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US airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan
08:29 AM, 28 Aug 2021 SaturdayThe United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport...
117 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:51 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridaySome 117 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 25,846. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus. Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories...
Turkey holds first talks with the Taliban: Erdogan
05:24 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey has held its first talks with the Taliban in Kabul, adding that Ankara was still assessing the Islamist group's offer to run the Afghan capital's airport...
Youth beaten dead, 10 Padma Bridge workers held
03:48 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayThe security guards and workers of Padma Bridge project have allegedly beaten a young man to death in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj district on suspicion of thief. Deceased Zulhas Hawlader, 35, was the son of late Hasan Hawlader, a resident of Kumarbhog rehabilitation center in the upazila. By profession, he was an auto-rickshaw driver...
Taiban has not suffered casualties: Mujahid
03:03 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayThe Taliban has not suffered any casualties in bomb attacks on the Hamid Karzai airport in Afghanistan's Kabul, the group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the BBC's Pashto service. "We (Taliban) have not suffered any casualties. The incident took place in an area that is controlled by US forces," he said...
Jorginho wins Uefa Player of the Year
01:05 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayChelsea and Italy midfielder Jorginho has been named Uefa men's Player of the Year 2020-21...
‘We will hunt you down,’ Biden warns Kabul attackers
12:38 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayUnited States President Joe Biden vowed to retaliate against Thursday’s attack in Kabul, saying that he will hunt down those responsible and make them pay...
Real rise Mbappe offer to 180 million euros: Report
12:26 PM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayReal Madrid on Thursday increased their offer for Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe to 180 million euros, sports daily L'Equipe claimed...
Death toll from Kabul airport bomb attacks rises to 90
11:28 AM, 27 Aug 2021 FridayThe death toll from yesterday's bomb attacks on Afghanistan's Kabul airport has risen to 90. An official from the ministry of public health, who does not want to be identified, has told the BBC that the number of people killed in yesterday's airport attack has risen to 90 people with more than 150 injured...
11 killed in Kabul airport bomb attacks
09:06 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA Taliban official has said that at least 11 people have been killed in an attack on Kabul airport in Afghanistan. The official said the number included women and children and that a number of Taliban guards had also been wounded...
Politico to be sold for over $1 billion
08:53 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayAxel Springer, the German media conglomerate, has agreed to buy the Washington-based Politico franchise for more than $1 billion...
Shamim Hossen's short film 'Kathgoray Mayer Somman' released
08:25 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayShamim Hossen's new short film 'Kathgoray Mayer Somman' has been released. The short film was released on the MK Entertain YouTube channel on Monday night. Written and Directed by Shamim Hossen. Co-directed and supervised by Ismail Hossain Sourav. Filmed by Sagir Khan...
267 with dengue fever hospitalized in a day
07:24 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySome 267 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning...
Trial suggests malaria sickness could be cut by 70%
06:53 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA new approach to protecting young African children from malaria could reduce deaths and illness from the disease by 70%, a study suggests...
Nusrat Jahan becomes mother of Baby Boy
06:17 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayTrinamool Congress MP and actor Nusrat Jahan gave birth to a baby boy at a private hospital in Kolkata on Thursday afternoon, sources said.
102 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:39 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySome 102 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 25,729. During the period, 4,698 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 14,82,628, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday...
Woman gets life for killing husband
05:13 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayA court in Meherpur on Thursday sentenced a woman and three others to life term imprisonment for killing her husband in 2007...
Ex-England captain Dexter dies
04:49 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayFormer England and Sussex captain Ted Dexter has died aged 86...
Williams to step away from int'l cricket
04:35 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdaySean Williams has informed the Zimbabwe team management of his intention to step away from international cricket after the team's current tour of Ireland, but he remains open to the possibility of playing white-ball cricket for the country in the future...
School closure extended to Sept 11
04:07 PM, 26 Aug 2021 ThursdayEducation Minister Dipu Moni on Thursday afternoon said the educational institutions of the country will remain shut till September 11. She came up with the disclosure after a meeting with the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, and the National Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19. The government ordered all educational institutions to close on March 17 last year following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country...