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Kuwait to freeze 5m dinar in company account of MP Shahid
12:29 PM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayThe Public Prosecutor of Kuwait had approached the country’s Central Bank to freeze the bank accounts of the Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam and his company, who are being held in connection with cases related to human trafficking...
Salman Khan makes appeal to stand in support of Sushant’s fans
11:48 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayAmid a raging social media outrage on nepotism and favouritism in the Hindi film industry following the tragic demise of Sushant Singh Rajput...
Trump suggests US slow virus testing to avoid bad statistics
10:41 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayPresident Donald Trump said Saturday he’s asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because robust testing turns up too many cases of COVID-19...
Majority of ICC’s ongoing 50 fixing cases linked to corruptors in India
09:55 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayDid the wide-ranging fallout of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal work as a deterrent against corruption in Indian cricket? Not so, say anti-corruption (ACU) officials in the sport...
Father’s Day 2020: Date, History, and significance of the day
09:17 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayAs the name suggests, Father’s Day is a special occasion that commemorates fathers and father figures around the world, and acknowledges and honours their efforts and contributions towards raising their children...
Annual solar eclipse today: Partial visibility in Bangladesh
09:03 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayAn annual solar eclipse will occur today while partial eclipse will be visible in Bangladesh if the sky remains clear. A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks sunlight...
Kamal Lohani laid to rest in Sirajganj
08:48 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayEkushey Padak winning noted Journalist Kamal Lohani was laid to rest with state honour at his family graveyard at Ullapara in Sirajganj on Saturday night...
3 killed after man goes on stabbing spree in British town’s park
08:19 AM, 21 Jun 2020 SundayThree people were killed and another three seriously injured when a man went on a stabbing spree in a park in the southern English town of Reading on Saturday, though police said they were not currently treating the incident as terrorism...
India, China accuse each other of violating de facto border
10:07 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayIndia and China on Saturday traded accusations that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of their deadliest clash in half a century...
Islamic scholar Kamaluddin Zafree hospitalized
09:58 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayRenowned Islamic scholar Sayed Kamaluddin Abdullah Zafree has been admitted to a hospital in Dhaka after he fell sick. He, founder of Bangladesh Islamic University, was hospitalized as his blood pressure rose, the scholar's son-in-law Md Masud told Jago News...
German FM calls for greater protections for refugees
09:36 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayOn the occasion of World Refugee Day — recognized annually on June 20 — Germany's foreign minister called for greater protection and care for refugees...
Cox’s Bazar gets first ICU on World Refugee Day
09:00 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayIn time for World Refugee Day 2020, UNHCR and the government of Bangladesh on Saturday inaugurated an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Sadar Hospital, Cox’s Bazar - the first such unit in the district...
Now cricketer Nazmul Islam Apu contracts coronavirus
07:37 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayBangladesh national cricketer Nazmul Islam Apu has been infected with the novel coronavirus, a couple of hours after the former skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and ex-cricketer Nafees Iqbal caught the deadly virus...
142 more catch coronavirus in Gazipur
06:42 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayThe coronavirus cases in Gazipur stood at 2,815, with 142 more contracted the disease in the past 24 hours...
Refugees: UN recognises generosity, humanity of host countries
06:21 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recognised the generosity and humanity of host communities and countries towards refugees that often struggle with their own economic and security concerns...
Twitter permanently suspends account of Katie Hopkins
05:18 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayTwitter has permanently suspended the account of extreme right-wing British columnist Katie Hopkins for violating its hateful conduct policy...
Mashrafe tests positive for Covid-19
04:03 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayHe tested positive for the virus on Saturday, his personal assistant Jamil Ahmed Sani confirmed around 4pm. "In the first sample test, MP Mashrafe Bin Mortaza tested positive for coronavirus," Sani said, adding that sample would be given further to be confirmed more about this. Narail Civil Surgeon Dr Md Abdul Momen said he heard from one close to Mashrafe that the lawmaker contracted coronavirus but did not talk to Mashrafe...
Protesters douse French health ministry with red paint
03:33 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayFrench protesters on Saturday doused the country’s health ministry with red paint, to symbolize the blood of those who died from COVID-19 and to demonstrate against poor working conditions for public sector healthcare workers...
UNO Tania, son test positive for Covid-19
03:19 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayTania Ferdous, upazila nirbahi officer of Doshmina in Patuakhali, and her five-year-old son have been inected with novel coronavirus...
COVID-19: 37 die, 3,240 infected, 1,048 recover in 24-hr
02:46 PM, 20 Jun 2020 SaturdayThirty-seven people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today. The death toll now stands at 1,425, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, said during a online briefing...