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Meat Loaf, the US rock star who rose to global fame with his "Bat Out of Hell" album, has died at the age of 74. The American singer and actor,...
ভারতের রাজধানী নয়া দিল্লিতে দেশটির সর্বোচ্চ আদালতের সামনে এক ব্যক্তি নিজের শরীরে আগুন লাগিয়ে আত্মহত্যার চেষ্টা করেছেন। শুক্রবার সর্বোচ্চ আদালতে এক নম্বর গেইটের কাছে ঘটনাটি ঘটেছে বলে পুলিশের বরাতে জানিয়েছে...
Police have revealed new details about the murder of actress Raima Islam Shimu: she was killed by two men -- her husband Shakawat Alim Nobel and his friend SMY Abdullah...
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook Dhaka, Chattogram and some other parts of the country on Friday afternoon, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The tremor was felt around 4:12 pm,...
All examinations of National University have been suspended till further notice in view of the surging Covid-19 pandemic. This was announced in a press release issued by the university authority...
Singapore will extend its COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from next month, its health ministry said on Friday. The country is among the first...
The government is planning to widen the coverage of the social safety net for the marginalised and vulnerable people as the Covid-induced loss of income and livelihood might push more...
দেশের ১২ কোটি মানুষকে কোভিড টিকার আওতায় আনার যে লক্ষ্যমাত্রা সরকার নিয়েছে, তার কাছাকাছি পৌঁছানোর কথা জানিয়েছে স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তর। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। শুক্রবার অধিদপ্তর জানিয়েছে, বৃহস্পতিবার পর্যন্ত করোনাভাইরাসের টিকার প্রথম...
Dhaka University will return to online classes on Sunday as it postponed in-person classes until February 6 amid the pandemic. The university has kept its residential halls open and will...
French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies has asked the American and French governments to support targeted sanctions against Myanmar's oil and gas funds, the largest single source of income for the country's...
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has a plan of constructing 30 Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) in each ward of the city in phases for removing and managing the household wastes and...
করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ বেড়ে যাওয়ায় সরকারি নির্দেশনা অনুযায়ী ৬ ফেব্রুয়ারি পর্যন্ত সশরীরে ক্লাস বন্ধ রাখবে ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়; তবে আবাসিক হলগুলো খোলা রেখে রোববার থেকে শুরু হবে অনলাইনে পাঠদান। শুক্রবার দুপুরে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের...
Actress Raima Islam Shimu’s husband has admitted to killing his wife before a judicial magistrate in Dhaka, a senior police officer said Friday. Keraniganj Additional superintendent of police Humayun Kabir...
কাজী ভাইয়ের সঙ্গে শেষ কথা হয়েছিল (শেখ আবদুল) হাকিম ভাইয়ের ইন্তেকালের দিনটিতে। হোয়সাটঅ্যাপে ফোন করার সময় ভয় ছিল হয়ত ধরবেন না তিনি। ওটা তাঁর বিশ্রামের সময়। কিন্তু না তিনি ধরলেন।...
Now twelve of the 24 students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on an indefinite hunger strike since Wednesday have been hospitalised till Friday. The 24 students embarked...
অভিনয়শিল্পী রাইমা ইসলাম শিমুকে তার স্বামী খন্দকার সাখাওয়াত আলীম নোবেল এবং তার বন্ধু এস এম ওয়াই আব্দুল্লাহ ফরহাদ- দুজনে মিলেই হত্যা করেন বলে জানিয়েছে পুলিশ। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। নোবেল...
Netflix Inc dashed hopes for a quick rebound after forecasting weak first-quarter subscriber growth on Thursday, sending shares sinking nearly 20 per cent and wiping away most of its remaining...
চট্টগ্রামে দুটি হাসপাতালে চালানো এক গবেষণায় ১১ জন কোভিড আক্রান্তের নমুনা থেকে ভাইরাসের জেনোম সিকোয়েন্স করে ৮ জনেরই ওমিক্রন ধরনটি শনাক্ত হয়েছে। গত ২৫ ডিসেম্বরের পর থেকে জানুয়ারি মাসের প্রথম...
India's capital is set to lift a weekend curfew and allow private offices to be partially staffed after a fall in new COVID-19 infections, a city government official said on...
Australia will begin the defence of their Twenty20 World Cup title against New Zealand in Sydney on Oct 22 in a re-run of last year's final, Reuters reports. The Australians...
Germany's new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified workers from abroad each year to tackle both a demographic imbalance and labour shortages in key sectors that risk undermining the...
