State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak yesterday had a meeting with Chairman of Saudi Telecommunication Company (STC) Mohammed Bin Khalid Al Abdullah Al Faisal at the latter’s office in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. During the meeting, they discussed various issues, including the development and growth of emerging telecommunication and information technology sectors in ...

Bangladesh reported nine more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Sunday morning. With the new number, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,037,609, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,443 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity drop to 0.34 percent ...

Bangladesh will get electricity from India’s Adani Godda Power Plant in March, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid has said. He told reporters at his office in the Secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday. The state minister said, “Adani Godda Power Plant will start supplying electricity to national grid in Bangladesh next march. There is no problem ...

GM Quader can now perform his duties as Jatiya Party (JaPa) chairman, according to the High Court order. A single HC bench of Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz passed the order on Sunday. Earlier on January 19, the HC stayed the lower court embargo on GM Quader for eight weeks. The court, at the same time, issued a rule asking why ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : An unidentified young man was crushed under the wheels of a train at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Sunday morning. Deceased’s identity was not found immediatley. According to locals, a Sylhet bound inter-city ‘Upaban Express’ train ran over the man, leaving him dead on the spot. Kulaura Railway Police Station officer-in-charge Jahanara Begum said locals saw ...

Jewellers on Saturday lowered the price of gold by Tk 1,166 to Tk 92,262 per bhori (11.664 grams) on the local market, said a press release. Standing committee on pricing and price monitoring of Bangladesh Jeweller’s Association (BAJUS) made the decision at a meeting held on Saturday. According to a press release signed by Committee chairman MA Hannan Azad, the ...

Lionel Messi scored a superb second-half winner as a Paris Saint-Germain side missing the injured Kylian Mbappe and Neymar came from behind to beat Toulouse 2-1 on Saturday and consolidate their lead at the top of Ligue 1. Dutch midfielder Branco van den Boomen gave mid-table Toulouse the lead at the Parc des Princes from a 20th-minute free-kick, only for ...

Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf on Sunday died in a Dubai hospital, according to Pakistan’s Geo News reports. He was 79. The former military ruler was undergoing treatment for an ailment at American Hospital Dubai, his family members said. Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943, in Delhi and completed his early education at St Patrick’s High School in Karachi. ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has conveyed Sri Lanka’s gratitude to the Bangladesh government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the timely assistance as the country battles to rebuild its economy. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen is now in Sri Lanka as a guest for the country’s low-key 75th Independence Day celebrations, for which the guest list was filled up ...

Bangladesh has said Pakistan “should formally apologise” for the atrocities perpetrated against unarmed Bangalees in 1971. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen conveyed this to State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar when she met her Bangladesh counterpart in Sri Lanka’s Colombo Saturday, UNB reports. Momen is now in Sri Lanka as a guest for the country’s low-key ...