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7.81 lakh more vaccine jabs arrive from Japan
05:31 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayThe consignment of jabs reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 3:15pm on Saturday. Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, and deputy secretary of the health department of Bangladesh's Health and Family Welfare Ministry were present at the airport during this on behalf of the respective countries...
Australian polic arrest hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters
05:14 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayAustralian police arrested hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday and seven officers were hospitalised as a result of clashes, as the country saw its highest ever single-day rise in COVID-19 cases...
Housewife's throat-slit body found in Netrakona
03:37 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayPolice on Saturday afternoon recovered the throat-slit body of a housewife from her bed room in Sadar upazila of Netrakona district...
BNP govt sponsored Aug 21 attack, Khaleda knew everything: PM
02:50 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayPrime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina today reiterated that the August 21, 2004 grenade attack was carried out under the patronage of BNP government...
Taliban vow to be accountable for it actions
02:07 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayThe Taliban will be accountable for its actions and will investigate reports of reprisals and atrocities carried out by members, an official of the Islamist militant group told Reuters on Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the group planned to ready a new model for governing Afghanistan...
RMCH records 7 more death at Covid-19 unit
12:10 PM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdaySeven more people died at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) during the last 24 hours till 6am today, taking the death toll to 260 so far this month. Earlier, the death toll due to the lethal virus was 566 in July and 405 in June, health officials said...
August 21: Brutal grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina
11:39 AM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayBangabandhu's worthy daughter Jononetree Sheikh Hasina during her premiership from 1996 to 2001 was leading the country towards peaceful socio-economic prosperity by a supreme submission of her leadership...
Fire at 6-storey building in Banani under control
10:38 AM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayA massive fire that broke out on the third floor of six-storey building at Chairmanbari in the capital’s Banani has been under control. The fire broke out at 9:10am and was brought under control at 1:05pm on Saturday...
Biden vows to evacuate all Americans - and Afghan helpers
10:09 AM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayPresident Joe Biden has pledged firmly to bring all Americans home from Afghanistan - and all Afghans who aided the war effort, too - as officials confirmed that U.S. military helicopters flew beyond the Kabul airport to scoop up 169 Americans seeking to evacuate...
India approves world’s first DNA Covid vaccine
09:49 AM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayIndia's drug regulator has approved the world's first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use. The three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 66% of those vaccinated, according to an interim study quoted by the vaccine maker Cadila Healthcare...
17th anniversary of Aug 21 grenade attacks today
08:43 AM, 21 Aug 2021 SaturdayThe 17th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) anti-terrorism rally in the capital on August 21, 2004, is being observed today with heavy hearts. The gruesome grenade attack was carried out on an anti-terrorism rally of Awami League (AL) on Bangabandhu Avenue...
Malaysian king picks ex-deputy PM as nation's new leader
05:56 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayMalaysia’s longest-governing political party reclaimed the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat after the king on Friday named its candidate, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, as the country’s new leader...
12 'gamblers' held in Noakhali
05:18 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayThe Detective Branch of police in Noakhali detained 12 alleged gamblers in Sonaimuri upazila of the district...
Covid-19 deaths top 25000
05:15 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridaySome 145 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 25,023. During the period, 5,993 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 14,53,203, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday...
Japanese film star Sonny Chiba dies of Covid-19
04:45 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayJapanese actor and martial arts great Sonny Chiba has died at the age of 82 from complications related to Covid...
China formally passes three child policy
04:31 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayChina has formally revised its laws to allow couples to have up to three children, to boost the birth rate...
Arsenal sign Odegaard from Real Madrid
04:09 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayArsenal have signed midfielder Martin Odegaard from Real Madrid for a fee in the region of £30m...
Bangladesh, South Sudan agree to boost collaboration
03:52 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayBangladesh and South Sudan have agreed to collaborate in different areas like food security, social safety net, IT and ICT, health, medical education and vocational training...
Govt strives at UN to enhance Bangladesh peacekeepers’ benefits: Momen
03:36 PM, 20 Aug 2021 Friday“Bangladesh is now the top most troops contributing country to the UN peacekeeping operations owing to the efficiency, acumen and professionalism of our peacekeepers,” he said...
Body exhumed after 18 days of burial
03:27 PM, 20 Aug 2021 FridayThe body of a trawler driver was exhumed in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur district on Friday morning, 18 days after he had been buried...