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Curfew to end in 7 days, hopes Salman

04:59 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Salman F Rahman, the private industry and investment adviser to the Prime Minister, on Sunday hoped that the ongoing curfew will be withdrawn within next seven days.

They had plots to occupy Ganabhaban in Lankan style: Quader

04:48 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Describing the context of imposing curfew on the night of July 19, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader revealed on Sunday a conspiracy to occupy the Ganabhaban in a manner similar...

Births amongst bombs in east Ukraine’s last maternity hospital

02:35 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Patients and doctors in the last maternity hospital in eastern Ukraine get little sleep now. In Pokrovsk, a transport hub and a key prize for invading Russian forces where the hospital is situated, the bombardments are becoming louder and nearer.

4 of a family found dead at home in Brahmanbaria

02:08 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Four members of a family were found dead at their home in Nabinagar municipality area of Brahmanbaria on Sunday morning.

Intruding into student protests, Jamaat escalated violence: PM

02:05 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Jamaat-Shibir terrorists initially maintained low profile intruding in-guise into the quota reform movement "but afterwards they appeared dangerously in the front cashing in on the movement".

BTRC summons Facebook, TikTok representatives

01:57 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has summoned representatives from various social media platforms, including Facebook and TikTok, to appear in person at the BTRC building in Agargaon, Dhaka, by Wednesday (July 31).

Frightening conditions forced staff to shut data centres: Palak

01:20 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

The state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, on Sunday said that during the quota reform movement, employees were forced to shut down three data centres in Mohakhali, Dhaka, under frightening conditions.

RAB arrests 304 on sabotage charges

12:54 PM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has so far arrested 304 people across the country in connection with the violence, vandalism and arson attacks centring quota reform movement.

Mobile internet restored

11:35 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Mobile internet services that were snapped amid the clashes centring the quota reform movement have been restored across the country at 3pm on Sunday. State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed, earlier today said the mobile internet is returning back with 4G service at 3pm.

World Hepatitis Day today: PM issues message

11:01 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Bangladesh is observing World Hepatitis Day-2024 on Sunday aiming to raise awareness against the deadly virus, with the theme 'It's time for action'.

Messi-less defending champ Miami wins Leagues Cup opener

10:40 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

Defending champion Inter Miami, playing without injured star Lionel Messi, blanked Mexico's Puebla 2-0 at home on Saturday to begin defending their Leagues Cup crown.

2 more quota protest coordinators taken into DB custody

10:23 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has taken two more coordinators of the quota reform movement - Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah - into their custody for, what they said, ensuring their security.

Curfew relaxed for 11 hours in Dhaka, 2 other districts

09:24 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

The ongoing curfew has been relaxed for 11 hours from 7am to 6pm on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Dhaka, Gazipur and Narayanganj. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this while talking to the journalists after a meeting with law enforcement officials at his residence in the capital’s Dhanmondi around 11pm on Saturday.

Emotional Dressel spearheads US to first Olympic gold in Paris

08:50 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

A formidable United States spearheaded by an emotional Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 4x100m Olympic freestyle relay title on Saturday for the country's first gold in Paris.

11 killed in rocket attack in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

08:17 AM, 28 Jul 2024 Sunday

At least 11 people have been killed and 19 others wounded in a rocket attack on a football pitch in the town of the Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli authorities said.

Expat Bangladeshis’ imprisonment over quota protests concerned PM: Arafat

09:45 PM, 27 Jul 2024 Saturday

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat on Saturday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is concerned about Bangladeshi expatriates’ safety in Middle East countries as many of them were exposed to legal actions over the quota movement at home...

Tom Cruise receives prestigious honour from France’s culture minister

09:01 PM, 27 Jul 2024 Saturday

Tom Cruise, who is currently filming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” in Europe, was inducted Knight of the Legion of Honor by France‘s culture minister Rachida Dati in Paris on July 26...

Banking hours from 10am to 3pm from Sunday to Tuesday

07:57 PM, 27 Jul 2024 Saturday

The Bangladesh Bank on Saturday announced the duration of interbank transactions for July 28 to 30...

Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says 30 killed in school strike

07:07 PM, 27 Jul 2024 Saturday

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli strike Saturday on a school killed 30 people, after a days-long military operation further south left around 170 dead, according to the civil defence agency...

BNP leader Annie on 7-day remand

06:35 PM, 27 Jul 2024 Saturday

A Dhaka court on Saturday placed BNP’s joint secretary general, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the attack on Bangladesh Television Bhaban...