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PM briefing media on China visit
04:18 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has started briefing the media on her five-day bilateral official visit to China. The media briefing started at 4 pm on Monday at her official Ganobhaban residence. The prime minister was on a bilateral official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang...
HSC & its equivalent examination results July 17
04:11 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayThe results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July17...
Kader Siddiqui-led KSJL quits Oikyafront
03:23 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayKader Siddiqui-led Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) on Monday quit Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikyafront ‘as the alliance has become inactive after the 11th parliamentary election’. Kader came up with the announcement at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club...
2 killed in hill slide in Kaptai
02:58 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayTwo people including a minor child died as a portion of a hill collapsed at Kolabagan Malipara area at Kaptai upazila in Rangamati on Monday noon. The deceased were identified as Uzzal Mollik, 3 and Tahmina Begum, 25. Rangamati Deputy Commissioner AKM Mamunur Rashid confirmed the deaths to Jago News...
Journalist Hasan Arefin passes away
01:28 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayHasan Arefin, managing editor of the daily Natun Kagoj and an executive committee member of Jatiya Press Club, died of a cardiac arrest at a city hospital this morning. He was 60...
SC upholds Rana’s bail order, no bar to release
01:17 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayThe Supreme Court today upheld a High Court verdict that granted bail to former Awami League MP from Tangail 3 (Ghatail) constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed over the murder of two Jubo League leaders...
Steps taken to make capital market vibrant: PM
12:37 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government has taken various steps to ensure a vibrant capital market that will supplement its efforts to make Bangladesh a developed country by the year 2041. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating a regional seminar on 'Financial Literacy and Investment Protection'...
Rickshaw pullers block road over ban on rickshaws
12:09 PM, 08 Jul 2019 MondaySeveral hundred rickshaw pullers and owners blocked the road from Mugda to Maniknagar demanding to withdraw the ban on rickshaws in three routes on Monday. They started their programme at 7 am and took their position in different areas including Mugdha, Maniknagar and Manda...
Copa America 2019: Brazil beat Peru 3-1 to win first title in 12 years
11:37 AM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayGabriel Jesus scored one goal and assisted another before being sent off as Brazil won a first Copa America title in 12 years, beating Peru 3-1...
29 dead as bus falls off Yamuna Expressway near Delhi
11:24 AM, 08 Jul 2019 MondayTwenty-nine people were killed when the bus in which they were travelling in skidded off the six-lane Yamuna Expressway near Delhi in India and fell 50 feet into a large drain. Seventeen people were injured. The 165-km-long expressway connects Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh...
Iran nuclear deal: Govt announces enrichment breach
05:04 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayIran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions...
Hartal lost its appeal, says Quader
04:18 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayRoad Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said hartal has lost its appeal as people hardly respond to such programmes. The minister came up with the remark as left-leaning political parties observed a half-day hartal today protesting the hike in gas prices...
Report in case against Nur, Liton over assaulting teacher Aug 7
03:41 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayA Dhaka court today set August 7 to submit probe report in a case filed against five including now Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Vice-President (VP) Nurul Haq Nur for allegedly assaulting Rokeya Hall provost Zeenat Huda...
Best Buy opens outlet at Tejgaon
03:33 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayBest Buy has opened its new retail outlet at Dhaka’s Tejgaon area recently. Numerous RFL products, including household plastic, Italiano Melamine, Durable kitchen sink, Vision Electronics, Good Luck Stationary and Duronto Bicycle are available at the outlet...
Probe report in case over FR Tower fire Aug 4
03:20 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayA Dhaka court today set August 4 to submit probe report in the case lodged over deadly inferno in FR Tower in capital’s Banani area on March 28 this year. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Devdas Chandra Adhikari set the date as investigation officer failed to submit the report today...
Wari child rape, murder: 1 held from N’ganj
01:54 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayPolice have arrested a youth in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital’s Wari area. The detainee Harunur Rashid was arrested from his hometown Narayanganj’s Sonargaon area on Sunday...
Afghan car bomb kills 12 and wounds dozens
01:18 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayA car bomb in central Afghanistan has killed at least eight members of the security forces and four civilians and wounded dozens, many of them students attending a nearby school...
Suspected murderer of Saima identified
12:53 PM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayPolice have primarily identified a youth as a suspected murderer in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital’s Wari area. A official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Wari zone) on Sunday confirmed the matter to Jago News...
Lightning kills Bangladeshi in Malaysia
11:58 AM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayA Bangladeshi man was killed and two others injured in a lighting strike at Shah Alam area of Selangor state in Malaysia on Saturday evening (local time)...
Imran Tahir, JP Duminy retire from ODI cricket
11:43 AM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayImran Tahir and JP Duminy ended their One-day International careers with South Africa's 10-run win over Australia, a consolation in the World Cup 2019, at Old Trafford on Saturday...