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Legendary singer Sumitra Sen passes away at 89
11:38 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayLegendary singer Sumitra Sen is dead. The singer was 89 years old at the time of death. Sen was suffering for a long time. She breathed her last at her own home in Kolkata. Her daughter, acclaimed Rabindra Sangeet artist Srabani Sen took to Facebook to inform the news...
Singapore’s economy beats forecasts with 3.8% growth in 2022
11:08 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdaySingapore’s economy has grown more than expected in 2022, according to government figures...
Tesla China boss Zhu promoted to global role
10:35 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayTesla Inc's China chief Tom Zhu has been promoted to take charge of the electric carmaker’s U.S. assembly plants as well as sales operations in North America and Europe, according to an internal posting of reporting lines reviewed by Reuters...
Ronaldo arrives in Saudi Arabia ahead of unveiling by Al Nassr
10:15 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayPortugal’s footballing superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has arrived in Riyadh ahead of his grand unveiling before thousands of fans at Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr club...
North Korea: What we can expect from Kim Jong-un in 2023
09:41 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayIt fired more missiles than ever before in a single year. In fact, a quarter of all missiles North Korea has ever launched hit the skies in 2022. It was also the year that Kim Jong-un declared that North Korea had become a nuclear weapons state and that its weapons were here to stay.
Syed Ashraf’s 4th death anniversary today
09:06 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayThe fourth death anniversary of former Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam is being observed on Tuesday...
Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops
08:18 AM, 03 Jan 2023 TuesdayUkrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were stationed, killing 63 of them, Russia’s defense ministry said Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago...
Meta set to make decision on Trump’s return to Facebook
09:51 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayFacebook owner Meta Inc is preparing to announce whether it will allow former U.S. President Donald Trump back on to Facebook and Instagram, the Financial Times reported on Sunday...
Inflation eases further to 8.71pc in December
08:39 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayThe general point to point inflation rate in December last year eased further as it fell to 8.71 percentage point mainly because of the downtrend in food and non-food inflation. The general point to point inflation rate in November last was 8.85 percentage...
38 dengue patients hospitalized in 24 hrs
08:21 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayA total of 38 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours till 8 am on Monday...
Bangladesh reports zero Covid-19 death, 14 positive cases
08:11 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayBangladesh on Monday recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 14 coronavirus positive cases...
Bangladesh envoys asked to respond anti-BD propaganda spontaneously
07:56 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayForeign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has directed all Bangladesh envoys abroad to respond ‘spontaneously’ against all sorts of anti-Bangladesh propaganda in their respective host countries...
AL announces its new Central Working Committee
06:46 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayThe ruling Awami League (AL) has announced Central Working Committee a week after the party held its 22nd national council on December 24, reelecting Sheikh Hasina as its president and Obaidul Quader as general secretary...
12kg LPG cylinder price decreased by Tk 65
05:40 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayThe Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has decreased the price of a 12kg cylinder of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Tk 65 to Tk 1,232. BERC Chairman Md Abdul Jalil announced the new price at a press conference on Monday. He said, the new price will come into effect from today...
6 youths radicalised by Al-Qaeda ideology remanded
05:01 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayA Dhaka court on Monday placed six youths, who have allegedly been radicalised by the ideology of Al-Qaeda and were planning to stage armed jihad in the country, on five-day remand each in a case lodged under Anti-Terrorism Act...
HC seeks Rajuk explanation over missing of documents
04:53 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayThe High Court (HC) on Monday asked Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to submit its explanation over the alleged incident of missing of around 30,000 documents from its server. The court asked Rajuk chairman to submit the explanation within 30 days...
Two helicopters collide in Australia, killing 4
04:14 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayTwo helicopters collided mid-air killing four people Monday on Australia's Gold Coast tourism destination, officials said, with images showing one of the aircraft's rotors lying on a sand bank. Three other people are in a critical condition, police said...
14 killed in attack on Mexican border prison
03:42 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayTen guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, according to state officials...
Quader off to Singapore for health check-up
03:31 PM, 02 Jan 2023 MondayAwami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader left Dhaka on Monday for Singapore for his routine health check-up. Quader left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 8.30am for his routine health check-up...
BNP expels Abdus Satter from all party posts
10:03 PM, 01 Jan 2023 SundayBNP has expelled its chairperson's advisory council member Abdus Satter Bhuiyan from all party posts, two days after he had submitted a resignation letter. The decision was taken for defying the party decision and involving himself in activities that go against discipline, the party said in a press release on Sunday night...