The government has shut all schools and colleges across the country for two weeks in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus infections. The Cabinet Division issued a notice...
করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ দ্রুত বাড়তে থাকায় দেশের সব স্কুল, কলেজ ৬ ফেব্রুয়ারি পর্যন্ত বন্ধ ঘোষণা করেছে সরকার। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়গুলোকেও একই ব্যবস্থা নিতে নির্দেশ দিয়ে শুক্রবার একটি প্রজ্ঞাপন জারি...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has formed a three-member committee to probe allegations of irregularities in the sale of admission test forms of Jahangirnagar University (JU), and embezzlement of money...
Nearly 30 generic drugmakers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will make cheap versions of Merck & Co's Covid-19 pill, under a landmark UN-backed deal to give poorer nations...
Three people of the same family died after a bus rammed into an autorickshaw in Dhaka's Matuail. The dead have been identified as Abdur Rahman, 65, his daughter Sharmin Akter,...
President of the United States Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden extended New Year’s greetings to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his family, BSS reports. In...
Suckled by their mother Bora and guarded by a watchful male, rare new-born twin baby elephants ingested nourishment that conservationists hope will enable them to survive a perilous start to...
A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent...
The stock market regulator has approved Envoy Textile's proposal to raise Tk 870 million by issuing fully redeemable non-convertible cumulative preference shares. The approval came at a meeting of the...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has restructured two price indices and included 27 companies to the benchmark index, DSEX, a move that will help gauge the market more accurately. The premier...
Brazilian soccer great Pele was discharged from hospital on Thursday after undergoing two days of treatment for cancer, the Sao Paulo clinic that treated him said, Reuters reports. Pele, who...
গ্যাসের মূল্য বৃদ্ধির জন্য বিতরণ কোম্পানিগুলো জানুয়ারির শুরুতে যে প্রস্তাব দিয়েছিল, তা ‘বিধি বহির্ভূত’ ছিল জানিয়ে ফেরত পাঠিয়েছে বাংলাদেশ এনার্জি রেগুলেটরি কমিশন- বিইআরসি। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। এখন নতুন করে...
Amid lax monitoring, the illegal battery-run rickshaws and easy bikes are plying unabated in different roads across the country despite a high court's directive to remove those vehicles from the...
Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had...
Walt Disney Co on Wednesday named company executive Rebecca Campbell to lead its new hub for international content creation to expand regional content for its streaming services. Campbell will oversee...
The SME Foundation has finally started an initiative to create a database of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), aiming to provide hassle-free services to the entrepreneurs and ensure overall development...
The government has directed the deputy commissioners (DCs) to take tougher steps with an eye to preserving the navigability of rivers across the country. The DCs have also been asked...
An estimated 1.05-million migrant workers, including Bangladeshis, have left Saudi Arabia mainly due to the enforcement of expat fee (stay permission) since 2018, Saudi media and officials say. The Bangladesh...
The government asks deputy commissioners (DCs) to punish violators of its 11-point directives on containment of a latest wave of Covid-19 transmission in Bangladesh as daily caseload overshot 10,000 mark...
Energy experts and rights groups have termed the natural gas tariff hike proposals 'faulty', saying the gas marketing and distribution companies do not have any authority to seek the tariff...
A fat sum of over Tk 40 billion is deemed misspent on a misconceived BRT line as officials say the Joydevpur - Airport corridor has been difficult to develop as...
A small preliminary laboratory study has shown that levels of omicron-neutralising antibodies of people vaccinated with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine did not decline as much as of those who had...
Iraq has expressed its interest to boost trade and investment with Bangladesh and renew the trade agreements between the two countries, reports UNB. Iraqi Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdulsalam Saddam Mohaimsen...
Bangladesh Bank has rejected the application seeking a time extension to meet the conditions of the letter of intent (LOI) issued in favour of proposed People's Bank Limited, which is...
The proposal reportedly submitted by the state gas distribution companies to raise prices of natural gas by more than twofold is enough to be a cause for serious concern for...
Of late, two news items have drawn global ---by import local too ---attention. One is the dire prediction that 207 million or 5.9 per cent of the working hands the...
Increased capacity for container handling by the inland container depots (ICDs) is a good sign. Besides being increasingly competent and efficient, these private depots contribute considerably to reducing the load...
Admitting some misuses and abuses in implementing the digital security act (DSA), Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said the government will amend the act, if necessary to implement it...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has fixed the minimum salary of the entry-level officials of banks for encouraging the young generation to take banking as a career and play the role in...
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