Tremor rattles southeast Australia

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne...

PM for forming Women Leaders’ Network to pursue gender equality

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid special emphasis on forming a Women Leaders' Network as it can act as a force to ensure gender equality...

Biden pledges ‘relentless diplomacy’ on global challenges

President Joe Biden used his first address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to summon allies to move more quickly to address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses, while insisting the U.S. is not seeking “a new Cold War” with China...

Hungary fans banned for two matches

Hungary have been ordered to play two matches behind closed doors by Fifa following the racism English players experienced at the World Cup qualifier in Budapest on 2 September...

PM joins opening day high-level general debate of 76th UNGA

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the high-level General Debate of the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) here on the first day today. The General Debate is being held from September 21 to September 27...

Two get life in prison for killing disabled

A court in Pabna sentenced two young men to life in prison for killing a youth as he gave a love and marriage proposal to a schoolgirl in 2008...

Apple iOS 15 is now available for download

Apple's latest major software update -- packed with features to help people better focus, connect with others on FaceTime and keep track of medical records, including vaccine status and test results -- is now available for download...

IPL broadcast banned in Afghanistan due to ‘anti-Islam content’

Broadcast of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been banned in Afghanistan by the country’s new Taliban government, according to reports. Top Afghanistan cricketers like Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb ur Rahman are taking part in IPL 2021, reports The Indian Express...

BNP leader Hafiz gets bail in DSA case

A court in Barishal on Tuesday granted bail to BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and another person in a case filed under the Digital Security Act...

UK charges third Russian intelligence officer over Salisbury spy poisonings

Britain has named and charged a third Russian military intelligence officer over the Salisbury spy poisonings, in a significant development that will enrage Russia...

26 more die of Covid-19 in a day

Twenty six more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,277. During the period, 1,562 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,45,800, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year...

Evaly MD Rassel remanded again, wife sent to jail

Evaly's Managing Director Md Rassel has been remanded for one more day but his wife Shamima Nasrin, also chairman of the e-commerce platform, sent to jail in a fraud case filed with the capital's Dhanmondi Police Station. Dhaka's Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque on Tuesday passed the order after a hearing...

Indian businessman Kundra walks out of jail

Indian businessman Raj Kundra on Tuesday walked out of a Mumbai jail, a day after a magistrate court granted bail to the key accused in a pornographic films case in which he was arrested two months ago...

Job at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

Sudan state media report ‘failed’ coup attempt

Sudanese authorities reported a coup attempt on Tuesday by a group of soldiers but said the attempt failed and that the military remains in control...

PM’s presence in UNGA expected to intensify climate campaign: Momen

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's presence in person in UN General Assembly (UNGA) is expected to intensify the climate change campaign alongside giving momentum to demands for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...

Ex-cricket coach Jalal Ahmed Chowdhury dies

Former cricket coach and cricket writer Jalal Ahmed Chowdhury has passed away. He breathed his last at 11:25am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in Dhaka. Debabrata Paul, General Secretary of Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh, confirmed the death to Jago News...

RMCH records five more fatalities in Covid-19 unit

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) recorded five more fatalities at its Covid-19 unit in the last 24 hours till 6am today, raising the death toll to 132 so far this month...

UN-SDSN confers Bangladesh PM with SDG Progress Award

The UN-sponsored Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has conferred Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with "SDG Progress Award" for Bangladesh's steady course in responding to the universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity for all...

COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did - approximately 675,000...