Day: April 8, 2024
City Desk : Five Eid jamaats (congregations) will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque here on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, an Islamic Foundation press release said on Sunday. According to the release, the first Eid jamaat will be held at 7am. The second will take place at 8am while the third one at 9am and the fourth one at 10am. The last Eid jamaat will be held at 10:45am, reports BSS. Baitul Mukarram National Mosque’s senior Pesh Imam...
AFP : An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that Israeli embassies are “no longer safe” after a strike in Syria which Tehran blamed on Israel killed seven Revolutionary Guards members. “The embassies of the Zionist regime are no longer safe,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday’s air strike on Damascus that levelled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex, killing seven Islamic...
AFP, Miami : Lionel Messi scored after coming off the bench but his Inter Miami were held to a 2-2 draw by the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer (MLS) on Saturday. The Argentine had been out of action for almost a month with a hamstring injury, missing the last four games, but was named among the substitutes for the home game. Messi missed Wednesday’s 2-1 home defeat to Mexico’s Monterrey in the CONCACAF Champions Cup quarter-final and with the...
Sylhet Bureau : World Health Day observed in Sylhet on Saturday. On this occasion a colorful rally and discussion meeting held at Civil Surgeon Office in Sylhet. The rally has been taken out by the initiative of Civil Surgeon Office, Sylhet and circled the main main road of the city and came back to the civil office for a discussion meeting. Dr. Monisar Chowdhury Sylhet civil surgeon presided over the discussion meeting. Medical officer Dr. Shopnil Showrav Roy conducted the...
Business Desk : Oikko Parishad, a group within the Bangladesh Garment Accessories and Packaging Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGAPMEA), led by Al Shahriar Ahmad, managing director of Adzi Trims, submitted a nomination paper on March 30. The election board is set to announce the final list of candidates on April 22, with polls scheduled for May 11 as per the 2024-26 election timetable. This marks BGAPMEA’s first-ever direct polls, a significant step for the apex body of the apparel sector’s...
News Desk : Police have arrested four people, including a data entry operator of the Election Commission’s NID wing, in connection with Tk 300 million bank loans taken by using fake national ID cards. Pallab Das, the data entry operator, got the job through a company the commission appointed as an outsourcing agent, the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said on Saturday, reports bdnews24.com The name of another arrestee, Zainal Abedin alias Idris, was used to secure the loans,...
City Desk : Dhaka has ranked 10th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 128 at 9:10am on Sunday. Dhaka’s air was classified as “unhealthy”, according to the air quality index, reports UNB. India’s Delhi, Thailand’s Chiang Mai and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first, second and third spots on the list, with AQI scores of 339, 226 and 194 respectively. When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and...
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