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Japan opens up to foreign tourists after 2 years
09:26 AM, 28 May 2022 SaturdayAfter being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions...
Texas shooting response was ‘wrong’, says official
08:59 AM, 28 May 2022 SaturdayPolice made the "wrong decision" by failing to storm a primary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas, as a gunman killed 19 children inside, the top safety official has said...
Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors elsewhere in Donbas
08:41 AM, 28 May 2022 SaturdayMoscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming to capture a railway hub as concerns grew that besieged cities in the region would undergo the same horrors experienced by the people of the port city Mariupol in the weeks before it fell...
First Indian author wins International Booker
06:09 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayGeetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize...
Covid-19: No death, 23 cases reported in 24 hrs
05:15 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayBangladesh reported no COVID-19 death and 23 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities are 29,130 and infections rose to 19,53,379. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Friday. As many as 3,899 samples were collected and 3,889 ones tested in the past day...
Charges against Aryan Khan, 5 others dropped
04:35 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayA Special Investigation Team of India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has dropped Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, and five others from its chargesheet filed on Friday in connection with a drugs bust onboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast last October...
Another model found hanging in Kolkata
04:11 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayAnother model was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in her family residence in Patuli area of India's Kolkata on Friday, the second such incident in three days, police said...
Ex-state minister Gautam Chakrabarty dies
03:47 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayFormer State Minister for Water Resources, and BNP's Rural Development and Cooperatives Secretary Gautam Chakrabarty passed away on Friday afternoon...
Tuku made Jubo Dal president, Munna secretary
02:29 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayAn eight-member partial committee of BNP's youth wing Jubo Dal has been announced, making Sultan Salauddin Tuku and Monayem Munna its president and general secretary respectively...
Listless Tigers taste 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka
01:09 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayBangladesh paid the price of their abysmal batting show by tasting a 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in the second and final Test at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Friday. The victory eventually led Sri Lanka to win the two-match series 1-0 after the first Test in Chattogram was drawn...
PM seeks Japan, OECD's cooperation to continue preferential facilities
12:58 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged Japan and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to continue preferential facilities at least till 2029...
Twitter investors sue Musk over takeover bid
12:01 PM, 27 May 2022 FridayTwitter investors are suing Elon Musk and the social media platform over the handling of the billionaire's $44bn (£34.9bn) bid for the company...
Husband of killed Texas teacher 'dies of grief'
11:38 AM, 27 May 2022 FridayThe husband of one of the teachers slain in Tuesday's mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has reportedly died of a heart attack...
US actor Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault
09:45 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayUS actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday...
Gold prices reduced by Tk 2917 per bhori
09:17 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayThe Bangladesh Jeweller’s Association has decided to reduce the prices of gold by around Tk 2,917 per bhori (11.664 grams), with effect from Friday. BAJUS's standing committee on pricing and price monitoring took the decision on Thursday night, a press release said today...
US seizes Iranian oil cargo near Greek island
08:35 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayThe United States has confiscated an Iranian oil cargo held on a Russian-operated ship near Greece and will send the cargo to the United States aboard another vessel, three sources familiar with the matter said...
Bangladesh staring at defeat after batting debacle
07:53 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayYet another batting debacle put Bangladesh on the knife-edge of a defeat in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka, whose bowlers came up with a disciplined show after a monumental century of Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal on day four at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday...
Govt raises hajj costs by Tk 59000
07:18 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayThe government has increased the Hajj costs by Tk 59,000 as the expense rose in Saudi Arabia...
TCB to start nationwide edible oil sale at subsidized price in June
05:49 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayThe State-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has a plan to start nationwide edible oil selling at a subsidized rate from June...
Covid-19: No death, 28 cases reported in 24 hrs
04:38 PM, 26 May 2022 ThursdayBangladesh reported no COVID-19 death and 28 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities are 29,130 and infections rose to 19,53,356. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Thursday...