Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali on Friday seeking strategies to counter inflation, food insecurity and other troubles that have worsened due to the war in Ukraine.Ind…
Police on Friday arrested a fugitive convict who had been on the run since his conviction in the 2012 Biswajit Das murder case.Alauddin, 35, who was sentenced to life in jail in the case in 2013, was nabbed from his parents-in-law’s house in the Mokamt…
Monpura Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on Friday sent two people to jail for illegally possessing 8kg deer meat in a case filed by the forest department under Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act, 2012.The two have been identified as Md Arif and …
At least 19 spectators sustained injuries in a lightning strike when they were enjoying a football match at Jagir area in Sadar upazila of Manikganj on Friday afternoon.The injured were identified as Abul Latif, 60, Ismail, 15, Alamgir, 55, Arif, 29, W…
The body of a final-year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) was fished out of the Padma River on Friday, nearly 24 hours he went missing.The deceased was identified as Tariquzzaman Sunny.Also read: Two farmers go miss…
A school headmaster, UNO and local journalist were among a group of villagers allegedly beaten up by local Awami League and Jubo League leaders as he protested their illegally occupying a fish enclosure in Wazirpur upazila of Barishal on Friday, said p…
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.7 shook Ecuador’s coast Thursday, causing one death when a teenager was electrocuted by a fallen power line, authorities said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at a depth of about 80 kilometers (4…
Expect some reprieve from the searing heat, as the weather department has predicted showers across Bangladesh in the next 24 hours.“Showers are likely in the next 24 hours at many places over Chattogram division; at a few places over Dhaka, Mymensingh,…
After receiving highest rainfall in June in 64 years that triggered massive floods across the district, Sylhet is now reeling under an intense heat wave.“Such a high temperature was last recorded in the district in July 1956. On Wednesday, the temperat…
Seven more Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia during July 3-14, according to Bangladesh Hajj Management Portal.Mustafigur Rahman, 61, was from Tangail, Azizul Haque, 65, from Kushtia, Md Shahjahan Siraj, 58, from Chapainawabganj, Foyzur Rah…
Mild heatwave sweeps 19 districtsA mild heatwave is sweeping through 19 districts of the country, the weather department said Friday.The heatwave spell may continue in Rangpur, Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon, Kurigram, Panchag…
Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 7…
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