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Three dengue patients die; 767 hospitalized in 24 hrs
06:15 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayThree dengue patients died and 767 were hospitalized in the last 24 hours until Wednesday morning. With the latest death, a total of 216 people died of dengue to date, a Directorate General of Health Services press release said. Currently, 2,729 people diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment...
Fardin murder: Bushra sent to jail after remand
05:29 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayA court in Dhaka has sent Amatullah Bushra to jail after the completion of a five-day remand in a case over the murder of his friend BUET student Fardin Nur Parash...
BNP won't compromise with anyone: Fakhrul
04:13 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayBNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said his party is working to protect the country's independence and sovereignty and it will not compromise with anyone to achieve the goal. He said this in a discussion meeting arranged at Jatiya Press Club on Wednesday on the occasion of the 46th death anniversary...
Hales and Cummins withdraw from IPL
03:52 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayPat Cummins and Alex Hales have withdrawn from the 2023 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL)...
Kolo Muani replaces injured Nkunku in France squad
03:29 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayEintracht Frankfurt striker Randal Kolo Muani has been called up to the France World Cup squad in place of the injured Christopher Nkunku...
Militants ambush police patrol, kill 6 in Pakistan
02:49 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayArmed militants ambushed and killed all six people in a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. Police officer Rab Nawaz Khan said the morning attack in the Dadewala area of Lakki Marwat district came during a routine patrol in a suburban area. The attackers escaped on motorcycles...
4 sentenced to death for yaba smuggling
02:35 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayA Cox’s Bazar court has sentenced four people including a Rohingya man to death for smuggling 13 lakh yaba pills. Cox’s Bazar District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Ismail passed the order around 12:30pm on Wednesday. The court also fined Tk 50,000 each of them...
Second boat of over 100 Rohingya lands on Indonesian beach
01:57 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayOver 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian beach, the second group in as many days to arrive in the island nation’s northernmost province of Aceh...
Chinese, 5 others get jail terms for embezzling money
01:24 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayA Dhaka court has sentenced six people including a Chinese to different jail terms in a case filed for embezzling money. Judge Iqbal Hossain of Fifth Special Judge Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday...
Marijuana smoke harms lungs in tobacco smokers, study finds
12:32 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdaySmoking weed while being a tobacco smoker may increase damage to the respiratory system, a new study found...
Bangladesh targets to increase cotton production 5 folds by 2030
11:09 AM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayBangladesh has set a target to increase five times the cotton production by 2030, introducing new varieties and expanding cultivation areas, since the country appeared as the second largest consumer of the industrial crop...
Musk to relaunch Twitter’s blue check subscription on Nov 29
10:15 AM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayBillionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Twitter's sought-after blue check subscription service will be relaunched on Nov. 29, a minor delay from his initial tentative timeline to bring back the service on the social media platform...
Beyoncé ties Grammy record after leading nominations with 9
09:57 AM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayBeyoncé has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday, making her tied - with her husband Jay-Z - as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show...
Donald Trump officially launches 2024 US presidential bid
08:49 AM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayDonald Trump has launched a third bid for the White House, firing the starting gun on the 2024 presidential election cycle just one week after midterm elections in which his fellow Republicans underperformed expectations in races up and down the ballot...
Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2: Poland
08:32 AM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayPoland said early Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the eastern part of the country, killing two people in a blast that Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy decried as “a very significant escalation” of the war...
World population reaches 8 billion, says UN
10:02 PM, 15 Nov 2022 TuesdayThe global population has reached 8 billion, the UN press service said on Tuesday, citing World Population Prospects 2022 calculations...
Why indecision makes you smarter
09:41 PM, 15 Nov 2022 TuesdayIn the TV series The Good Place, the character Chidi Anagonye is defined by his inability to make even the simplest of decisions – from choosing what to eat, to proclaiming love for his soulmate...
Man gets death 14 years after killing lover
09:35 PM, 15 Nov 2022 TuesdayA court in Madaripur district on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing his lover around 14 years ago...
World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem
09:10 PM, 15 Nov 2022 TuesdayEvery Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill...
Two residential buildings hit by missiles in Kyiv
08:20 PM, 15 Nov 2022 TuesdayTwo residential buildings in central Kyiv were hit during a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said. He wrote on the Telegram messaging app that rescue workers were on the scene and that several missiles had also been shot down but gave no details of any casualties...