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Dhaka committed to taking ties with Thimphu to new height: FM
04:40 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayForeign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday shared Bangladesh's commitment to carry forward its relations with Bhutan to a new height after the two countries opened a new chapter by signing the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA)...
Derailment snaps Sylhet's rail links with other parts of country
04:01 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundaySylhet's rail communication with other parts of the country remained suspended since Sunday noon after the derailment of three containers of an oil-laden tanker at Shahjibazar Rail Station in Sayestaganj upazila of Habiganj...
Four held over sculpture vandalizm
03:28 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayFour madrasa students have been detained for their alleged connection in vandalizm of the father of nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's sculpture in Kushtia...
Bangladesh signs Preferential Trade Agreement with Bhutan
03:00 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayBangladesh on Sunday signed its maiden Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bhutan to boost bilateral trade between the two countries...
Stronger regional, int'l cooperation needed to mitigate COVID's impact: PM
01:57 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayShe said the COVID-19 pandemic has opened eyes to the new realities that we must consider while we strive to move forward...
Oxford Covid jab team start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
12:51 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayThe Oxford team that has produced a successful coronavirus vaccine is about to enter the final stage of human trials in its quest for an inoculation against malaria...
Pfizer seeks vaccine approval in India
12:11 PM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayPfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said on Sunday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections...
BPC plans to build new LPG terminal at Matarbari
11:32 AM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayState-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has decided to set up a dedicated liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal at Matarbari deep sea port in order to meet the growing energy needs of the country...
Barca lose to Cadiz for first time since 1991
11:17 AM, 06 Dec 2020 SundayCadiz beat Barcelona for the first time in La Liga since 1991 as former Manchester City striker Alvaro Negredo scored a famous winner...
US not extending TikTok divestiture deadline
05:48 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayThe Trump administration on Friday opted not to grant ByteDance a new extension of an order requiring the Chinese company to divest TikTok’s US assets, but talks will continue over the short video-sharing app’s fate, two sources briefed on the matter said...
Bangladesh coronavirus: 35 more die in 24hrs
04:35 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayThirty five more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 6,807...
Bangabandhu's sculpture vandalized
04:00 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayThe miscreants have vandalized an under-construction sculpture of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia district town. They broke the portions of face and hands of the sculpture, said superintendent of Kushtia Police SM Tanveer Arafat...
Daily Shopping opens flagship store at Uttara
03:03 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayPopular retail chain shop Daily Shopping has opened a flagship store in the capital’s Uttara for selling all kinds of grocery items. Eleash Mridha, Managing Director of PRAN Group, inaugurated the outlet located at Rajlokkhi, sector-3 of Uttara recently...
Russia begins Covid vaccinations in Moscow
02:46 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayRussia is starting its Covid-19 vaccination programme, with clinics in the capital Moscow inoculating those most at risk from the virus. Its own vaccine Sputnik V, which was registered in August, is being used. Developers say it is 95% effective and causes no major side effects, but it is still undergoing mass testing...
Muslims in Sri Lanka 'denied justice' over forced cremations of Covid victims
02:12 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayMuslim and Christian families in Sri Lanka whose relatives were cremated during the coronavirus pandemic in violation of their religious beliefs say they have been denied justice after the supreme court threw out their case...
Restrict smuggling, protect independence: PM to BGB
01:31 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayThe Prime Minister said this while virtually attending the course-completion parade of BGB 95th batch from her official residence Ganobhaban. The parade was held at BGB training Centre and College at Satkania, Chattogram...
Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign to begin Dec 12
01:12 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayA 44-day ‘Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign’ is set to begin on December 12 across the country with a target for administering 3.40 crore Children...
Coal mine accident in China's Chongqing kills 18
12:25 PM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayEighteen people have died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the region’s second such accident in just over two months...
World can start dreaming of pandemic's end: WHO chief
11:18 AM, 05 Dec 2020 SaturdayThe UN health chief declared Friday that positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic,” but he said rich and powerful nations must not trample the poor and marginalized “in the stampede for vaccines.”...
'Alhamdulillah, more than happy with Bhasan Char facilities': Rohingya man
06:27 PM, 04 Dec 2020 FridaySyed Ullah, one of the Rohingyas landed in Bhasan Char on Friday, could not hold his feelings of extreme happiness seeing all the facilities there and kept calling relatives back in Cox's Bazar camps to join the next batch...