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Afridi used Tendulkar’s bat for 37-ball ton
12:12 PM, 05 May 2019 SundayBack in 1996, a young Shahid Afridi scored a blazing maiden century off 37 balls against Sri Lanka to create a new ODI world record. Now in his no-holds barred autobiography, "Game Changer", the former Pakistan blunderbuss reveals that the century was scored using Sachin Tendulkar's bat...
Quader to be acting JaPa chairman in Ershad’s absence
11:44 AM, 05 May 2019 SundayAs he cannot carry out party activities due to his illness, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday night appointed his younger brother GM Quader as the party acting chairman...
Voting in MCC polls underway
11:29 AM, 05 May 2019 SundayVoting in the first election to the Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) is underway. The balloting started at 8 am and it will continue till 4 pm without any break on Sunday. A total of 2,96,938 voters will exercise their franchises in electronic voting machines (EVMs) at 127 polling centers under 33 wards...
Water transportation likely to resume Sunday
09:27 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayTransportation on the waterways is likely to resume from Sunday morning after a two-day suspension, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority said Saturday. BIWTA Joint Director of Dhaka Port AKM Arif Uddin said that stormy wind is still prevailing although cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ has weakened.
NU postpones Sunday’s exams
08:44 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe National University (NU) has postponed all the examinations scheduled for tomorrow.
Tigers face Ireland A in warm-up game Sunday
07:59 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayVisiting Bangladesh will take on Ireland A in a 50-over practice game tomorrow at the...
Prof Anisuzzaman gets SAARC Literature Award 2019
07:10 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayNational Professor Anisuzzaman has been nominated for the SAARC (South Asian Association...
PM offers ‘shukria’ as Fani causes no big damage
06:10 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in London on an official visit, has offered ‘shukria’ as no...
Cyclone Fani weakens as maritime signals lowered to 3
05:17 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe cyclonic storm Fani which was over Faridpur-Dhaka region and its adjacent areas has moved further to north-eastern and weakened into a land depression owing to which the cautionary signal at maritime ports lowered to 3 from its earlier seven.
Finale of Bangladesh Stockholm Junior Water Prize held at BUET
04:10 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe Finale of Bangladesh Stockholm Junior Water Prize was held on Friday at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET).
Water Resources Ministry’s control room remains open for 24 hours
03:49 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe Water Resources Ministry today urged the people to contact its control room in emergency...
Local airlines cancel 10 flights due to Fani
02:57 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe country’s four local airlines including national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh so far cancelled 10 flights and rescheduled others mostly on domestics’ routes since this morning as the severe cyclone is passing over Bangladesh...
‘Fani’ to remain over country for more 3-4 hours: Met office
01:10 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe cyclonic storm Fani is now located over the capital and its adjoining areas with a maximum wind speed about 62-88 kph as it will remain over the country as a deep depression for more next 3 to 4 hours, said a met official...
Road crash kills 4 in Rajbari
12:36 PM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayFour people were killed and twenty others injured after a triangle collision of a bus, truck and a microbus in Rajbari on Saturday morning...
Cyclone Fani: Death toll rises to 14
11:11 AM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe death toll rose to 14 following the cyclonic storm Fani that began on Friday. In Barguna, Nur Jahan, 50, and her grandson Zahidul, 16, died after a tree fell on their home when they were asleep around 3 am on Saturday at Charduani village in Patharghata upazila. In Noakhali, a two-year-old child died in a wall collapse in Subarnachar upazila in the wee hours of today...
Boeing 737 slides into Florida river with 136 on board
09:57 AM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayA Boeing 737 commercial jet with 136 people on board slid into the St. John’s River near Jacksonville, Florida after landing on Friday, a spokesman for Naval Air Station Jacksonville said...
Fani weakens further, moves over Khulna region
09:23 AM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayThe severe cyclonic storm “Fani” weakened into a cyclonic storm and moved over Satkhira, Jashore and Khulna regions and adjoining areas on Saturday morning. It is likely to move in a North-Northeasterly direction further inland over Bangladesh, said a Met Office special bulletin issued at 8:32am...
Cyclone Fani smashes Odisha; 8 killed, 160 injured
08:36 AM, 04 May 2019 SaturdayWith lakhs of people moving from low lying areas to shelter homes and PA systems continuously beaming precautionary measures, the coastal districts of Odisha prepared for the incoming cyclone Fani for an entire week...
‘Drug peddler’ found dead in Jhenaidah
04:43 PM, 03 May 2019 FridayPolice recovered bullet-hit body of a suspected drug peddler in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah...
Nobel laureate Takaaki Kajita to attend 52nd DU convocation
04:35 PM, 03 May 2019 FridayThe 52nd convocation of Dhaka University (DU) will be held on December 9 this year on its...