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Woman gets death for killing stepchild
04:11 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayA court in Sirajganj on Tuesday sentenced a woman to death for killing her stepchild in 2018...
MDB's tree plantation programme on the occasion of National Mourning Day
03:48 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayMidland Bank Limited has organized a tree plantation programme on the occasion of National Mourning Day-2021...
Pori Moni gets bail
02:42 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayDhallywood actress Pori Moni has been given bail in a case filed under the Narcotics Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge K M Imrul Kayesh granted the bail for her after hearing. Earlier on Sunday, the same court fixed August 31 for bail hearing. Based on specific information on August 4, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the Dhallywood actress Pori Moni from her Banani’s residence in a raid...
Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
02:35 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdaySri Lanka has declared a state of emergency over food shortages as private banks run out of foreign exchange to finance imports...
PM urges countrymen to remain alert against conspiracy
02:05 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to remain alert as the defeated forces have been still hatching conspiracy against Bangladesh with their foreign collaborators...
Julhas-Tonoy murder: Ex-major Zia, 5 others get death
12:28 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayA Dhaka court has sentenced six people in a case lodged over the murder of former USAID official Julhas Mannan and his friend Tonoy Majumder. Judge Mojibur Rahman of Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal court passed the order on Tuesday...
Afghan folk singer taken from his house and killed by the Taliban
11:30 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayAfghan folk singer Fawad Andarabi was dragged from his home and killed by the Taliban in a restive mountain province north of Kabul on Friday...
China cuts children’s online gaming to one hour
10:37 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayOnline gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, China's video game regulator has said...
Tokyo 2020: Toyota restarts driverless vehicles after accident
10:06 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayToyota is resuming operations of its autonomous vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident...
Taliban celebrates victory as last US troops leave Afghanistan
08:50 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayTaliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in the Afghan capital as the United States completed the withdrawal of it forces from Afghanistan, nearly twenty years after it invaded the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks on America...
US completes Afghanistan withdrawal as final flight leaves Kabul
08:27 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayThe final US military flight has left the Afghan capital, the Pentagon announced, officially ending the United States’s 20-year war in Afghanistan after a chaotic evacuation effort...
94 die of Coronavirus in 24 hours
05:37 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayThe death toll from COVID-19 has reached 26,109 as 94 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 3,724 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,497,261. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
BNP continues ill-efforts to destabilise country: Quader
05:06 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said that the BNP depending on parasitic movement has continued its various ill-efforts to disrupt the existing stable condition of the country...
Biman pilot Nawshad no more
03:35 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayBiman pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who suffered a heart attack mid-air on Friday while commanding a Muscat-Dhaka flight, has passed away. He breathed his last on Monday afternoon while undergoing treatment at Kingsway Hospital in Nagpur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Captain Mahbubur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Pilot Association, confirmed the death to Jago News...
RMCH counts 14 more deaths at Covid-19 unit
02:46 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayRajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) has counted 14 more deaths at its Covid-19 unit during the last 24 hours till 6am today (Monday), taking total fatality to 335 so far this month...
New Zealand woman dies after receiving Pfizer vaccine
02:23 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayNew Zealand has reported what it believes to be its first death linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. An independent vaccine safety monitoring board said the woman's death was "probably" due to myocarditis or inflammation of the heart muscle...
Pakistani 2 soldiers killed in cross border fire from Afghanistan
01:33 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayGunfire from across the Afghan border have killed two Pakistani soldiers, the army said, in the first such attack since the Taliban took over Kabul 10 days ago...
US: Hurricane Ida kills 1, knocks out power across New Orleans
12:08 PM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayHurricane Ida has made landfall as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States, lashing the coast with fierce winds, torrential downpours and pounding surf that submerged much of the Louisiana shoreline under several feet of water...
Afghanistan: Children among civilians killed in US drone attack
11:44 AM, 30 Aug 2021 MondaySeveral children have been killed in a US drone attack that destroyed a car laden with explosives near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, according to witnesses...
Noted Bengali writer Buddhadeb Guha dies in Kolkata
11:28 AM, 30 Aug 2021 MondayNoted Bengali writer Buddhadeb Guha died in a Kolkata hospital late Sunday. He was 85, reports Hindustan Times. Earlier this year in April, Guha was detected with Covid-19 and was admitted to a hospital for over a month. He had to be hospitalised again recently with lung and urinary tract problems...