen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,801. During the period, 243 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,66,907, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday. The daily count came from a test of 16,088 samples in the past day...