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‘World Cup will be a big challenge for Bangladesh bowlers’
08:29 PM, 22 Apr 2019 MondayWest 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 MondayThree 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 MondayThe 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 MondaySri 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 MondaySri 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 MondayAfghanistan 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 MondayThe 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 MondayBangladesh 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 MondayThe 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 MondayMy 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 MondayThe 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 MondayBangladesh 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 MondayThe 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 MondayGoogle 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 MondaySri 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 MondayThe 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 SundayBangladesh 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 SundaySenior 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 SundayBangladesh 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 SundayAirport 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...