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Trump has 'no problem' with North Korean missile tests
11:11 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayUS President Donald Trump has said he has "no problem" with a recent spate of short-range missile tests by North Korea, which is barred from ballistic missile tests under United Nations resolutions. Trump dismissed the launches by Pyongyang as “very standard,” after North Korea carried out its third missile test in eight days .....
Trump escalates trade war with another 10% China tariff
10:49 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayIt came after the latest round of bilateral talks showed little sign of a breakthrough. The new tariffs, due to take effect on 1 September, effectively tax all Chinese imports to the US. The duty is likely target a wide range of goods, from smartphones to clothing.....
Thakurgaon bus collision leaves 9 people dead
10:27 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayNine people were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Thakurgaon-Dhaka highway at Borokhochabari in Sadar upazila on Friday. One of the deceased was identified as bus driver Chaina, 40 while the identities of others could not be known immediately.......
IU Al-Fiqh dept gets new chairman
09:31 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAssociate Professor M Anwarul Wahab Shahin has been made the new chairman of Al-Fiqh and Legal Studies department of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia. IU vice-chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari appointed him to the post for the next three years...
People upset at Khaleda’s bail rejection, says BNP
09:13 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayBNP on Thursday alleged that people have got disappointed over the rejection of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail petition by the High Court in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. “People had an expectation that the High Court would grant bail to our leader Khaleda Zia as she has been imprisoned in a false case...
Eid vacation of Shipping Ministry officials, employees cancelled
08:54 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayThe Eid-ul-Azha vacation of the officials and employees of the Shipping Ministry and its three agencies has been cancelled considering the current flood situation. Their leave cancellation is also meant for ensuring peaceful and comfortable journeys of homebound people through river routes....
Dengue cases still on the rise; 1,712 more hospitalised in 24 hrs
08:23 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayDengue cases are still surging across the country as 1,712 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne virus in 24 hours till 8am on Thursday. Of them, 1,150 dengue cases were reported in the capital alone, manifesting that the city is apparently in the grip of a serious outbreak of dengue fever...
No crisis of dengue detection kits: Minister
07:39 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAmid media reports on short supply of kits to detect dengue, Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said there will be no crisis of such kits in the country. “A total of 50,000 kits have been brought for nonstructural protein-1 (NS1) antigen test and 65,000 more will arrive soon....
Bangladesh, Korea join hands to enhance cyber security
07:07 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA seminar titled ‘Enhancing Cyber Security for Digital Bangladesh’ was held in the city on Thursday that discussed ways to enhance cyber security to realise Digital Bangladesh goals. Bangladesh Police, Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
Child kidnapped from Jamshedpur station, then raped and beheaded
06:41 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayIn a savage crime that has left the nation in shock, a three-year-old girl was strangled after being allegedly gang-raped by two men who had kidnapped her from her mother's side in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur. The men, arrested on July 27, have not been able to explain why the child's head is missing...
Major Ziaul, 5 others indicted in Avijit murder case
06:08 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA court here on Thursday framed charges againstsix leaders and activists of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam, including sacked Major Ziaul Haque, also coordinator of the outfit, in the murder case of blogger Avijit Roy...
A spinoff happily spins its wheels in 'Hobbs & Shaw'
06:02 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAdd an "e'' and "Hobbs & Shaw" might have been a time-traveling thriller about playwright George Bernard Shaw and 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Tantalizing as such a pairing may have been to the makers of "Fast & Furious...
BRAC returns FSFW's Fund!
05:50 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayBRAC, the world-leading NGO of Bangladesh, has very recently returned the fund worth USD 64,115 that they have received from Foundation for Smoke-Free World (FSFW), an organization established and supported by Philip Morris International (PMI)...
Bride’s father killed, mother severely injured at wedding function
05:25 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA youth allegedly has stabbed a father to death and acutely injured a mother of a marrying girl in Priyanka Shooting House at Dilu road area of Mogbazar when a wedding function was going on Thursday....
Two attacks in Yemen's Aden kills 51
03:28 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAccording to witnesses, an explosion hit a military camp belonging to Yemeni forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, which is a member of the Saudi-led military coalition battling the Houthis. Yemen's Houthi movement said it launched missile and drone attacks on Thursday on a military parade in Aden, the seat of the Saudi-backed government...
Death in ambulance: Shipping Ministry reconstitutes probe body
03:17 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayThe Shipping Ministry reconstituted a committee on Thursday to look into the death of a schoolboy who died in an ambulance after a ferry was reportedly delayed to accommodate a VIP in Madaripur. Additional Secretary Sanjay Kumar Banik is convener of the committee...
Huawei’s exciting Eid offer
03:10 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayThe world’s leading technology company Huawei has come up with a ‘Cool Offer Plus’ to make the upcoming holy Eid-ul-Adha more enjoyable for its consumers...
3 to die for Ctg school student murder
02:48 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA Chattogram court has sentenced three people to death and another to life imprisonment in a case filed for murder of a school student Farhan Sakib. Acting District and Sessions Judge Munshi Abdul Majid passed the order on Thursday around 12:30pm...
Eid-ul-Azha: Moon sighting committee to meet Friday
02:19 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayNational Moon Sighting Committee meeting will be held on Friday to fix the date of holy Eid-ul-Azha and review reports of moon sighting of holy month of Jilhajj, 1440 Hijri...
Health Minister’s press conference on dengue postponed
01:25 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayHealth and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik’s today’s scheduled press conference on dengue situation has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. Maeenul Islam, Senior Information Official of health ministry, said this in a press statement. The conference was scheduled to be held at the conference room of the ministry at 2pm...