Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 5 more deaths, 480 cases
Five more people died from Covid-19 and 480 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Saturday morning.
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Representational Picture PIXABAY69 lives lost crossing only 500 metres
“It drizzled that day (September 25) from dawn till 9:30am. So the devotees could not leave for the Bodeshwari Temple to perform the Mahalaya rituals of Durga Puja on time. They started gathering at Auliar Ghat at around 10am. But there were not enough boats, so the pilgrims could not cross the Karatoya River, which had some current that day. The Bodeshwari Temple is just across the river after crossing the waterway for 500 meters. Since Mahalaya's prayer time was also passing, the devotees waiting at the ghat were growing impatient.
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File photo: People wait on the bank of the Karatoa for their family members who went missing after Sunday's trawler capsize in the river, on Monday, September 26, 2022 Bangla TribunePM Hasina: Talks on to repatriate war criminals, Bangabandhu’s killers
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said war criminals and death row fugitive convicts in Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman killing case, who are currently staying in the US, would be given due punishment after bringing them back to the country.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually addresses a reception accorded by the Bangladeshi expatriates in the USA on Saturday, September 24, 2022 PIDWith 151 idols in one mandap, Bagerhat ready to celebrate Durga Puja
Despite communal tensions in recent years during the largest festival of the Hindu community, participation of people from different faiths has given the celebration a unique character.
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Puja mandap UNBSpeaker: Over 44% of Dhaka residents living in slums
As many as 44% of people in the capital city live in slum areas, Architect Iqbal Habib, board of trustee’s member of Bangladesh University, has said.
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File photo: Korail, the largest slum in Dhaka, sitting on a 150-acre land belonging to Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited, has been home to several thousand poor people since 1956 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneDengue death toll rises to 56
Another dengue patient died in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 56.
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File Photo: Dengue patients, protected under mosquito nets, receive treatment at Mitford Hospital on Friday, August 6, 2021 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneRAB does not need reforms, says new chief
The Rapid Action Battalion is not in need of any reforms, its newly appointed director general, M Khurshid Hossain, has said.
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Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are seen during a raid at Dhaka neighbourhood Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneDipu Moni: No SSC exam questions got leaked this year
Education Minister Dr Dipu on Saturday said no question paper of the SSC and its equivalent examinations had been leaked this year.
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File photo: Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni addresses the 48th National School and Madrasa Winter Sports Competition as chief guest at Chittagong’s MA Aziz Stadium on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Focus BanglaULAB celebrates 18th founding anniversary
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) celebrated its 18th Foundation Day on Saturday.
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CourtesyPanchagarh capsize: 3 still missing as recovery operation enters 7th day
Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel have continued their efforts to find the three who are still missing in the Panchagarh trawler capsize incident.
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Dhaka TribuneDNCC gives online taxpayers a 10% rebate
Taxpayers in Dhaka North will receive a 10% rebate while filing their taxes online until November 30.
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DNCC LogoTHE LAST WORD BY TIM WORSTALL
Nothing more than pieces of paper
The central bank is telling us something that is untrue. This is not, if we think about it, quite what we desire our servants to be doing. We do, after all, hire and pay these people in the bureaucracy to do things for us. At least, in a free society, that's how it works -- a useful guide to the freedom and liberality of a place being whether those public servants actually act that way.
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An India Rupee note is seen in this illustration photo June 1, 2017 ReutersRussian troops 'encircled' in key Ukraine town
Ukraine's army on Saturday said its forces had surrounded several thousand Russian troops near the key eastern town of Lyman which has been under Moscow's control since spring.
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Ukrainian service members watch while a tank fires toward Russian troops in Sievierodonetsk on June 20, 2022 REUTERSIran arrests Europeans accused of role in unrest
Iran, which has blamed "foreign enemies" for protests that swept the country after the death of a woman in morality police custody, said on Friday it had arrested nine European nationals for their role in the unrest.
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File photo: Iranian demonstrators taking to the streets of the capital Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after she died in police custody, on September 21, 2022 AFPNord Stream gas sabotage: Who is being blamed and why?
Major leaks that suddenly erupted in the Nord Stream gas pipelines that run from Russia to Europe under the Baltic Sea have generated plenty of theories but few clear answers about who or what caused the damage.
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to the media as she stands next to Deputy Permanent Representative of Albania to the UN Albana Dautllari, following a meeting of the UN Security Council at the request of Russia to discuss damage to two Russian gas pipelines to Europe, in New York, US, September 30, 2022 Reuters