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Housewife found hanging in Bogura
04:03 PM, 12 Mar 2021 FridayPolice recovered the hanging body of a housewife from Sherpur upazila of Bogura on Thursday night...
Turkey, Russia, Qatar push for political resolution in Syria
03:04 PM, 12 Mar 2021 FridayTurkey, Russia and Qatar are making a joint attempt to promote a political solution to Syria’s 10-year conflict, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said...
Denmark, Norway, Iceland halt use of Oxford vaccine
12:14 PM, 12 Mar 2021 FridayDenmark, Norway and Iceland on Thursday temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about patients developing post-jab blood clots, as the manufacturer and Europe's medicines watchdog insisted the vaccine was safe...
Not congress, BJP Says this party is the main opponent in Assam
11:47 AM, 12 Mar 2021 FridayWith just days to go for elections to begin in Assam, the ruling BJP has said it is Badruddin Ajmal's All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) that will be the main opponent of the party and not the Congress...
Actress Romana Sorna arrested
09:57 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayPolice have arrested model and actress Romana Islam Sorna in a case filed on charge of swindling over Tk 1 crore from an expatriate...
Bodies of 16 migrants massacred in Mexico arrive in Guatemala
08:20 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayMexico on Friday returned the bodies of 16 Guatemalan nationals massacred in one of its northern border states, a case that caused renewed consternation about the dangers faced by migrants bound for the United States...
Royals 'not a racist family', Prince William says
08:20 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe Duke of Cambridge has said the royals are "very much not a racist family" in his first comments after accusations by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a TV interview...
Teacher sent to jail over torture of madrasa student
07:58 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayA court in Chattogram on Thursday sent a madrasa teacher to jail in a case filed over the torture of an eight-year-old student in Hathazari upazila...
Police raids across Europe after encrypted phone network shut down
06:40 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayPolice in Belgium and the Netherlands have arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organised crime groups...
Kazi Hayat catches Covid-19 after taking vaccine
06:01 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayPopular film director Kazi Hayat has tested positive for coronavirus after he had recently received his first dose of the vaccine...
Ten years on, Japan mourns victims of earthquake and Fukushima disaster
05:40 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayWith a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear protests, Japan on Thursday mourned about 20,000 victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 10 years ago, destroying towns and triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima...
Research organisation declares India as an ‘electoral autocracy’
04:44 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe V-Dem Institute, an independent research organisation based in Sweden, has declared India an “electoral autocracy”, downgrading the world’s largest democracy from the 2019 ranking. The new ranking suggests India is as autocratic as Pakistan when it comes to censorship and worse than Bangladesh and Nepal...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 6, cases 1052
04:12 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdaySix more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,502. During the period, 1,052 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,54,156, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Thursday...
Sylhet-3 MP Samad dies from coronavirus
03:38 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdaySylhet-3 MP Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. He breathed his last around 2:20pm on Thursday at United Hospital in the capital, the lawmaker's personal secretary Zulhas Ahmed confirmed...
Liverpool beat Leipzig to seal quarter-final spot
03:30 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayFabinho is "one of the best in the world at number six", Jurgen Klopp said after the Brazil midfielder helped Liverpool beat RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals...
PSG hold off spirited Barca to advance
03:24 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayBarcelona boss Ronald Koeman says Lionel Messi can have no doubts over the "great future" the club has after they bowed out of the Champions League with a spirited performance at Paris St-Germain...
Afghanistan bans schoolgirls older than 12 from singing
02:31 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayAfghanistan's Education Ministry is barring schoolgirls older than 12 from singing at public events, media reported on Wednesday...
7 killed in Myanmar protests; army accused of using battle tactics
02:12 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdaySeven people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-junta protests in Myanmar on Thursday, witnesses and local media said, as rights group Amnesty International accused the military of adopting battle tactics against demonstrators...
Trial of DGHS’s driver Malek starts
01:55 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe trial of Abdul Malek, a driver of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), was started today as the court has framed charges against him in arms case filed with Turag Police Station in the capital...
Student torture: HC asks what steps taken against teacher
01:06 PM, 11 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe High Court has wanted to know within March 14 what steps have been taken against the teacher who beat an eight-year-old student up at a madrasa in Hathazari of Chattogram. A two-member bench led by Justice Nazmul Ahsan issued an order on Thursday...