War crimes verdict against Tipu Sultan Wednesday

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 will pronounce its verdict on Wednesday in a case filed against Rajshahi's Tipu Sultan on charge of committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, 1971...

Massive protests in Assam over Citizenship Amendment Bill

Massive protests broke out in Assam of India on Tuesday (December 10) against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday (December 9), as the 11-hour North East bandh called by North East Students' Organisation (NESO) kicked off...

Chilean plane 'disappears' with 38 abroad

'Difficult to survive selling merely newspaper'

It has become very difficult for Afzal to survive by selling merely newspaper as the print media is gradually losing its readers due to influence of internet-based news sources that led him to sell various products at his Magazine Sale Center...

Indian Lok Sabha clears Citizenship Amendment Bill

Opposition parties have spoken out against the bill because it proposes to expedite the citizenship process for "minority migrants" from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, leaving those from the Muslim community out of its ambit...

AL picks Moslem for Chattogram-8 by-polls

Awami League’s Chattogram south district unit president Moslem Uddin Ahmed has been picked for contesting the Chattogram-8 by-election on the party ticket. The decision came from a meeting of Awami League Nomination Board held at the Prime Minister's official residence Ganobhaban on Monday...

Hindu Mahasabha challenges 5-acre plot to Muslims in SC’s Ayodhya verdict

The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Monday filed a review petition against the November 9 judgment of the Supreme Court in the Ayodhya case challenging the allotment of 5 acres of alternate site to the Muslims...

SA Games: Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in men’s cricket; secure record 19 gold

Bangladesh secured their record 19 gold medals in the ongoing 13th South Asian Games in Nepal when Bangladesh Men’s cricket team (U-23) beat Sri Lanka (U-23) by seven wickets...

“Evening courses hampers overall academic environment in public university”

President M Abdul Hamid today came down heavily on the evening courses in public universities, saying that a section of teachers had turned university...

Russia banned from 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2020 Olympics

Russia are set to miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar after being handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). WADA ruled Russia should be punished for manipulating laboratory data after the doping scandal...

Charge sheet against Samrat, Arman submitted in drug case

Rapid Action Battalion today submitted a charge sheet against expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Samrat and Vice-President Enamul Haque Arman in a drug case. Abdul Halim, Sub Inspector of RAB-1 and also the investigation officer of the case, filed the charge sheet...

Rights groups launch Myanmar boycott ahead of Hague genocide hearings

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority on Monday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice...

South African crowned Miss Universe 2019

Suma, Sohel, Shana win gold for Bangladesh

Suma Bishwash, Md Sohel Rana and Mohammad Ruman Shana won gold medals for Bangladesh in archery competition at the 13th South Asian Games at Pokhara Stadium in Nepal on Monday...

Eminent professor Ajoy Roy passes away

Retired eminent physics professor Ajoy Roy passed away in a city hospital on Monday afternoon. He was 85. He breathed his last at BIRDEM Hospital around 12:35pm while undergoing treatment. The hospital director brigadier general (retired) Shaidul Haque Mallik confirmed the matter. Ajoy Roy had been undergone treatment at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital since November 25...

Stay alert against women repression: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged all to remain alert against any sort of repression of women in society, saying that only enacting laws is not enough to stop this social disease. "We’ve enacted laws [but] only enacting laws cannot make everything [right]. All -- men and women -- have to be aware so that no-one falls to victim of such torture," she said...

BFSA decides to sue owner of 'Hakimpuri Zarda'

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has decided to sue the owner of 'Hakimpur Zarda' Haji Md Kaus Mia and direct to recall the product from markets as heavy metal like lead, cadmium and chromium adulteration were found in the smokeless tobacco...

PM distributes Begum Rokeya Padak

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday handed over the prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak to five persons for their outstanding contributions towards the society and women empowerment. The recipients are Begum Selina Khalek, Professor Shamsun Nahar, Papri Basu, Begum Akhtar Jahan, and Dr Nurunnahar Faizunnesa (posthumously)...

Suma Biswas earns 15th gold for Bangladesh

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