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Brazil top court allows Copa America to go ahead
12:35 PM, 11 Jun 2021 FridayBrazil’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday the country can host the Copa America despite the coronavirus pandemic, clearing the way for the troubled football tournament to go ahead in three days...
G7 to provide 1 bn Covid vaccine doses ‘to world’: UK
11:52 AM, 11 Jun 2021 FridayG7 leaders will agree to expand global Covid vaccine manufacturing to provide at least one billion doses to the world through sharing and financing schemes, Britain said Thursday...
China 'has created dystopian hellscape' in Xinjiang
11:34 AM, 11 Jun 2021 FridayThe human rights organisation Amnesty International has said China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities...
Maj Gen S M Shamim made new Bangladesh Ambassador to Libiya
08:45 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayThe government has decided to appoint Major General S M Shamim-Uz-Zaman as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to Libya, a foreign ministry press release said here today...
Anderson breaks England Test caps record
08:15 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayFast bowler James Anderson became England's most capped Test player after being selected to play in the series decider against New Zealand...
Italian woman wakes up after 10 months in coma
08:03 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayAn Italian woman has woken from a coma after 10 months, according to local media reports...
Dhaka won’t recognize Israel until Palestine becomes sovereign: Momen
07:23 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayForeign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Dhaka would not recognize Israel until Palestine is established as an independent and sovereign country free of any occupation forces...
S M Shafiuddin made new Army chief
06:47 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayLieutenant General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed has been appointed the new chief of the Bangladesh Army. He will replace incumbent chief General Aziz Ahmed on June 24, the Ministry of Defence said in a handout on Thursday. He will lead the force for the next three years, the handout said...
Sexual harassment 'normalised' for children in UK schools
06:34 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdaySexual harassment, online sexual abuse and sharing nude photos are becoming "normalised" among school children, according to a review by Ofsted. ..
Govt works for economic solvency of commoners: PM
05:56 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has been working to ensure economic solvency of the grassroots people to build Bangladesh as a poverty-free country...
40 more die of Covid-19 in 24hrs
04:59 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdaySome 40 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 12,989. During the period, 2,576 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 8,20,395, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday...
Lockdown in Satkhira extended for another week
04:48 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayThe local administration in Satkhira has extended the ongoing lockdown for seven more days to June 17 as the coronavirus situation did not improve...
Model mosques to provide education, create awareness in curbing social menaces: PM
03:45 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdaySheikh Hasina said model mosques across the country are being established to provide education, create awareness and increase knowledge about Islam...
Man hides lover in room for 11 years
02:36 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayPolice in Palakkad district of India's Kerala state on Wednesday lifted the lid on an amazing love story in which a man secretly kept his lover in a tiny room at his family house at Ayiloor, near Nenmara, without letting anyone know about it for 11 years...
Argentina president says 'Brazilians came from jungle'
01:43 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayArgentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, has triggered a Twitter storm and a regional race debate with misjudged comments to visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain that sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe...
'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%
01:21 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayDengue fever cases have been cut by 77% in a "groundbreaking" trial that manipulates the mosquitoes that spread it, say scientists...
Director Buddhadev Dasgupta passes away
12:16 PM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayIndia’s legendary film director Buddhadev Dasgupta died at his South Kolkata residence on Thursday. He was 77...
India sees record 6,148 Covid-19 deaths in last 24 hours
11:27 AM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayIndia on Thursday reported 94,052 new COVID-19 cases as 6,148 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. The country recorded the highest single-day death toll in the last 24 hours...
PM inaugurates 50 model mosques
11:13 AM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayFifty model mosques, out of a total of 560, have been inaugurated simultaneously across Bangladesh on Thursday morning. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the mosques through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital on Thursday morning...
Brazil squad confirm they’ll play the Copa America
10:53 AM, 10 Jun 2021 ThursdayThe Brazil national team have released a statement that explains they will compete in this summer's Copa America, even if they have several doubts about the way the tournament has been organised...