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China 'sending Uighur children to orphanages'
03:40 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayThe Chinese government has also faced allegations of a wide range of human rights abuses against the Uighur people and other Muslim minorities, including forced labour, forced sterilisation, sexual abuse and rape...
Tanzania swears in Samia Suluhu Hassan as first female president
03:27 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayTanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as president on Friday, becoming the first female head of state in the east African country after the death from heart disease of president John Magufuli, Africa’s most vocal COVID-19 sceptic...
13 police killed in Mexico attack
02:52 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayThirteen Mexican police officers and investigators have been killed in an ambush as they travelled through a rural region – marking the latest attack on law enforcement by brazen criminal groups...
N Korea cuts diplomatic ties with Malaysia over US extradition
01:02 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayNorth Korea cut diplomatic ties with Malaysia on Friday in protest at a court ruling that handed over one of its citizens accused of money laundering to the US, state media KCNA reported, carrying a statement from the Foreign Ministry...
Three die as truck rams auto-rickshaw
12:48 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayThree people were killed in a road accident in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj district early Friday...
Sri Lanka PM reaches Dhaka
12:15 PM, 19 Mar 2021 FridaySri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Dhaka on a two-day visit on Friday morning to join the celebrations of birth centenary of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and golden jubilee of Bangladesh's Independence...
US, China trade angry barbs at Alaska talks
11:27 AM, 19 Mar 2021 FridayUS and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China", while the US said China had "arrived intent on grandstanding"...
Pragatisheel Chhatra Jote calls for protests against Modi's visit
09:59 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayPragatisheel Chhatra Jote, a platform of leftist student groups, has called for protests and resistance against the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh's Independence...
Kanye West becomes the richest black man in US history
09:03 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayKanye West has become the richest black man in US history, with his net worth reported to have reached $6.6bn (£4.7bn)...
PM for developing reading habit, translating foreign literary works
08:40 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayLaying emphasis on developing the reading habit, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged Bangla Academy to put more focus on translating foreign literature to create scope for knowing history, culture, lifestyle of different countries through book reading...
13 fined for not wearing face mask
08:27 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayA mobile court in Bogura has fined 13 people for not wearing face masks, in a time when the country witnessed a surge in the number of coronavirus infections...
Spanish lawmakers approve bill legalising euthanasia
08:06 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdaySpanish lawmakers on Thursday legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with serious and incurable or debilitating diseases who want to end their life, making Spain the fourth country in the European Union to take the step...
'Those who spoil harmony to be resisted'
07:23 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayMentioning that Bangladesh is a non-communal country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday warned of resistance against those who spoil communal harmony...
'Khela shesh': Modi to Mamata
05:37 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for pursuing "appeasement and vote bank politics" which were responsible for infiltration...
Bangladesh, Maldives agree to sign PTA
04:57 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President of the Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih came up with a consensus regarding signing of the PTA during their bilateral talks at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in the capital...
Man sentenced to death for killing father
04:33 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayA court in Bhola on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his father in 2017...
Australian sex consent app proposal sparks backlash
04:11 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayAustralians have derided a suggestion by the New South Wales (NSW) police commissioner that an app could be used to register sexual consent...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 16, cases 2187
03:48 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdaySixteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,624. During the period, 2,187 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,64,939, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Thursday...
Chelsea reach Champions League last eight
03:35 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayChelsea reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in seven years with a 3-0 aggregate win over Atletico Madrid...
Lewandowski scores as Bayern progress
03:28 PM, 18 Mar 2021 ThursdayRobert Lewandowski was on the scoresheet again as Bayern Munich cruised into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a win over Lazio...