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Govt reports 27 more Covid-19 deaths
04:07 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayTwenty seven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,156. During the period, 1,632 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 4,95,841. Of the total patients, 4,29,351 recovered, with 2,622 made recovery in the last 24 hours...
Over 250,000 abused in New Zealand’s state and faith-based care
02:44 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayUp to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday...
PM greets FFs with gifts on Victory Day
02:24 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayLike the previous years, the premier sent flowers, fruits and sweetmeats to the FFs at Martyred and War-wounded Freedom Fighters’ Rehabilitation Centre (Muktijoddha Tower-1) on Gaznavi Road in city’s Mohammadpur as a mark of her good wishes for them...
ADB approves grant to improve Bangladesh’s business competitiveness
12:51 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $0.5 million in grant assistance for supporting knowledge works to promote business competitiveness and intraregional trade of Bangladesh...
New anti-rape law comes into force in Pakistan
12:22 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayPakistan's president has signed a new anti-rape measure aiming to speed up convictions and toughen sentences...
Benzema sends Real level at top of table
12:12 PM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayKarim Benzema scored twice as Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao to move level on points at the top of La Liga...
President, PM pay tributes to war heroes on Victory Day
11:40 AM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayPresident M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial here marking the 50th Victory Day...
Nation celebrating 50th Victory Day
11:32 AM, 16 Dec 2020 WednesdayThe nation is celebrating the 50th Victory Day with elaborate programmes paying deep homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the Liberation War...
Grameen Bank official fined Tk 4.94cr, jailed
09:47 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayA court in Barishal district on Tuesday jailed a Grameen Bank official for seven years for embezzling around Tk 4.94 crore of the depositors...
No division, no anarchy over religion: PM
08:53 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday issued a strong warning against religious fanatics, saying that the government will not let anyone create any division and anarchy in the country over religion. "This Bangladesh is the Bangladesh of Lalon Shah, Rabindranath, Kazi Nazrul, Jibanananda...
Second Covid vaccine nears US approval
08:37 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayModerna's vaccine is safe and 94% effective, regulators say, clearing the way for US emergency authorisation. The analysis by the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) means it could become the second coronavirus vaccine to be allowed in the US. It comes one day after Americans across the country began receiving jabs of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine...
Bride among 7 die in trawler capsize
06:01 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdaySeven people, including a bride, died as a trawler capsized in Meghna river in Hatia upazila of Noakhali district on Tuesday. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately...
Nation set to celebrate 50th Victory Day tomorrow
05:00 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe nation is set to celebrate on Wednesday the 50th Victory Day, the most precious day of the Bangalee people, as the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces on the day 49 years back after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation...
Coronavirus deaths hit three-month record
04:36 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayIn the last 24 hours, Bangladesh government has reported 40 deaths from coronavirus, the highest number of fatalities from the virus in last three months. With this, the country's COVID-19 death toll rose to 7,129...
HC suspends FF gallantry awards of 4 fugitive killers of Bangabandhu
04:15 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayThe High Court on Tuesday suspended the freedom fighter gallntary awards of four fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton
03:40 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayMore than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater than previously thought, new research has suggested...
Noakhali woman molestation: Charge sheet submitted against 14
02:48 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayA charge sheet has been submitted against 14 people in a case filed over the torture of a housewife in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali on Wednesday. Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted the charge sheet before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Utpal Chowdhury on Tuesday...
PM to address nation this evening
02:28 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation this evening on the occasion of the 50th Victory Day. The prime minister will deliver her speech at 7:30pm today, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)’s press wing sources said...
Migrant workers earn nearly 13% less than nat’l workers, says ILO study
01:22 PM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayMigrants earn nearly 13 per cent on average less than national workers in high-income countries, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report...
Mushfiq apologises to Nasum for misbehaving on the field
11:48 AM, 15 Dec 2020 TuesdayMushfiqur Rahim has apologised to his Beximco Dhaka team-mate Nasum Ahmed for misbehaving with him twice during their Bangabandhu T20 Cup match against Fortune Barishal on Monday...