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AL local government nomination board meets Friday
08:54 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayA meeting of Awami League (AL) Local Government Election Nomination Board will be held at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban at 4.30 pm tomorrow.
India-Pakistan tensions ground thousands of air travellers
07:28 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThousands of air travellers worldwide were left stranded on Thursday after Pakistan closed its airspace in response to escalating tensions with India.
Voting ends, counting starts
06:18 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayVoting in the by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and...
IAF pilot will be released Friday: Imran Khan
05:17 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said his government will release Indian Air Force pilot tomorrow as peace gesture. Khan made the announcement in his address to the joint session of Pakistani parliament.
Imran Khan ready to talk to Modi over phone: Pak FM
04:54 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is ready to talk to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the telephone to offer him peace. Is Modi ready for it? asked Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in an exclusive interview with Geo News.
Tamim hits ninth Test century
03:39 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayOpener Tamim Iqbal hit his ninth Test century one-man stand for Bangladesh in the first Test against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Thursday.
Burnt bodies of 2 infants recovered from Bhashantek slum
02:27 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayFirefighters recovered the charred bodies of two infants as they died in a slum fire in the capital’s Bhashantek area on Thursday at 12:15 pm...
Pakistan, India urged to ‘avoid further military action’
01:24 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe United States has urged Pakistan and India to avoid further military action as tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours escalate...
Pakistan, India trade fire in Kashmir; villagers flee homes
01:17 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayIndia and Pakistan exchanged gunfire through the night into Thursday morning in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a day after Islamabad said it shot down two Indian warplanes and captured a pilot...
CEC blames political parties for thin presence of voters
12:34 PM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has blamed the political parties and its candidates for the thin presence of the voters. The CEC said this on Thursday at 10:30 am after casting his vote at the polling centre of IEES High School in Uttara...
Kim says ready to denuclearize, discussing concrete steps
11:40 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday he was willing to give up his nuclear weapons and he would not be holding a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam if he were not...
PIB DG Shah Alamgir passes away
10:57 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe Director General (DG) of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and also the president of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Shah Alamgir died on Thursday morning. He breathed his last at Intensive Care Unit of Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at 10 am. The lecturer of PIB Lajina Jeslin confirmed the death to Jago News...
Kushner meets Salman for first time since Khashoggi murder
10:30 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdaySenior White House adviser Jared Kushner met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Tuesday for the first time since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi...
White House bars 4 reporters from Trump-Kim dinner
09:49 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe White House barred reporters from Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times from covering a dinner between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday after two of them asked Trump questions during his initial interactions with Kim...
Bangladesh fall to Wagner’s short stuff after Tamim blazes hundred
09:24 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayNeil Wagner derailed Bangladesh with a five-wicket haul as the visitors, bowled out for 234, had their bright morning turn into a wasteful afternoon...
Voting in DNCC mayor, 36 ward councillor posts underway
08:27 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe voting in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor and 36 war councilor posts is underway peacefully. The voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm on Thursday without any break. Of the wards, 18 wards are under DNCC and 18 are under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)...
All set to hold DNCC by-polls peacefully: CEC
09:27 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayChief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda today said that the Election Commission...
Rohingya crisis needs political solution: UN envoy
08:34 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe visiting UN Secretary General’s Humanitarian Envoy, Dr Ahmed Al Meraikhi today urged all quarters...
Govt wants to control traffic in Dhaka digitally: PM
07:40 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina today said her government wants to control traffic signal digitally to ease traffic jam in the capital. “We want to control traffic in Dhaka city electronically and digitally… some parts of the capital have already been brought...
Bangladesh U-16 girls crush Philippines 10-0
06:21 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayBangladesh got off to a flying start in the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers-2 as they dumped their Philippines counterparts by 10-0 goals in the Group B match in a one-sided affair held on Wednesday at Mandalar Thiri Stadium in Myanmar.