All News
Govt decides to establish 3 more new upazilas
05:32 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayThe government today approved three new upazilas named "Eidgaon" in Cox’s Bazar, "Modhyanagar" in Sunamganj and "Dashar" in Madaripur, raising the total number of the upazilas to 495 in the country. The approval came from the meeting of the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reform (NICAR), held virtually...
46 die of Covid-19, 1,186 test positive in Khulna division
04:06 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayA number of 46 persons died of Covid-19 and 1,186 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus in the last 24-hour till this morning in the division...
Pandemic leaves Indians mired in massive medical debts
03:33 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayAs coronavirus cases ravaged India this spring, Anil Sharma visited his 24-year-old son Saurav at a private hospital in northwest New Delhi every day for more than two months...
China accuses U.S. of creating ‘imaginary enemy’ in high-level talks
03:22 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayA top Chinese diplomat took a confrontational tone on Monday in rare high-level talks with the United States, accusing it of creating an "imaginary enemy" to divert attention from domestic problems and suppress China...
Sylhet-3 by-polls suspended till Aug 5
02:39 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayThe High Court today stayed the voting for the by-polls to the Sylhet-3 constituency till August 5 due to the lockdown. The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order after an initial hearing of a petition moved by six Supreme Court lawyers and seven voters of the parliamentary seat...
Fauci says US headed in ‘wrong direction’ on coronavirus
12:05 PM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayThe United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday...
Tunisia PM sacked after violent Covid protests
11:46 AM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayTunisia's president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent protests broke out across the country...
RMCH counts 17 more fatalities at Covid-19 unit
11:22 AM, 26 Jul 2021 MondayA number of 17 more people, including six women, died at Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) during the last 24 hours till 6 am today, taking the death toll to 453, so far, this month...
Macron ‘pushes for Israeli inquiry’ into NSO spyware concerns
09:50 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayEmmanuel Macron has reportedly spoken to the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, to ensure that the Israeli government is “properly investigating” allegations that the French president could have been targeted with Israeli-made spyware by Morocco’s security services...
President asks armed forces to work for tackling Corona situation
09:42 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayPresident M Abdul Hamid today called upon all, including every member of the Armed Forces Division, to work from their respective positions to deal with Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe to clinch T20I series
08:22 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayBangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by 5 wickets in the final game of the three-match T20I series in Harare on Sunday to clinch the series. Chasing down a daunting 194-run target posted by the hosts, the visiting Tigers won the match with 4 balls to spare...
Indian businessman Kundra’s links to 3-4 porn apps under scanner
07:38 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayThe police in India's Mumbai on Sunday said they were investigating whether businessman Raj Kundra has links to three to four other apps that streamed pornographic content...
Abducted madrasa girl rescued; man arrested
06:55 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayPolice rescued a madrasa girl from Narail's Lohagara upazila on Saturday evening, 10 days after she had been abducted from Faridpur's Alfadanga upazila...
228 more die of Covid-19 in 24 hrs
05:44 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundaySome 228 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 19,274. During the period, 11,291 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 11,64,635, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday...
105 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
05:27 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayAs many as 105 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning. With this, a total of 460 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different hospitals. Among them, 454 are receiving treatment in Dhaka...
Youth arrested for 'raping' intellectually disabled
05:03 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayThe Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a young man for allegedly raping an intellectually disabled teenager in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla district...
Israeli airlines launch first direct flights to Morocco
04:22 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayTwo Israeli airlines launched their first commercial flights between Israel and Morocco on Sunday, less than a year after the countries officially normalized relations...
Getwell distributes surgical face mask in the capital
03:25 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayGatewell Limited, a sister concern of the country’s leading business conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group, has organized an awareness campaign to prevent coronavirus and distributed surgical face masks in different parts of the capital of Dhaka...
India monsoon death toll climbs to 124 as rescuers search for missing
02:47 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayThe death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India climbed to 124 Sunday, officials said, with rescuers searching for dozens more missing...
Covid-19: India adds 39,742 new cases, 535 fatalities in last 24 hours
01:26 PM, 25 Jul 2021 SundayIndia saw a single day rise of 39,742 coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,13,71,901, while the death toll rose to 4,20,551 with 535 fresh fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday...