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Now 3,300 meter of Padma Bridge visible
04:57 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayThe 22nd span of the much-awaited Padma Multipurpose Bridge was installed Thursday at the Mawa point in Munshiganj district, making 3,300-meter out of total 6.15km of the main structure of the bridge visible...
UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide
04:19 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayThe United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya...
Publish or Perish! Where to Publish?
03:04 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayThe sole purpose of university education is the creation (discovery and innovation) and dissemination of knowledge...
Bangladesh ranks 146th in corruption index: TIB
02:39 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayBangladesh jumped three notches in the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) said Thursday...
BSF kills 3 Bangladeshis at Naogaon border
02:21 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayThree Bangladeshi cattle traders were killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Hapania border in Porsha upazila of Naogaon early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Ranjit kumar, 25, son of Shukra, Mofijul Islam, 35, son of Khodabox and Kamal Hossen, 32, son of late Jillur Rahman...
Bangladeshi-American Ishrak elected new Intel chairman
01:41 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayBangladeshi-American Omar Ishrak has been elected chairman of the Intel Corporation board of directors succeeding Andy Bryant who stepped down after serving for seven years...
‘BCL assault’: DU students demand punishment of attackers
01:27 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayStudents of Dhaka University’s tourism and hospitality management department brought out a procession on the campus on Thursday protesting against the torture of four students by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders at Zahurul Haque hall...
Policeman commits suicide by shooting self in Mirpur
01:16 PM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayA member of police committed suicide by shooting himself in the capital after posting a Facebook status early Thursday. Nayek Md Kuddus Saha, 31, shot in his chest at police lines ground in Mirpur 14 around 5am where he died on the spot...
Soleimani’s aide, leader of Iran’s Basij militia, shot dead
11:29 AM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayGunmen in Iran shot dead a commander of the hardline Basij militia who was an ally of Qassem Soleimani, the senior Revolutionary Guards commander killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday...
Trump tweeted a record 125 times in a day
10:03 AM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayUS President Donald Trump broke his record for tweets posted on a single day during the first day of opening arguments in his Senate impeachment trial, according to digital analysis platform Factba.se...
Rohingyas pray for justice as court to rule in genocide case today
09:04 AM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayRohingya refugees who fled persecution and violence in Myanmar are praying for justice as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague prepares to deliver an initial verdict on Thursday in a genocide case filed against Myanmar...
Bangladesh team reach Lahore
08:51 AM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayBangladesh national cricket team reached Lahore at 10:30pm (local time) on Wednesday night and checked in at the Pearl-Continental Hotel...
Coronavirus: Chinese city to shut public transport over outbreak
08:42 AM, 23 Jan 2020 ThursdayWuhan, a Chinese city of eleven million people, is to temporarily shut public transport as it tries to halt the outbreak of a new strain of virus. Those living in the city have been advised not to leave, in a week when millions of Chinese are travelling for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday...
Regal Furniture displays 50 new products at DITF
10:10 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayPopular furniture Brand Regal has come up with variations of furniture with new designs at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF)...
Indian SC refuses to stay CAA without hearing govt
09:50 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayThe Supreme Court of India on Wednesday said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, is “uppermost in everybody's minds”, but refused to stay the law without hearing the government first...
List of 8238 loan defaulters published in parliament
09:26 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has disclosed a list of 8,238 loan defaulting people and companies in the parliament...
Publish ad in newspapers asking Sinha to turn up: Court
08:41 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayA court in Dhaka on Wednesday directed authorities concerned to publish an advertisement in two national dailies asking former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others to appear before it on February 20 in a case filed on charges of misappropriating and laundering Tk 4 crore...
Greece gets first female president
08:18 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayTop judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou became Greece’s first woman president on Wednesday when lawmakers elected her head of state in a rare display of unity...
Immigration: The search for a better way of life
07:38 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayIn the modern age of mass communication, everybody is now connected to the rest of the world. People are now more eager to opt for an alternative lifestyle or are in the look for an alternative opportunity not only for themselves but also for their family members as well...
BCL tortures 4 DU students in Abrar style
07:17 PM, 22 Jan 2020 WednesdayWithin a few months of BUET student Abrar Fahad's death from Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) beating, four Dhaka University students have allegedly been tortured nightlong in a dormitory by the student wing of ruling party Awami League...