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Alternative leadership if Dr Kamal skips council: Montu
09:33 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayMostafa Mohsin Montu, leader of a faction of Gonoforum, on Saturday hinted that they will remove party president Dr Kamal Hossain if he does not join their national council scheduled to be held on December 26...
Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine within 6 months
09:09 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayThere is growing hope that a vaccine against coronavirus may be given the green light by health regulators by the end of this year to be rolled out for a vaccination programme in six months’ time or even less, according to a UK media report...
Nitol Motors, Pran-RFL launch Tata AC bus
08:36 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayNitol Motors, and Pran-RFL Group have jointly launched Tata air-conditioned bus named Tulsi...
World’s best airport warns of ‘daunting’ future amid pandemic
07:47 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayChangi Airport Group said the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic isn’t abating as officials behind the world’s best airport warned of a “daunting” period ahead...
Kazi Salahuddin elected BFF president for 4th time
07:23 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayBangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has elected former footballer Kazi Md Salahuddin as its president for the fourth time. He won the BFF election held in a hotel in the capital on Saturday. Another former footballer Abdus Salam Morshedi has been elected vice president...
Belgium detains Rwanda genocide suspects
06:38 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayThree men suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide have been arrested and charged in Belgium with serious abuse of human rights, the prosecutor’s office said on Saturday...
Mahmudul Hasan made Befaq acting president
06:13 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayAllama Mahmudul Hasan has been made acting president of the Qawmi madrasa education board, Befaq as the post fell vacant after death of the former board Hathazari Madrasa rector Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi...
Liverpool’s Sadio Mane tests positive for Covid-19
05:11 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayLiverpool’s in-form Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating, the club said Friday...
FIFA president wishes all candidates of BFF election
04:22 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayFifa president Gianni Infantino wished all the candidates of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) election 2020 which is undergoing at the Panpacific Sonargon Hotel at the capital on Saturday...
Bangladesh records 20 more coronavirus deaths
03:58 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe deaths related to the novel coronavirus stood at 5,325 in Bangladesh on Saturday, with 20 more fatalities in the past 24 hours. During the period, 1,182 people newly caught the deadly virus, taking the country's tally to 3,67,565, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release...
Tasty Treat opens another outlet at Mirpur
03:20 PM, 03 Oct 2020 Saturday‘Tasty Treat’, a popular cakes and bakery retail chain shop of PRAN Group, has opened it’s another outlet in Mirpur in the city. The new outlet has been inaugurated at the Darussalam road area in Mirpur-1 recently...
Sushant’s death was a suicide, not murder: AIIMS panel chief
03:02 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdaySushant Singh Rajput’s death was a suicide, and not murder, Dr Sudhir Gupta, who led the AIIMS panel re-evaluating the actor’s post-mortem report, has said. Many, including Sushant’s family, had been urging the Central Bureau of Investigation to initiate a murder probe in the case...
Corona under control for sincere efforts of govt organisations: PM
02:21 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has been able to put coronavirus under control in the country as different ministries and government organisations...
9 Mizdah attack survivors, 155 other Bangladeshi migrants return home
01:41 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayOne hundred sixty four Bangladeshi migrants, including nine survivors of the tragic Mizdah incident in Libya, have returned home on a voluntary humanitarian flight from Libya...
Bus-microbus collision kills 2
12:28 PM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayTwo people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Cumilla on Saturday morning. The incident took place on Dhaka-Chattogram highway near Korpai area in Burichang upazila of the district around 9:30am. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately...
ICDDR,B selected in CEPI global lab network
11:36 AM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayICDDR,B has been selected as one of the five laboratories across the globe to work together as part of a centralised network to reliably assess and compare immunological responses generated by COVID-19 vaccine candidates...
A teenager’s guide to begin programming
11:02 AM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayAre you a teenager who thought of learning programming at some point but doesn’t know where or how to start? Well, I was in the same place a year ago and would like to share my thoughts on how you can get started too...
South-East Asia records over 700,000 Covid-19 cases
10:25 AM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe total number of Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases in the South-East Asian countries has reached over 700,000 on Friday, official sources said. The Philippines has the highest number of Covid-19 cases among the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) members, with a total of 316,678...
Paraguay declares state of emergency as forest fires rage
09:11 AM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayParaguay’s Congress declared a national emergency on Thursday as forest fires raged, burning vast swaths of the Chaco dry forest, home to sprawling cattle ranches, jaguars and many indigenous tribes...
Macron says Islam ‘in crisis’, prompting backlash from Muslims
08:57 AM, 03 Oct 2020 SaturdayPresident Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a plan to defend France’s secular values against what he termed as “Islamist radicalism”, saying the religion was “in crisis” all over the world, prompting a backlash from Muslim activists...