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Tourist bus crashes in New Zealand, several killed
12:41 PM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayRescue efforts are underway in New Zealand where several people, including Chinese tourists, are feared dead after a bus carrying more than 20 people rolled over on a highway in North Island. New Zealand police said in a statement that there have been fatalities in the crash.........
Dhaka, Islamabad hold tele talks over Jammu & Kashmir issue
12:18 PM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayForeign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his Pakistan counterpart Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi held a telephonic conversation on Tuesday and discussed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here confirmed about the conversation without elaborating further.....
Ruthless Serena Williams Grabs 100th US Open Win As Record Title Nears
11:10 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdaySerena Williams earned her 100th win at the US Open on Tuesday with a brutal 44-minute demolition of Wang Qiang, firing an ominous warning to rivals in her pursuit of a record-tying 24th Grand Slam title. Six-time US Open champion Williams dismantled Chinese 18th seed Wang 6-1...........
Woman killed in Satkhira road crash
11:07 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayA woman was killed after a pick-up van hit a motorbike on Satkhira-Khulna road at Kumira in Tala upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased, Fatima Khatun, 30, was the wife of Dr Azizur Rahman of the upazila. Rezaul Islam, officer-in-charge of Patkelghata Police Station, said the accident took place around 8am.....
Climate crisis: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence'
10:33 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayGreenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned. During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a millimetre. Researchers say they're "astounded" by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around the world......
Brexit: Boris Johnson defeated as MPs take control
10:18 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayTory rebels and opposition MPs have defeated the government in the first stage of their attempt to pass a law designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit. The Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the agenda, meaning they can bring forward a bill seeking to delay the UK's exit date....
England aim to build on Stokes’s heroics as Australia look to Smith
10:06 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayJoe Root wants England to make the most of still being “very much alive” in the Ashes when the fourth Test against Australia starts at Old Trafford ysterdsay. Australia were on the brink of retaining the Ashes only for Ben Stokes’s superb 135 not out to guide England to a stunning one-wicket win in the third Test at Leeds......
Working on how US companies can invest in Sylhet: US Ambassador
09:55 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayUS Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has said they were working on how US companies can make investment in Sylhet and vice versa. “The other reason I’m here is to meet with government officials and see how we can work together and encourage American companies to invest in Sylhet.....
Schoolboy ‘kills himself’ in Khulna
09:12 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayA schoolboy reportedly took his own life by hanging himself at his house in Tajpur village of Phultala upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Siam, 16, a grade X student. He was the son of Ataharul Islam Rony of the village......
Assam’s NRC leftover worries BNP
09:08 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayBNP on Tuesday voiced deep concern over reports by some Indian media that the people left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam could be pushed across the border, saying it may cause another grave danger for Bangladesh. “The government couldn’t send a single Rohingya to their homeland in Myanmar.....
Iran oil tanker pursued by US turns off tracker near Syria
09:06 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayAn Iranian oil tanker blacklisted and pursued by the U.S. turned off its tracking beacon off the coast of Syria, leading to renewed speculation Tuesday that its oil will end up there, despite earlier assurances it wouldn't. The disappearance of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1......
Barrister Mainul lands in jail again
08:47 AM, 04 Sep 2019 WednesdayA court here on Tuesday rejected a bail plea of former caretaker government adviser Mainul Hosein and sent him to jail in a defamation case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzol Hossain passed the order when Mainul surrendered before the court after expiry of his five-month bail. Dhaka Bar Association’s former president Golam Mostafa.....
Minni released from jail
05:10 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayAyesha Siddika Minni has been released from the jail five day after she secured bail from the High Court in a case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif. She walked out of Barguna jail around 4pm after the bail order reached the jail. Minni’s father received and took her to home by an ambulance. Earlier on August 29, the High Court granted a conditional bail to Minni in the case...
‘Imitation is not a reliable companion for success’
04:46 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayRanu Mandol became popular after a video of her singing Lata Mangeshkar’s song “Ek Pyaar Ka Nagma Hai” at the Ranaghat railway station went viral...
Barrister Mainul denied bail, sent to jail
04:19 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayA Dhaka court has denied bail to Barrister Mainul Hussein and sent him to jail in a defamation case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain on Tuesday passed the order after Barrister Mainul surrendered before the court and prayed bail for him...
Ershad’s son Saad to contest in Rangpur-3 by-polls
02:56 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayRahgeer Al Mahi Saad alias Saad Ershad, the younger son of late Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, has collected nomination paper for contesting the by-election in Rangpur 3 constituency. The seat became vacant after the death of the former military dictator...
Satkhira woman dies of dengue
01:42 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayA woman died of dengue while undergoing treatment at a private medical college hospital in Khulna early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rahima Begum, 58, wife of Yasin Ali of Sonabaria village of Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila...
Pakistan won’t start military conflict with India: Imran Khan
01:17 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday both Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed states and escalation of tension may threaten world peace, adding that Pakistan will never start a military conflict...
Afghanistan war: US-Taliban deal would see 5,400 troops withdraw
12:40 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayThe United States would withdraw 5,400 troops from Afghanistan within 20 weeks as part of a deal "in principle" with Taliban militants, Washington's top negotiator has said...
25 bodies found after California boat fire
12:00 PM, 03 Sep 2019 TuesdayDivers found 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for, as the U.S. Coast Guard continued its search, media reported. Representatives for the Coast Guard’s division in Los Angeles and the Santa Barbara, California...