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Serbian President highly lauds Bangladesh's development
12:25 PM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdaySerbian President Aleksandar Vucic has highly praised development journey of Bangladesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina despite challenges posed by Covid pandemic...
Human trafficking ring leader, 7 others arrested
10:51 AM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested eight members including one of the ring leaders of a middle-east based human trafficking gang. Of them, two were identified as ring leader Tutul and his associate Toiob...
Chile declares state of emergency over Mapuche conflict
09:56 AM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdayChilean President Sebastian Pinera has announced a state of emergency and deployed troops to two southern regions where clashes have broken out between Mapuche Indigenous people and security forces...
Ex-Myanmar president says army tried to force him to cede power
09:34 AM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdayWin Myint, Myanmar’s civilian president who was removed from office by the military, has testified that the generals tried to force him to relinquish power hours before the February 1 coup, warning him he could be seriously harmed if he refused, according to his lawyer...
Afghanistan crisis: G20 leaders pledge to avert economic catastrophe
08:40 AM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdayMembers of the G20 group of major economies have pledged to avert an economic catastrophe in Afghanistan...
3 employees killed in shooting at postal facility in Memphis
08:27 AM, 13 Oct 2021 WednesdayTwo U.S. Postal Service workers were fatally shot Tuesday at a postal facility in Memphis and a third employee identified as the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. It was the third high-profile shooting in or near that west Tennessee city in weeks...
DU students brought under health insurance scheme
09:48 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayAll the regular students of Dhaka University (DU) have been brought under a health insurance scheme for a yearly premium of Tk 270. Only regular students within the age limit of 28 will be eligible to avail health care services in various listed hospitals from now on under the coverages, said a press release...
Covaxin shot recommended for children in India
09:24 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayAn expert panel on Tuesday recommended Covaxin - Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine - for use on children between the ages of two and 18...
EU announces 1bn euro aid package for Afghanistan
08:43 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayThe European Union has pledged a one-billion-euro ($1.15bn) aid package for Afghanistan, “to avert a major humanitarian and socioeconomic collapse”, the bloc’s chief Ursula von der Leyen has said...
Books: Writer turns down Israeli translation on political grounds
07:16 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdaySally Rooney has turned down an offer from the Israeli publisher that translated her two previous novels into Hebrew, due to her stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict...
Germany first team to reach World Cup
06:34 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayGermany became the first team to join hosts Qatar at the 2022 World Cup with a thumping victory in North Macedonia...
14 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:56 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayFifteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,713. During the period, 543 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,63,501, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday. The daily count came from a test of 23,155 samples in the past day...
HC scraps bail plea of Helena in DSA case
05:24 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayThe High Court (HC) on Tuesday scrapped a plea of controversial businesswoman Helena Jahangir for bail in a case lodged under the Digital Security Act (DSA)...
5 sentenced to death for murder of college student
02:30 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayA court has sentenced five people to death and acquitted nine others in a case filed for killing of college student Raju Ahmmed in Rajshahi. Judge Anup Sarker of Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal passed the order around 12pm on Tuesday. Public Prosecutor of the court advocate Emtajul Haque confirmed the verdict to Jago News...
Momen urges NAM to allow free resource mobility within members
01:51 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayForeign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to put less restrictions on mobility of resources to help boost economic growth of its members...
Labour law violation: Dr Younus gets bail
12:56 PM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayA court has granted bail to Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others in a case filed over the violation of labour law...
Amassing illegal wealth: Babar jailed for 8 years
11:50 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayA court has sentenced former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar to eight years in jail in a case filed for amassing Tk 7.5 crore illegally and hiding information about it. Judge Mohammad Shahidul Islam of Dhaka Special Judges Court-7 passed the order on Tuesday...
15 killed, 3 missing as rainstorms hit north China’s Shanxi
10:39 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayContinuous rainstorms have left 15 people dead and three others missing in north China's Shanxi Province, according to a press conference held on Tuesday by the provincial government. From Oct. 2 to 7, Shanxi experienced the strongest autumn flood on record...
COVID response one of worst ever ‘public health failures’ in UK
09:52 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayThe United Kingdom government’s early response to COVID-19 and the delay in imposing a lockdown early last year was “one of the most important public health failures” in the country’s history and cost thousands of lives, a damning parliamentary report has found...
Interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 leaves Afghanistan
08:50 AM, 12 Oct 2021 TuesdayAn Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then-senator Joe Biden from the harsh Afghanistan countryside has managed to evacuate the region with his family...