The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has appointed its top finance executive, Alvaro Lario, to be its next president.Through the appointment, IFAD has chosen a champion of private sector investments to lead the UN agency into batt…
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged that the Eid holidaymakers are facing many ordeals while travelling to their village homes due to anarchy in the transport sector fueled by ruling party-backed syndicates.”People fr…
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s most powerful figures before being embroiled in corruption investigations.The…
Police arrested 18 Rohingyas from Mirsarai Economic Zone on Friday after they fled from Noakhali’s Bhasanchar refugee camp.The arrestees include 8 women and 6 children.Md Habib, an in-charge of Mirsarai industrial area police camp, said they arrested t…
Although flood situation continues to improve in most places, another death was reported in Habiganj in 24 hours till Friday morning, taking the total flood-related fatalities to 113.The latest victim drowned in floodwater, according to the Directorate…
Three Biman Bangladesh Airlines officials have been temporarily removed from their duties over the incident of a collision between two planes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the airlines’ media wing said on Friday.The collision happen…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow over the death of Abu Musa Chowdhury, a valiant freedom fighter who conducted adventurous naval operations during War of Liberation in 1971.In a condolence message, the premier said…
Seven more people died from Covid, and 1,611 tested positive for the virus in the 24 hours to Friday as cases are creeping up again in Bangladesh.While the country’s total fatalities reached 29,195, the new number took its caseload to 1,988,101, accord…
Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos died Friday in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, after an illness, the Angolan government said.He was 79 years old and died following a long illness, the government said in an announcement on its Facebook pa…
President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, the White House said, as he faces mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to th…
James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper “Brian’s Song” and the casino boss in “Las Vegas,” has die…
Rebels attacked a hospital in Congo and killed at least 13 people, including infants and patients, according to hospital and military officials. The Congolese army said three attackers were killed when the military intervened.Some hospital staff are mi…
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