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July 1, 2022

Global Covid cases top 552 million

The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 552 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 552,586,175 while the death toll from the v…

Youth dies after being hit by train in Khulna

A 24-year-old man died after being hit by a speeding train in Khulna city on Thursday night, police said.The deceased youth was identified as Md Alamin, son of Anwar Munshi of Khulna.The accident occurred around 10.30pm when Alamin was taking a stroll …

Khulna college student stabbed to death

A 22-year-old college student has been stabbed to death allegedly by some people in Khulna city.The deceased was identified as Syed Tahmidunnabi, a student of Rayermahal College and son of Syed Towhidunnabi from the city’s Shahpara area.Around 2pm on T…

Foreign envoys remember those killed in Holey Artisan attack

Foreign envoys stationed in Dhaka on Friday paid homage to 22 people who lost their lives during the Holey Artisan Bakery attack on July 1, 2016.To mark the sixth anniversary of the attack, Japan’s Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki, Indian High Commis…

BNP blames govt for fresh spike in Covid cases

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Friday alleged that the country has been witnessing a fresh surge in Covid cases because of the government’s negligence to take proper preventive measures.”Coronavirus has been spreading in the country f…

Bangladesh reports 5 more Covid deaths with 1,897 cases

Bangladesh registered five more Covid-linked deaths with 1,897 new cases in 24 hours till Friday morning amid an upward trend of infections.The fresh cases took the country’s total caseload to 1,975,682 the total fatalities to 29,154, according to the …

Flood: 3 more deaths pushes up toll to 95

Flood claimed three more lives in Mymensingh, Netrokona and Sunamganj in 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the total fatalities to 95.Of the deceased, two drowned while another died from lightning strike, according to the Directorate General of Hea…

Post-Roe, states struggle with conflicting abortion bans

In Arizona, Republicans are fighting among themselves over whether a 121-year-old anti-abortion law from the pre-statehood Wild West days, when Arizona was still a frontier mining territory, should be enforced over a 2022 version.In Idaho, meanwhile, i…

Russian missiles kill at least 19 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

Russian missile attacks on residential areas killed at least 19 people in a Ukrainian town near Odesa early Friday, authorities reported. The airstrikes pierced the cautious relief expressed a day earlier after Russian forces withdrew from a Black Sea …

College student killed in Narayanganj road accident

A college student was killed when a cement-laden truck crushed his motorcycle in front of Muskan Motor Shop in North Kashipur area under Fatullah police station in Narayanganj on Friday at about 1:30pm.The deceased was identified as Asif Iqbal Hridoy, …

Two killed in Dhaka road accidents

Two people were killed in separate road accidents in the capital’s Khilgaon and Jatrabari Friday, police said.Amena Bibi, 80, was a resident of Khilgaon’s Nandipara and Siddique Ali, 34, was from Jhenaidah.A battery-run auto-rickshaw hit Amena in front…

Semifinals of Bangabandhu National Football Championship Friday

Both semifinals of the Bangabandhu National Football Championship will be held Friday at the Bir Sreshtho Shaheed Shipahi Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur, Dhaka.Bangladesh Army will face Mymensingh in the first semifinal at 3pm. Chattogram …

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