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Public universities to admit students thru' test
08:38 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe public universities have decided to admit students through test online. The decision was taken at a meeting of the public universities' vice chancellors held on Saturday. Professor Dr Rafiqul Alam, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), confirmed this to Jago News...
UK bans any use of mobile phones while driving
07:45 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayDrivers who use hand-held phones in any way behind the wheel will face £200 fines and possible bans when changes in the law take account of smartphones...
Will tackle further spread of Covid-19: PM
06:46 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh will be able to prevent the further spread of the Covid-19 in the coming days. "So far, we’re lucky that both the infection and mortality rates of the disease are very low in Bangladesh. We’re hopeful that we’ll be able to prevent the further spread of the disease in the coming days," she said...
WHO enlists Globe Biotech's vaccine
06:26 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayThe World Health Organization has enlisted BANCOVID, a coronavirus vaccine developed by Bangladeshi firm Globe Biotech Ltd. Mohammad Mohiuddin, an official of the firm, confirmed this to Jago News on Saturday...
US economic delegation to visit Israel, UAE and Bahrain
05:38 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayA delegation of top United States officials, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, will travel to Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in the coming days in support of recently signed normalisation deals between the three countries...
Rape case against actor Mithun Chakraborty’s son, wife
05:06 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayVeteran actor Mithun Chakraborty’s son Mahaakshay was on Thursday booked for allegedly repeatedly raping an actress for over three years and forcing her to undergo abortion. Chakraborty’s wife, Yogita Bali, is also named in the FIR....
Arden's Labour party wins New Zealand election
04:32 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election, reports BBC...
Umar Gul bids farewell to all forms of cricket
04:10 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayFormer Pakistani pacer Umar Gul played his last game as a professional cricketer Friday night, marking the end of an era which saw him spearhead Pakistan cricket team's pace attack and bamboozle batsmen around the world with his lethal yorkers...
Bangladesh reports 23 more deaths, 1209 fresh cases
03:38 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayBangladesh on Saturday recorded 1,209 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,87,295. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8. Since then the country has been struggling to limit spread of the highly contagious virus...
Information Minister hospitalised with corona infection
03:23 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayInformation Minister Hasan Mahmud has been admitted to a hospital in the capital with coronavirus infection...
Coronavirus can infect brain tissue, affect memory, language: Brazilian study
02:08 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdaySARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is capable of infecting brain tissue and affecting the structure of the cortex, a region of the brain responsible for functions such as memory, consciousness, and language, according to a Brazilian study released on Thursday...
Why India must exercise the Quad option
01:35 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayIn the middle of the 19th century, British statesman Lord Palmerston famously said in the House of Commons: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."
Facebook Messenger gets shiny new logo, chat themes
12:54 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayIf you've recently updated your Facebook Messenger smartphone app, you may have noticed something was different. Yep: Facebook has added some color to the long-standing white-and-blue Messenger logo...
Case against Nixon: Section 144 imposed in Faridpur sadar upazila
12:08 PM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayLocal administration imposed section 144 in Faridpur sadar upazila headquarters on Saturday apprehending trouble as two groups called meetings at the same venue and time...
Azerbaijan says 12 civilians killed by Armenia shelling
10:53 AM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayAzerbaijan said on Saturday 12 civilians were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the city of Ganja due to shelling by Armenia. The Azeri Prosecutor General’s office said that two shells hit apartment buildings in the country’s second largest city...
New Zealand’s Ardern seeks 2nd term as pandemic-focused polls open
10:02 AM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayNew Zealanders went to the polls on Saturday in a general election that could see Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern strengthen her left-of-centre hold on government or a challenge from conservatives led by Judith Collins...
By-polls to Dhaka-5, Naogaon-6 underway
09:14 AM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayBy-elections to two parliamentary constituencies - Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 is underway today. The elections started from 9am and will continue till 5pm without any break through electronic voting machines (EVMs)...
Macron calls Paris beheading ‘Islamist terrorist attack’
08:58 AM, 17 Oct 2020 SaturdayFrench President Emmanuel Macron has called the beheading of a teacher in a north-western suburb of Paris an "Islamist terrorist attack"...
None will remain hungry: PM
04:56 PM, 16 Oct 2020 Friday“Our country is very small in terms of its land size while our current population is 165 million or around 17 crore. The most important thing is to ensure food security for such a huge population,” she said while inaugurating an international seminar on World Food Day-2020...
Kumar Sanu tests positive for coronavirus
04:27 PM, 16 Oct 2020 FridaySinger Kumar Sanu has tested for coronavirus. The singer’s team took to his Facebook page to inform fans and followers about the COVID-19 diagnosis...