President for prevention of discrimination
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Saturday urged the government as well as the civil society to play an effective role to ensure that...
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Another Covid-19 death reported in Bangladesh in 24 hours
Bangladesh reported one more Covid-19-linked death and 30 fresh cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning...
Bangladesh to launch second satellite in two to three years
Shahjahan Mahmood, chairman of the Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd, has said that the deal for the second satellite will be finalised within 2-3 months and it will be launched in 2-3 years...
Mbappe confirms he will leave PSG at end of season
Kylian Mbappe confirmed on Friday that he will leave French champions Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season, with Real Madrid widely expected to be his next destination.
Pandemic agreement talks reaching end with deal elusive
Countries trying to strike a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics began discussing how to keep the process alive as they ran out of time to seal a deal on Friday....
Research on long-term effects of Covid-19 underscored
Experts on Thursday suggested conducting a large-scale research on the long-term effects on the human body affected by the corona virus...
Inflation too prickly for BB to sort out with poor measures
INFLATION has remained a prickly issue that the Bangladesh Bank appears not to have been able to control because of its ineffective policies and failures in the implementation of the monetary policy. The Bangladesh Bank Order 1972 lays out that the first and foremost function of the central bank...
BAF training jet crash kills pilot in Ctg
The fourth crash of the Russian-made advanced multirole aircraft Yakovlev Yak-130 in less than a decade on Thursday left one Bangladesh Air Force pilot killed and another injured in Chattogram...
Hasina expresses gratitude for welcoming her ignoring 1/11 govt鈥檚 ban
Ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed gratitude to her party leaders and activists as well as the mass people for welcoming her at the airport, ignoring the 1/11 government鈥檚 ban while returning home from abroad....
Menotti, architect of Argentina's 1978 World Cup triumph dies
Cesar Luis Menotti, who famously coached Argentina to their first World Cup triumph in 1978, has died at the age of 85, the country's football federation announced Sunday.
AstraZeneca admits Covid vaccine can cause rare side effect
AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout, reports The Telegraph.....
Independent commission demanded
The Transparency International Bangladesh and ARTICLE 19 on Sunday demanded the formation of an independent data protection commission to ensure...
Romania indicts ex-president again over 1990 crackdown
Romanian prosecutors Friday issued a fresh indictment against former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity in a deadly 1990 crackdown on protesters, the latest of several proceedings against him...
Agri production fall feared amid heatwave聽
Rice fields began developing cracks as vast landscapes lay parched from about two weeks of intense heat conditions, with farmers battling a severe power crisis in irrigating cropland...
Enrique wants to 'mark history' with PSG treble
Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique said Tuesday he was chasing history as the club bid for the treble of Ligue 1, Champions League and French Cup trophies this season.
Govt must stop farmland loss to ensure food security
THE land minister鈥檚 directive for divisional commissioners to prevent any unauthorised use of arable land for housing, industrial or other commercial purposes is welcome. The minister at a divisional...
Netflix releases teaser for 鈥�100 Years of Solitude鈥� series
Netflix on Wednesday released a sneak peek of its TV series adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez鈥檚 鈥極ne Hundred Years of Solitude,鈥� coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning author鈥檚 death....
Human cases of bird flu 鈥榓n enormous concern鈥�, says WHO
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an 鈥榚xtraordinarily high鈥� mortality rate...
Bangladesh reports one more Covid death in 24hrs
Bangladesh reported one more Covid-19-linked death and 16 fresh cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning.....
German World Cup winner Hoelzenbein dies
Bernd Hoelzenbein, who won the World Cup with West Germany in 1974, has died aged 78, his long-time club Eintracht Frankfurt announced on Tuesday.
鈥楢lpanay Baishakh 1431鈥� organised in 3 districts
A collaborative initiative of Asiatic Experiential Marketing Ltd, Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd, and Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd, Alpana festival, titled 鈥楢lpanay Boishakh 1431鈥� has successfully...
Bangladesh鈥檚 multi-layered roots of state
THE Bangladesh state in 1971 is complex in its functional identity as it was a state in occupation fighting for liberation. The state formation process followed unorthodox routes, incorporating both formal and informal realities in separate and...
Law, SC edicts for use of Bangla in all spheres forgotten
The Bangla Language Introduction Act 1987 and Supreme Court directives issued in 2012 and 2014 requiring the use of Bangla in all spheres of life and stopping distortions of the mother language appear to be forgotten over...
Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography
THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the...