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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to hypoxia researchers
03:53 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayThree scientists have shared this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells use oxygen to burn fuel and help the body maintain and grow new tissues. William Kaelin Jr at Harvard University; Sir Peter Ratcliffe at Oxford University and the Francis Crick Institute in London...
No accused would be spared: Quader
03:45 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayAwami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that persons involved in criminal activities or corruption would be exposed to justice if the allegations against them were backed by evidence...
Othoba signs deal with Jennys
03:24 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayNow customers can purchase products of footwear brand Jennys from popular e-commerce site Othoba.com. In this connection, othoba.com signed deal with Jennys International Limited at head office of Othoba.com at capital’s Badda recently...
Abrar’s death: Demonstrations staged at DU, BUET
02:11 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayA group of students of Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) staged demonstrations protesting the unnatural death of BUET student Abrar Fahad on Monday noon...
4 dead, 5 wounded in Kansas bar shooting
12:37 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayFour people were killed and five others wounded after two suspects entered a bar and opened fire in Kansas City, Kansas, early Sunday, police said...
PM returns home
12:00 PM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Sunday night after wrapping up her four-day official tour to India...
BUET student found dead, 2 detained
11:42 AM, 07 Oct 2019 MondayA student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) was found dead at the institution’s Sher-E-Bangla residential hall on Monday morning. Abrar Fahad, 21, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering department, was a resident of the hall. He hailed from Kushtia...
Bodyguards of GK Shamim remanded again in arms case
04:28 PM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayA court here today placed seven bodyguards of corrupt contractor Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim on a three-day remand in a case lodged with Gulshan Police Station for possessing illegal arms...
4 of a family die in lightning strike in Chandpur
03:30 PM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayFour members of a family died in a lightning strike in Chandpur on Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Wahida Begum, her daughter Rehena Begum, grandchildren Sabbir and Samia...
Jubo League suspends Samrat, Arman
02:41 PM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayJubo League Executive Committee on Sunday suspended its Dhaka south unit chief Ismail Hossain Samrat and Vice-President Enamul Haque Arman for their ‘unsocial and anti-party activities’. A press release signed by Jubo League’s Education Affairs Secretary Mizanul Islam Mizu announced the decision...
Rifat murder: 4 fugitive accused surrender
01:32 PM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayFour fugitive accused surrendered before a Barguna court in a case filed for the murder of Rifat Sharif. They are Mohaiminul Islam Sifat, 19, Prince Molla, 15, Rakibul Hasan Rifat Hawlader, 15, and Abu Abdullah Raihan, 16. They surrendered before the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Mohammad...
Verdict of Risha murder trial Oct 10
12:33 PM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayA court here today set October 10 to pronounce judgement in a case lodged over murder of city’s Wills Little Flower School and College student Suraia Akter Risha around three years ago...
JL leader Samrat arrested from Khulna, taken to Dhaka
11:49 AM, 06 Oct 2019 SundayRapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Samrat and his associate Arman from Cumilla early Sunday. They were arrested from Kunjosreepur village of Alkora union in Chauddagram upazila of the district around 5am...
Stringent security measures taken for peaceful puja celebration: Quader
05:09 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayAwami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that the government has taken stringent measures emphasizing on the overall security during puja...
Tulip Siddiq among influential politicians in London
04:24 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayBangladesh origin United Kingdom’s Labour Party lawmaker and Sheikh Rehana’s daughter Tulip Siddiq has been ranked on the most influential politicians’ list in London this year, according to a message received here today...
Hasina, Modi inaugurate 3 projects, sign pacts after Delhi meet
02:45 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated three projects and signed several MoUs after holding talks in New Delhi on Saturday. Sheikh Hasina arrived in the Indian capital on Thursday on a four-day visit to India to further intensify bilateral relations between the two countries...
India-Bangladesh relations to reach “next higher level”: Jaishankar
01:42 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayIndia reiterated its commitment to take relations with Bangladesh to “the next higher level” as its External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here today...
Hasina-Modi bilateral talks begins
01:31 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayBilateral meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has started here this morning. The talks started after 11:30am at the historic Hyderabad House here following a tete-a-tete between the two leaders...
UN investigator: Myanmar is not safe for Rohingyas to return
01:17 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdayThe U.N.’s independent investigator on Myanmar says it’s not safe for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to return because Myanmar has failed to dismantle its “system of persecution” of Rohingyas., reports AFP.
Saudi Arabia allows foreign men and women to share hotel rooms
12:52 PM, 05 Oct 2019 SaturdaySaudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related, after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a new tourist visa regime to attract holidaymakers...