Winds of hope blowing ever stronger across Africa: UN chief
UNB, Dhaka :UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has congratulated Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize noting that winds...
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China’s president in India for summit amid Kashmir tensions
AP :Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in India on Friday for a summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a time of tensions over Beijing...
Climate-change protesters block BBC headquarters in London
Reuters, London :Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked the BBC’s headquarters on Friday, calling on Britain’s public service broadcaster to treat climate change with the same gravity...
Tank-lorry workers call off strike after 2 days
UNB, Khulna :Tank-lorry workers called off their strike on Friday morning that disrupted fuel oil supply to 15 districts for two days.They decided to call...
Modi has played his last card by revoking Kashmir’s autonomy: Imran
Dawn.com :Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “played his last card” by downgrading the autonomy of occupied...
First man to conduct spacewalk Leonov dies
AFP :Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after...
110 police peacekeepers leave for Mali UN mission
BSS, Dhaka :A team of Bangladesh Police left Dhaka to join the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali by a chartered aircraft of the United Nations...
Breast cancer takes 6,844 lives in BD every year
UNB, Dhaka :Some 12,764 women are detected with breast cancer in the country every year and 6,844 of them die of the disease, according to...
BSF returns 3 Rab members, 2 others after 10 hrs
Cumilla Correspondent :India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has returned three RAB-11 members and two female informers, who were earlier detained from Cumilla border area when...
BNP’s countrywide protests Oct 12
Staff Reporter :BNP has called countrywide protests for October 12-13 to against the recent ‘anti-state’ Bangladesh-India treaties and the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad.The...
Abrar murder a blow to freedom of expression: TIB
Staff Reporter :Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad is a blow to...
Two die of dengue, 316 more hospitalised
Staff Reporter :A woman and a child died of dengue while 316 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in the last 24 hours till...