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Apple made a big mistake with its new iMacs
09:25 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayApple's new iMac is awesome: a technical marvel that culminates Apple's stunning engineering achievements over the past several years. It's also ugly as sin...
Hefazat assistant secy gen Kashemi held
08:38 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayHefazat-e-Islam's central assistant secretary general and Dhaka city vice president Khurshid Alam Kashemi has been arrested...
Hollywood ponders post-pandemic future of cinemas
07:58 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayReuters asked actors, directors, writers and producers what they see for the future of cinemas. Their replies have been edited for length and clarity...
European countries to resume J&J Covid vaccine deliveries
07:41 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayEuropean countries prepared on Wednesday to resume deliveries of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and speed up the rollout after Europe's drug regulator backed the shot...
Poor to get priority in next budget: Kamal
06:09 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said the next budget for fiscal 2021-22 will give priority to the poor section of people while maintaining the lives and livelihood of all would get due emphasis in the next fiscal year in view of the current COVID-19 pandemic situation...
Tamim misses his century against Sri Lanka
06:01 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayBangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal missed his well-deserved century by 10 runs on the opening day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium...
Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid patients dead in India
05:22 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayAt least 22 Covid patients have died in a hospital in India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak...
Super League breakaway in tatters after English clubs quit
05:08 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayEuropean soccer’s breakaway Super League project lay in tatters on Tuesday after the six English Premier League clubs involved in the project quit 48 hours after agreeing to join Italian and Spanish teams in the controversial elite competition...
Coronavirus: New deaths 95, cases 4280
04:39 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdaySome 95 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 10,683. During the period, 4,280 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 7,32,060, the health directorate said in a press release on Wednesday...
Minimum Fitra Tk 70, maximum Tk 2310
04:19 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayThis year, the minimum and maximum Fitra have been fixed at Tk 70, and 2,310 respectively. The Islamic Foundation fixed the amount at a meeting at its Baitul Mukarram National Mosque office in the capital on Wednesday...
'Shishu Bokta' Rafiqul put on fresh 4-day remand
02:41 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayRafiqul Islam Madani, popularly known as Shishu Bokta (child preacher), on a fresh four-day remand in a case filed over the clash of Bangladesh Chhatra, and Juba Adhikar Parishad with police during Indian premier Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh visit...
PM allocates Tk 10.50cr for lockdown affected poor people
01:51 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has allocated Tk 10.50 crore for the poor people affected by ongoing nationwide lockdown. The cash has been allotted in favour of the deputy commissioners to help the poor, destitute, floating and indigent people, who are the victims of the lockdown...
Shanto's maiden century puts Bangladesh in command
01:03 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayBangladesh's right mix of aggression and caution allowed them to run away with the advantage on the first day of their first Test against Sri Lanka in Pallekele...
Poet Shankha Ghosh dies of Coronavirus
12:58 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayNoted Indian poet Shankha Ghosh died of Coronavirus on Wednesday. He was 89, reports Indian West Bengal’s daily Anandabazar. He tested positive for the virus on April 14. He was also suffering from old-age complications. He was under medical treatment at home after being infected with the virus...
Ohio police kill Black teenage girl seen threatening others with knife
12:14 PM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayPolice in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday fatally shot a Black teenage girl they confronted as she lunged at two people with a knife, as seen in police video footage of the encounter, authorities said...
India logs 2.95 lakh fresh Covid cases, 2,023 deaths in 24 hours
11:21 AM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayIndia recorded 2,95,041 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, setting yet another one-day grim one-day record, taking the overall caseload to 1,53,21,089, according to data from the Union Health Ministry...
Bangladesh in batting against Sri Lanka
10:23 AM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayBangladesh won the toss and chose to bat first against Sri Lanka in the first of two-match Test series at Pallakele International Stadium in Kandy on Wednesday...
Hefazat top leader arrested
10:04 AM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayDetectives arrested Mawlana Ataullah Ameen, Assistant Secretary General of Hefazat-e-islam and Joint Secretary General of Khelafat Majlish, from Mohammadpur in the capital on Tuesday midnight...
India Covid-19: Why second coronavirus wave is devastating
09:29 AM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayRajeshwari Devi, 58, died on Sunday after waiting for two days to get uninterrupted oxygen, an ambulance and a bed in a Covid-19 hospital...
Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death
09:07 AM, 21 Apr 2021 WednesdayFormer Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests...