Twitter said Thursday it will roll out an editing feature to subscribers of its premium Twitter Blue service later this month.In an update on its plans to introduce an edit button, the social media company said it has been testing the feature internall…
Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia…
More than 250 houses have been washed away by the Teesta River in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram in the last three days.Erosion has started along the 2 kilometre-long bank of the Teesta since last a month in West Kalpani Bajra, Kalpani Bajra and Satalskar …
LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam has said that no subsidy will be provided by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Dhaka WASA) from now on. The minister also said that lower income people living in the city’s slums will be getting water at lower pric…
Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has said that people from the transgender community will get preference while buying essentials through the government’s Open Market Sale program.The Minister said this while speaking as Chief Guest at a cultural e…
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 13 people accused in a case filed over the recovery of counterfeit TSP fertilizers brought from Chattogram for a gowdown in Bogura on Thursday night. The elite force rounded them up from the buffer warehouse of Ban…
Bangladesh’s goal of becoming a tobacco-free country by 2040 will be hindered if e-cigarettes are banned, experts said Thursday.They were speaking at the webinar “Save Vaping, Save Bangladesh” organised by the Bangladesh-based Voices of Vapers.The expe…
After releasing nine fusion songs since its launching in February this year, season one of Coke Studio Bangla comes to its conclusion with the launch of the latest song, “Hey Samalo.”The team of Coke Studio Bangla released this song at a gala event and…
The High Court has reconstituted the board of directors to administer scam-ridden Destiny Multipurpose Co-Operative Society Ltd.Retired Justice of the High Court Mainul Islam Chowdhury has been made the chairman of the board.Bench of Justice Mhummad Kh…
A High Court Circuit Bench will be formed in Chattogram within two months as demanded by the local lawyers, said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud.The minister said he has talked to the law minister regarding the formation of HC circuit bench here.He s…
A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years’ imprisonment after finding her guilty of involvement in election fraud.The ruling adds more jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for other o…
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) claimed to have detained a drug peddler with 50,000 yaba pills worth Tk1.5 crore from Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Friday.The detainee was identified as Md Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, 20, of the district, Lieutenant Colonel Md Mehdi H…
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