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Pakistan sees bloody protests ahead of PMLN meeting in Punjab
04:20 PM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayAccording to reports, a fresh wave of demonstrations erupted in Punjab province of the country, ahead of a Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) meeting in the region...
Bangladesh coronavirus: Over 3 lakh patients recover
03:55 PM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayThe daily count came from test of 13,577 samples in the past day. As of today, the number of total sample test stood at 21,40,129. 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...
Achieving SDG-4 during COVID-19 Pandemic
03:19 PM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayCorona Virus shortly COVID is a name of frightened at the present world from December 2019 to till now...
The comparison between India, Bangladesh per capita GDP
02:56 PM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayThe International Monetary Fund’s latest update on the World Economic Outlook released on Wednesday. In the IMF’s estimation, in 2020, growth of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) will witness a contraction of over 10%...
Bangladesh to roll out its first car next year
11:56 AM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayDhaka will roll out its first 'Made in Bangladesh' cars next year, the country's Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has said...
How Xinjiang’s gulag tears families apart
11:26 AM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayFor zumrat dawut’s three children, Fridays were terrifying. That was the day when officials would question students at their schools in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang in China’s far west. The interrogators were looking for clues about their lives at home...
India's first Oscar winner dies
11:16 AM, 16 Oct 2020 FridayCelebrated Bollywood costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, India's first Oscar winner, has died at the age of 91, her family says, reports BBC...
Convoy attack kills 14 in southwestern Pakistan
09:19 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayUnidentified gunmen killed at least 14 people in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan after ambushing a convoy of vehicles travelling on a major highway towards the country’s largest city Karachi...
Raihan killing: PBI takes steps to stop SI Akbar from fleeing country
08:15 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayPolice Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has written to the immigration police to stop Sub-Inspector Akbar, the former in-charge of Bandarbazar Police Outpost under Sylhet Kotwali Police Station, from leaving the country, reports UNB...
Kyrgyzstan's president steps down amid political unrest
07:36 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayKyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation Thursday in a bid to end the turmoil that has engulfed the Central Asian nation after a disputed parliamentary election...
Help rehabilitate Rohingyas in Myanmar: PM to int’l community, USA
06:39 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday renewed her call to the international community, including the United States, to help Bangladesh rehabilitate Rohingyas in their homeland of Myanmar...
Oxford scientists develop five-minute Covid-19 antigen test
05:57 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayScientists from Britain’s University of Oxford have developed a rapid COVID-19 test able to identify the coronavirus in less than five minutes, researchers said on Thursday, adding it could be used in mass testing at airports and businesses, reports Reuters...
South Kashmir’s Pulwama turning into Pencil Slate production hub
04:47 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayPulwama, which has been in the news for being the terror hotbed in Kashmir, might soon be known as the Pencil slate district of India...
PM for stringent measures to stop rape
04:15 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayThe Prime Minister simultaneously asked the fresh civil administration officers to work towards meeting the aspirations of the people and thus driving Bangladesh towards prosperity so that its people can move around the world keeping their heads high...
RFL introduces fruit and vegetable fruit purifier
03:47 PM, 15 Oct 2020 Thursday'Drinkit’, a brand of RFL Electronics, has introduced vegetable and fruit purifier to remove pesticide, harmful chemicals, germs and virus from vegetable and fruit...
Bangladesh reports 15 more deaths, 1600 fresh cases
03:42 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayBangladesh on Thursday recorded 1600 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,84,559. Of the total patients, 2,99,229 recovered, with 1,780 made recovery in the last 24 hours. The daily count came from test of 14,104 samples in the past day. As of today, the number of total sample test stood at 21,16,552...
Sporshia tests positive for Covid-19
03:31 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayBangladeshi film actress Orchita Sporshia has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...
Why and how to make Dhaka cycle-friendly
02:53 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayDue to the global pandemic, more people than ever before are considering bikes as their primary mode of commute...
5 rapists get death penalty under amended law
01:08 PM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayA court has sentenced five people to death under the amended law after it found them guilty of gang-raping a madrasa girl in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail three years ago. Tangail’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Khaleda Yasmin passed the order around 11am on Thursday...
EC files case against lawmaker Nixon Chowdhury
11:52 AM, 15 Oct 2020 ThursdayThe election commission has filed a case against Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury - popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury - lawmaker of Faridpur-4, for violating electoral codes of conduct. Senior Election Officer of the district Nawabul Islam filed the case against him with Charbhadrasan Police Station around 10am on Thursday...