The global leaders have pledged financing, dose donations, support for country readiness and delivery, and scale-up of global manufacturing to enable equitable access to Covid vaccines.To improve access for the lower-income economies, the US will contr…
Two youths died and another sustained injuries after being allegedly attacked by a gang of robbers on a Dewanganj-bound train on Thursday night.The deceased were identified as Md Nahid Hasan (24) and Sagar (25). The injured passenger, Rubel (22), is re…
Another 189 new dengue patients were hospitalized across the country in 24 hours till Friday morning.The number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease remained static at 59 as no fresh death was reported during the 24-hour period, said the Direc…
Amid a declining positivity rate Covid-19 claimed 31 more lives and infected 1,233 others in the country in 24 hours till Friday morning.The latest cases were detected after testing 27,557 samples showing a decline in the daily case positivity rate to …
Four people were killed as a CNG auto rickshaw plunged into a ditch after being hit by a truck on the Khulna-Satkhira Highway at Dumuria upazila of Khulna on Friday.The deceased were identified as CNG driver Ilias Sardar, 45, son of Zakaria Sardar of S…
A 49-year-old security guard was killed after being hit by a train at Kuril Bishwaroad rail crossing of the city on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Abdul Barek, of Netrokona who worked as a security guard in city’s Gulshan area.Witnesses …
A pregnant woman was killed and her 60-year-old father critically injured after a wall collapsed on them in Masdair area of Narayanganj’s Fatullah Friday.The boundary wall of an adjacent plot came tumbling down in the evening, killing Moyna Begum (25) …
Plastic is choking Bangladesh’s drains, canals, and rivers.Around 1,700 tonnes of plastic waste is produced in the country every day and only half of it is recycled, according to the Department of Environment.In Dhaka city alone, plastic waste has gone…
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has announced the nine-member Master Jury for the 2020-22 cycle. From Bangladesh, Prof Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Director-General of Bengal Institute for Architecture, has been named as a juror.The nine-member Master Jury…
Naval police recovered the body of a man from Bridgeghat area of Karnaphuli River on Friday, two days after he went missing from an oil tanker that caught fire on the river in Chattogram.Nazrul Islam Saddam, 35, jumped into the river to escape the fire…
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday threatened that their party is thinking of launching a one-point movement to oust the current government.”I think it’s better not to talk about the election. All we need now is a one-point movement to e…
Two fishermen drowned and one went missing as their fishing trawler capsized after a collision with an ocean-going ship off Chattogram city early Friday.Police said the bodies of Md Rubel , 26, and Md Mafu, 28, who hailed from Monpura island in Bhola d…
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