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5 killed in tragic road accident in Rajshahi
03:11 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayFive people including an infant were killed and some others injured in a tragic road accident in Rajshahi on Saturday noon. The incident took place near Kadipur area on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila...
Mahathir secures Anwar’s support to return as PM
02:18 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayMalaysia's Mahathir Mohamad has said he has agreed to be the prime ministerial candidate for the former ruling coalition, less than a week after he quit and plunged the country into turmoil...
Nordic countries eye stronger partnership with Bangladesh
01:09 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThe ambassadors of three Nordic countries -- Denmark, Norway and Sweden -- on Saturday promised to have a stronger partnership with Bangladesh with a focus on green growth and increased investment flow to help grow Bangladesh in a faster way...
Dhaka Bar Assoc polls: Pro-AL panel bags 13 posts, pro-BNP 10
12:36 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayBNP-backed blue panel bagged ten posts including president and general secretary in the election to the Dhaka Bar Association. Meanwhile, Awami League-backed white panel secured thirteen posts including the vice president...
Google marks Leap Day with a doodle
11:19 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayGoogle is celebrating Leap Day today with a doodle. Leap Day, which comes every four years on February 29, is a day observed in various solar calenders including Gregorian calendar...
3 killed as bus plunges into ditch in Cumilla
10:25 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThree people were killed and 20 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Daudkandi upazila in Cumilla on Saturday morning. The deceased are Ramzan, Safiqul and Shahin. Identities of them could not be known immediately...
20 killed in train, bus collision in Pakistan
09:21 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayAt least 20 people were killed and several others injured in a collision between a train and a passenger bus in southwest Pakistan on Friday night, officials said...
Coronavirus: China reports 47 more deaths, 427 new cases
09:03 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayMainland China had 427 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Friday, the country's National Health Commission said on Saturday (Feb 29), up from 327 cases a day earlier. That brings the total accumulated number of confirmed cases in mainland China so far to 79,251...
Saudi temporarily suspends entry of GCC citizens to Mecca, Medina
08:41 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdaySaudi Arabia temporarily suspended entry of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens to Mecca and Medina, the foreign ministry announced in a statement published by the state news agency on Friday...
Coronavirus spreads in three continents; $5 trillion wiped off markets
06:14 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayCountries on three continents reported their first cases of the coronavirus on Friday as the world prepared for a pandemic and investors dumped equities in expectation of a global recession...
873 infected with respiratory problems in 24hrs
05:58 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayAlthough the winter is over, altogether 873 people were infected with respiratory problems across the country in the last 24 hours till Friday morning....
Iran's ex-ambassador to Vatican dies of coronavirus
03:33 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayIran's former ambassador to the Vatican and prominent cleric Hadi Khosrowshahi died of coronavirus, local media reported on Thursday. According to the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, the 81-year-old cleric died at a hospital in Iran.
Delhi violence death toll reaches 42
03:19 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayIndian Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with senior officers of the Delhi Police to review the situation in Delhi following widespread violence over the controversial citizenship law that has left at least 42 dead...
Iran coronavirus death toll reaches 26
12:51 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayIran said on Thursday its death toll from coronavirus had risen to 26, by far the highest number outside China, and the total number of infected people now stood at 245, including several senior officials....
Iraq announces 7th case of COVID-19
12:40 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayIraq on Thursday announced a new case of novel coronavirus disease in the country's northern province of Kirkuk, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Iraq to seven...
Woman dies as city building catches fire
12:36 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayA woman was burnt to death as a fire broke out at a multi-storey building on Bashbari Mandir road in the city’s Mohammadpur area on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mabia Begum, 55...
Belarus announces first case of coronavirus
12:31 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayBelarus registered the first case of coronavirus infection in the country, Russian news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing the Belarussian Ministry of Healthcare...
33 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria's Idlib
12:11 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayAt least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria's Idlib province after an air strike blamed on Damascus, prompting condemnation from Washington and a UN warning on the rapidly-rising risk of escalation...
Iranian Vice President Masoumeh tests positive for coronavirus
09:27 PM, 27 Feb 2020 ThursdayIranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar has tested positive for coronavirus, the state-run daily IRAN reported...
Kejriwal announces relief package for Delhi violence victims
08:54 PM, 27 Feb 2020 ThursdayDelhi Chief Minister on Thursday announced that Rs 10 lakh each will be provided to the kin of the deceased and Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the minors who died in the Delhi violence...