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Chawkbazar fire: Hotel owner remanded
07:16 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayThe owner of 'Barishal Hotel' has been placed on a day remand in a case filed over the fire incident that killed six people in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar area...
HC rules over fuel price hike
06:43 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayThe High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain why it shall not declare illegal the decision of increasing the prices of fuel oil without holding any public hearing...
Apple MacBook Air M2 review: Sleek redesign takes things up a notch
06:00 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayApple’s popular MacBook Air has been give its biggest redesign since it was first introduced in 2008, ditching its classic wedge shape and making it thinner, with a bigger screen and better than ever for 2022...
Zero Covid death, 93 cases recorded in 24 hrs
05:37 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayThe Bangladesh government reported zero COVID-19 death and 93 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of fatalities remain at 29,314 and infections stood at 20,09,222. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Tuesday...
Mohammad Ali Mia made CID chief
04:55 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayAdditional Inspector General of Police Mohammad Ali Mia has been appointed as the new chief of Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
128 hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
04:39 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdaySome 128 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning...
Govt mulls further measures for essentials' price control: PM
04:28 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government mulls further steps to bring down essentials' prices to keep them within ordinary consumers' tolerable level. "Price of essentials has gone up. I believe, it is urgently needed to take more measures to bring down the price of essentials to a tolerable level," she said...
More explosions rock Russian-controlled Crimea
04:08 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayExplosions shook an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region used by Moscow as a staging post for its war in Ukraine...
Nunez sees red as Liverpool held to home draw by Palace
03:42 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayLiverpool forward Luis Diaz cancelled out Wilfried Zaha's opener for Crystal Palace as the teams drew 1-1 in the Premier League at Anfield on Monday, with Reds striker Darwin Nunez sent off for a head-butt on his home debut...
Pakistan’s Punjab govt announces free education till graduation
02:49 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayThe Punjab government has decided to provide free education to all students up to graduation in public schools, colleges and universities...
‘Our baby will join us soon’: Bipasha, Karan to welcome first child
02:26 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayBollywood actors Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover are all set to welcome their first child. Bipasha took to Instagram to announce the news...
Autoimmune disorders, when our own body starts attacking us!
02:12 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayRecently, renowned Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher opened up about his fight with autoimmune disorder ‘vasculitis’ that occurred three years ago and how he dealt with the condition. He shared the information through his tweet.
Chawkbazar fire: Hotel owner arrested
01:14 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayPolice have arrested the owner of Barishal Hotel in connection with the fire that broke out at a polythene factory and killed 6 people at Chawkbazar in the capital. The arrestee is Fakharuddin. He was arrested from Chawkbazar early Tuesday, Abdul Qaiyum, Officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar Police Station, confirmed the matter...
20 dead in bus-oil tanker collision in Pakistan’s Punjab
12:35 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayAt least 20 people were burnt to death and six others injured after a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker near the Jalalpur Pirwala district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, local media reported...
BRTA project work to remain closed for now: Mayor Atiq
12:08 PM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayDhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has said the work of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will remain closed for now. He said this on Tuesday after visiting the crane accident spot in Uttara where five people were killed as a girder of under-construction BRT project collapsed on a private car on Monday...
William Ruto declared winner of Kenyan presidential vote
10:25 AM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayKenya's Deputy President William Ruto has been elected as the country's next President, the electoral commission announced Monday...
Uttara crane accident: Case filed against operator, contracting company
09:36 AM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayA case has been filed in connection with the crane accident in the capital’s Uttara that killed five passengers of a private car...
FIFA suspends All India Football Federation
09:01 AM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayFIFA has suspended the All India Football Federation (AIFF) with immediate effect due to “undue influence from third parties”, world soccer’s governing body said on Monday. The suspension also means that the Under-17 women’s World Cup, which was scheduled to take place in India from Oct. 11-30, cannot be held...
Iran denies involvement but justifies Salman Rushdie attack
08:25 AM, 16 Aug 2022 TuesdayAn Iranian official Monday denied Tehran was involved in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, though he sought to justify the attack in the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on the bloodshed...
Parents’ birth certificates not mandatory for birth registration
07:49 PM, 15 Aug 2022 MondayThe office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration has removed the rule of having mandatory birth certificates of parents for birth registration...