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2 Bangladeshis shot dead by BSF in Thakurgaon
02:17 PM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayTwo Bangladeshis were shot dead by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in Thakurgaon on Tuesday morning. The incident took place at Betna border area under Bakua union in Haripur upazila of the district around 6:30pm...
UK starts mass coronavirus vaccination programme
01:37 PM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayBritain on Tuesday hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country's history with a new Covid-19 jab...
Rabab Fatima elected as UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS EB’s VP
01:05 PM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayBangladesh’s Permanent Representative (PR) to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima was elected as the Vice President (VP) of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board on Monday...
Bangabandhu biopic: Shooting begins in Jan 2021
11:48 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe filming of a biopic on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is set to begin from January 2021, which was previously postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...
Christchurch massacre: Inquiry finds failures ahead of attack
11:00 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayAn inquiry into the Christchurch massacre has found a series of failures ahead of the 2019 attack, but concluded the tragedy was unpreventable. The inquiry was launched after white supremacist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two mosques in March 2019...
Coronavirus: UK vaccination programme getting under way
10:01 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe first people in the UK are expected to receive a coronavirus vaccine later, as rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab begins in what is being called "V-day"...
ADB approves $50 mln loan for Bangladesh
09:49 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $50 million loan to help restore the economic activities of microenterprises in Bangladesh, which have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Biden chooses retired general Lloyd Austin as defense secretary
09:36 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayPresident-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defense secretary, two people familiar with the decision said on Monday...
5 killed in road accident due to dense fog
09:10 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayFive people were killed and two more injured in a head-on collision between two trucks due to low visibility caused by dense fog near flyover of Gharinda union in Tangail sadar upazila on Tuesday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Jalal Hossen, Deputy Director of Tangail Fire Service, confirmed the matter...
COVID: Fauci warns Christmas is ‘greater challenge’ than Thanksgiving
08:22 AM, 08 Dec 2020 TuesdayTop US diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci has warned of another surge in Covid cases after Christmas - even with the rise following Thanksgiving still being tackled...
Unidentified illness hospitalizes more than 300 people in India
09:02 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayAn unidentified illness has hospitalized more than 300 people in southeastern India, including one who has died, according to local officials investigating the cases...
Draft law gets cabinet nod with provision to prepare list of razakars
08:06 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayThe cabinet today in principle approved a draft of the ‘Jatiya Muktijoddha Council Act-2020’ incorporating a provision to enable the commission to recommend the government to publish a list of Razakars and other anti-liberation elements...
Bus-autorickshaw collision kills 8
07:00 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayEight people including three members of a family were killed and ten others injured in a head-on collision between a bus of BRTC and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Habiganj on Monday afternoon. The incident took place near Shah Mushkil Ahsan mazar area at Fultoli bazar under Gajnaipur union in Nabiganj upazila around 4:45pm...
Coronavirus: 36 more die in 24 hours
04:39 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 6,874 as 36 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,198 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 479,743. In the last 24 hours, 14,369 samples were examined and out of them 2,198 got positive results for the virus...
India’s Serum Institute seeks approval for COVID-19 vaccine
04:25 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayThe Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has sought government approval for emergency-use authorisation of the coronavirus vaccine that it has developed in partnership with the University of Oxford and British drugmaker AstraZeneca...
Brexit: UK-EU talks to resume in final push for trade deal
03:55 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayTalks between the UK and EU are due to resume in Brussels in a final bid to reach a post-Brexit trade deal...
Ensure security of all Bangabandhu sculptures: HC
03:37 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayThe High Court (HC) on Monday asked the authorities concerned to take measures to ensure the security of all sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country...
Bangabandhu sculpture: Babunagari, 2 others sued for sedition
03:22 PM, 07 Dec 2020 MondayTwo cases have been filed against three people, including Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Chief Junaid Babunagari for their remarks opposing the setting up of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s sculptures...
Bangladesh coronavirus: 31 more die in 24hrs
05:44 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayThirty one more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 6,838...
Sculpture demolition: Chhatra League stages protest
05:23 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayBangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Sunday protested on the Dhaka University (DU) campus against the demolition of an unfinished sculpture of Bangabandhu in Kushtia...