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The International Crimes Tribunal prosecutors brought formal charges of crimes against humanity against 14 suspects, including Khan Ashraf Ali, from Bagerhat’s Morolganj-Kachua three and a half years ago, bdnews24.com reports....
The Supreme Court has suspended lawyer Yunus Ali Akhand from practising in the top court for the next three months after finding him guilty of contempt of court. A virtual...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has asked the maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to hoist distant cautionary signal one due to depression over the West-Central Bay. The...
The cabinet has approved in principle the draft of the amended ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000’ providing for death penalty in rape cases as maximum punishment. The approval...
The Covid-19 pandemic and the inadequate response of governments have severely threatened a generation of progress on girls’ rights, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. The world was making...
The number of motorcycle registrations across the country witnessed a drastic decline in the last eight months of the current calendar year compared to that of 2019, BRTA data showed....
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam and his wife Dr. Shaila Shagufta Islam have been diagnosed with Covid-19. They gave samples for coronavirus test on Sunday morning...
The beauty about sport is we never know what might happen when we arrive at a stadium or turn on our television. But one thing comes as close to sporting...
Stocks witnessed a downward trend in early trading on Monday as shaky investors continued their selling binge on sector-wise issues amid the earning disclosure session. Following the previous day’s major...
The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia's national science agency...
Twitter on Sunday (US standard time) flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the US President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media...
Conflicts between the two government agencies over maintaining the elevated height of separate infrastructures in Purbachal area have not yet been resolved, sources said. Though the prime minister has given...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has warned its member factories of possible deterioration of the coronavirus outbreak situation in the upcoming winter season, sources said. The apparel...
The Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) has issued a circular with the aim of reducing the number of lapsed policies of the life insurance companies. A policy for which...
The government has decided to build a cold storage for onion aiming to ensure the supply of the key spice item during the lean period, officials said. Provisionally, the proposed...
A mild heat wave swept over several regions across the country on Sunday. The regions which experienced the mild heat wave are Gopalganj, Rangamati, Chandpur, Srimangal, Pabna, Nilphamari, Mongla, Satkhira,...
Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Ltd or BD Finance is planning to introduce innovative and customised lending and deposit options to pull together NBFI-designed funding and lending base, top executive...
The container feeder vessels calling at the Chattogram port are set to face fresh troubles as the Bangladesh Flag Vessels (Protection of Interest) Act has made it mandatory for them...
The initial public offering (IPO) subscription of Crystal Insurance Company Ltd is set to open on November 10, aiming to raise Tk 160 million from the capital market. The IPO...
Bangladesh's e-Commerce has got a big boost as its market size has swelled by 30 times over the last five years, insiders said on Sunday. The suppliers' and customers' devotion...
The revenue board has found evidence of nexus between its staffers and some taxpayers for evading taxes by forming fund or showing assets with backdates in their tax files. Resorting...
Ekushey Padak recipient and language movement veteran Dr Mirza Mazharul Islam died of old age complications at a city hospital on Sunday morning at the age of 93. Mirza Mazharul...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan on Sunday said there will be no Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) this year due to the circumstances created by the Covid-19 pandemic. He,...
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is fully recovered from COVID-19 and will not be a transmission risk to others, freeing him to return to holding big campaign...
Despite widespread protests against rape and the government’s plan to toughen the law in this regard, a female NGO worker was allegedly gang raped at her Maitkumra house at Fakirhat...
Spain’s Rafael Nadal demolished world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-0 6-2 7-5 in the French Open final to claim a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title on Sunday. With...
Turkey’s army presence in Qatar is an element of instability in the Gulf region, a senior official of the United Arab Emirates has said, adding that it contributed to negative...
As the chief legal officer of the state, the newly appointed Attorney General (AG) AM Amin Uddin on Sunday said his prime challenge is to curb the backlog of cases...
Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher's all-time record 91 Formula One wins on Sunday with an Eifel Grand Prix victory that catapulted the Mercedes driver closer to a seventh world championship....
Bangladesh Railways (BR) has stopped selling its own brand of bottled drinking water ‘Rail Pani’ on trains following media reports regarding the quality. According to a press release, the authorities...
In the recent past, since the beginning of this year, we have seen several civil society activists in Bangladesh being critical of our government in their ability to use cyberspace...
Honouring three medical scientists with the Nobel Medicine Prize 2020 for their homing in on the Hepatitis C has been widely acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the part of...
None but the head of the government has very recently raised the issue of a possible 'second wave' of Covid in the coming winter and the preparations to tackle it....
One of the greatest challenges before parents of children these days is to nurture healthy growth of minds in healthy bodies of their young ones. The problem started with the...
The modern international financial system emerged from the devastation of World War II. Since then, it has continued to be shaped by historic slumps - most recently, the 2008 global...
Protests against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women are continuing in different parts of the city for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday. Students, teachers,...
Extraordinary times calls for extraordinary measures. The Covid-19 pandemic has required countries to deploy large spending for emergency health response and relief measures for households and firms. For a Least...
Security forces in Belarus detained dozens of protesters on Sunday and used force, including water cannon and batons, to break up crowds demanding a new presidential election, TV footage showed,...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce new measures to tackle a growing coronavirus crisis on Monday, moving to work more closely with local leaders from England's worst...
The High Court on Sunday stayed proceedings of a rape case against four children of Barishal’s Bakerganj upazila. The court also directed officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station to make arrangement...
A bus heading to a Buddhist temple collided with a train in central Thailand on Sunday, killing at least 20 people dead and injuring 30, authorities said. The accident took...
The Fisheries and Livestock Ministry has taken different measures to produce six lakh metric tonnes of fish in the current fiscal year of 2020-21. The target was mentioned at the...
Actor Ananta Jalil has removed a video from Facebook in which he called on women to dress modestly, blaming their clothing choices for inducing sexual advances amid countrywide protests over...
With the motoo ‘For Aspiring Technopreneurs and Innovators’, a programme on "Startup Chattogram Incubation Ceremony" was organised in the port city of Chattogram for tech entrepreneurs and inventors on Saturday....
China has expressed concern over the delay in Rohingya repatriation to their homeland in Myanmar. The concern was expressed when the Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming met Foreign Minister...
About 100 million rural people in Bangladesh are going to get high-speed internet access by the end of this year. The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), under the Department of Information...
The government inaugurated on Sunday the country's first hydraulic elevator dam to increase the use of surface water for irrigation. The hydraulic elevator dam has been built at Barumchara union...
Seven new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. Seventeen dengue patients are currently undergoing treatment at...
The cut-off price of shares of Mir Akhter Hossain Ltd, a construction company, has been fixed at Tk 60 each through electronic bidding by eligible investors. As per the book-building...
India's coronavirus case tally topped seven million after it reported 74,383 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed on Sunday, even as the spread...
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