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France reports 523 new deaths from COVID-19, highest daily toll since April
09:37 AM, 28 Oct 2020 WednesdayFrance reported 523 new deaths from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the highest daily toll since April 22, health ministry data showed...
Saudi Arabia set to abolish sponsorship system
08:58 AM, 28 Oct 2020 WednesdayIn a landmark move, Saudi Arabia is set to abolish the sponsorship system effective from the first half of the next year. More than one million expatriates are expected to benefit from the move, according to a report in Maaal online business daily...
US election: Biden hits new battleground, Trump blitzes Midwest
08:30 AM, 28 Oct 2020 WednesdayDemocratic White House challenger Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump as a conman during a campaign foray into traditionally Republican territory...
Anger over Prophet Mohammad's cartoons: France warns citizens to be cautious
09:34 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayFrance’s foreign ministry on Tuesday issued safety advice to French citizens in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq and Mauritania, advising them to exercise caution...
Former FIFA referee Abdul Aziz dies
09:20 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayFormer FIFA referee Abdul Aziz passed away on Tuesday afternoon at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after suffering from cardiac problems for two weeks...
Irfan Selim suspended as DSCC ward councillor
08:51 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayDhaka-7 MP Haji Selim's son Mohammad Irfan Selim has been suspended as councillor of Ward no. 30 under Dhaka South City Corporation. The Local Government Division on Tuesday night issued the suspension order following a RAB mobile court jailed Irfan for one year for possessing illegal walkie-talkies and liquor...
ECNEC approves Tk 319.23cr project for DNCC traffic infrastructures
06:39 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayThe government has approved a Taka 319.23 crore project to improve road safety, including traffic infrastructures development, as well as reducing traffic congestion in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas...
HSBC reports 35% fall in profits
06:14 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayHSBC has warned it could start charging for "basic banking services" after reporting a 35% fall in pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September...
New FATF guidelines challenging, admits Pakistan
04:37 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayPakistan has admitted that the new Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines are challenging and most “comprehensive ever given to any country”, days after the world’s anti-terror finance body decided that Islamabad will continue in its Grey List...
Bangladesh coronavirus deaths rise to 5838
04:20 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayBangladesh on Tuesday recorded 1,335 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,01,586. Of the total patients, 3,18,123 recovered, with 1,523 made recovery in the last 24 hours. The daily count came from test of 12,617 samples in the past day. As of today, the number of total sample test stood at 22,83,974...
Protest procession against Marcon’s anti-Islam remarks foiled
03:57 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayPolice have foiled a procession brought out by Islami Andolon in the capital demanding the government sever diplomatic ties with France...
October 22 attack on Kashmir observed as ‘Black Day’
03:50 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayThe visitors remembered the same brutal forces that massacred and abused their own men and women during the country’s valiant Liberation War of 1971...
Pogba 'plans to sue over fake reports'
03:34 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayManchester United and France midfielder Paul Pogba says he will take legal action after "total fake" reports said he was to quit international football...
Rifat murder: 11 juveniles jailed, 3 others acquitted
02:50 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayA Barguna court has sentenced 11 juveniles accused to jail in different terms and also acquitted three others in the sensational Rifat Sharif murder case. Judge Md Hafizur Rahman of Barguna’s children court passed the order at 2:30pm on Tuesday. Among the 11, six were sentenced to ten years in jail, four to five years and one to three years...
In another quicker verdict, youth gets one year’s jail
02:23 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayIn just three working days, a Khulna court has sentenced a youth to one year’s rigorous imprisonment in a drug case. Khulna Metropolitan Magistrate court No-4 Judge Dr. Md Atikus Samad handed down the verdict on Wednesday...
Irfan Selim to be sacked from councilor post: LGD secy
02:10 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayIrfan Selim, son of MP Haji Selim, will be sacked from the post of councilor as he was sentenced to jail by a mobile court. Irfan Selim is the No 30 ward councilor of Dhaka South City Corporation...
Iran summons French diplomat over alleged insult against Prophet Mohammad
01:43 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayIran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the French charge d’affaires over alleged insults against Islam’s Prophet Mohammad, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported on Tuesday...
Assault on Navy officer: Irfan Selim’s another associate held
12:22 PM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayDetectives arrested another associate of Irfan Selim from Tangail district early Tuesday in a case filed in connection with the assault on an official of Bangladesh Navy in the capital on Sunday night...
Pakistan opens first metro line after years of delays
11:10 AM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayPakistan's first metro line began operations Monday in the eastern city of Lahore following years of delays, in a country severely lacking public transport or modern infrastructure...
President returns home from UAE
10:56 AM, 27 Oct 2020 TuesdayPresident M Abdul Hamid returned home this morning after a health check-up at a hospital in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...