2 Covid patients die; positivity rate 8.36
Staff Correspondent
22 July 2022 Coronavirus
25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
UNB, Kishoreganj
22 July 2022 Accidents and Fires
Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
Our Correspondent, Manikganj
22 July 2022 Crime & Justice
Bangladeshis highest number of irregular migrants to Italy
Diplomatic Correspondent
22 July 2022 Diplomacy
BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
Our Correspondent, New Delhi
22 July 2022 Crime & Justice
Greece to regularise 15,000 undocumented Bangladeshis
Diplomatic Correspondent
22 July 2022 Diplomacy
10 injured as BNP, police clash in Tangail
OUR CORRESPONDENT, Tangail
22 July 2022 Crime & Justice
Sohan captain for Zim T20Is
Staff Correspondent
22 July 2022 Cricket
Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
Reuters, Istanbul
22 July 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Hold talks with the opponents China urges Myanmar junta

China’s foreign minister yesterday called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil.
3 July 2022

Bangladesh 7th saddest nation in the world

Bangladesh has ranked seventh among the world’s angriest, saddest and most stressed nations, says a new global survey.
3 July 2022

India landslide death toll rises to 37

The death toll from a massive landslide in India hit 37 yesterday, authorities said, as rescue teams battled teeming rain to search for 25 others still missing three days later. 
3 July 2022

Schoolteacher found dead in Rangamati

Police recovered the throat-slit body of an indigenous female school teacher from her house in Rangamati’s Longdu upazila yesterday.
3 July 2022

Student electrocuted in Sherpur

A college student was electrocuted and his paternal uncle injured at Bhati Langarpara Charband in Sherpur’s Shribardi upazila yesterday.
3 July 2022

Engr dies in train crash

An engineer of the under construction Bangabandhu Rail Bridge over the Jamuna River died Saturday night after being hit by a Jamalpur-bound train in Biaramarua area in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila.
3 July 2022

Hundreds of anti-coup protesters in Sudan defy security forces

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters demanding an end to military rule took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its suburbs for a fourth straight day yesterday, witnesses said.
3 July 2022

Hong Kong lawmaker tests Covid positive after photo with Xi

A Hong Kong lawmaker who posed for a group photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leader’s visit to the financial hub this week confirmed yesterday he has since tested positive for coronavirus. 
3 July 2022

Youth lands in jail over raping girl

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in the district’s Ukhiya upazila.
2 July 2022

No mobiles for Narail students inside schools, colleges, madrasas

The district administration has asked all schools, colleges and madrasas in Narail to make sure that students to do not bring mobile phones to the institutions.
2 July 2022

Potato prices jump despite bumper yield

Despite a bumper yield of potatoes, consumers are not being able to reap the benefits due to a five-year record hike in the retail prices of the vegetable.
2 July 2022

Ashulia teacher killing: HSC student suspended for ‘links’

Haji Yunus Ali College in Ashulia has suspended a female student over her alleged involvement in Monday’s attack on teacher Utpal Kumar Sarkar, who died of his wounds at a local hospital on Wednesday.
2 July 2022

Six more die from Covid

Six people died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, reported the Directorate General of Health Services.
2 July 2022

Labour rights situation: Bangladesh listed among 10 worst countries

Bangladesh is one of the world’s 10 worst countries for workers, according to the Global Rights Index 2022 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
2 July 2022

Dalela could be the next Indian envoy

India’s Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Sudhakar Dalela is expected to be the next High Commissioner to Bangladesh, replacing Vikram K Doraiswami, reported Hindustan Times.
2 July 2022

Dozens missing in shipwreck during South China Sea typhoon

More than two dozen crew members are unaccounted for after their ship broke into two during a typhoon in the South China Sea yesterday, with rescuers scrambling to find them, officials say. 
2 July 2022

Covid air war being lost

The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid -- properly ventilating public spaces -- more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. 
2 July 2022

Libya anger boils over living conditions

Libya’s rival leaders were under growing street pressure yesterday after protesters stormed parliament as anger exploded over deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock. 
2 July 2022

NSU graft case accused ‘goes missing’

Amin Mohammad Hilaly, managing director of Ashaloy Housing and Developers Ltd and an accused in the NSU graft case, has reportedly gone missing from Uttara.
2 July 2022

‘Deliberate act of terror’

Missiles rained down on Ukraine killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built up areas as the weekend began, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse Russia of state “terror”. 
2 July 2022