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Highway Bill-2021 placed in JS for better transport regulations
01:23 PM, 04 Sep 2021 SaturdayThe Highway Bill-2021 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad aiming to adopt better transport regulations. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today placed the bill in the House with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair...
RMCH counts 5 more deaths in Covid-19 unit
12:13 PM, 04 Sep 2021 SaturdayFive more deaths were recorded at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the last 24 hours till 6am today, raising the fatality to 27 in last four days of this month...
‘They’ll kill us’ - Afghan pilots held at Uzbek camp fear deadly homecoming
11:37 AM, 04 Sep 2021 SaturdayThe US-trained Afghan pilots and others held at a camp in Uzbekistan already feared being sent back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan...
4 militants detained after gunfight with RAB
09:54 AM, 04 Sep 2021 SaturdayFour militants were detained after a gunfight between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and militants in Mymensingh in early hours of Saturday. The incident took place in the bank of Brahmaputra at Khagdahar in the city. A foreign-made revolver and some home-made arms were recovered from their possession...
Afghanistan: Fate of Panjshir Valley in balance amid heavy fighting
08:52 AM, 04 Sep 2021 SaturdayThe fate of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley - the final holdout against Taliban control - hangs in the balance as heavy fighting continues. Taliban sources told Reuters news agency that they had seized the area, but the resistance fighters they are battling denied this. One of the resistance leaders, Amrullah Saleh, dismissed claims he had fled, but said the situation was "difficult"...
70 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:18 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridaySeventy more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,432. During the period, 3,167 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,10,283, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday...
UK announces new sanctions against Myanmar
04:23 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayThe United Kingdom has announced new Myanmar sanctions, saying it was targeting a key business associate of the military government for providing arms and financial support following a coup earlier this year...
India extends Kashmir lockdown after separatist icon’s death
04:00 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayAuthorities have enforced a security lockdown and a near-total communications blackout for a second straight day in Indian-administered Kashmir after the death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a top resistance leader who became the emblem of the region’s defiance against New Delhi’s rule...
Narail pregnant woman 'hammered to death'
03:47 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayA pregnant woman has been hammered to death allegedly by her husband in Kalia upazila of Narail district...
Argentina, Brazil win World Cup qualifiers; Colombia draws
12:20 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayLeaders Brazil and second-place Argentina won their away matches in South American World Cup qualifiers on Thursday ahead of their superclasico. Neither Lionel Messi nor Neymar had great performances for their teams...
44 dead as flash floods slam New York area
12:08 PM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayFlash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed at least 44 people in the New York area overnight into Thursday, including several who perished in basements during the "historic" weather event officials blamed on climate change...
NZ supermarket stabbing was terrorist attack: Arden
11:50 AM, 03 Sep 2021 FridayPolice in New Zealand have shot dead a man after he entered an Auckland supermarket and stabbed multiple people. Local reports say at least six people were injured, with one witness describing a scene of hysteria...
330 with dengue fever hospitalized in a day
09:01 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdaySome 330 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning...
Elections to 161 UPs, 9 municipalities on Sept 20
08:38 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayElections to 161 Union Parishad (UPs) in Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Noakhali, Chattogram and Cox's Bazar and 9 municipalities in the country, which were postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, will be held on September 20 next.
Kohli becomes fastest to reach 23000 runs in int'l cricket
08:04 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayVirat Kohli on Thursday became the fastest batsman to reach 23000 runs across all formats in international cricket, overtaking the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting...
Indictment hearing in Khaleda’s Niko graft case on Sept 14
07:19 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayA court in Dhaka on Thursday set September 14 to hold a hearing on charge framing against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others in Niko graft case...
88 more die of Covid-19 in a day
07:08 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayEighty eight more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,362. During the period, 3,436 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,07,116, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday. The daily count came from a test of 33,025 samples in the past day...
Child electrocuted in Dhaka
05:16 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayA 10-year-old boy died from electrocution at Tejgaon in the capital on Thursday afternoon...
India sends 2 medical oxygen plants to Bangladesh
04:21 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayIndia today sent two Mobile Oxygen Plants (MOP) to Bangladesh to support the efforts to fight the Covid pandemic...
Twitter tests safety mode feature to silence abuse
03:41 PM, 02 Sep 2021 ThursdayTwitter is launching a feature that it hopes will help crack down on abuse and trolling, both of which have become huge issues for the platform...