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President, PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on his birthday
10:30 AM, 17 Mar 2021 WednesdayPresident Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his birth anniversary and the National Children’s Day-2021, by placing wreaths at the portrait of the great leader...
Maldives President arrives in Dhaka
09:32 AM, 17 Mar 2021 WednesdayMaldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday morning to attend celebrations of Bangladesh’s golden jubilee of independence and birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Putin likely directed 2020 US election meddling, US intelligence finds
09:19 AM, 17 Mar 2021 WednesdayRussian President Vladimir Putin likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, according to an American intelligence report released on Tuesday that sources said would likely trigger U.S. sanctions on Moscow...
Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead; man captured
08:53 AM, 17 Mar 2021 WednesdayShootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt...
Nation celebrates Bangabandhu’s 101st birth anniversary
08:37 AM, 17 Mar 2021 WednesdayThe nation celebrated the 101st birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children’s Day-2021 in a befitting manner today...
Six get life for raping schoolgirl
09:43 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayA court in Rajbari on Tuesday awarded life term imprisonment to six people for raping a schoolgirl in Sadar upazila of Rajbari district in 2019.
Facebook to pay News Corp for content in Australia
09:16 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayFacebook has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia for journalism from its local mastheads...
Ibrahimovic recalled by Sweden
08:57 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdaySweden's record goalscorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been recalled to the national team five years after announcing his retirement...
Oxford vaccine: 'No indication' of link to blood clots
08:46 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayThe European Union medicines regulator has reiterated there is "no indication" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab causes blood clots, after several countries paused their rollouts...
17 Jamaat-Shibir men held in Rajshahi
08:20 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayPolice detained 17 local leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir in Rajshahi city early Tuesday...
BNP leader Moudud Ahmed dies
07:14 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayBNP Standing Committe Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on Tuesday. He breathed his last at the hospital around 6pm, confirmed BNP Chairperson's Press Wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan...
Rituparna Sengupta tests Covid positive
05:53 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayRituparna Sengupta has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and she revealed the same on Instagram. The actress is currently under quarantine at a recovery centre in Singapore. In the post, she mentioned that she is asymptomatic...
Jota scores Liverpool winner on Wolves return
05:32 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayDiogo Jota rekindled Liverpool's Premier League top-four hopes with the winning goal on his return to Molineux in a game that ended with a worrying head injury to Wolves goalkeeper Rui Patricio...
Messi equals Xavi's Barcelona record
05:26 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayLionel Messi scored twice and made another on the day he equalled Xavi's record for most Barcelona appearances...
Writ seeking deferment of BCS preliminary exam rejected
04:31 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayThe High Court on Tuesday rejected a writ petition filed demanding the deferement of the 41st BCS preliminary examination...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 26, cases 1719
04:13 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayTwenty six more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,597. During the period, 1,719 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,60,887, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Tuesday...
Tk 4,122cr housing project for hard-up FFs approved
03:39 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayECNEC has approved six projects involving around Tk 5,619 crore. The approval came at Ecnec meeting held on Tuesday with the Ecnec Chairperson Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The premier attended the meeting through videoconferencing from her Ganabhaban residence in the capital...
NSTU Vice Chancellor tests positive for Coronavirus
02:22 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayMd Didar-ul-Alam, Vice Chancellor of Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), has been infected with Coronavirus. He tested positive for the virus on Monday night. He is now staying in the university’s VC Bungalow...
Journo Abu Anas dies of heart attack
01:54 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayAbu Anas, an Economic Editor of The Financial Express, died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning. He was 44. He breathed his last at 8am, said his colleague Special Correspondent of the daily Siddik Islam. He was suffering from heart disease for a long time...
Aamir Khan quits social media, reveals his reasons
01:09 PM, 16 Mar 2021 TuesdayAamir Khan, who celebrated his birthday on Sunday, has decided to quit social media. In his ‘last post’, the Bollywood superstar shared that given he is not active anyway, he has decided to drop the pretence...