The death toll in the aftermath of a typhoon in Vietnam climbed to 233 on Friday as rescue workers recovered more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods, state media reported. Flood waters from the swollen Red River in the capital, Hanoi, were beginning to recede somewhat, but many neighbourhoods remained inundated and farther north experts were predicting ...

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume direct flights on Sylhet-Cox’s Bazar route from October 31. Shahnewaz Majumdar, Sylhet district manager of the airlines, acknowledging the matter said that the national flag carrier aircraft will operate on the route regularly. It will depart Sylhet at 8:50AM and will land at Cox’s Bazar at 10:20AM. On the same day, the flight will ...

An18 months-old girl drowned in a water body at Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Saturday morning. The incident happened at around 8:30 AM in Gulgau village under Bongshikundanorth union in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Toamani, daughter of Rafikul, a resident of the area. It was learnt that the child drowned in a water body next to ...

Police have arrested the son of former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal from Uttara area in the capital. The arrested is Safi Muddaser Khan Joty. Dhaka district police arrested him from Uttara area in the capital early Saturday (September 14). Superintendent of Dhaka police Amhed Mueed confirmed the arrest news. He added, “Joty was arrested at around 3:30AM in a ...

A high-level delegation led by Deputy Under Secretary Brent Neiman arrived in Dhaka on Saturday (September 13) morning on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. A plane, carrying the delegation, landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning. Foreign ministry’s Director General (North America Wing) Khandaker Masudul Alam received Brent Neiman at the airport. The delegation includes US State ...

A total of 875 people were killed and more than 30,000  injured in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement from July 16 to September 9, said a report of Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) on Saturday. The report has been prepared by analyzing the data collected from 12 national dailies, HRSS’s investigation unit and volunteers from across the country, said a press ...

Tensions rise as Starmer and Biden prepare to hold talks about allowing Ukraine to use UK-made Storm Shadow missiles against targets across the border British diplomats of spying and withdrew their accreditation. Starmer has dismissed Putin’s warnings, saying the Russian president has it in his power to end the conflict.  

The prison population in England and Wales has dropped by 2,188 in a week following the mass early release of offenders to deal with overcrowding. There were some 88,521 prisoners as of 6 September – a record high with only 1.2% capacity left in the system. But as of Friday, the number had fallen to 86,333, according to new Ministry ...

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 months for stealing cash from a man who collapsed and died in the street. PC Craig Carter, of Harlow, Essex, stole about £115 from Italian filmmaker and actor Claudio Gaetani between 7 and 14 September 2022. A court previously heard how Carter took money from Mr Gaetani’s wallet after he ...

Bangladesh has shown promising growth in its information technology (IT) sector, especially in software development and IT-enabled services, said a global report on ‘Digital Trade for Development’. Prepared by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), The World Bank, and the World ...