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Four of a family found dead
11:42 AM, 17 Jul 2020 FridayFour members of a family were found dead in Madhupur upazila of Tangail on Friday morning. Among the deceased, two were men and two women. No more details could be known immediately. Madhupur Police Station officer in-charge Tariq Kamal confirmed matter...
President Hamid’s younger brother Abul Hye dies of Covid-19
11:28 AM, 17 Jul 2020 FridayAbdul Hye, younger brother of President Abdul Hamid, died of coronavirus at a hospital in the city early Friday. He was 67, reports UNB...
Real Madrid La Liga champions
11:25 AM, 17 Jul 2020 FridayKarim Benzema scored a brace to power Real Madrid to a 2-1 victory over Villarreal, earning Los Blancos their 34th LaLiga Santander title on Thursday night at the Estadio Alfredo di Stefano in Madrid...
Prof Emajuddin passes away
11:14 AM, 17 Jul 2020 FridayProf Emajuddin Ahmed, ex-vice chancellor of Dhaka University, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in the capital on Friday morning. He was 87. He breathed his last around 5:30am at Labaid Specialized Hospital in the city’s Dhanmondi area, said his personal secretary Amar Chandra Mistry, reports UNB. Emajuddin, a veteran political scientist, complained of chest pain around 2:30am at his Elephant Road residence. He was then taken to the Labaid Hospital, he said...
Death toll in Turkish migrant boat sinking rises to 40
09:41 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayThe death toll from a migrant boat sinking in Lake Van in eastern Turkey rose to 40, the local governor’s office said on Thursday, after nearly three weeks of search operations, reports Reuters...
'Qatar World Cup will inify a post-Covid-19 world'
09:22 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayHassan Al Thawadi, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Committee of Delivery and Legacy (SC), the organisation responsible for the delivery of infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup, believes that the global showpiece event will act as a bridge between different cultures...
Eid holidays for garment workers 3 days
08:59 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that Eid-ul-Azha holidays for the garment workers will be three days coinciding with the public holidays...
Canada adds more than 1 million jobs in June
08:04 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayCanada added 1,042,900 jobs in June as business reopened after shutdowns related to COVID-19, led by hiring in the trade, transportation and utilities sector, according to a report from payroll services provider ADP released on Thursday...
Bangladesh set to enter a long transmission cycle of Covid-19: Experts
07:41 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayThey also said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has taken a ‘suicidal’ decision of reducing the number of daily corona tests in the country at a time when the infection rate is rising alarmingly...
Russian hackers try to steal Covid-19 vaccine research
07:22 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayRussian cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, according to UK security officials. A UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advisory published Thursday details activity of a group known as APT29, also named “the Dukes” or “Cozy Bear”...
Public transports to remain in operation during Eid: Quader
07:03 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayClearing the confusions among the people whether passenger vehicles would run on streets during the forthcoming Eid-ul-Azha, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the public transports will be in operation across the country during the Eid holidays...
Bangladesh won't go into conflict with Malaysia over Rayhan Kabir issue
06:50 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayExpatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad has said Bangladesh won't go into conflict with Malaysia over stripping of a Bangladeshi national's work permit...
Bangladesh’s forestland to be raised to 25pc: PM
06:06 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government has been working to raise the country’s forestland to 25 percent as forestation is very essential to protect the environment. “So far, we’ve been able to raise the forestland to over 17 percent (of the country’s total land). Our goal is to raise it to 25 percent,” she said...
Shamima Begum can return for UK citizenship fight
05:07 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayShamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015. Her citizenship was revoked by the Home Office on security grounds...
Walkar Footwear offers 15% Eid discount
04:57 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayRFL Group's footwear brand Walkar has offered up to 15% discount on its product ahead of Eid-ul-Azha...
Alibaba's UCWeb lays off India staff
03:59 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayAlibaba Group Holding Ltd’s subsidiary UC Web is slashing staff in India after a ban on 59 Chinese-origin mobile apps that includes UC Web’s browser and two other products, according to staff and a company letter seen by Reuters...
Experts say Twitter breach troubling, undermines trust
03:34 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayA breach in Twitter’s security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the worst attacks in recent years and may shake trust in a platform politicians and CEOs use to communicate with the public, experts said Thursday...
39 more die of COVID-19 in 24 hours
02:39 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayThirty-nine more people died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,496. Besides, the number of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh has reached 196,323 as 2,733 more tested positive for the virus. Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said this while presenting the daily health bulletin through online on Thursday...
No Bangladeshi went to Italy with fake coronavirus certificate
01:54 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayNo Bangladeshi had gone to Italy with fake coronavirus certificate, the Ministry of Bangladesh Foreign Affairs said in a statement today. The remark has made after the news published by some newspapers and television channels regarding detection of coronavirus among some Bangladeshi expatriates in Italy...
PM launches plantation of one crore saplings
12:09 PM, 16 Jul 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the distribution and plantation of one crore saplings across the country as a part of the celebration of “Mujib Borsho” (Mujib Year)...