Friday, 23 April, 2021
The government has decided to enforce a weeklong lockdown across the country from tomorrow to check the ongoing surge of coronavirus. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader announced…
Bangladesh largest Japanese ODA loan recipient in FY’20-21
Bangladesh has been the largest Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan recipient across the globe in FY2020-21, says Economic Relations Division (ERD). The government of Japan…
58 more die, 5,683 cases detected
Fifty-eight more people died of coronavirus and 5,683 cases were detected in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said the total number…
Mamunul caught with woman at N’ganj resort
Hefazat leader Mamunul Haque was caught along with a woman at a resort in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj district on Saturday afternoon. However, unruly activists of the organisation snatched…
Banned narcotic plants, which are sources of narcotic drug, are being cultivated in different places across the country due to lax monitoring by the authorities concerned. Though the plant is…
COX’S BAZAR: Tourist spots and recreational centres in Cox’s Bazar, including the beach, have fallen silent as a result of the closure of all tourist attractions in the face of the second…
On the fearful night of 25 March 1971, two men set out on a long, tortuous trek in search of destiny. Tajuddin Ahmad and Barrister Amir-ul Islam walked through the alleys and lanes of a burning Dhaka,…
Recovery rate from Coronavirus related infection in Bangladesh is 91.77 per cent. This news from the Ministry of Health is as comforting as the news of the pandemic. Interestingly, statistics show…
Most of the banks in the country are yet to implement the electronic KYC (know your customer) system in customer information management despite Bangladesh Bank’s instructions issued over a year…
YANGON: A rebel group has accused Myanmar’s military of deploying “excessive force”, saying on Saturday that continuous air strikes have displaced more than 12,000 unarmed civilians,…
ROME: Millions of Christians around the world prepared Saturday to spend another Easter weekend under restrictions because of coronavirus surges, but there was good news from the hard-hit United States,…
A duet art exhibition titled ‘Colours of Tradition’ by artists Abdus Shakoor Shah and Shambhu Acharya is underway at Edge Gallery in the capital’s Gulshan 2 area. The exhibition began…
Navy athletes Md Ismail and Shirin Akter continued to dominate in sprint events as they became the country’s fastest man and woman respectively in the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games at the Bangabandhu…
RAJSHAHI: The West Zone of Bangladesh Railway has planned to turn its 26 stations into models through modernisation to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.…
HUALIEN: Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island plunged…
