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Rockstar James receives Covid vaccine
03:47 PM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayIconic rockstar James (real name Faruq Mahfuz Anam), one of Bangladesh's most beloved artists, on Wednesday received coronavirus vaccine...
Bangladesh to help Maldives combat climate changes: PM
03:20 PM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured visiting Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Shahid that Bangladesh would extend its all-out support to his country in the fight against climate changes...
I must really focus on gender equality, says Farah Ahmad
02:48 PM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayBangladeshi origin Farah Ahmad has been appointed as the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Most recently, Ahmad served as the senior program coordinator in the Office of Consumer Education...
4 killed as minibus hits auto-rickshaw in Teknaf
01:18 PM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayFour people were killed and another person was injured when a minibus hit an auto-rickshaw at Whaikhyang Lambabil area on Cox-Bazar-Teknaf road in Teknaf on Wednesday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately...
Dipan murder: 8 militants get death
01:01 PM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayA tribunal in Dhaka has sentenced eight members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) to death in a case filed over the killing of Jagriti Publication publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan. Judge of Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Md Mujibur Rahman passed the order on Wednesday...
Myanmar protests continue after violence, raid on NLD office
10:35 AM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayPeople returned to the streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s remote capital, on Wednesday, after the police used rubber bullets and water cannon to break up protests leaving two people in hospital, one of them fighting for her life...
Europe’s oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday
10:00 AM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayA French nun who is Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday...
1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Minnesota health clinic
09:05 AM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayA 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he’d received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four others, and bomb technicians were investigating a suspicious device left there and others at a motel where he was staying, authorities said...
Trump impeachment: Senate says trial is constitutional and can go ahead
08:22 AM, 10 Feb 2021 WednesdayThe US Senate has found that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional, allowing full proceedings to begin. Mr Trump's defence team argued that he cannot face trial...
Coca-Cola turns to 100% recycled plastic bottles in US
09:58 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayCoca-Cola Co will sell its popular sodas in bottles made from 100% recycled plastic material in the United States, the beverage maker said on Tuesday, in a major shift to combat plastic waste and reduce its carbon footprint...
Onus on the spinners to deliver in absence of Shakib: Miraz
09:07 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayAll-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz believes that the spinners have to step up in absence of Shakib Al Hasan as Bangladesh is eying to win the second Test against West Indies in a bid to avoid defeat in two-match series...
Quader urges BNP to shun conspiracy, ill politics
08:43 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayRoad Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today called upon BNP to work on pro-people issues instead of doing ill politics and spending time in hatching conspiracies and spreading rumours and propaganda...
WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
08:24 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayThe coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organization expert said Tuesday...
Man's body found in house, wife's in canal
07:39 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayPolice recovered the bodies of a man and his wife in Sadar upazila in Thakurgaon district on Tuesday morning.
Indian actor Rajiv Kapoor dies
06:30 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayLate actor Rishi Kapoor's brother, actor Rajiv Kapoor has died in Mumbai. As per reports, the actor died due to a heart attack. He was 58...
Kajal Aggarwal reveals she has asthma
05:43 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayIndian actor Kajal Aggarwal Kitchlu on Tuesday revealed that she has bronchial asthma. Sharing that she was diagnosed with the disease when she was only five, the actor opened up about her constant battle with asthma and the stigma around using inhalers...
England crush India by 227 runs
05:19 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayIndia fell victim to an almost-unavoidable defeat at the hands of England on Tuesday when the visitors bagged a comprehensive 227-run victory in the opening Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai...
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 8, cases 387
04:28 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayEight more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,229. During the period, 387 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,38,765, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Tuesday...
Crimes against humanity: Verdict against nine Thursday
04:24 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayThe International Crimes Tribunal will announce verdict against nine accused including Khalilur Rahman of Mymensingh, in a case lodged over crimes against humanity during the war of liberation, 1971 on Feb 11...
Inmate beaten to death by another
04:19 PM, 09 Feb 2021 TuesdayAn inmate was beaten to death allegedly by another in a cell of Kishoreganj District Jail-1 early Tuesday...