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Suu Kyi charged after Myanmar army coup
05:35 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayPolice in Myanmar have filed several charges against the elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi following Monday's military coup. She has been remanded in custody until 15 February, police documents show...
ECNEC okays Bangabandhu Shilpa Nagar Dev Project
05:19 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday approved a Taka 4,347.21 crore project to develop the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) as a state of the art and international standard greener economic zone of the country...
Bangladesh intensifies vigil on Myanmar borders
04:53 PM, 03 Feb 2021 Wednesday“We have secured our border (to stop potential Rohingya influx),” he told reporters at his office today, reports BSS...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 13, cases 438
04:09 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayThirteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,162. During the period, 438 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,36,545, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Wednesday...
32 killed in Uganda road accident
03:56 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayThirty two people were killed and five others injured in a road accident in the western Ugandan district of Kasese late Tuesday, a humanitarian agency has said...
Deaf drama ‘CODA’ and Questlove documentary win at Sundance
03:38 PM, 03 Feb 2021 Wednesday“CODA,” the heartwarming indie drama about a teenage girl struggling to support her deaf family, scooped the Sundance film festival’s top prize Tuesday, while musician Questlove won documentary honors with his debut...
RFL Plastics holds dealers’ conference
02:52 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayRFL Plastics organized its conference for its dealers, engaged to serve uPVC, HDPE, MS, GI pipe and PVC bathroom fittings at The Palace Luxury Resort in Habiganj on Monday...
Saudi Arabia suspends entry for non-citizens from 20 countries
02:38 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdaySaudi Arabia has suspended entry to the Kingdom for non-citizens, including diplomats, health practitioners, and their families, from 20 specific countries as it steps up efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday citing an official source at the Interior Ministry...
Myanmar coup: China blocks UN condemnation as protest grows
12:53 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayChina has blocked a UN Security Council statement condemning the military coup in Myanmar. The military took power in the South East Asian nation on Monday after arresting political leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of other lawmakers...
Ex-lawmaker Salahuddin denied bail, sent to jail
12:10 PM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayA Dhaka court has sent former lawmaker of Dhaka-5 constituency and finance affairs secretary of BNP Salahuddin Ahmed to jail in a sabotage case. Dhaka’s 7th Joint Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Aftabuzzaman today passed the order after rejecting his bail petition...
Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup
11:30 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayRohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes them more fearful to return. A counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar’s military in 2017 involving mass rape, murders and the torching of villages drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh...
Doctors and nurses join civil disobedience movement in Myanmar after coup
10:46 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayCalls for a civil disobedience campaign in Myanmar were gathering pace on Wednesday as the United States formally declared the military's takeover a coup and vowed further penalties for the generals behind the putsch...
Trump lawyers challenge legitimacy of post-presidency impeachment trial
10:22 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayFormer President Donald Trump’s lawyers said on Tuesday the U.S. Senate lacks the authority to conduct his impeachment trial now that he has left office...
Bangladesh win toss, choose to bat first
09:29 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayBangladesh won the toss and chose to bat first against West Indies in the first match of two-match test series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Wednesday morning...
Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon chief executive
08:46 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayAmazon founder Jeff Bezos is to step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago...
Putin critic Navalny jailed in Russia despite protests
08:28 AM, 03 Feb 2021 WednesdayA Moscow court has jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny for three-and-a-half years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence. He has been in detention since returning to Russia last month. He was treated in Germany for a near-fatal nerve agent attack on him in August...
Japanese investors urged to invest in Bangladesh
09:48 PM, 02 Feb 2021 TuesdayBangladesh mission in Tokyo today urged the Japanese entrepreneurs to select Bangladesh as their investment destination as Dhaka offers various facilities to the foreign investors...
Army blasts Al-Jazeera report involving Bangladesh military
09:30 PM, 02 Feb 2021 TuesdayBangladesh army on Tuesday blasted an Al-Jazeera report titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men” calling it an “ill intended” one, as part efforts by a vested group to destabilize the country...
Pakistan's Covid-19 vaccination drive kicked off
09:10 PM, 02 Feb 2021 TuesdayPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday evening oversaw the start of the country's coronavirus vaccination campaign, with the first jab administered to a doctor in Islamabad...
Four TikTokers shot dead in Pakistan
09:03 PM, 02 Feb 2021 TuesdayFour TikTokers, including one female, were shot dead near Anklesaria Hospital in Karachi's Garden area early on Tuesday morning, officials said, reports Dawn...