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Rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty wind likely over country

01:44 PM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions...

West Bengal election: Trinamool Congress crosses halfway mark in early leads

12:19 PM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is well past the majority mark in Bengal with the BJP not far behind, in early leads as votes are being counted for state elections...

Maradona received inadequate care, left to fate: Medical report

11:33 AM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

Football icon Diego Maradona received inadequate medical care and was left to his fate for a “prolonged, agonising period” before his death last year, an expert medical panel has concluded...

N Korea accuses Biden of pursuing hostile policy over its nuclear programme

11:10 AM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

North Korea has hit out at the Biden administration as it prepares to unveil its strategy for dealing with Pyongyang and its nuclear programme...

India reports highest single-day toll of 3,689 Covid deaths

10:31 AM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

India on Sunday reported its highest single-day toll of 3,689 Covid deaths. The country also saw a slight dip in the daily numbers with 3,92,488 new cases. The new cases take India Covid tally to 1,95,57,457, reports India Today...

4 of a family among 5 killed in road accident

09:16 AM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

Five people including four members of a family were killed and two others injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Ferryghat area in Jaintiapur upazila of Sylhet on Sunday morning...

Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis dies

08:34 AM, 02 May 2021 Sunday

US actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstuck, has died aged 89, her family have announced...

Jayawickrama’s six-for sets up Sri Lanka’s imposing lead

05:53 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Praveen Jayawickrama's six-wicket haul shaped Sri Lanka's ascendancy over Bangladesh in the second Test in Pallekele. The 22-year old left-arm spinner took the best figures for Sri Lanka on Test debut; his 6 for 92, including the big wickets of Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim...

COVID-19: 60 die in 24 hours

04:49 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

The death toll from coronavirus has reached 11,510 as 60 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 1,452 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 760,584. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Saturday...

International commercial flight operation resumes

04:31 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Bangladesh today resumed international flight operations following government guidelines and instructions after a 17-day suspension to check spread of Coronavirus...

Hefazat leader Junayed Al Kasemi arrested

03:53 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Criminal Investigation Department of Police has arrested Hefazat-e-Islam leader Junayed Al Kasemi from Brahmanbaria in connection with the violence centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh visit...

Myanmar protesters march 3 months after coup; UN warns of ‘standstill’

03:18 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Protesters against military rule marched in Myanmar on Saturday three months after a coup ended a democratic transition, with several small blasts compounding a sense of crisis that a U.N. envoy warned could bring state administration to a halt...

Govt mulls to resume public transport, says Quader

01:54 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Awami League General Secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is mulling to resume public transport ahead of Eid. He said this in a video massage from his official residence on Saturday...

3 killed as covered van hits pickup van

12:50 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Three traders were killed and two others injured as a covered van hit a vegetable-laden pickup van at Darikandi bus stand area in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early Saturday...

India posts new record daily rise in COVID-19 cases

12:04 PM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

India posted a record daily rise of 401,993 new coronavirus cases on Saturday as the country opened up its mega vaccination drive to all adults, although several states warned of acute vaccine shortages...

Historic May Day today

11:47 AM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

The historic May Day is being observed today in the country and elsewhere across the world with due respect...

Sri Lanka declare on 493 with Dickwella short of a maiden Test century

11:38 AM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

Sri Lanka declared on 493 for 7, after batting for 15 minutes on the third morning. The decision came when Ramesh Mendis was caught in the deep off Taskin Ahmed, to give him his fourth wicket...

Scientists say India govt ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge

11:28 AM, 01 May 2021 Saturday

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters...

Sri Lanka overcomes Taskin burst to put them on top

07:09 PM, 30 Apr 2021 Friday

Sri Lanka overcame a spirited Taskin Ahmed to put them on top of Bangladesh on day two of the second and final Test at the Pallekele International Stadium in Kandy on Friday...

“Second wife” claimed by Mamunul files rape case against him

05:20 PM, 30 Apr 2021 Friday

Jannat Ara Jharna, the “second wife” claimed by Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque, toady filed a case against him for allegedly raping her enticing into marriage...