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22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Lanka troops raid main protest camp
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22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Secondary Schools, Colleges: Reopening on May 23
The education ministry yesterday declared that in-person classes at secondary schools and colleges across the country would resume on May 23 after Eid-ul-Fitr.
25 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Gaibandha Blast: It was a mortar shell of 1971
The explosion that took three lives in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday was of an abandoned mortar shell of 1971, and no militancy link or sabotage plan was behind it, said police.
25 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Blaze at Refugee Camp: Around 600 children still missing
Rohingya parents are enduring an agonising wait as they hope to be reunited with their children who were separated in the massive fire that raged through four camps on Monday in Balukhali of Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila.
25 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Journo Kajol: Cops press charges in case filed under DSA
A Dhaka tribunal yesterday took into cognisance charges pressed against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol “for publishing indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information” about ministers, lawmakers, and Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
FB Post on Minister: Two BCL leaders sued under DSA in N’ganj
Two Chhatra League leaders were sued under the Digital Security Act in Narayanganj for spreading “false information and rumour” on Facebook about Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Gang Rape in Begumganj: 13 accused indicted
A Noakhali court yesterday farmed charges against 13 persons in a case filed over the gang-rape and torture of a woman in the district’s Begumganj upazila.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Mysterious fire destroys 100-acre orchard
A devastating fire yesterday destroyed an 100-acre orchard of the Mro community who have been protesting the construction of a luxury hotel in Naitong area of Bandarban.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Largest art canvas sells for $62m
Work by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world’s largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organisers said on Tuesday.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
The gates of hell cast open
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a press statement issued today called for a general strike throughout Bangladesh on March 27 against the army’s action in certain places in East Pakistan including Saidpur, Rangpur and Joydebpur.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We sleep fearing another fire’
Five kilometres away from the fire that erupted at Camp-8(E), Meer Kashem was watching the smoke billow on the horizon from his home in Balukhali’s West Para in Cox’s Bazar on Monday.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Observing Genocide Day: Countrywide 1-minute blackout at 9:00pm
The government has declared several programmes to observe Genocide Day today and remember the brutalities of Pakistani occupation forces on unarmed Bangalees on the night of March 25, 1971.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Dhaka, Thimpu agree to boost connectivity, trade power
Bangladesh and Bhutan have reached a consensus to enhance connectivity as well as trade in electricity, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Double mutant’ Covid variant found in India
India has detected a new “double mutant variant” of the novel coronavirus yesterday, as the pandemic has taken a turn for the worse in many nations with known infections worldwide crossing 124 million and death toll passing 2.7 million.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Tension on Border: Flag meeting brings no solution
Tensions remained on the Gojukata border of Sylhet after Indian Border Security Force (BSF) set up bunkers in no-man’s land.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Facebook hit by French lawsuit over hate speech
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France, saying the website breaks its own terms by failing to protect users against hate speech.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘I’ll commit suicide’ if I’m forced to be ‘hospitalised’
Abdul Quader Mirza, younger brother of ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, yesterday said he would kill himself if he was forced by “conspirators” to be hospitalised as part of a political plot.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Amnesty accuses Lebanon of ‘torture’ of detained Syrians
Amnesty International yesterday accused Lebanese authorities of “cruel and abusive” treatment of more than 20 Syrians it said had been tortured in prison or during interrogation.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
UK Covid Variant: Germany to enter strict shutdown
Germany will enter a strict shutdown for five days over Easter amid surging virus rates, Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders agreed yesterday as criticism mounted over the government’s handling of the pandemic.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Myanmar junta ‘sad’ at protest deaths
Myanmar’s military yesterday said it was sad about people killed in its brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests, but vowed to press ahead with stamping out what it called “anarchy”.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Tensions take hold on Sylhet border
Border Guard Bangladesh jawans took up position on the Gojukata border in Sylhet’s Beanibazar yesterday morning shortly after India’s Border Security Force set up bunkers in the no-man’s land between the countries.
23 March 2021, 18:00 PM