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One Covid death, 1104 cases recorded in 24 hrs
06:01 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe Bangladesh government reported one COVID-19 death and 1,104 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of fatalities rose to 29,250 and infections stood at 19,99,395. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Wednesday...
Newlywed couple found hanging in Naogaon
04:55 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayPolice recovered the bodies of a newlywed couple from their bedroom in Atrai upazila of Naogaon district on Wednesday morning...
Abdullah Shafique leads Pakistan to historic win against Sri Lanka
04:11 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayAbdullah Shafique hit an unbeaten 160 as Pakistan chased down a record target of 342 in Galle on Wednesday to beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in the first Test...
Man City reject Neymar deal - Wednesday's gossip
04:03 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayParis St-Germain offered Brazil forward Neymar, 30, to Manchester City in exchange for their 27-year-old Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva, but the Premier League champions turned down the deal. (Le Parisien - in French)...
Six killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw in Barishal
03:19 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySix people were killed and another was injured as a bus rammed a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal district on Wednesday afternoon...
New Zealand launches new investor migrant visa
02:37 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe New Zealand government said on Wednesday that it had created a new investor migrant visa to attract experienced, high-value investors to invest in domestic businesses...
PM to handover 26,229 abodes to homeless families on Thursday
02:00 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayAs part of the government's target to ensure housing for the landless and homeless people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over 26,229 more houses to landless and homeless families under the third phase of Ashrayan-2 Project on Thursday...
Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president
01:30 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySri Lankan MPs have elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. Mr Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse and restoring public order after months of mass protests...
Apple reaches $50 mln settlement over defective MacBook keyboards
12:58 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayApple Inc agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the "butterfly" keyboards on its MacBook laptop computers were prone to failure...
Sheikh Hasina invites Mamata Banerjee to see Padma Bridge
12:07 PM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to come and see the newly-constructed Padma Bridge...
Putin forges ties with Iran’s supreme leader in Tehran talks
11:01 AM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayRussian President Vladimir Putin had talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran on Tuesday, the Kremlin leader's first trip outside the former Soviet Union since Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. In Tehran, Putin also held his first face-to-face meeting since the invasion with a NATO leader...
Netflix loses almost a million subscribers
09:46 AM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayAfter enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown...
Ukraine war: Russia plans to annex Ukrainian land - US
08:50 AM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdayRussia plans to annex more Ukrainian territory using a similar "playbook" to its takeover of Crimea, the US says...
Sri Lanka parliament votes for new president amid crisis
08:36 AM, 20 Jul 2022 WednesdaySri Lanka's MPs are voting for a new president after their former leader fled the country and quit amid protests over the country's economic crisis. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, currently interim leader, has been nominated for the role by the ruling party and is seen as the frontrunner...
"Take bra in hand and leave": Kerala girl describes exam horror
10:02 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayA teen in Kollam of the Indian state of Kerala, one of the many allegedly forced to remove her bra before the NEET medical entrance exam on Sunday, on Tuesday described her humiliation as she sat for the exam using her hair to cover her chest...
Two dengue patients die, 51 new patients hospitalized
08:50 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayTwo dengue patients died while 51 dengue patients got admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning...
Three killed as four vehicles collide in B'baria
08:24 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayThree people were killed and at least eight injured in a collision among four vehicles in Bijaynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday afternoon...
Britain boils in record temperature of 40C
08:03 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayBritain recorded its highest ever temperature of 40C (104F) on Tuesday as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, scorching fields and damaging airport runways and train tracks...
ECNEC okays MRT-6 project 2nd revision with addl cost of Tk 11,487cr
07:19 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the 2nd revision of the much-hyped Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development (Line-6) project with an additional cost of Taka 11,486.92 crore...
England's Stokes announces shock ODI retirement
06:55 PM, 19 Jul 2022 TuesdayEngland's talismanic all-rounder Ben Stokes announced his shock retirement from one-day cricket on Monday citing the "unsustainable" rigour of playing all three formats of the game...