Garment owners seek more time to repay pandemic loans
News Desk :Despite an uptick in exports, garment factory owners have asked for more time to repay the loans disbursed by the government under a...
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Fire breaks out at Banani’s Ahmed Tower
News Desk :Firefighters have put out a fire that erupted in an office on the 22nd floor of a commercial high-rise in Dhaka’s Banani, reports...
Iran vows ‘crushing response to US bullying’ after sanctions announcement
BBC Online :Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said the US “faces defeat” in its move to reimpose UN sanctions on the country as European allies...
Key accused Rabiul confesses to guilt
UNB, Dinajpur :Rabiul Islam, the prime accused in a case filed over the attack on Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat upazila nirbahi officer Wahida Khanom and her father,...
Mass anti-Lukashenko rally planned after Belarus police crackdown
Al Jazeera News :Military trucks and vehicles have rolled into the centre of Belarus’s capital, Minsk, before a planned opposition march, as anonymous hackers leaked...
5 workers injured in boiler explosion
Staff Reporter :Five workers have suffered burn injuries “three of them seriously” while a boiler exploited during melting iron at a steel mill in Dhaka’s...
Hearing begins on DU student’s rape case
Court Correspondent :The trial of the case filed against one Maznu in connection with the rape of a Dhaka University student in the city’s Kurmitola...
Abrar murder case hearing deferred to Oct 5
Court Correspondent :The Speedy Tribunal-1 of Dhaka yesterday deferred the trial of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad murder case...
Indian police arrested a local journalist on spying for China
Reuters :Police in India’s capital city on Saturday said they had arrested a local freelance journalist on allegations he was passing “sensitive information” to Chinese...
CID arrests 8 Titas Gas officials
UNB, Narayanganj :Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested eight officials including engineers of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd in connection with the blasts...
Death toll unacceptably high: WHO
AFP, Geneva :The Covid-19 weekly death toll of around 50,000 lives is unacceptably high, the World Health Organization said Friday as the one million fatalities...