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Google search ads beat targets despite global ‘uncertainty’
02:38 PM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayGoogle search ads lifted parent Alphabet Inc close to Wall Street sales expectations on Tuesday, sending shares up on relief that the world's biggest seller of online advertising may withstand a global recession better than smaller rivals...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s 52nd birthday today
02:13 PM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe 52nd birth anniversary of Bangabandhu's grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also ICT Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is being celebrated today in a befitting manner...
PM stresses harnessing D-8 potential to be powerful economic block
12:53 PM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for working together to harness D-8 countries' potential to become a powerful economic block...
Graft case: Ex-OC Pradeep gets 20 years in jail, wife 21 years
12:01 PM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayA Chittagong court has sentenced suspended OC of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das to 20 years in prison and his wife Chumki Karan to 21 years in jail in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)...
Bangladesh’s population is now 16.51 crore
11:25 AM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayBangladesh’s total population is now 165,158,616. Of them, the number of male is 81,712,824 and the number of female is 83,347,206. The population of third gender is 12,629. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) said this at the first digital “Census and Household Census 2022” preliminary report publication ceremony...
China vows consequences if Pelosi visits Taiwan
10:08 AM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayUS House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rumoured plan for a trip to Taiwan has infuriated China and left the White House with a serious geopolitical headache. How big a problem is this? On Monday, China warned of "serious consequences" if Nancy Pelosi were to proceed with a visit to Taiwan in the coming weeks...
Powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Philippines
08:42 AM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayA powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, badly damaging a hospital and buildings in a northern province and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila...
Haiti gang violence: 209 killed in Cité Soleil in 10 days
08:26 AM, 27 Jul 2022 WednesdayMore than 200 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, in the space of 10 days, United Nations figures reveal. Almost half of those who died were residents without ties to the gangs which are fighting for control of the Cité Soleil neighbourhood, the UN says...
Gold prices raised by Tk 1341 per bhori
09:33 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe Bangladesh Jeweller’s Association (BAJUS) raised the prices of gold by Tk 1,341 per bhori (11.664 grams) in Bangladesh following a rise in international market prices. The association's standing committee on pricing and price monitoring took the decision in a meeting on Tuesday...
The mystery virus that protects against monkeypox
09:30 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayAt the turn of the 19th Century, a bizarre medical panic swept across London. Informative pamphlets were distributed...
72 companies including PRAN to get National Export Trophy
08:56 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdaySome 72 companies, including PRAN Group, have been selected for the 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Export Trophy' based on the highest export earnings in the 2018-19 financial year. A source in the Ministry of Commerce confirmed this on Tuesday night...
Tigers leave for Zimbabwe early tomorrow morning
08:21 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe T20 squad of Bangladesh team will leave Dhaka for Harare in the early hours of Wednesday to play a three-match series against Zimbabwe...
Govt wants to increase capacity of police: Home Minister
07:32 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the government wants to increase the capacity of police by making it modern as the force have to face many challenges. He said this in the 18th board meeting of police held at Police Staff College at Mirpur in the capital of Dhaka on Tuesday...
Three get life for gang-raping child
06:10 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayA court in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday convicted three people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for gang-raping a child in 2003...
99 hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
05:35 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdaySome 99 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning...
Judgment against 6 Khulna war crimes accused on July 28
05:27 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Tuesday set July 28 for pronouncing judgment in a case of crimes against humanity against six alleged Razakars from Batiaghata in Khulna...
Four Covid deaths, 621 cases recorded in 24 hrs
04:39 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe Bangladesh government reported four COVID-19 deaths and 621 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of fatalities rose to 29,275 and infections stood at 20,02,944. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Tuesday...
US adds Bangladesh to its 'high risk' category for travel
04:16 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added six destinations to its "high" risk category for travel on Monday...
Malaysia says Myanmar executions make "a mockery" of ASEAN peace plan
03:48 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayMalaysia on Tuesday condemned Myanmar's junta for carrying out the execution of four pro-democracy activists, describing the action as a crime against humanity and appearing to make "a mockery" of a Southeast Asian-led peace plan...
Shortages leave bankrupt Sri Lanka’s hospitals empty
02:47 PM, 26 Jul 2022 TuesdayEntire wards are dark and nearly empty in Sri Lanka's largest hospital, its few remaining patients leaving untreated and still in pain, and doctors prevented from even arriving for their shifts...