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Afghanistan: UK and Taliban in talks over further evacuations
09:19 AM, 01 Sep 2021 WednesdayThe UK is in talks with the Taliban to secure safe passage out of Afghanistan for a number of British nationals and Afghans who remain there...
Joe Biden defends US pull-out as Taliban claim victory
08:43 AM, 01 Sep 2021 WednesdayUS President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan - a move which led to Taliban militants returning to power. Staying longer was not an option, Mr Biden said in an address to the nation, a day after the end of a 20-year US presence in Afghanistan...
S Korea passes bill to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
09:43 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdaySouth Korea's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems, effectively stopping them from charging commissions on in-app purchases...
266 with dengue fever hospitalized in a day
09:35 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdaySome 266 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning...
India announces first formal meeting with Taliban
08:55 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayIndia today, for the first time, admitted to have held diplomatic talks with the Taliban which has taken control of Afghanistan in the past few days following the withdrawal of US forces from there...
SI arrested for 'raping' teenager
08:44 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayA sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station under Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been arrested in a case filed for allegedly raping a teenage girl...
Bangladeshi vaccine scientist wins Magsaysay Award
07:16 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayDr Firdausi Qadri, a Bangladeshi scientist who helped develop a cheap oral vaccine against cholera won Magsaysay Award, the Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize...
Housewife's hanging body found in Dhaka
06:27 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayPolice on Tuesday morning recovered the body of a housewife from a house at West Rampura in the capital...
Dale Steyn brings curtain down on illustrious career
06:01 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayDale Steyn has announced his decision to retire from cricket, bringing the curtain down on one of the most outstanding careers in the game. Steyn, 38, has been in and out of the game in recent years because of injuries, and, writing on his Twitter handle, summed up his state of mind as "bitter sweet but grateful"...
86 more die of Covid-19 in a day
05:11 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayEighty six more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,195. Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus. Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories...
Five get life for murdering farmer
05:05 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayFive people have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a farmer in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia district in 2014...
Woman gets death for killing stepchild
04:11 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayA court in Sirajganj on Tuesday sentenced a woman to death for killing her stepchild in 2018...
MDB's tree plantation programme on the occasion of National Mourning Day
03:48 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayMidland Bank Limited has organized a tree plantation programme on the occasion of National Mourning Day-2021...
Pori Moni gets bail
02:42 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayDhallywood actress Pori Moni has been given bail in a case filed under the Narcotics Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge K M Imrul Kayesh granted the bail for her after hearing. Earlier on Sunday, the same court fixed August 31 for bail hearing. Based on specific information on August 4, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the Dhallywood actress Pori Moni from her Banani’s residence in a raid...
Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
02:35 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdaySri Lanka has declared a state of emergency over food shortages as private banks run out of foreign exchange to finance imports...
PM urges countrymen to remain alert against conspiracy
02:05 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to remain alert as the defeated forces have been still hatching conspiracy against Bangladesh with their foreign collaborators...
Julhas-Tonoy murder: Ex-major Zia, 5 others get death
12:28 PM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayA Dhaka court has sentenced six people in a case lodged over the murder of former USAID official Julhas Mannan and his friend Tonoy Majumder. Judge Mojibur Rahman of Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal court passed the order on Tuesday...
Afghan folk singer taken from his house and killed by the Taliban
11:30 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayAfghan folk singer Fawad Andarabi was dragged from his home and killed by the Taliban in a restive mountain province north of Kabul on Friday...
China cuts children’s online gaming to one hour
10:37 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayOnline gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, China's video game regulator has said...
Tokyo 2020: Toyota restarts driverless vehicles after accident
10:06 AM, 31 Aug 2021 TuesdayToyota is resuming operations of its autonomous vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident...