Sundarbans Day: Biodiversity under threat as salinity increases
UNB, Bagerhat : ‘Sundarbans Day’ will be observed on Monday as every year since 2002 with an appeal to save the largest mangrove forest in...
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Indian students in Ukraine in fear as Russian invasion grows
UNB, New Delhi : Indian student Abrar Sheikh has been waking up to the loud thuds of bombs that have pummeled Sumy, a city in...
Wife, son suffocate 40-yr-old to death in Satkhira
UNB, Satkhira : A 40-year-old man was suffocated to death allegedly by his wife, son and a relative following a heated argument over her extramarital...
500,000 people on flood alert as rain lashes Sydney
AP, SYDNEY: Around 500,000 people in Sydney and its surrounds had by Thursday been told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwaters as torrential rain...
5 injured in Rampura godown fire
UNB, Dhaka : Five people sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a scrap godown in the Rampura area of the capital...
Sole bread earner gone, sailor’s family now stares at uncertain future
UNB, Barguna : Hadisur Rahman Arif’s untimely death has left his family without an earning member, completely shattering their dreams. The 47-year-old, a third engineer,...
Russia seizes key southern Ukraine city after week of war
AFP, KYIV: Russian troops have seized Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city to fall in a devastating week-old war that has already created one million...
Russia takes aim at urban areas; Biden vows Putin will ‘pay’
AP, Ukraine : Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror campaign, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that...
Protest against price hike: BNP men clash with police in Savar
UNB, Savar : Over a dozen of BNP activists were injured in a clash with police on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar on Wednesday as the...
Hasina vows to accelerate country’s socio-economic development for better living standard of people
UNB, Dhaka : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her commitment to improving the living standard of people through socio-economic development of the country....
Zayed Khan to remain gen secy of BFAA: HC
UNB, Dhaka : The High Court on Wednesday cleared the way for actor Zayed Khan to serve as the general secretary of the Bangladesh Film...
Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 8 more deaths with 732 fresh cases
Online Desk : Bangladesh logged eight more Covid-linked deaths with 732 fresh cases in 24 hours till Wednesday morning. The daily positivity rate slightly declined...