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PM greets FFs with gifts on Eid-ul-Azha
02:38 PM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted all Freedom Fighters (FFs) of the country on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims...
17,000 workers ready to remove wastes of sacrificial animals
01:07 PM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayApart from this, bleaching powder and liquid disinfectant will be sprayed in the designated places of the two city corporations to protect environment and make it pollution free, according to the waste management division of DNCC and DSCC. For this, more than 17,000 workers, and 7500 heavy and light vehicles have been prepared...
Mexico 3rd in global coronavirus deaths
12:26 PM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayMexico now has the third most COVID-19 deaths in the world, behind the United States and Brazil, while former success story Vietnam is struggling to control an outbreak spreading in its most famous beach resort, reports AP...
Trump to ban TikTok from operating in US
11:57 AM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayPresident Donald Trump said he would ban Chinese-owned TikTok from the US. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” the president told reporters Friday night. Asked when it would happen, he said: “Soon, immediately. I mean essentially immediately,” reports Bloomberg...
Youthful crusade for a safe cyberspace
11:46 AM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayIn this digital age, everyday life for anyone without the internet is difficult to imagine almost anywhere in the world. Our dependence on the internet has grown even more pronounced this year during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Eid-ul-Azha celebrated in somber mood
11:33 AM, 01 Aug 2020 SaturdayEid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice, is being celebrated in Bangladesh as the country grapples with the Covid-19 outbreak and floods inflict untold sufferings to hundreds of thousands of people...
Villages in Jhenaidah, Lalmonirhat, Laxmipur celebrate Eid
05:57 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayConciding with Saudi Arabia, residents of a number of villages in Jhenaidah, Laxmipur and Lalmonirhat are celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest festival of the Muslims...
Five boat passengers die from electrocution
05:37 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayFive passengers of a boat were electrocuted in Basail upazila of Tangail on Friday morning...
'Hell' for Xinjiang's women
04:30 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayA former resident of Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang region, the 38-year-old Uyghur woman said she was fined 18,400 yuan ($2,600) in 2018 for having three children, one more than she was allowed to under Chinese rule. When she went to pay the fine, Dawut said she was told she'd also need to have a mandatory "birth control procedure."...
Holy Eid-ul-Azha today
03:58 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayThe holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on Saturday with due solemnity and religious fervor...
Coronavirus: Bangladesh reports 28 more fatalities, 2,772 new cases
02:41 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayThe deaths tally from coronavirus in Bangladesh reached 3,111 with 28 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, according to the Directorate General of Health Services. The country's total number of coronavirus cases stood at 2,37,661 with 2,772 people newly caught the highly contagious disease...
Avoid artificially fattened cattle during Eid: Experts
02:29 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayLivestock experts have urged people to avoid buying and consuming meat of sacrificial animals that have been artificially fattened using steroid, warning that meat from such animals is very harmful for the human body...
Indonesian Muslims perform Eid prayers with social distancing, masks
01:06 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayIndonesian Muslims, wearing face masks and getting temperature checks as a precaution against the novel coronavirus, performed morning prayers on Friday to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Adha in mosques with reduced capacity as well as on the streets, reports Reuters...
You can't delay election, Republicans to Trump
12:16 PM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayTop Republicans have rejected President Donald Trump's suggestion that November's presidential election should be delayed over alleged fraud concerns. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy both dismissed the idea...
Pandemic depresses numbers heading home for Eid holidays
11:49 AM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayAfter visiting Gabtoli bus terminal, UNB correspondent found very few number of commuters compared to previous years while prices of bus tickets were on fire as bus authorities were maintaining “two seats per passenger” to allow for social distancing as per the government directive...
Five die as bus rams private car
11:27 AM, 31 Jul 2020 FridayFive people were killed and one injured as a bus rammed into a private car in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet on Friday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Tamabil Highway Police Station officer in-charge Mainul Islam said a bus rammed into a private car Tanpur area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway around 7:30am, leaving five dead and one seriously hurt...
Fifa president faces legal proceedings
08:17 PM, 30 Jul 2020 ThursdaySwiss prosecutors have launched legal proceedings against Fifa president Gianni Infantino...
59 members of ‘dope gangs’ arrested in Dhaka
08:11 PM, 30 Jul 2020 ThursdayDetectives in separate drives arrested 59 members of ‘dope gangs’ from different parts of the capital on Thursday...
Fire breaks out at Mirpur slum
07:51 PM, 30 Jul 2020 ThursdayA fire broke out in a slum in Bhashantek area of capital Dhaka's Mirpur on Thursday evening. The fire originated at Jamalkot slum around 6:40pm, Ziaur Rahman, duty officer at control room of Fire Service and Civil Defense, confirmed. Being informed, 10 units of firefighters rushed to the spot, and are working to douse the blaze, he said...
Malaysia, Philippines in war of words over Sabah claim
06:50 PM, 30 Jul 2020 ThursdayMalaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says he is summoning Manila's ambassador over a social media post from Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr claiming that the Borneo state of Sabah is not a part of Malaysia...