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Philippines sends fighter aircraft over Chinese vessels in South China Sea
03:40 PM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayThe Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea...
Night curfew in Maharashtra state after record COVID spike
02:45 PM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayAuthorities in India’s western state of Maharashtra imposed night curfews on Sunday to tackle a record surge in COVID-19 cases with the financial capital Mumbai reporting 6,123 new cases, the highest single-day spike since March last year...
Irfan Selim’s bail order stayed
01:54 PM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayThe Supreme Court (SC) today stayed for four weeks a High Court (HC) order that granted bail to Irfan Selim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Selim, in a case filed over assaulting a Navy officer in October last year. The Chamber Judge of Appellate Division of the SC Justice Obaidul Hasan passed the order on Sunday...
Covid surge in India: Nearly 63K new cases, 312 deaths
01:13 PM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayA whopping 62,714 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours marked yet another record single-day jump in India since October 16 last year, taking the total tally to 1,19,71,624, according to the Health Ministry report on Sunday...
Hefazat observes countrywide hartal
11:22 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayHefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Sunday observed the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal called protesting police action on their anti-Modi processions in Dhaka, Chattogram and other districts, reports UNB...
Conway, Sodhi star in crushing New Zealand win
10:41 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayDevon Conway smashed an unbeaten 92 off 52 balls and Will Young struck a half-century on debut before Ish Sodhi ran through Bangladesh's middle order to give New Zealand a 66-run win in the first T20I in Hamilton...
Suspected suicide bomber at Indonesia church wounds several
10:33 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayA suspected suicide bomber blew up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding some people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said. The congregation had been inside the church at the time of the explosion...
Myanmar security forces kill 114 in ‘horrifying’ day of bloodshed
10:11 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayMyanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup...
1 dead, 5 wounded in stabbing at Vancouver library, suspect in custody
08:56 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayOne woman was killed and five others were wounded in a stabbing at a public library located near a busy shopping area of a Vancouver suburb on Saturday, and police said they had the lone suspect in custody...
Myanmar coup: US ‘horrified’ by deadliest day since military takeover
08:28 AM, 28 Mar 2021 SundayUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Washington is "horrified" by Saturday's deaths in Myanmar. Dozens of people were killed by security forces during protests on the deadliest day...
Sheikh Hasina, Narendra Modi jointly inaugurate five projects
10:10 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi today jointly inaugurated and laid foundation of five projects...
Dhaka, Delhi exchange five MoUs on trade, disaster, ICT
10:04 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayBangladesh and India today signed five memorandums of understandings (MoUs) for enhanced cooperation trade, disaster, ICT and sports while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her counterpart Narendra Modi witnessed exchanges of the documents following their talks at the PMO...
Five killed in Brahmanbaria clash
09:55 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayFive people were killed and at least 14 others injured in a clash among the madrasa students, police, and BGB members in Sadar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Saturday evening...
Islami Andolan's procession backing Hefazat's hartal
09:17 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayIslamic Andolan Bangladesh brought out a procession in the capital on Saturday afternoon in support of the Sunday's hartal called by Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh...
Catch March's full supermoon on Sunday
08:00 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayMarch's full moon — by some accounts a supermoon — will dazzle skywatchers this Sunday (March 28), as spring's warm weather invites more people to venture outside to gaze upward...
Three cases filed over Brahmanbaria vandalizms, arson attacks
07:16 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayThree separate cases have been filed over the Friday's vandalizms and arson attacks in Brahmanbaria district town during the protest programmes against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh...
India, Bangladesh want to see world peace: Modi
07:04 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said both India and Bangladesh want to see peace, stability and love in the world instead of instability, terror, and unrest...
Paresh Rawal receives Covid-19 weeks after vaccine shot
06:17 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayIndian actor-politician Paresh Rawal is the latest celebrity to have contracted the coronavirus - he tested positive for COVID-19, he revealed in a tweet on Friday night...
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Namita Ghosh dies
06:01 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayNamita Ghosh, an eminent singer and the first female voice artiste of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in capital Dhaka on Friday night...
Sultan Mansur infected with coronavirus
05:10 PM, 27 Mar 2021 SaturdayMoulvibazar-2 lawmaker Sultan Mansur has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by new coronavirus...