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Russia on Saturday approved its main COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, for use by people over the age of 60, Russian news agencies cited the health ministry as saying. People over...
Two workers have died after an under-construction boundary wall came crashing down in Chattogram’s Jubilee Road. The incident occurred near the Election Commission office in the port city around 12pm...
Three new variants of COVID-19 have been detected in recent weeks, discoveries which have led to fresh fears across the world because some make the virus up to 70 per...
Pakistan is using Taliban as a “tool” for its dominance in Afghanistan under the pretext of strategic depth, said former Pakistan senator Afrasiab Khattak, adding that the terror group’s approach...
Australia's talisman Steve Smith fell for his first Test duck in over four years as India dismissed the hosts for 195 on day one of the Boxing Day Test. Smith...
India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a...
Sherlock Holmes’s hobby would not be playing violin if he were from the 15th century – before violin was invented. He would not smoke pipes either; cigar would be his...
At least 62 people were injured in different violent attacks on religious minorities in the first eleven months of the current calendar year across the country. Among the injured, one...
President Mohammad Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of actor Abdul Kader. In a condolence message, the president prayed the salvation...
The Chinese economy is set to overtake the US in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire on Saturday after US President Donald Trump refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, protesting that...
Five days after dissolving the House of Representatives, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Friday named new ministers in seven ministries that were vacant and reshuffled his cabinet. Among...
At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy queues that have been slowed by coronavirus screening,...
The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross told Reuters on Friday....
Michael Jackson’s famed Neverland Ranch in California has finally sold, more than 10 years after the death of the pop star who abandoned the property following his trial on charges...
Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus and defender Kyle Walker have tested positive for Covid-19, the Premier League club said on Friday. Two other City staff members have also tested positive...
Former England batsman John Edrich, who made more than 100 first-class centuries, has died at the age of 83, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Friday. Edrich...
Popular actor Abdul Kader passed away at a hospital in the capital on Saturday at the age of 69. His daughter-in-law Zahida Islam Jamie confirmed the matter to media, reports...
Arnob is neither a fitness guru nor a health nut. He is simply someone who wants to lose weight and gain some lean muscles. Hitting the gym for months, he...
Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy towards the Palestinians remains “unacceptable”, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Turkey and Israel, once allies, have had a bitter...
Some 6,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent unit) of Chittagong- bound containers of COSCO Shipping Lines remained stranded in Singapore caused by severe congestion in the busy transhipment port, sources said. The...
Time has come to say goodbye to another eventful year and welcome a new one. Indeed, people from all around the world, including Bangladesh, want to forget the bitter and...
The government is set to discard the traditional practice of subsidising loss-making public enterprises to enhance the level of private investment in the coming years, officials say. It means the...
India has planned a two-day dry run in four of its states to check the micro-level preparedness for a nationwide Covid-19 inoculation drive. The states of Punjab in the north,...
Two policemen posted at the Sitakunda Police Station have been arrested and later suspended for mugging a man in the area. A case was filed on Thursday night at Sitakunda...
Though there is a law styled, Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act-2010, or in short, DVPP Act, to protect women from domestic violence, there is hardly any instance of its...
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages global production and trade linkages, the policy makers are increasingly exploring the possibilities of shifting more towards regional value chains (RVCs) from global value chains...
It's a laudable fact that women representation has progressed significantly in the fields of education, health and politics, but it is equally as alarming as there has not been much...
Robots are rolling through hospital wards and warehouses, decontaminating rooms with ultraviolet light. Voice-activated and -connected devices are helping people with limited mobility and chronic conditions. Medical professionals are using...
Bangladesh and India have decided to conduct joint night patrols in vulnerable areas along the border in order to reduce frontier killings. The two countries share a 4,096km-long international border....
This year the nation celebrated the 50th Victory Day. It is best day ever to happen to any nation. On the day 49 years back, the freedom fighters with help...
The December 14's Electoral College vote finally cemented the US president-elect Joe Biden's victory in the US election held on November 3. Though the numbers were already in his favour,...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday corrected statements he had made in parliament, apologising for what he said were mistakes regarding a political funding scandal that has also...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at the intelligence level continued between the two sides, but...
Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, its National Electoral Board has said on Friday, after postponing the vote from August this year because of the COVID-19...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the first batch of vaccines against coronavirus disease will arrive in Bangladesh at the end of January. “We are bringing in 30 million doses...
The long-time leader of Mali’s opposition, Soumaila Cisse, has died at the age of 71, his spokesman said on Friday, two months after his release from lengthy captivity by Islamist...
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli faced a fresh political challenge on Friday as hundreds of opponents protested against his sudden move to dissolve parliament and call elections more than...
China on Friday said there was no link between the situation of the Indian sailors on two cargo ships carrying Australian coal stranded at Chinese ports and the current state...
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve the ambitious pledge of the country’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to...
Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was...
The government has reappointed Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam as director general of the Directorate General of Health Services under a contract for two years after his retirement. The...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that protests by farmers against three laws brought by his government were politically motivated, as he touted the success of an agricultural...
Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been freed from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. The journalist was released at 11am on Friday and his family members received him from the jail...
Bangladesh has logged 1,163 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 507,265. The death toll climbed to 7,398 after...
Ten generals have been handed new responsibilities in a major shake-up in the top brass of the Bangladesh Army. Among them, one officer has been promoted to the rank of...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) has created a separate online portal named ‘Membership Online Service’ (MOS) to issue one of its two major services- Certificate of Origin (CO)...
Britain’s trade agreement with the European Union removes a 4-1/2-year old fear of crashing out of the bloc without trading arrangements in place, but it will take UK financial markets...
A huge surge in online shopping during the pandemic has been a saviour for retailers, but it comes at a price. Shoppers are expected to return twice as many items...
A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico has received an initial shipment...
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