With the prospect of a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the east and Horn of Africa, Kenya’s president is hoping the heavens will finally open with the help of a national day of mass prayer on Tuesday.William Ruto announced the plans for the co…
Air India unveiled orders Tuesday for 470 Boeing and Airbus passenger jets as it races to tap surging demand for increasingly affordable air travel from the nation’s growing ranks of middle-class consumers.India’s largest international airline and seco…
Unit-1 of the 1329MW Rampal Coal-fired power plant will resume production from Wednesday, still under a test run that started in August before being discontinued last month.According to official sources, Unit-1, having 660 MW capacity, was forced to sh…
Falgun, the first month of the festive Spring season and the eleventh month in the Bengali calendar, will be welcomed Tuesday and will also be celebrated on the same day as Valentine’s Day, which has been a tradition in Bangladesh since 2020.The second…
The Department of Environment (DoE) in a concerted anti-pollution drive in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Tuesday fined nine vehicles, five institutions and closed two factories on different grounds including air pollution.to a DoE press release signed by it…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday fixed April 4 for submitting the probe report in a case filed over the cyber heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016.With this, the submission of the probe rep…
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is making radical changes in the inflation calculation considering the present financial situation and the IMF suggestions.The inflation will be calculated for the base year 2021–22 instead of the existing base yea…
A college student was killed as a truck hit his motorcycle on the Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional road in Birampur upazila Monday, police said.The deceased was identified as Omar Faruq, an HSC 1st year student of Birampur Government College from the Bira…
The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster.Teams in southern Tu…
A baby girl born under the rubble of her family’s home in northern Syria after last week’s devastating earthquake was in good health Monday and being breast-fed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor said.T…
The overall number of Covid-19 cases in the world is now approaching 678 million.According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count amounted to 677,724,407 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,783,338 this morning (February 14,…
Rescuers on Tuesday were working to reach people under the rubble in three provinces hit hard by the devastating quakes that hit Turkey and Syria last week.The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart on Feb. 6 in s…
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