Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
Reuters, Istanbul
22 July 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Lanka troops raid main protest camp
Agencies
22 July 2022 South Asia
BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
Our Correspondent, New Delhi
22 July 2022 Bangladesh
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

Myanmar armed forces plagued by corruption

Justice For Myanmar yesterday published data from Ministry of Defence budget documents, spanning a period from the 2016-17 financial year to 2020-21, exposing the greed and corruption of the Myanmar military cartel, and its international business networks that enable the military’s continued criminal conduct.
8 December 2020

Stop them from fleeing abroad

Stock market regulator has written to the police to take initiatives so that six directors of three listed companies cannot flee the country.
8 December 2020

Norway accuses Russian hackers of parliament attack

Norway’s domestic spy agency yesterday blamed a Russian hacker group linked to Moscow’s military intelligence for a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament earlier this year.
8 December 2020

Everest ‘grows’ as China, Nepal agree new height

The highest point on Earth got a bit higher yesterday as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate.
8 December 2020

BSF shoots 2 Bangladeshis dead

Two Bangladeshis died of bullet wounds after being shot by Indian Border Security Force on Betna border in the district’s Haripur upazila early yesterday
8 December 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic: WHO against mandatory vaccination

The World Health Organization said on Monday that persuading people on the merits of a Covid-19 vaccine would be far more effective than trying to make the jabs mandatory.
8 December 2020

Covid fuels fears for trafficking survivors

Parvez Morshed thought he was going to become a tailor in Saudi Arabia, but the Bangladeshi migrant was tricked by a recruiter and ended up working as a builder earning half the promised pay.
8 December 2020

Man dies in police custody

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver died in custody at Dashmina Police Station in Patuakhali.
8 December 2020

Bob Dylan sells rights to all his songs

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his entire song catalogue to Universal Music Group (UMG).
8 December 2020

Civil Liberties: Rights body classifies Bangladesh as ‘repressed’

Civicus, an international non-profit that fights for civil liberties and civic rights globally, released a report yesterday classifying Bangladesh as “repressed”.
8 December 2020

Inconsistent laws will become void on Dec 16

Substantial progress has been made by the government in scrutinizing existing laws to identify the provisions which will automatically become
8 December 2020

Giant vertical farm opens in Denmark

A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe’s biggest “vertical farms” which has just opened in a warehouse in an industrial zone in Copenhagen.
7 December 2020

Lok Sabha debate on Bangladesh and POWs

Indian External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh says today that unless Pakistan recognises Bangladesh and unless Bangladesh is admitted to the
7 December 2020

Remembered forever

The horror and the deaths had turned it into hell on earth in 1971.
7 December 2020

Gunmen kill 5 south Yemen separatists

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed five south Yemen separatists in Abyan province yesterday, in the terror group’s biggest attack in the region for months, a secessionist security official said.
7 December 2020

Bangladesh Bank approves new bank

Bangladesh Bank yesterday approved one more commercial bank, taking the total number of banks in the country to 61.
7 December 2020

Last month the hottest November on record: EU

Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said yesterday.
7 December 2020

Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam passes away

Valiant freedom fighter Captain Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday morning.
7 December 2020

Israel-based channel, UAE broadcaster ink partnership

Israel-based broadcaster i24NEWS and Abu Dhabi Media, a public conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday a content sharing arrangement after the Jewish state and UAE normalised ties.
7 December 2020

Defaced Bangabandhu Sculpture: Arrest the culprits immediately

Fifteen eminent citizens, mostly cultural personalities, yesterday demanded immediate arrest of culprits who recently vandalised an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia.
7 December 2020