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Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 10, cases 540
04:42 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayTen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,451. During the period, 540 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,49,724, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Saturday...
India crush England to reach final
04:34 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayAll-round India produced a stellar performance to storm into the maiden World Test Championship (WTC) final as they steamrolled England by an innings and 25 runs to win the series finale on Day 3 in Ahmedabad...
Three Hizb ut-Tahrir members held in city
04:14 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayPolice have arrested three members of banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir in the capital...
Kroos claims he was called a Nazi on social media for Ozil criticism
03:39 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayReal Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos says he was branded a Nazi by some on social media after he criticised how Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from the Germany national team...
NASA’s new Mars rover hits dusty red road, 1st trip 21 feet
02:59 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayNASA’s newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 21 feet on the odometer in its first test drive...
Pope Francis meets powerful Shia cleric in Iraq
02:01 PM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayPope Francis has held a symbolic meeting with one of the most powerful figures in Shia Islam on the second day of his landmark trip to Iraq...
Sheikh Hasina among top 3 inspirational women leaders in Commonwealth
11:52 AM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named among the top three inspirational women leaders in The Commonwealth, said a press release today.
Second lawsuit filed against Trump over Jan. 6 Capitol riot
10:25 AM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayA Democratic congressman who helped argue the House impeachment case against former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against him in federal court Friday, seeking to turn those allegations into a civil case...
UN envoy calls for action against Myanmar junta over bloodshed
09:54 AM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayThe United Nations special envoy on Myanmar called on the U.N. Security Council to take action against the ruling junta after the killings of protesters who have continued to defy security forces at demonstrations against last month’s coup...
US detained nearly 1 lakh migrants at Mexico border in February
08:44 AM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayU.S. border agents detained nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, according to two people familiar with preliminary figures, the highest monthly total since a major border surge in mid-2019...
20 killed by suicide car bomb blast in Somalia
08:16 AM, 06 Mar 2021 SaturdayAt least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported...
Bangladesh elected Int’l Seabed Authority council member
06:02 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayBangladesh has been elected as the member of the Council of ‘International Seabed Authority’ for a four-year term from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024...
Aaron Finch fires again as Australia beat New Zealand
05:13 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayThe series will be decided at the same venue on Sunday, with fans allowed back in the stands after the easing of New Zealand’s Covid restrictions...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 6, cases 635
04:25 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridaySix more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,441. During the period, 635 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,49,184, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Friday...
Pope visits Iraq despite virus, security risks
03:07 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayPope Francis is flying to Iraq for the first ever papal visit to the country, and his first international trip since the start of the pandemic...
Fire destroys 6 city shops
02:30 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayA fire burned down six shops at Mogbazar in capital Dhaka on Friday morning.
To reduce China role, India takes first steps to make cargo containers
01:07 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayAIMING TO free the country’s dependency on China and other foreign players in the logistics sector, India in a first such effort has begun the process of manufacturing cargo containers indigenously through two state-owned heavy-engineering behemoths...
Kamala Harris tells Netanyahu US opposes ICC probe of Israel
12:32 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayUS Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed the United States’s opposition to an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the White House said...
Italy 'blocks' vaccine shipment to Australia
11:52 AM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayThe Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. Italy is the first EU country to use the bloc's new regulations allowing exports to be stopped if the company providing the vaccines has failed to meet its obligations to the EU...
Chelsea go fourth as Liverpool lose at Anfield again
11:37 AM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayChelsea boosted their top-four hopes as Mason Mount's first-half strike inflicted a fifth straight defeat at Anfield for champions Liverpool...