Cooking gas cylinder gets costlier by Tk 151
UNB, Dhaka : Be ready to shell out more for a cooking gas cylinder. In one of the steepest hikes in recent times, Bangladesh Energy...
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114 Bangladeshis return from Libya
UNB, Dhaka : As many as 114 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya Thursday, thanks to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). A special flight...
Global Covid cases top 440 million
Online Desk : The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 440 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the world.According to Johns Hopkins...
Refugee count tops 1 million; Russians besiege Ukraine ports
AP, Ukraine : The number of people sent fleeing Ukraine by Russia’s invasion topped 1 million on Wednesday, the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the...
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...
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...
Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia: UN
AP, Indonesia : The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year...