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Pope visits Iraq despite virus, security risks
03:07 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayPope Francis is flying to Iraq for the first ever papal visit to the country, and his first international trip since the start of the pandemic...
Fire destroys 6 city shops
02:30 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayA fire burned down six shops at Mogbazar in capital Dhaka on Friday morning.
To reduce China role, India takes first steps to make cargo containers
01:07 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayAIMING TO free the country’s dependency on China and other foreign players in the logistics sector, India in a first such effort has begun the process of manufacturing cargo containers indigenously through two state-owned heavy-engineering behemoths...
Kamala Harris tells Netanyahu US opposes ICC probe of Israel
12:32 PM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayUS Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed the United States’s opposition to an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the White House said...
Italy 'blocks' vaccine shipment to Australia
11:52 AM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayThe Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. Italy is the first EU country to use the bloc's new regulations allowing exports to be stopped if the company providing the vaccines has failed to meet its obligations to the EU...
Chelsea go fourth as Liverpool lose at Anfield again
11:37 AM, 05 Mar 2021 FridayChelsea boosted their top-four hopes as Mason Mount's first-half strike inflicted a fifth straight defeat at Anfield for champions Liverpool...
Nineteen Myanmar police seek refuge in India
09:55 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayAt least 19 Myanmar police have crossed into India to escape taking orders from a military junta that is trying to suppress protests against last month’s coup, an Indian police official said on Thursday, adding that more were expected...
BNP shows ‘artificial love’ for people: Quader
09:42 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said BNP is showing “artificial affection” to the country’s people...
PM for resolving problems with neighbouring countries through discussion
09:08 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the problems between neighbouring countries should be resolved through discussions and negotiations...
BNNRC organizes orientation on SDG Localization Process
08:33 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayBangladesh NGOs for Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) organized a day-long Project Orientation on Connecting and Empowering Voices for Just, Inclusive and Peaceful Society supported by Switzerland on 4 March 2021 at YWCA conference room, Dhaka...
Ex-French PM Édouard Balladur acquitted
08:19 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe former French prime minister Édouard Balladur has been cleared of financing his failed 1995 presidential campaign with illegal kickbacks from international arms deals...
New Zealand charge man over threat to Christchurch mosques
07:57 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayA man has been charged over a threat made online to the Linwood Islamic centre and the Al Noor mosque, the sites of the two Christchurch shootings in 2019...
PM Hasina receives coronavirus vaccine
06:02 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received coronavirus vaccine. She received the first dose of the vaccine on Thursday afternoon, her Press Secretary MM Imrul Kayes Rana confirmed. Bangladesh on January 27 began coronavirus vaccination programme, and launched the same nationwide on February 7...
Windies captain Pollard hits six sixes
05:49 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayKieron Pollard struck six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' extraordinary four-wicket Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka...
India dismiss England for 205 in final Test
05:34 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayIndia bowled out England for 205 as spinners Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin shared seven wickets between them on day one of the fourth and final Test on Thursday...
Shreya Ghoshal announces her first pregnancy
05:10 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayShreya has mesmerised audiences with her melodious voice over the years with songs like ‘Manwa Laage’, ‘Piyu Bole’ and ‘Bairi Piya’ among others...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 7, cases 619
04:30 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdaySeven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,435. During the period, 619 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,48,549, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Thursday...
Writer Mushtaq's death was 'natural'
04:11 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayThe Home Ministry probe body formed over the custodial death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed has concluded that he died of 'natural causes'. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal made the disclosure while talking to the reporters at his Secretariat office on Thursday...
PM urges scientists, researchers to work more for humanity
03:47 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the scientists and researchers to work more for welfare of mankind with more concentration, saying evolution of research and science is inevitable for the country’s development...
Barca beat Sevilla to reach Copa del Rey final
03:29 PM, 04 Mar 2021 ThursdayBarcelona overturned a two-goal first-leg deficit as they beat 10-man Sevilla 3-0 after extra time in a Copa del Rey semi-final full of drama and incident...