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Messi gets controversial red card but Argentina beat Chile
11:22 AM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayLionel Messi was sent off before half-time as Argentina beat Chile 2-1 to win a scrappy and bad-tempered Copa América third-place play-off in São Paulo...
Gas price hike: Leftist parties observe half-day hartal
11:11 AM, 07 Jul 2019 SundayLeft-leaning parties on Sunday observed a half-day strike protesting against the hike in gas prices. Supporters of the Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) took position at key points of the capital in the morning...
Probe report in Wari child murder case July 24
05:31 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayA Dhaka court today set July 24 to submit probe report in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital’s Wari area on Friday. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman passed the order, accepting the first information report filed in the case...
Malaysian FM in city to discuss bilateral, Rohingya issues
03:57 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayMalaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah arrived here on Saturday on a three-day visit to discuss wide-ranging bilateral, regional and international issues including Rohingya issue...
Chirkut leads Bangladeshi artistes to participate 33rd FOBANA Convention
02:00 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayThe 33rd Convention of the Federation of Bangladeshi Associations in North America (FOBANA) is going to be held from August 30 to September 1 in New York. There will be at least eight scheduled events in the convention...
California earthquake: Larger 7.1 magnitude quake hits
01:14 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayA 7.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled a desert area of Southern California, US meteorologists say, in the biggest tremor to strike in two decades...
Shoaib Malik announces ODI retirement
12:57 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayShoaib Malik, a veteran of 35 Tests, 287 ODIs and 111 T20Is for Pakistan, has announced his retirement from ODI cricket...
UP member hacked dead in B’baria
12:37 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayA union parishad member was hacked to death by the miscreants at Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria in the wee hours of Saturday...
Bus kills traffic police officer in capital
12:16 PM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayA traffic police officer was killed as a bus hit him in the capital’s Jatrabari in the wee hours of Saturday. The deceased was identified as Md Khairul, 30, Assistant Sub Inspector of traffic police. Muhammad Kamruzzaman, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (traffic east division), said a bus hit Khairul...
Mustafiz fastest Bangladeshi to reach 100 wickets
11:59 AM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayBangladesh pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman claimed his 100 wickets in just 54 ODIs, making himself the fastest Bangladeshi bowler to reach the feat...
PM to brief media on China visit Monday
11:37 AM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief the media on her five-day bilateral official visit to China on Monday. The media briefing will start at 4 pm at her official Ganobhaban residence, said the PM’s Speech Writer M Nazrul Islam today...
Pakistan hammer Bangladesh but New Zealand into semi-finals
11:25 AM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayPakistan hammered Bangladesh by 94 runs at Lord's but failed in their highly unlikely task of pipping New Zealand to the last World Cup semi-final place...
PM returns home from China
11:16 AM, 06 Jul 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached home this afternoon wrapping up her five-day bilateral official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang. A VVIP fight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG-1723) carrying the premier and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 1:40 pm...
Ershad put on life support
05:33 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayJatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, has been put on life support. He has been placed on life support at 4:15 pm on Thursday, said former Secretary General of the party Jiauddin Bablu. Earlier, his wife JaPa’s Senior Co-Chairman Begom Rowshan Ershad and brother acting chairman GM Quader visited him at the ICU of the hospital...
Bangladeshi among 40 killed in airstrike in Libya
04:21 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayA Bangladeshi man from Madaripur is among 40 who were killed in an airstrike at a detention center for migrants near Tripoli in Libya on Tuesday. Identities of the deceased could not be known. ASM Ashraful Islam, Labour councilor of Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli, confirmed the matter to Jago News...
UAE prince Khalid dies in unexplained circumstances
03:39 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayFashion designer Khalid Al Qasimi, the 39-year-old son of the ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has died in circumstances described by UK authorities as unexplained...
West Indies win toss, decide to bat against Afghanistan
03:20 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayWest Indies won the toss and opted to bat first against Afghanistan in the match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 (CWC) at Headingley in Leeds...
HC says it doesn’t like extrajudicial killings
02:21 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayThe High Court on Thursday said it does not like any extrajudicial killing in the country. The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader came up with the remarks when the state counsel placed the progress report on Rifat Sharif killing case...
73 companies destroy expired drugs
01:58 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayA total of 73 companies are destroying the expired drugs colecting from the pharmacies across the country including Dhaka following the direction of the High Court. The companies informed the matter to the directorate general of drug administration. The drug administration also extended the time till July 10 as the companies sought more time to destroy...
Dhaka, Beijing ink nine instruments on various sectors
01:06 PM, 04 Jul 2019 ThursdayBangladesh and China today signed nine instruments in different sectors ranging from aid for the Rohingyas and economic and technical cooperation, investment, power, culture and tourism. The nine instruments - five agreements, three memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and a document - were inked after the bilateral talks...