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Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal Biman's new MD
06:15 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayThe additional secretary of the Caninet Division Dr Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal has been appointed as the new managing director of the national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines...
HSBC looks to Asia after profits plunge 34%
06:01 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayHSBC, Britain’s biggest bank, has recorded a 34% drop in profit for 2020 as it prepares to double down on its operations in Hong Kong and China despite concern about the political crackdown in the former UK colony...
Upul Tharanga retires from int'l cricket
05:05 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdaySri Lanka’s veteran opening batsman Upul Tharanga has drawn curtains on his 15-year old international career...
Youth found dead in house
04:42 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayPolice recovered the body of a young man from his room in Tazumuddin upazila of Bhola on Tuesday morning...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 18, cases 399
04:20 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayEighteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,374...
Facebook reverses ban on news in Australia
03:45 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayFacebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in Australia...
Ronaldo scores two headers in Juve win
03:32 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayCristiano Ronaldo scored two headers as Juventus beat bottom side Crotone to go within eight points of leaders Inter Milan...
NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
02:56 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayNASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface...
‘Will build our own fighter jets’: PM
01:11 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed a desire to build fighter jets in Bangladesh to protect its sovereignty. "We’re building the Air Force to make it competitive, and we’ve a desire to build fighter jets in Bangladesh. We’re taking preparations to protect our air border with our own [strength]," she said...
Malaysia court allows temporary stay of deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals
12:30 PM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayA Malaysian court has allowed a temporary stay of deportation of 1,200 Myanmar detainees who were scheduled to be sent back on Tuesday, according to a lawyer for rights groups that petitioned to stop the deportation...
Australia says no further Facebook, Google amendments as final vote nears
10:31 AM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayAustralia will not alter legislation that would make Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google pay news outlets for content, a senior lawmaker said on Monday, as Canberra neared a final vote on whether to pass the bill into law...
Bus-truck collision kills 5 in Sirajganj
09:45 AM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayFive people were killed and fifteen others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sirajganj on Tuesday morning. The incident took place on Bangabandhu Bridge West Link highway at Konabari area in Kamarkhand upazila of the district around 8am...
Canada’s parliament declares China’s treatment of Uighurs ‘genocide’
09:10 AM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayCanada's House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to declare China's treatment of its Uighur minority population a genocide...
US puts sanctions on two Myanmar generals over coup
08:53 AM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayThe United States on Monday imposed sanctions on two members of Myanmar’s military junta and threatened further actions over the country’s Feb. 1 coup...
Half a million dead in US, confirming virus’s tragic reach
08:37 AM, 23 Feb 2021 TuesdayFor weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard - one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by COVID-19 - the toll was mostly a number...
Papul’s parliament membership cancelled
05:58 PM, 22 Feb 2021 MondayThe parliament membership of Kazi Shahid Islam Papul has been cancelled. The Parliament Secretariat on Monday issued a gazette notification in this regard. The decision has been taken after a Kuwait court sentenced Papul to four years in prison in a bribery case on January 28...
PM orders review of educational institutions’ reopening
05:12 PM, 22 Feb 2021 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed authorities concerned to review the situation whether the environment is created to reopen the educational institutions amid Covid-19 pandemic...
COVID-19: 7 die, 366 infected, 692 recover in 24 hours
04:35 PM, 22 Feb 2021 MondayThe death toll from coronavirus has reached 8,356 as 7 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 366 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 543,717. Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday...
Best Buy awards winners of ‘Ako Tomar Bijoy’ campaign
03:36 PM, 22 Feb 2021 MondayBest Buy, retail chain of RFL Group, has awarded the winners of ‘Ako Tomar Bijoy’, an art competition organized on the occasion of the Victory Day...
Classes at universities to begin from May 24
02:49 PM, 22 Feb 2021 MondayThe government has decided to resume classes at all universities across the country from May 24. Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni disclosed the information at an emergency press conference on Monday afternoon...