Bangladesh: 166 new death recorded due to COVID-19
Jul 23, 2021, at 11:32 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh continues to witness the fury of COVID-19 pandemic as 166 people lost their lives in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Friday.
Bangladesh starts strict lockdown to tackle COVID-19 surge
Jul 23, 2021, at 03:53 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh government imposed strict 'lockdown' in the country from Friday after ending their nine-day break for Eid-ul-Azha celebration.
Bangladesh: 10 shanties in Rohingya camp gutted, no casualty
Jul 21, 2021, at 03:21 pm
Dhaka: At least 10 shanties were gutted as fire broke out at Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox’s Bazar city on Tuesday, media reports said.
Three million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Dhaka
Jul 20, 2021, at 02:56 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Monday received three million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the US under the Covax facility.
Jul 17, 2021, at 09:46 pm
China and Bangladesh have agreed to work towards the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to the Rakhine state in Myanmar and underscored the need for resuming tripartite talks on the issue, a Bangladesh government statement said. Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Momen and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who met on the sidelines of a conference in Tashkent, also discussed Dhaka’s plans for co-production of vaccines.
Bangladesh: 2 million doses of Chinese Sinopharm vaccine to arrive today
Jul 17, 2021, at 03:06 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh, which is fighting another deadly wave of COVID-19 outbreak, is all scheduled to receive a new consignment of 2 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine on Saturday.
Udichi bomb attack case in Bangladesh: JMB member executed
Jul 16, 2021, at 10:35 pm
Dhaka: A convict in the 2005 Udichi bomb attack case, who is a member of banned terror group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has been executed in Gazipur's Kashimpur Central Jail.
Bangladesh: Seven-year-old raped, accused arrested
Jul 14, 2021, at 03:08 pm
Dhaka: A person has been arrested for allegedly raping a seven-year-old in Pangsa upazila of Bangladesh's Rajbari area on Monday, meia reports said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh: Chinese people running illegal factories
Jul 13, 2021, at 06:36 pm
Dhaka: The recent fire incident in a Bangladesh factory has now brought to the attention the existence of illegal factories in the country, many of which are run by Chinese nationals.
Pakistan minister cites Bangladesh to make case for population control
Jul 12, 2021, at 10:48 pm
“Let's say Pakistan had enough capacity to provide quality education to only half its kids. If Pak population growth drops to that of Bangladesh, in 10 years we will accommodate every child in the country of primary school age and in 15 years in secondary school," Umar tweeted on Sunday.
Bangladesh: Police recover three bombs from militant hideout in Narayanganj
Jul 12, 2021, at 03:12 pm
Narayanganj: Police recovered three bombs while conducting an operation on a militant hideout in Narayanganj area of Bangladesh on Sunday.
Bangladesh eagerly waiting for preferential trade agreement with Sri Lanka
Jul 12, 2021, at 04:01 am
Bangladesh is eagerly awaiting a preferential trade agreement with Sri Lanka for a mutually beneficial and robust trade relationship between the two countries supported adequately by strong shipping connectivity, according to its envoy. With the trade volume between the two countries still quite low, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Tareq Md Ariful Islam feels some kind of facilitation was necessary to take bilateral trade to the next level.
Bangladesh records 185 new COVID-19 deaths in past 24 hours
Jul 10, 2021, at 11:25 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh continues to witness a deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as 185 new deaths were recorded due to the virus in the past 24 hours.
Narayanganj: Shezan juice factory fire leaves three people dead
Jul 09, 2021, at 03:53 pm
Narayanganj: At least three workers died as a fire broke out in Shezan juice factory in Bangladesh city Narayanganj on Thursday afternoon, media reports said.
COVID-19 crisis in Bangladesh: 4 patients die in Pabna hospital amid oxygen shortage
Jul 06, 2021, at 02:48 pm
Bangladesh receives first consignment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Jul 03, 2021, at 11:09 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh has received the first consignment of 1.2 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the US under the COVAX framework.
US remembers victims of 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery terror attack in Bangladesh
Jul 03, 2021, at 10:52 pm
Dhaka: The United States on June 1 remembered the death of 20 people in a terrorist attack in Bangladesh in 2016 which had left the nation shocked.
Jul 03, 2021, at 02:53 pm
Dhaka: The first commercial shipment of 1 million Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China has reached Bangladesh, a nation battling a deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at present.
Bangladesh: 12 people die due to COVID-19 in Rajshahi hospital in past 24 hours
Jul 02, 2021, at 09:56 pm
Rajshahi: At least 12 patients died due to COVID-19 at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital's COVID-19 unit in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Friday.
Indian visa center in Bangladesh closed indefinitely
Jul 01, 2021, at 06:33 pm
Dhaka/UNI: All Indian Visa Centers in Bangladesh have been closed indefinitely, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said in a statement on Thursday .
Bangladesh: Death toll due to Dhaka building collapse touches 8
Jun 30, 2021, at 03:10 pm
Bangladesh gears up for strict lockdown from July 1 to curb COVID-19 spike
Jun 29, 2021, at 02:48 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh is gearing up to witness the strictest lockdown from July 1 to contain the surge of COVID-19 which is leaving the country battered.
Bangladesh: Dhaka blast leaves seven people dead
Jun 28, 2021, at 01:59 pm
Dhaka: At least seven people died as an explosion rocked Moghbazar area in Bangladesh capital Dhaka city on Sunday evening, media reports said.
Activists from 21 nations ask China to end financing Bangladesh coal power project
Jun 26, 2021, at 04:54 am
Activists from 21 countries have shot a letter to China and asked the nation to end the financing of a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh: Chinese worker of Padma Bridge Project goes missing
Jun 25, 2021, at 02:47 pm
Beijing: A Chinese man, who was working in the Padma Bridge Project in Bangladesh, has been missing for the past two days, media reports said.
Can't lodge Rohingyas for an indefinite period: Bangladesh PM Hasina
Jun 24, 2021, at 02:27 am
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday renewed her call to the global community to ensure the dignified repatriation of Rohingyas as they are posing a big security threat to Bangladesh as well as the region.
Bangladeshi, Indian migrants arrested in Malaysia for violating movement control
Jun 22, 2021, at 10:55 pm
Malaysian immigration department arrested 309 migrants, including 102 Bangladeshis and two from India, for staying in violation of the movement control restrictions during an operation carried out at a settlement near a construction site in Dengkil town of Selangor state on Monday.
Bangladesh gearing up to observe International Yoga Day tomorrow
Jun 20, 2021, at 11:54 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh is enthusiastically preparing for the forthcoming International Yoga Day on June 21, it was announced on Saturday.
Bangladesh: Police recover bodies of three family members from Dhaka residence
Jun 19, 2021, at 08:57 pm
Dhaka: Police recovered bodies of three members of a family from a residence in Bangladesh capital Dhaka city on Saturday.
Bangladesh sees rise in cybercrimes against women
Jun 19, 2021, at 04:26 pm
Dhaka: Exploitation, bullying, blackmailing are among many ways women and children are increasingly being targeted on cyberspaces by criminals in Bangladesh. The Police Cyber Support for Women (PCSW), a newly established cell of Bangladesh Police, has received over 15000 complaints in the last seven months, according to a report in The Daily Star.