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Sports, cultural practices alongside study indispensible: PM
09:09 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government wants to make the children of the country as worthy citizens keeping them away from terrorism, militancy, drugs and corruption by engaging them in sports and cultural activities...
Curtain falls on Ekushey Book Fair
08:50 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThe month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair ended on Saturday amid a record publication of books and fanfare...
Afghanistan's Taliban, US sign peace deal
08:30 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayUS officials and Taliban representatives have signed a final peace deal after months of negotiations in Qatar's capital to end the United States's longest war, fought in Afghanistan since 2001....
Snatching on rise in dark lanes and bylanes
08:07 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdaySaying that various offenses like snatching are on rise in the city's dark lanes and bylanes, DMP Addl Commissioner Abdul Baten on Saturday stressed the effective measures by authorities concerned to put an end to the crimes...
Qatar reports first case of coronavirus
06:42 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayQatar has become the latest Middle Eastern country to report its first case of coronavirus...
Dr Mizanur elected ambassador of World Int'l Economic Group
05:52 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayRenowned physician of Bangladesh Dr Mizanur Rahaman has been elected the ambassador of World International Economic Group...
Molestation: Students seek headmaster's removal
05:18 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThe students of a secondary school in Narail have taken to the street demanding removal of their headteacher following molestation allegation raised against him....
Muhyiddin to be Malaysia's next PM
03:50 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayMalaysia's King has picked Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as Prime Minister after meeting political leaders Saturday (Feb 29) morning...
5 killed in tragic road accident in Rajshahi
03:11 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayFive people including an infant were killed and some others injured in a tragic road accident in Rajshahi on Saturday noon. The incident took place near Kadipur area on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila...
Mahathir secures Anwar’s support to return as PM
02:18 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayMalaysia's Mahathir Mohamad has said he has agreed to be the prime ministerial candidate for the former ruling coalition, less than a week after he quit and plunged the country into turmoil...
Nordic countries eye stronger partnership with Bangladesh
01:09 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThe ambassadors of three Nordic countries -- Denmark, Norway and Sweden -- on Saturday promised to have a stronger partnership with Bangladesh with a focus on green growth and increased investment flow to help grow Bangladesh in a faster way...
Dhaka Bar Assoc polls: Pro-AL panel bags 13 posts, pro-BNP 10
12:36 PM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayBNP-backed blue panel bagged ten posts including president and general secretary in the election to the Dhaka Bar Association. Meanwhile, Awami League-backed white panel secured thirteen posts including the vice president...
Google marks Leap Day with a doodle
11:19 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayGoogle is celebrating Leap Day today with a doodle. Leap Day, which comes every four years on February 29, is a day observed in various solar calenders including Gregorian calendar...
3 killed as bus plunges into ditch in Cumilla
10:25 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayThree people were killed and 20 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Daudkandi upazila in Cumilla on Saturday morning. The deceased are Ramzan, Safiqul and Shahin. Identities of them could not be known immediately...
20 killed in train, bus collision in Pakistan
09:21 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayAt least 20 people were killed and several others injured in a collision between a train and a passenger bus in southwest Pakistan on Friday night, officials said...
Coronavirus: China reports 47 more deaths, 427 new cases
09:03 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdayMainland China had 427 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Friday, the country's National Health Commission said on Saturday (Feb 29), up from 327 cases a day earlier. That brings the total accumulated number of confirmed cases in mainland China so far to 79,251...
Saudi temporarily suspends entry of GCC citizens to Mecca, Medina
08:41 AM, 29 Feb 2020 SaturdaySaudi Arabia temporarily suspended entry of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens to Mecca and Medina, the foreign ministry announced in a statement published by the state news agency on Friday...
Coronavirus spreads in three continents; $5 trillion wiped off markets
06:14 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayCountries on three continents reported their first cases of the coronavirus on Friday as the world prepared for a pandemic and investors dumped equities in expectation of a global recession...
873 infected with respiratory problems in 24hrs
05:58 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayAlthough the winter is over, altogether 873 people were infected with respiratory problems across the country in the last 24 hours till Friday morning....
Iran's ex-ambassador to Vatican dies of coronavirus
03:33 PM, 28 Feb 2020 FridayIran's former ambassador to the Vatican and prominent cleric Hadi Khosrowshahi died of coronavirus, local media reported on Thursday. According to the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, the 81-year-old cleric died at a hospital in Iran.