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Foot and mouth disease casts shadow over Eid festival in Indonesia
03:59 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayAn outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year, with livestock traders in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation bemoaning low sales...
Pogba set to rejoin Juventus on free transfer
03:37 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayPaul Pogba is set to rejoin Juventus on a free transfer after his Manchester United contract expired...
Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
02:45 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayIsraeli forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank during confrontations that followed an Israeli military raid...
PM seeks countrymen’s help as govt forced executing load-shedding
01:58 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government is bound to carry out load shedding and limit electricity production as the fuel prices are continuously increasing globally...
5 Eid jamaats to be held at Baitul Mukarram Mosque
01:05 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayA total of five Eid jamaats will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on the day of the holy Eid-ul-Azha...
2,716 new educational institutions get MPO
12:27 PM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayA total of 2,716 new educational institutions have been brought under the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme across the country. The Education Ministry confirmed the matter in a press release on Wednesday. The new institutes include secondary, higher secondary and technical education institutes alongside madrasas...
PM opens country’s 1st campus-based IT business incubator
11:36 AM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the country's first university campus-based IT business incubator at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) as part of building "Smart Bangladesh"...
Twitter challenges India order to take down tweets
11:06 AM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayTwitter has mounted a legal challenge in India against government orders to take down content...
Ukrainian governor urges evacuation of 350,000 residents
09:49 AM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayThe governor of the last remaining eastern province partly under Ukraine’s control urged his more than 350,000 residents to flee as Russia escalated its offensive and air alerts were issued across nearly the entire country...
Nato approves membership bids of Sweden and Finland
08:49 AM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayNato's 30 member states formally approved membership bids for Finland and Sweden on Tuesday (July 5), sending their applications to alliance capitals for ratification by legislatures...
Boris Johnson on the brink as ministers quit
08:17 AM, 06 Jul 2022 WednesdayBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face questions in parliament followed by a grilling by senior lawmakers on Wednesday, with his premiership on the brink after a slew of resignations from ministers saying he was not fit to govern. Johnson's finance and health secretaries quit on Tuesday, along with a number of junior ministers...
Govt working to protect people’s voting rights: PM
09:49 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today described the recently held Cumilla City Corporation (CuCC) election as an example of fair polls and said her government has been working to keep up the voting rights of the people. “People exercised their voting rights in the Cumilla City Corporation election spontaneously amid festivity...
Henolux owner, wife arrested for 'abetting suicide' of businessman
08:17 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayHenolux Group owner Nurul Amin and his wife Fatema Amin have been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of businessman Gazi Anis. The Rapid Action Battalion apprehended the couple from Uttara area in the capital of Dhaka on Tuesday night...
Evaly's Rassel, Shamima sued in Chattogram
08:00 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayA case has been filed against Evaly's ex-managing director Md Rassel and his wife Shamima Nasrin, also the former chairman of the e-commerce platform, in Chattogram district on charge of cheating the customers...
Indian financial crime agency raids Chinese-owned Vivo
06:38 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayIndia's financial crime-fighting agency on Tuesday raided the offices of smartphone maker Vivo, owned by China's BBK Electronics, and its related entities, a senior government official and an industry executive told Reuters...
Five killed in Rangpur road accident
05:54 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayFive people were killed and two others injured in a fatal road accident in Rangpur city on Tuesday afternoon...
England pull off record chase to level series against India
05:32 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayEngland rode unbeaten hundreds by Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow to pull off their highest successful chase, coasting to a series-levelling seven-wicket victory in the rearranged fifth test against India at Edgbaston on Tuesday...
1998 more Covid cases, 7 deaths recorded in 24 hrs
05:01 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe Bangladesh government reported 1,998 more Coronavirus cases and seven deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of infections increased to 19,82,972 and the fatalities stood at 29,181. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Tuesday...
“Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale” screened in Greece
04:19 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe Embassy of Bangladesh, in cooperation with the first multilingual library in Greece “We Need Books”, successfully organized a screening of the documentary film “Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”...
Sri Lanka: 'I can't afford milk for my babies'
04:10 PM, 05 Jul 2022 TuesdayThe smell hits you first - freshly cooked rice, lentils and spinach, served in ladles from steaming pots...