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Kazakhstan scraps death penalty
09:38 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayKazakhstan has abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly 20-year freeze on capital punishment in the Central Asian country, according to a notice on the presidential website...
Deadly suicide attack in Mogadishu claimed by al-Shabaab
09:02 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayA suicide bombing in Mogadishu killed at least five people on Saturday, the Turkish health minister has said...
Tigers head coach Domingo to arrive next week
07:56 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayTigers head coach Russell Domingo is set to return to Bangladesh next Friday, just two days before the national team starts its training session for the upcoming home series against West Indies...
Shakib to return to country tomorrow
07:09 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayBangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is set to return to the country from USA tomorrow through a Qatar Airways flight, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said...
bKash becomes the Best Brand of the country 2nd time in a row
05:43 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdaybKash has won the country's Best Brand Award for the second time in a row in a consumer survey conducted by Bangladesh Brand Forum...
Mumbai attack mastermind arrested in Pakistan: Report
04:53 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayZaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan over terror financing charges, an official said...
Bangladesh reports 23 more Covid deaths
04:24 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayTwenty three more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,599. During the period, 684 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,15,184. Of the total patients, 4,59,620 recovered, with 064 made recovery in the last 24 hours...
India approves AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
04:06 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayIndia on Friday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, a government minister confirmed on Saturday, reports Reuters...
Quader urges BNP to return to positive politics
03:52 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayAwami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today called upon BNP to return to the positive trend of politics in the New Year...
18 killed in Honduras during New Year’s Eve celebrations
03:41 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayThe Honduran police said on Friday 18 people were killed in several violent incidents during New Year’s Eve celebrations...
Sourav Ganguly hospitalised after complaints of chest pain: Reports
02:47 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayFormer India cricket captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has been admitted in a hospital in Kolkata news agency ANI has reported...
Over 470,000 COVID-19 cases recorded globally in past 24 hours: WHO
02:33 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has surpassed 81.94 million, rising by more than 470,000 in the past 24 hours...
With 19,078 new Covid-19 cases, India’s tally rises over 10.3 million
12:03 PM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayIndia reported 19,078 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 224 related deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare, which have taken the second worst-affected country’s tally to over 10.3 million...
Afghan journalist shot dead in car ambush
11:13 AM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayAn Afghan journalist was shot dead in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, the fifth media professional to be killed in the country in two months, officials said on Saturday...
Mahila Parishad President Ayesha Khanam dies
10:09 AM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayAyesha Khanam, President of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad and a freedom fighter, died early Saturday. She was 74. She was admitted to the BRB Hospitals in Dhaka after she felt sick where doctors declared her dead. Maleka Banu, General Secretary of Mahila Parishad, confirmed the death to Jago News.
US Congress overrides Trump defence spending bill veto
08:49 AM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayThe US Congress has overturned President Donald Trump's veto of a defence spending bill, the first time this has happened in his presidency...
Iran nuclear crisis: Tehran to enrich uranium to 20%, UN says
08:30 AM, 02 Jan 2021 SaturdayIran intends to start enriching uranium to 20% purity, the UN's atomic watchdog says - its most significant breach of an international nuclear deal so far. This remains short of the 90% required to make a nuclear bomb. But under the 2015 agreement Iran was supposed to keep enrichment below 4%...
Music director Emon tortured wife for Tk 10 lakh dowry
06:06 PM, 01 Jan 2021 FridayNational Film Award winning music director Shawkat Ali Emon tortured his wife and kicked her out of home as she refused to give Tk 10 lakh dowry...
Bangladesh reports 17 more Covid deaths
04:36 PM, 01 Jan 2021 FridaySeven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,576. During the period, 1,990 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,14,500. Of the total patients, 4,58,656 recovered, with 1,197 made recovery in the last 24 hours...
Textbook distribution begins across the country
03:19 PM, 01 Jan 2021 FridayDespite the coronavirus pandemic, the government has already taken all-out measures to distribute new textbooks among 4.5 crore students of the primary and secondary levels free of cost on the first day of the New Year...