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Taliban replaces women’s ministry with ministry of virtue and vice
02:51 PM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayWorkers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country's women's ministry with those for the Taliban's moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they had been locked out of the building...
Bangladesh removed from UK's travel red list
01:57 PM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayBangladesh has been removed from the UK government's travel red list, which will come into effect at 4am September 22 next...
Hefazat leader Rizwan Rafiqi held
12:31 PM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayPolice arrested Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mufti Rizwan Rafiqi in the capital early Saturday...
Four killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw
12:10 PM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayFour people were killed as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Manoharganj upazila of Cumilla on Saturday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Natherpatua Police Outpost in-charge (sub-inspector) Md Zafar Iqbal confirmed the matter to Jago News...
54 lakh more Sinopharm vaccine jabs arrive from China
11:47 AM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayA flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the consignment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2 am. Dr Sazzad Hossain, the assistant director of the Directorate General of Health Services, working at the airport confirmed the matter this morning...
Aukus: France recalls envoys amid security pact row
11:10 AM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayFrance has said it is recalling its ambassadors in the US and Australia for consultations, in protest at a security deal which also includes the UK...
Football legend Pele 'recovering well'
10:03 AM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayThe daughter of Brazil football legend Pele has said her father is "recovering well" after he was readmitted to hospital - just days after leaving intensive care...
Algeria's ex-President Bouteflika dies
09:08 AM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayFormer Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army...
Kabul drone attack killed 10 civilians, US admits
08:50 AM, 18 Sep 2021 Saturday“Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting analysis by interagency partners, I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” McKenzie said...
PM seeks major economies’ role to ensure sustainable future
08:20 AM, 18 Sep 2021 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the major world economies to work with all the stakeholders in partnership to ensure a sustainable future for the next generation. "Major economies have to work with all stakeholders globally in partnership for ensuring a sustainable future for the next generation," she said.
38 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:43 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayThirty eight more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,147. During the period, 1,907 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,40,110, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday. The daily count came from a test of 29,756 samples in the past day...
NZ call off Pak tour minutes before start of first ODI
04:44 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayNew Zealand have called off their limited-overs tour of Pakistan citing security concerns...
Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha wraps production
04:01 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridaySuperstar Aamir Khan’s much-awaited movie Laal Singh Chaddha has finished its production, the makers announced on Friday. Backed by Aamir Khan Productions, Viacom18 Studios and Paramount Pictures, Laal Singh Chaddha also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan...
Evaly MD Rassel, wife put on 3-day remand
03:32 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayDhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqul Islam on Friday afternoon passed the order after police produced them before the court. Earlier on Thursday, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested the couple from their Mohammadpur residence in the capital following the case was lodged with Gulshan Police Station on Wednesday...
JSS leader shot dead in Rangamati
02:53 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayThe miscreants shot a local leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti to death in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati district early Friday...
Chinese astronauts return to earth after 90 days
01:04 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayThree Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after completing the country's longest crewed space mission...
47 held in Dinajpur on suspicion of militant activity
12:49 PM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayOn information that some people in the name of Tablighi Jamaat were staying at Baitul Fala Jam-e Masjid at Meddapara in Sadar upazila, a team of the Anti Terrorism Unit raided the mosque from 12 midnight to 2 am on Friday and nabbed 30 people from there, sources in the police said...
PM reaches Helsinki en route to New York
11:16 AM, 17 Sep 2021 FridayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Helsinki, the capital of Finland this evening, on her en route to New York, USA to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...
Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans
09:49 PM, 16 Sep 2021 ThursdayWikipedia has suffered an "infiltration" that sought to advance the aims of China, the US non-profit organisation that owns the volunteer-edited encyclopaedia has said...
PM asks MPs to investigate how many people Zia killed in jail
09:20 PM, 16 Sep 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged lawmakers to find out how many people were killed in each jail across the country during Ziaur Rahman's regime...