Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and175 new cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.While the country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,316, the new cases took its caseload to 2,010,323, according to the Directorate General of Health Servi…
A 50-year-old Bangladeshi-origin businessman live-streamed his suicide on Facebook in Dubai on Monday, blaming his business partner for forcing him to take the extreme step.The deceased was identified as Khairul Bashar, son of Badiul Alam from Fatikcha…
A Chandpur tribunal on Tuesday sentenced four people to death in a case over killing a 20-year-old girl after gang rape in 2013.The condemned convicts are Zia, 32, Kamal 36, Abul Bashar, 48 and Mahmuda Begum, 38 of Rasulpur village. Of them Mahmuda was…
Another 153 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Among them, 107 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while 46 in other places, it said.As m…
At least two people were killed and three others injured when a log-laden truck overturned on the busy Mahalchari-Jaliyapara road in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari early on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Md Raju, 35, and Md Ilias, 36, two wor…
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the decision not to disclose the information of the individuals or a party who suggested names for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and other Election Com…
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak sought Tuesday to remove Malaysia’s top judge from the final appeal against his 12-year prison sentence in a graft case linked to the massive looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state fund, saying she may not b…
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking the government to explain why the suspension of Mohammad Jahangir Alam from the post of mayor in Gazipur City Corporation should not be declared illegal.The HC bench of Justice Zafar Ahmed and Justice Akht…
The officer-in-charge of Manikganj’s Shivalaya Police Station has been withdrawn and attached to Madaripur district police lines on charges of negligence in duty following the alleged torture of a complainant at the police station.OC M Shaheen was reli…
An Islamabad court Tuesday summoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to appear next week to answer contempt charges over his verbal threats to a judge at a weekend rally. Police meanwhile registered another case against him on charges of defying a ban …
A 5-year-old girl has drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande to enter Texas, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Tuesday.The girl was attempting to cross the river with her mother Monday, when the current swept her away. The institut…
Two local leaders of the ruling Awami League were killed and two others sustained injuries when their car crashed into a lorry at Pahartali of Chattogram city Monday, police said.The deceased AL leaders were identified as Mohammad Nasir, 40, general se…
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