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LPG safety manual
02:50 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayLP Gas is a clean, modern fuel that brings comfort to tens of millions of consumers worldwide. However, as with any fuel, safety in operations and handling is imperative for consumers and for the industry...
PM seeks global leaders enhanced awareness about climate change
01:43 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought global leaders’ enhanced awareness about the climate change phenomenon and their effective initiatives to negate its impacts...
Click brings ‘Adol-Bodol’ offer
01:21 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayClick, a popular brand of electric products of RFL Group, has introduced ‘Click Fan Adol-Bodol Offer’ for the customers. Under the offer, customers can be able to purchase 56 inch brand new Click Ceiling Fan in exchange of any branded used or wreckage 56 inch fan and get discount of tk 500 to 600 on MRP...
4 hacked dead, attacker killed
12:51 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayFour people including a mother and her son were hacked to death by a youth in broad daylight at Radhanagar village in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla on Wednesday morning. The attacker named Mokhlesur Rahman, 34, was killed by the agitated local people. The deceased are Anwara Begum, 40, wife of Shah Alam, her son, Abu Hanif, 12, Nazma Akter, 36, wife of Nurul Islam and her mother-in-law Majeda Begum, 55...
Azhar’s appeal hearing ends, verdict any day
12:33 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayThe Supreme Court will deliver its verdict any day on the appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam against the death penalty given to him by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)...
Media personality Muhammad Jahangir no more
12:14 PM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayNoted media personality Muhammad Jahangir, executive director of Centre for Development Communication, passed away while undergoing treatment at Asgar Ali Hospital in Gandaria of Dhaka early today. He was 68...
6 bodies recovered from Cox’s Bazar beach
11:43 AM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayPolice recovered bodies of six people from Sughanda point of Cox’s Bazar sea beach in the district town on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Police suspected that all the victims are fishermen and might have died in trawler capsize amid storm...
AL MP Rushema Imam dies
11:24 AM, 10 Jul 2019 WednesdayRushema Imam, a member of parliament from a reserved seat for the Awami League (AL), died of a heart attack on Tuesday night. She was 85. She breathed his last around 11 pm while undergoing treatment at Faridpur Heart Foundation. She left behind a son and a daughter to mourn her death...
ECNEC approves 13 projects with Taka 7,744.47cr
04:47 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a total of 13 projects involving Taka 7,744.47 crore, including one to strengthen and expand the power transmission system in Chattogram region with Taka 1,358.88 crore...
New Zealand win toss, opt to bat against India
03:17 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayNew Zealand won the toss and opted to bat first against India in the first World Cup 2019 semifinal match at Old Trafford in Manchester...
Ex-MP Rana released on bail
03:02 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayFormer Awami League lawmaker of Tangail-3 (Ghatail) constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana was released on bail from the Tangail District Jail in two district Jubo League activists murder case...
464,000 people killed in homicides in 2017: UN report
02:27 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdaySome 464,000 homicides were recorded around the world in 2017, far more than the number of people killed in armed conflicts and terrorist attacks, a U.N. report said Monday...
DSCC Mayor invites agitating rickshaw-pullers
01:44 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayDhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has invited the agitating rickshaw-pullers and owners to a tea party. He invited them while addressing at a workshop held at Hotel Sonargaon on Tuesday. On July 3, a special committee, formed with DSCC Mayor as its head, decided that three major streets would be made...
ICC World Cup 2019: What happens if semis or final is washed out?
01:20 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayThe fickle English weather has made an impact on matches more than once during the 2019 ICC World Cup. Four of the 45 league matches were washed out, the most in a single edition of the ODI World Cup...
Marshall Island president arrives in city
12:13 PM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayMarshall Island President Dr Hilda Heine arrived here early hours of today on a two-day visit to attend the “Dhaka Meeting of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA)”...
Bangladesh part ways with coach Steve Rhodes
11:49 AM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdaySteve Rhodes' term as Bangladesh's head coach has come to a premature end following the team's eighth-place finish at the World Cup...
Hong Kong leader says extradition bill ‘dead’, students not satisfied
11:41 AM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayHong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the city’s biggest political crisis in decades was dead and the government’s work on the bill a “total failure”...
Rickshaw-pullers block city roads protesting rickshaw ban
11:20 AM, 09 Jul 2019 TuesdayRickshaw-pullers blocked roads in different areas of the city on Tuesday morning protesting the decision banning the plying of rickshaws on three major thoroughfares of the capital, including the Kuril-Sayedabad one. Abdul Kuddus Fakir, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station, said several hundred rickshaw-pullers...
Thousands displaced as monsoon rains pound Rohingya camps: IOM
05:49 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayFive days of heavy rains and winds have pounded Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, displacing over 2,700, damaging over 3,400 houses and leaving two people dead...
Harun confesses raping, killing Saima
05:19 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayHarun-or-Rashid, arrested over raping and murder of Samia Afrin Saima, 7, in capital’s Wari area, has given confessional statements before court. Investigation officer and detective branch (DB) inspector Arjun produced the killer before court and pleaded to record his statement under section 164...