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Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings
09:59 AM, 23 Jul 2022 SaturdayGoogle has fired one of its engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings...
Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah dies
08:37 AM, 23 Jul 2022 SaturdayDeputy Speaker of the Parliament Advocate Md. Fazle Rabbi Miah, MP has passed away. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York around 2am on Saturday (Bangladesh local time). Fazle Rabbi’s elder daughter Fahima Rabbi Rita and his personal secretary Toufiqul Islam were present during his death...
‘A beacon of hope’: Ukraine, Russia sign grain export deal
08:14 AM, 23 Jul 2022 SaturdayRussia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for the export of millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain - as well as some Russian grain and fertilizer - across the Black Sea...
Quader asks BNP to work for people's welfare amid global crisis
05:47 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday urged Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to work for the welfare of the country and its people amid the ongoing global crisis...
Google Pixel 6a review: This mid-range master is a true bargain
05:11 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayThe Pixel 6a is Google’s latest mid-range smartphone offering the same chips and performance as its top phones, but in a new, smaller body for a cheaper price...
Two Covid deaths, 620 cases recorded in 24 hrs
04:25 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayThe Bangladesh government reported two COVID-19 deaths and 620 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of fatalities rose to 29,258 and infections stood at 20,00,899. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Friday...
35 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs
04:15 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridaySome 35 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Friday morning...
Moscow bars 39 Australians from Russia over Ukraine sanctions
03:06 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayRussia on Thursday banned 39 Australian citizens, including those working in the security and defence sectors, from entering the country in retaliation for Canberra's sanctions against Moscow over its offensive in Ukraine...
Light to moderate rain likely
02:50 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayLight to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions with moderately heavy falls at isolated places over the country...
Germany football great Seeler dies at 85
02:31 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayFormer Germany striker Uwe Seeler, one of the greatest players in his country's footballing history, has died aged 85...
BCL leader stabbed dead in 'revenge attack'
12:58 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridayA local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader has been stabbed to death in a 'revenge attack' in Cox's Bazar...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka swears in new prime minister
12:14 PM, 22 Jul 2022 FridaySenior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades...
Sri Lankan forces raid anti-government protest camp
11:38 AM, 22 Jul 2022 FridaySri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in the main city of Colombo early on Friday and cleared out a section of it, a sign that the country's new president was cracking down a day after his swearing-in...
Biden tests positive for Covid-19: White House
09:35 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayUnited States President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing “very mild symptoms” and will continue to carry out his duties the White House has said...
Desh Rupantor Editor Amit Habib hospitalized
09:25 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayDaily Desh Rupantor Editor Amit Habib has been admitted to a hospital in the capital of Dhaka...
Tribal leader Murmu elected as India's president
08:52 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayDroupadi Murmu, a tribal politician, has been elected as the new president of India...
Journalists submit proposals to amend draft of mass media act
07:53 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayThe journalist leaders on Thursday handed over the written proposals on amending the draft of the Mass Media Employees Act (services condition) to Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and Secretary of the ministry Md Mokbul Hossain...
Explained: The phenomenon of ‘pan-Indian’ films, their spread and success
07:14 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayWith the trailer of Puri Jagannadh’s sports-action drama ‘Liger’ releasing today, the focus is back on “pan-Indian” films...
HC bans traveling on train roof
06:09 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayThe High Court (HC) on Thursday directed authorities concerned not to allow any passengers on roofs of the trains and asked them to inform it that measures have been taken to stop black-marketing of the tickets by July 31...
Five killed in Barishal road crash
05:10 PM, 21 Jul 2022 ThursdayFive people were killed and 10 others injured as a bus rammed a microbus in Wazirpur upazila of Barishal district on Thursday...