Couple held with 1,000 Yaba tablets in Ctg
UNB, Chattogram : Police claimed to have busted a drug-trafficking gang, with the arrest of a couple from a Dhaka-bound bus in Chattogram on Friday...
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Dhaka’s air quality still ‘unhealthy’
UNB, Dhaka : Dhaka’s air quality continues to be ‘unhealthy’. The densely populated capital of Bangladesh has, in fact, been ranked fourth-most polluted in the...
US imposes sanctions on RAB, 7 individuals
UNB, Dhaka : The United States has imposed human rights related sanctions on Benzir Ahmed, current Inspector General of the Bangladesh Police and former Director...
5 held for ‘anti-state propaganda’
UNB, Dhaka : The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people on charges of spreading propaganda against the state and instigating vandalism.The arrestees have...
Hong Kong reports 5th case of Omicron COVID-19 variant
XINHUA, HONG KONG : Hong Kong’s Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported the fifth case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Friday. The 37-year-old...
Dengue: 23 new patients hospitalized in 24 hrs
Online Desk : Twenty-three new dengue patients were hospitalized in 24 hours till Friday morning, health authorities said. With no new deaths till Friday, the...
Arrestee DB SI in Khulna suspended as evidence of raping found
UNB, Khulna : Detective Police sub-inspector Jahangir Alam, arrested on charge of raping a woman at a hotel room, has been suspended as primary investigation...
Bangladesh reports only one covid-linked death in 24hrs with 269 cases
Online Desk : Bangladesh logged only one Covid-related death along with 269 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning. With the latest cases, the...
53 migrants dead, 54 injured in truck crash in south Mexico
AP, Mexico : A cargo truck jammed with people who appeared to be Central American migrants rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over...
Global Covid cases top 268 million
Online Desk : The overall number of global Covid cases has now surpassed 268 million amid the Omicron-driven surge in several countries.According to Johns Hopkins...
UN adopts Dhaka’s flagship resolution on Culture of Peace
UNB, Dhaka : The United Nations has unanimously adopted Bangladesh’s flagship resolution on the ‘Culture of Peace’.The Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the UN,...
Govt suspends Katakhali Mayor Abbas Ali over comments on Bangabandhu mural
The government has suspended Abbas Ali, the mayor of the Katakhali Municipality Corporation in Rajshahi, following his arrest over a controversial audio recording in which...