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3 police officers shot dead in remote French village
03:40 PM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayThree police officers have been shot dead and a fourth wounded in a remote village in France. The officers were said to have been responding to a report of domestic violence at a house in Puy-de-Dome when the attacker began shooting at them, and then set fire to the building, reports Sky News.
Bangladesh a rising star under Hasina's leadership: Turkish FM
02:49 PM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday lauded Bangladesh’s progress saying that the country has become a rising star in South Asia under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
Vitamin A campaign reaches 20.8mn children in Bangladesh: UNICEF
02:15 PM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayThe National Vitamin A plus campaign in Bangladesh has reached 20.8 million children aged between 6 months and 5 years with the important immunity boosting supplement, UNICEF said Wednesday...
Lawyers walk out of court demanding judge's removal
01:49 PM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayA section of the lawyers walked out of the court of Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday morning demanding his removal for harassing one of their fellow lawyer...
Covid-19: Global cases near 78 million
11:59 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayThe number of globally confirmed Covid-19 cases crossed 77.9 million on Wednesday with 1,715,945 fatalities, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU)...
Minister vows tough fight against air pollution in Dhaka
11:00 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayAs the air quality in Dhaka has deteriorated with the advent of winter, the government has decided to conduct mobile court drives to curb the level of air pollution...
Israel to hold snap election in March, fourth in two years
10:36 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayIsrael’s parliament was dissolved on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fractured ruling coalition failed to pass a budget...
Trump rejects Covid relief bill, calling it ‘a disgrace’
10:28 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday rejected a $900 billion bipartisan Covid stimulus package, calling it “a disgrace” and demanding that lawmakers more than triple relief payments to Americans...
Philippines bans all flights from UK
09:49 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte has banned all flights from the United Kingdom, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as the European nation battles a more infectious COVID-19 strain...
Messi breaks Pele scoring record
09:02 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayLionel Messi scored his 644th goal for Barcelona during his side's victory over Real Valladolid to break Pele's record of the most goals for one club...
Atletico go clear at top of La Liga
08:57 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayAtletico Madrid moved three points clear at the top of La Liga thanks to victory at third-placed Real Sociedad...
Messi motors Barcelona past Valladolid
08:51 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayLionel Messi was back to his best for Barcelona with a goal and an assist in a decisive 3-0 victory over Valladolid on Tuesday night at the Estadio Jose Zorrilla in Valladolid...
FIFA files criminal complaint against Blatter over museum
08:41 AM, 23 Dec 2020 WednesdayFIFA has filed a criminal complaint against former president Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in Zurich...
EU urges countries to lift UK travel bans
09:58 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe European Union's 27 member states will try to co-ordinate restrictions on links to the UK, after dozens of countries suspended travel amid alarm over a new coronavirus variant...
ACC approves chargesheet against GK Shamim
07:49 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday approved chargesheet against GK Shamim and his mother Ayesha Akter for acquiring illegal assets worth around Tk 300 crore, reports UNB...
US dangles billions for Indonesia normalising ties with Israel
07:26 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayIndonesia could unlock billions of dollars in additional U.S. financing if it joins President Donald Trump’s push for Muslim countries to establish relations with Israel, according to a U.S. official...
ECNEC approves Tk 1,882cr rural water supply, sanitation project
06:07 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe approval came from the 19th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year (FY21) held virtually with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair...
Jago News holds correspondent conference
05:23 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayJago News, one of the leading online news portals of the country, held its the second correspondent conference on Tuesday amid joy and festivity...
Bangladesh reports 17 deaths, 1318 cases
04:43 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdayBangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 7,329 until early Tuesday with 17 more deaths in the past 24 hours. The health authorities also reported 1,318 new Covid-19 cases during the period, taking the country’s total caseload to 503,501...
Singapore gets Asia’s first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses
12:32 PM, 22 Dec 2020 TuesdaySingapore received Asia's first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, capping what the city-state's premier said had been a "long and arduous" year spent fighting the pandemic. The trade and finance hub last week joined a handful of other countries around the world, including Britain and the United States, which have approved the jab...