Progress at snail’s pace 2 years after govt opens smart prepaid gas metres to private competition
UNB, Dhaka : Two years after the government opened the prepaid gas metre market to the private competition, none has been able to enter the...
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Global Covid cases near 236 million
Online Desk: The overall number of global Covid cases is fast approaching 236 million even with mass inoculations underway in several countries.According to Johns Hopkins...
Overhauling Dhaka’s bus service, a big step towards sustainable mobility
UNB, Dhaka : The much-awaited trial run of a new city bus service in a small corridor of Dhaka will begin on December 1, under...
Dengue claims 2 more lives , 197 more patients hospitalized
Online Desk: Dengue claimed two more lives in Bangladesh and 197 more patients were hospitalized across the country in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.With the...
CJ Sinha corruption case: Spl court defers judgment to Oct 21
UNB, Dhaka : A special court in Dhaka Tuesday deferred to October 21 the pronouncement of its judgment in the graft case against former chief...
US ambassador hands over 2.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Bangladesh
UNB, Dhaka : US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R. Miller has handed over a donation of 2.5 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Bangladesh,...
Flowers & banners welcome students as DU reopens dorms
UNB, Dhaka : After nearly 18 months of Covid-forced closure, Dhaka University Tuesday morning welcomed back its residential students to the dormitories with flowers and...
Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries
AP, STOCKHOLM, The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy.Syukuro Manabe, 90, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, were cited...
Man held for raping 6-yr-old in Natore
UNB, Natore : A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping the seven-year-old granddaughter of his elder brother in Natore.The arrestee has been identified...
3 get life term in murder case in Sirajganj
UNB, Sirajganj : A Sirajganj Court on Tuesday was sentenced a man and his two sons to life imprisonment in a case over killing his...
Sylhet hospital: India hands over 2 Life Support ambulances
UNB, Sylhet : Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K. Doraiswami on Tuesday handed over two Life Support ambulances to the Sylhet Osmani Medcial College...
ECNEC approves TK 1,435.89cr project to upgrade Tangail-Delduar Highway
UNB, Dhaka : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s climate leadership and the Mujib Climate Prosperity Decade Plan 2021-2030 have been highly praised at the 4th CVF-COP26...