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Nike, H&M face China fury over Xinjiang cotton 'concerns'
04:09 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayRetail giants Nike and H&M are facing a backlash in China after they expressed concern about the alleged use of forced Uighur labour in the production of Xinjiang cotton...
Sunamganj double murder: 2 get death, 13 life
03:39 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayA court in Sunamganj on Thursday sentenced two people to death and 13 to life term imprisonment for killing two people over previous enmity around 20 years ago...
PM to address nation this evening
02:22 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Thursday evening on the occasion of 50th anniversary of Bangladesh Independence. Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television will simultaneously broadcast the prime minister’s address from 7:30pm, her Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said in a press release...
Anti-Modi protests: Islamic scholar Rafiqul freed hours after arrest
12:51 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayPolice today detained Rafiqul Madani, an Islamic scholar, from a protest programme at Motijheel in the capital against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. Juba Adhikar Parishad organized the programme and the protesters also burnt an effigy of Modi...
India’s daily COVID-19 infections rise to 5-month high
12:01 PM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndia added 53,476 COVID-19 infections overnight, the highest daily rise since Oct. 23, the health ministry data showed on Thursday. India has 11.8 million COVID-19 cases, the third-highest amount behind the United States and Brazil...
Myanmar anti-coup activists plan new street protests after paralysing strike
10:21 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayMyanmar pro-democracy activists plan to resume street demonstrations on Thursday, a day after a nationwide silent strike saw businesses shut and people stay at home in protest against military rule in the Southeast Asian country...
Nation observes ‘Genocide Day’
09:45 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe nation observed the ‘Genocide Day’ today in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971 under the infamous “Operation Searchlight”...
North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan
09:15 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayNorth Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan - the first such test since Joe Biden became US president...
Coronavirus: India temporarily halts Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports
08:11 AM, 25 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndia has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, foreign ministry sources have told the BBC...
Bangladesh’s economic progress deserves high commendation: Lotay Tshering
10:00 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayBhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering on Wednesday said Bangladesh has progressed at all levels, terming the country’s economic progress “highly commendable”...
FIFA bans Blatter for second time over financial wrongdoing
09:55 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdaySepp Blatter, the former chief of football’s world governing body FIFA, has been banned for a second time by the organisation over financial wrongdoing, seven months before the 85-year-old’s first ban expires...
EU plan for tougher controls on vaccine exports
09:42 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayThe European Commission has proposed tougher controls on Covid vaccine exports after it accused UK-Swedish firm AstraZeneca of failing to honour its contract to supply EU countries...
Dhaka, Thimphu can explore new areas of cooperation: President
09:14 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayDhaka and Thimphu can explore new areas of cooperation including, information and communication technology, agriculture, horticulture, tourism and fisheries to enhance trade and investment between the two friendly countries...
AL activist killed in factional clash
09:04 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayA factional clash of local Awami League (AL) in Enayetpur upazila of Sirajganj has left an activist dead and 20 other leaders and ones injured...
PM urges leaders, policymakers to work together for peaceful, prosperous South Asia
07:54 PM, 24 Mar 2021 Wednesday“We can easily improve the fate of the people of South Asia by utilizing the resources we have been endowed through exhibiting mutual cooperation,” she said...
Slovak foreign minister resigns as government totters
07:44 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdaySlovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok resigned on Wednesday amid a crisis threatening the four-party government led by Prime Minister Igor Matovic, Korcok’s party said...
No decision yet on general holidays: Minister
07:01 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayHealth and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik on Wednesday said the government has yet to make any decision on the general holidays or lockdown amid a current surge in the coronavirus cases...
American actor George Segal dies
05:32 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayActor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 25, cases 3567
04:34 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayTwenty five more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,715. During the period, 3,567 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,74,445, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Wednesday...
Man gets life for killing father
04:02 PM, 24 Mar 2021 WednesdayA court in Natore on Wednesday convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for killing his father in 2015...