Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Doha, the Capital of Qatar, this afternoon after attending the 5th United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5: From Potential to Prosperity). A special VVIP flight (BG-126) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka around 03:30pm. Earlier, the flight departed ...

Firefighting units have started their rescue operation for the second day this morning at the building in Siddique Bazar of Dhaka’s Gulistan, where 17 people lost their lives in a deadly explosion yesterday. Three firefighting units started the rescue operation around 9 am but no one has been rescued yet, said Khaleda Yeasmin, duty officer of the Fire Service Control ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Doha for home on Wednesday morning wrapping her four-day official visit to Qatar. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage departed Hamad International Airport at 8:00am local time (11am BD time). The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka at 3:00pm, reports UNB. Hasina arrived ...

Chelsea kept their season alive by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League 2-1 on aggregate on Tuesday. Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz, with a twice-taken penalty, got the goals as the Blues relieved the pressure on manager Graham Potter. The Englishman’s job was on the line after a season that ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the Bangladeshi expatriates to strictly abide by the laws of the host countries and send remittances through legal channels. “It won’t be tolerated anymore if any person commits offenses (in host country) and thus tarnishes the country’s image,” she said while addressing a civic reception accorded to her at Bangladesh MHM School here ...

A powerful explosion at eight-storey building at Gulistan in the capital claimed at least 16 lives and injured 150 others so far. Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malek confirmed that total 16 people have been killed in the explosion. Talking to journalists at DMCH, he said “A number of 12 people were killed on the spot and four died ...

Japan will spend 220 billion yen ($1.6 billion) on an ambitious but controversial venture in Australia to produce liquid hydrogen from a type of coal, the project announced on Tuesday. The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project is a joint Japanese-Australian undertaking intended to produce plentiful and affordable fuel for Tokyo. Its backers argue it will help reduce global emissions ...

Bangladesh reported eight more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning. With the new cases, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,037,879, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.44 ...

Dharmapasha upazila administration has distributed laptops among 101 government primary  schools at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday . Moazzem Hossain Ratan, MP, distributed the laptops in a programmed held at the upazila parishad auditorium with upazila nirbahi officer Shitesh Chandra Sarker in the chair. Dharmapasha upazila  parishad chairman Muzammel Hossen Rukon and upazila Awami League general  secretary Shamim ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday reiterated that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had the only legitimate right to proclaim the independence of the country at the eve of the Liberation War in 1971 while many persons in the country usually claimed themselves as the proclaimer of independence. “Only Bangabandhu had the legitimate right ...