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‘World Cup will be a big challenge for Bangladesh bowlers’

08:29 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

West Indies great and Bangladesh bowling coach Courtney Walsh on Monday warned that...

Top UN officials to visit Bangladesh to observe Rohingya situation

07:59 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Three top officials of the United Nations will jointly visit Bangladesh from April 24-26 to...

Sri Lanka government says local Islamist group behind blasts

06:47 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The Sri Lankan government suspects that a local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.

87 bomb detonators found at Colombo bus station

05:52 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Sri Lankan police found 87 bomb detonators at the main bus station in the capital, Colombo, on Monday, a spokesman said, a day after suicide bombers attacked churches and hotels killing 290 people and wounding about 500.

Sri Lanka to declare emergency from midnight

04:49 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will declare a nationwide emergency from midnight on Monday following Easter Sunday suicide bomb blasts at churches and luxury hotels that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, his office said.

Paceman Hassan surprise pick in Afghanistan WC squad

04:09 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Afghanistan named fast bowler Hamid Hassan, who last played for the side in July 2016, in...

Victims of Sri Lanka attacks: Who they were

03:24 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The true toll of Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka was starting to come into focus on Monday...

PM proposes for formation of new regional economic forum

02:46 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Bangladesh today proposed for formation of a regional economic forum involving five Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states of South and Southeast Asian region...

US warns ‘terrorists’ continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

02:21 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The U.S. State Department said in a revised travel advisory ‘terrorist groups’ were continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded in blasts in churches and luxury hotels on Sunday...

Memoir of a teenager: The hindrance of my life

02:08 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

My struggles have followed me throughout my life. The person I am today has been sculpted by a simple dilemma that has led to prominent problems in my life...

7 suicide attackers behind 6 Sri Lanka blasts: Investigator

01:34 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels were carried out by seven suicide bombers, a government investigator said Monday...

Bangladesh, Brunei sign seven instruments

12:56 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Bangladesh and Brunei today signed seven instruments for strengthening cooperation mainly in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, livestock, culture and sports, and the supply of LNG. The instruments were signed after the official bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Brunei’s Sultan Haji...

Zayan’s body to reach Dhaka on Wednesday

12:29 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The body of Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, a minor child who was killed in the deadly Sri Lanka blasts, will be flown to Dhaka on Wednesday, family sources said...

Google Doodle celebrates Earth Day 2019

11:23 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Google has created a Doodle featuring fun facts about six fascinating creatures to celebrate Earth Day 2019...

13 under arrest for Sri Lanka blasts: Police

09:30 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels that killed more than 207 people, officials said on Monday. Authorities have not made public details on those held after Sunday's attacks. But a police source told AFP the 13 were detained at two locations in and around Colombo...

Sri Lanka suicide bomber queued at hotel buffet, then set off the blast

08:46 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The suicide bomber waited patiently in a queue for the Easter Sunday breakfast buffet at Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Grand hotel before setting off explosives strapped to his back...

Sri Lanka blasts: 2 Bangladeshi tourists unaccounted for

06:14 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Bangladesh says two of its nationals have remained missing since blasts rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday...

Journalist Mahfuz Ullah still alive, says daughter

05:51 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah is still on life support at a Thailand hospital, his daughter Nusrat Humaira said on Sunday amid rumours of her father’s death...

Cops asked to remain alert

05:02 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Bangladesh Police Headquarters has directed top police officials to remain alert across the country. The new direction came on Sunday after eight serial blasts in Sri Lanka that claimed almost 200 lives...

All domestic flights in Sri Lanka suspended after multiple blasts

03:58 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Airport authorities said today that they have issued the highest level of threat to all airports both domestic and international in Sri Lanka following a spate of blasts this morning...