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Apple enters 5G race with new iPhone 12 range
10:41 AM, 14 Oct 2020 WednesdayApple Inc on Tuesday launched its next-generation iPhone 12, with faster 5G connectivity that the California company hopes will spur consumers to trade in their old phones and keep its sales booming through the end of the year...
22-day ban on catching, selling hilsa begins
10:00 AM, 14 Oct 2020 WednesdayThe 22-day ban on catching and selling hilsa began from Tuesday midnight and will continue till November 4. The government imposed the ban in a bid to protect mother fish during peak breeding season...
Cristiano Ronaldo tests positive for COVID-19
09:38 AM, 14 Oct 2020 WednesdayPortuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for COVID-19, Portugal’s Football Federation said in a statement on its website on Tuesday...
Mehbooba released, vows to fight for restoration of special status, Article 370 in J&K
09:08 AM, 14 Oct 2020 WednesdayMehbooba Mufti was finally set free on Tuesday night by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, after 14 months of preventive detention. The release came 48 hours before Supreme Court was to hear Iltija Mufti’s plea...
Coronavirus: Europe tightens measures amid sharp rise in cases
08:47 AM, 14 Oct 2020 WednesdayThe Czech Republic is imposing a three-week partial lockdown shutting schools, bars and clubs, as Europe struggles to contain a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. The country has the region's highest new infection rate per 100,000 people. Restaurants will be closed and public consumption of alcohol is banned...
Mahmudullah XI beat Tamim XI by 5 wickets
09:43 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayMahmudullah Riyad-led Mahmudullah XI sealed the second game of the ongoing BCB President’s Cup against Tamim Iqbal-led Tamim XI by five wickets (DL Method) on Tuesday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium...
How China is suppressing Tibetan Buddhist nuns, ‘erasing’ identity
08:55 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayWith the increasing indoctrination and surveillance of Tibetan Buddhists, women practitioners / nuns have been suffering under the ‘sinicisation’ agenda of the Chinese State...
Pakistan arrests second suspect after woman was gang-raped
08:30 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayA second suspect was remanded in custody on Tuesday after being detained by police in Pakistan following the gang rape of a woman that has led to protests across the country...
Suspected jihadists kill 12 soldiers in Mali
08:09 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdaySuspected jihadists have killed 12 soldiers in two attacks in central Mali, the army said in a statement on Tuesday, reports Reuters...
Writ petition seeks probe into Sylhet man's death ‘in police custody’
07:42 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayA writ petition was filed with the High Court on Tuesday seeking its directives to investigate the death of a man allegedly at a police outpost in Sylhet...
Rizvi hospitalised after heart attack
07:29 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayBNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was admitted to Labaid Specialized Hospital in the capital on Tuesday as he suffered a heart attack...
Casting of Israeli actress as Cleopatra sparks anger
05:28 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdaySocial media users have reacted with dismay at the casting of Israeli actress Gal Gadot in an upcoming film about Cleopatra, the queen of the Nile...
Rapists are beasts: PM
04:13 PM, 13 Oct 2020 Tuesday“The rapists are beasts, and our girls are affected due to this beastly act (of some so-called people). That’s why we have amended the relevant law in the cabinet by keeping a provision of capital punishment for rape,” she said...
Sixth edition of DIFF cancelled due to COVID-19
04:04 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayThis year’s edition of the annual Dhaka International Folk Fest (DIFF), an internationally acclaimed three-day music festival dedicated to South Asian and global folk music, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Coronavirus in Bangladesh: New cases 1537, deaths 22
03:35 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayBangladesh recorded 1,537 more cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,81,875. The daily count came from test of 13,815 samples in the last 24 hours. As of Tuesday, the number of total sample test stood at 20,98,037...
YSSE organizes national writing competition
02:35 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayThe nearly month-long ‘PaperInk: Write Your Thoughts’ event organized by Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs (YSSE) was held on Sunday...
Planning Minister tests positive for coronavirus
02:08 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayPlanning Minister MA Mannan has been infected with coronavirus. He was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka around 12pm on Tuesday. A press release sent from the ministry confirmed his coronavirus infection...
President signs ordinance on death penalty for rape
01:11 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayPresident Abdul Hamid today issued an ordinance increasing the punishment of rapists from life term to the death. Hamid on Tuesday signed the amendment to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, which was approved by the cabinet led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday...
Writer Rashid Haider dies
12:57 PM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayNoted writer and freedom fighter Rashid Haider has died at the age of 79, his family said. Haider, also former director of Bangla Academy, breathed his last around 10am on Tuesday at his younger daughter Shaonti Haider’s residence. He was suffering from old age complications for some days...
Facebook bans Holocaust denial content
11:39 AM, 13 Oct 2020 TuesdayFacebook has explicitly banned Holocaust denial for the first time. The social network said its new policy prohibits "any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust"...