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Iranian MP dies from coronavirus
09:20 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayAn Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, in an another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions...
Find out landless people to give them homes: PM
08:53 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the followers of Bangabandhu’s ideology, particularly Awami League leaders and workers, to find out the homeless people in their respective villages and localities for fulfilling the desire of Bangabandhu by ensuring homes for them within the Mujib Borsho...
'I cannot find my father's body'
08:08 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayNoor Jahan, 48, run away as the mobs descended. “They shouted ‘come out, come out, we will fuck you and you will give birth to [Hindu gods] Ram and Hanuman’,” she recalled...
Head of Italy's Democratic Party tests positive for coronavirus
07:29 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayNicola Zingaretti – the head of Italy’s co-governing Democratic Party (PD) – has announced that he has tested positive for coronavirus, confirming in a video statement on Saturday that he is now in self-isolation...
International Women’s Day on Sunday
07:19 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe International Women's Day will be celebrated in the country, as elsewhere across the globe, on Sunday highlighting women’s rights...
Padma boats capsize death toll climbs to 6
05:51 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayPolice and BGB members on Saturday recovered the bodies of five people who went missing after two boats capsized in the Padma River on Friday, raising the death toll from the incidents to six...
PMO asks to review BASIC Bank employees' pay cut
05:19 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal to review the decision to reduce salary of BASIC Bank's employees...
Sullivan sister's circus takes center stage in ISD
03:45 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayDepicting the story of Sullivan sister's struggle at the time of the Great Depression, International School Dhaka (ISD) has organized a play, named 'Dream A Circus Tale', at their auditorium...
Bill Clinton says Monica Lewinsky affair was to ‘manage anxiety’
02:12 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayBill Clinton claimed in a newly released documentary that the reason for his 1995 extramarital affair with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky was “to manage [his] anxieties”...
Facebook closes London offices until Monday due to coronavirus
01:55 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayFacebook said on Friday it is closing its London offices until Monday after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with coronavirus...
Two sister’s throat-slit bodies found in city
12:16 PM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayPolice on Saturday morning recovered the throat-slit bodies of two girls and rescued their mother with severe burn injuries from a house at Goran area in the city. The deceased were identified as Alfi, 7, and Jannat, 11, daughters of Biplob and Akterunnesa Popy...
Saudi Arabia detains three senior members of royal family
11:46 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayThree senior members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report...
Coronavirus: Kuwait suspends flights to and from Bangladesh
11:07 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayKuwait suspended on Saturday all flights to and from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Bangladesh, Philippines, India, and Sri-Lanka for a week starting on Saturday, Kuwait’s civil aviation directorate said in a tweet. Kuwait also banned entry of anyone who has been in the seven countries in the last two weeks...
Rabindra Bharati University VC resigns after Basanta Utsav row
10:37 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayRabindra Bharati University vice-chancellor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury resigned on Friday evening after the university landed in a controversy over photos of youngsters with cuss words painted on their bodies during Basanta Utsav on its BT Road campus...
Coronavirus infects 100,000-plus worldwide
09:49 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayTwenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus, U.S. officials said on Friday, adding to the more than 100,000 cases of the fast-spreading illness across the world. Vice President Mike Pence, recently appointed as the U.S. government’s point man on the outbreak...
Italy coronavirus deaths near 200 after biggest daily jump
08:58 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 49 to 197, the Civil Protection Agency said on Friday, the largest daily increase in fatalities since the contagion was uncovered two weeks ago, reports Reuters.
PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on historic March 7
08:27 AM, 07 Mar 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina this morning paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the historic March 7. The prime minister paid the homage by placing wreaths at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum...
Historic March 7 today
06:37 PM, 06 Mar 2020 FridayThe historic March 7, a memorable day in the history of Bangalees’ long arduous freedom struggle, is being observed on Saturday in a befitting manner. In 2017, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) recognised the historic March 7 Speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Senior Iranian diplomat dies of coronavirus infection
05:10 PM, 06 Mar 2020 FridayHossein Sheikholeslam, Iran’s former ambassador to Syria and former advisor to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, passed away from coronavirus infection...
Pregnant women scared to give birth in virus-hit China
03:50 PM, 06 Mar 2020 FridayScared of the deadly new coronavirus that has swept China, pregnant women and new mothers are giving birth alone, keeping their newborns inside and switching to pricier private hospitals to avoid the risk of infection...