Iran 'threatens to hit Israel, Dubai if US retaliates over missile attack'

Iran has threatened to bomb Israel and Dubai if the United States retaliates for its ballistic missile strike at two Iraqi bases housing US troops...

No destructive activity to be tolerated: PM

Mentioning that the government always welcomes any peaceful democratic movement, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said it will not tolerate any destructive activity aimed at realising illogical demands...

Four Rohingya children killed in Rakhine blast

Bangabandhu’s birth centenary: Dhaka ready to welcome global leaders

DU student rape: Police say CCTV footage being scrutinised

Police have collected a CCTV footage of Kurmitola Golf Club gate and it is being scrutinised, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Gulshan Division) Sudeep Kumar Chakraborty...

35 killed in stampede at funeral for slain general

Iranian state television says 35 people have been killed and 48 others injured in a stampede that erupted at a funeral procession for a general slain in a U.S. airstrike...

'Evil sexual predator' jailed for 136 rapes

First anniversary of present government today

Today is the first anniversary of the present government led by Awami League (AL). AL, which led the country’s 1971 Liberation War, formed the government for the third consecutive term on January 07 last year (2019)...

Air Quality Index: Dhaka ranks second

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked second worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Tuesday morning. The air quality of Dhaka was classified as very unhealthy as it had an AQI score of 2211 at 7:52am. Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar and Pakistan’s Lahore were the worst and third worst cities on the list with scores of 238 and 182 respectively...

Pentagon rejects Trump threat to hit Iranian cultural sites

The Pentagon on Monday distanced itself from President Donald Trump’s assertions that he would bomb Iranian cultural sites despite international prohibitions on such attacks...

US denies Iran’s Zarif a visa to attend UN: US official

The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a U.S. official said...

Soleimani killing: US denies Iraq pullout amid letter confusion

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq, after a letter from a US general there suggested a withdrawal. The letter said the US would be "repositioning forces in the coming days and weeks" after Iraqi MPs had called for them to leave...

Iran’s supreme leader weeps over casket of slain top general

Weeping amid wails from a crowd of at least hundreds of thousands of mourners, Iran's supreme leader on Monday prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, an attack that's drastically raised tensions between Tehran and Washington...

PM to address nation today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the completion of one year of the present government...

Nanak suffers heart attack

Awami League presidium member Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak suffered a heart attack on Monday morning. He was admitted to the Labaid Cardiac Hospital in the capital and later shifted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of the hospital...

PM asks police to be more “public-friendly”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the members of Bangladesh Police to be more “people-friendly”, saying that the people’s confidence and trust in the police have increased to a great extent than the past. Sheikh Hasina said the people’s reluctance towards police that existed in the past is now over...

Case filed over DU student rape

A case has filed over the alleged rape of a second-year student of Dhaka University (DU) in the city’s Kurmitola area on Sunday night. The victim’s father filed the case with the Cantonment Police Station, Officer-in-charge of the police station Kazi Shahan Haque on Monday confirmed the case to Jago News...

DITF to remain closed on Jan 10

The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) will remain closed on January 10 (Friday) as the countdown to grand celebrations of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary is set to kick off on that day. Abdur Rauf, the member secretary of the fair and deputy director of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), on Monday confirmed the information to Jago News...

Dhaka University student ‘raped’ in Kurmitola

A second-year student of Dhaka University (DU) was allegedly raped in the city’s Kurmitola area on Sunday night. The victim is now undergoing treatment at the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said DU Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani...

4 of a family among 6 killed in Faridpur road accident

Six people, including four members of a family, were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Mollikpur area in Faridpur Sadar Upazila on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Boalmari upazila Olama Dal president Dr Shariful Islam Hadi, 40, his daughter Tabassum, 8, sister-in-law Takia Akter, 13, niece Tanzila, 18...