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President, PM pay homage to Liberation War heroes
11:19 AM, 26 Mar 2021 FridayPresident M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the War of Liberation by placing wreaths at the National Memorial here this morning marking the 51st Independence and National Day...
51st Independence and National Day today
11:16 AM, 26 Mar 2021 FridayThe nation celebrated the 51st Independence and National Day Friday coinciding with the grand celebration of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and golden jubilee of independence...
Bangladesh must take fresh vow to heighten nation’s stature further: PM
09:53 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh must take a fresh vow to heighten further its stature as the nation celebrates the golden jubilee of Independence...
Educational institutions to open on May 23
08:48 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe government has decided to open all the educational institutions of secondary and higher secondary level on May 23. The decision was taken after consulting with the national technical advisory committee on COVID-19, a handout of the Education Ministry said on Thursday...
Domestic Violence Against Women
08:31 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIn our society, domestic violence is a significant issue. The social, cultural, political, legal and economic influences of the area merge their effect on the insecurity of women as a result of community-sanctioned brutality...
Special Report: Pompeo rejected US bid to declare 'genocide' in Myanmar on eve of coup
07:07 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIn the last days of the Trump administration, some U.S. officials urged outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to formally declare that the Myanmar military’s campaign against the Rohingya minority was a genocide...
Modi pays tributes to national heroes
05:37 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid glowing tributes to the memory of the martyred freedom fighters at National Memorial in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka. He paid the homage to the national heroes by placing a wreath at the memorial this morning...
World champions France held by Ukraine in qualifying
05:21 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayFrance were held to a surprise draw by Ukraine as they got their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign under way...
Turkey stun Netherlands in thrilling World Cup qualifier
04:40 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayNetherlands began their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with a surprise defeat by Turkey...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 34, cases 3587
04:14 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayThirty four more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,797. During the period, 3,587 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,84,395, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Thursday...
Nike, H&M face China fury over Xinjiang cotton 'concerns'
04:09 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayRetail giants Nike and H&M are facing a backlash in China after they expressed concern about the alleged use of forced Uighur labour in the production of Xinjiang cotton...
Sunamganj double murder: 2 get death, 13 life
03:39 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayA court in Sunamganj on Thursday sentenced two people to death and 13 to life term imprisonment for killing two people over previous enmity around 20 years ago...
PM to address nation this evening
02:22 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Thursday evening on the occasion of 50th anniversary of Bangladesh Independence. Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television will simultaneously broadcast the prime minister’s address from 7:30pm, her Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said in a press release...
Anti-Modi protests: Islamic scholar Rafiqul freed hours after arrest
12:51 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayPolice today detained Rafiqul Madani, an Islamic scholar, from a protest programme at Motijheel in the capital against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. Juba Adhikar Parishad organized the programme and the protesters also burnt an effigy of Modi...
India’s daily COVID-19 infections rise to 5-month high
12:01 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndia added 53,476 COVID-19 infections overnight, the highest daily rise since Oct. 23, the health ministry data showed on Thursday. India has 11.8 million COVID-19 cases, the third-highest amount behind the United States and Brazil...
Myanmar anti-coup activists plan new street protests after paralysing strike
10:21 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayMyanmar pro-democracy activists plan to resume street demonstrations on Thursday, a day after a nationwide silent strike saw businesses shut and people stay at home in protest against military rule in the Southeast Asian country...
Nation observes ‘Genocide Day’
09:45 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe nation observed the ‘Genocide Day’ today in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971 under the infamous “Operation Searchlight”...
North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan
09:15 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayNorth Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan - the first such test since Joe Biden became US president...
Coronavirus: India temporarily halts Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports
08:11 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndia has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, foreign ministry sources have told the BBC...
Bangladesh’s economic progress deserves high commendation: Lotay Tshering
10:00 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayBhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering on Wednesday said Bangladesh has progressed at all levels, terming the country’s economic progress “highly commendable”...