Asian Chess: Bangladesh earns 7 points from six matches
Bangladesh earned seven points from six matches in the Asian Nations Cup Online Chess Championship 202O on Friday. The 4th, 5th, and 6th round matches of the open section were…
Case filed over Satkhira 4-murder
A case has been filed over the murder of four members of a family in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira district. Moyna Khatun, mother-in-law of one of the victims Shahinur Rahman,…
38,900 yaba pills seized at Dhaka airport
A joint team of customs house, preventive team and civil aviation on Friday morning seized 38,900 pieces of yaba pills from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Mohammad Marufur Rahman, deputy commissioner…
Covid-19: Bangladesh records over 300,000 recoveries
Bangladesh on Friday recorded 1,509 recveries, pushing the total to 300,738. The recovery rate is 77.89 percent. The health authorities reported 1,527 new cases of Covid-19 after testing 13,577 samples…
Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona
Researchers have discovered fossils of a tiny burrowing reptile among a vast expanse of petrified wood in eastern Arizona, reports AP. The new species has been named Skybalonyx skapter, a…
Eminent poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah’s 64th birth anniversary observed
Friday marks the 64th birth anniversary of late Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah, a brilliant poet of love and protest in Bengali literature. He was born on this day in 1956 at…
Long march against rape heads towards Noakhali from Dhaka
Around 400 demonstrators have started their long-march programme from Dhaka to Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila protesting the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women across the country in…
Hili traders not interested to import Indian onion through waterways
India recent condition for onion export through waterways has irked the traders at Hili land port. They are uninterested in importing Indian onion through waterways as they are not familiar…