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More than 5.44 million people in 33 districts have been facing adverse effects of flood that set in during the last week of June, the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry...
Chandpur, one of the biggest trading hubs of fish, is abuzz with sales. Wholesalers are happy due to the Hilsa season. Local fishermen? Not so much. The fishermen complain that...
US coronavirus deaths rose by over 25,000 in July and cases doubled in 19 states during the month, according to a Reuters tally, dealing a crushing blow to hopes of...
Police arrested a Faridpur district Jubo League leader and two others early Sunday from the district town in connection with a money laundering case. The arrestees were identified as Asibur...
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has tested positive for coronavirus, the minister tweeted on Sunday afternoon. He said he is getting admitted to a hospital on doctors’ advice, reports hindustimes.com....
A 20-metre area of Madaripur town protection embankment at Launch Ghat area of the district was washed away due to Arial Khan River erosion on Saturday afternoon. Sources said the...
After a long wait and sufferings, a ferry with passengers stranded at Shimulia ferry terminal was released at 6:00pm on Saturday. The BIWTA said that the ferry service would be...
South Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million, reports Reuters. Africa’s...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday accused again the anti-liberation forces of assassinating Bangabandhu in 1975, saying that the people of Bangladesh had lost ‘all potentials’ after this brutal killing....
Two people including an official of ATN News were killed as a truck hit them at Bamundi Nishipur in Gangni upazila of Meherpur on Sunday. The deceased were identified as...
President Donald Trump says he wants to take action to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. The threat...
UN has urged communities everywhere to “support breastfeeding for a healthier planet” as the World Breastfeeding Week is underway beginning Saturday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Children’s...
The Philippines’ health department vowed on Sunday to update its game plan against Covid-19 within a week and sought to beef up the healthcare workforce in the capital Manila, where...
The two city corporations in Dhaka have claimed to have removed waste materials from the cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha. The workers of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) fully cleared the...
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday regiestered five new dengue cases in the country over the last 24 hours. Currently, 10 patients are undergoing treatment at different...
Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday, after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in the northwestern state...
The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 240,746 on Sunday as the country registered 886 fresh cases testing only 3,684 samples in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile,...
A total of 76 people were diagnosed with Covid-19 in Sylhet division on Saturday. With the latest development, the number of infected people in the division reached 7,992. Dr Himangshu...
The top Democrats in Congress are not close to a deal with the White House to pump more money into the US economy to ease the coronavirus’ heavy toll, both...
Russia reported 5,427 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, bringing its nationwide tally to 850,870, the fourth largest caseload in the world. Russia’s coronavirus taskforce said 70 people...
Norway has committed approximately US$1.5 million (14 million Norwegian Kroner) to support improved ship recycling in Bangladesh. The third phase of an IMO-implemented project to enhance safe and environmentally sound...
A rapid progress of the monsoon helped Indian farmers plant nearly 14 per cent more land than last year with rice, corn, cane, cotton and soybean crops, according to the...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $202 million in additional financing for the Modern Food Storage Facilities Project to increase the storage capacity of Bangladesh’s national strategic...
Thousands of people took to the streets of central Jerusalem and staged demonstrations demanding resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. The demonstration in central Jerusalem, along with smaller...
At least two people were killed and five people injured when a bus overturned in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila Sunday morning. The deceased have yet to be identified. Saleh Ahmed, in-charge...
Thousands marched in Berlin on Saturday to protest against measures imposed in Germany to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying they violated people’s rights and freedoms. The gathering, estimated by police...
The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday night, a Reuters tally showed, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicentres of...
The government has launched an investigation into the killing of a retired army officer in police firing at a check-post in Cox’s Bazar. An additional superintendent of police in the...
Kuwait has banned foreign air passengers from Bangladesh and 30 other countries until further notice flagging them as “high risk” due to the spread of the coronavirus, bdnews24.com reported. The...
Britain is considering minting a coin to commemorate India’s independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, amid growing interest in recognising the contributions of people from the Black, Asian and other minority ethnic...
Just as Nikhilesh does not live in Paris, reporter Moidul of Dhaka does not exist in reality; guitarist D’Souza or Amol, the one with a poet-like appearance—all these characters are...
Merchants have bought rawhides of the cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha at ‘dirt-cheap’ rates as most of the seasonal traders shunned the business amid the coronavirus crisis after conceding disastrous losses...
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has said goods-laden vehicles will be carried onferries in Shimulia-Kathalbari route on river Padma on an experimental basis. He stated this while visiting...
South Africa’s confirmed cases of Covid-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million. Africa’s most industrialised...
China reported 49 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for August 1, up from 45 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Sunday. Of the new...
Facebook Inc (FB.O) raised its settlement offer by $100 million to $650 million related to a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users...
Muslims in Dhaka have slaughtered cattle in their garages or the streets in front of their homes during Eid-ul-Azha this year like in the past, with few using the designated...
Abrupt river erosion has devoured parts of construction yard of Padma Bridge project at Munshiganj point on Friday night taking some shades and more than 192 imported valuable railway girders...
President M Abdul Hamid has urged the affluent section of the society to stand by the helpless people as their level best in this tough time triggered by flood in...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has introduced a mobile app to expedite the process of cleaning up the city following the blood and gore spilled during the ritual of...
Urging BNP to shun the politics of brawl, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said the government wants to develop the country with cooperation of all in unison as...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday called upon the government to take immediate steps to tackle the floods shunning its "attitude of negligence" towards the miseries of...
A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on...
Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a state-run shipyard in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, a port city and industrial center in...
Chief Minister of India’s West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Saturday extended her heartfelt greetings to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the people of Bangladesh on the auspicious occasion of the...
The health authorities reported 21 new deaths from coronavirus and 2,199 new cases on Saturday as the country celebrates Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest festival of Muslims. Bangladesh's death tally has...
Samsung Electronics Co will halt operations of its last computer factory in China, the South Korean tech giant said on Saturday, the latest manufacturer to shift production from the world’s...
More than a million Philippine doctors and nurses, saying the country was losing the fight against Covid-19, urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to reimpose strict lockdown in and around...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the initiation of a nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in any Arab country. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and...
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