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Govt to shift chemical factories to Shyampur, Tongi

06:05 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Industries Ministry today took a decision to shift the chemical factories and warehouses from...

Imran Khan offers to hold talks with India

05:17 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday afternoon addressed the nation after Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets successfully targeted non-military targets across the LoC earlier in the day and later shot down two Indian Air Force jets that had trespassed...

India claims Pakistan peddling fake news of IAF jet crash

04:31 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

As India woke up to news of Pakistani fighter jets violating Indian airspace, rumours flew thick and fast on social media on both sides of the border. After Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out airstrike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camps...

Nepal tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari killed in helicopter crash

03:52 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

All seven on board the helicopter carrying tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari have been killed in the crash near Pathibhara in Taplejung district, confirms Air Dynasty official.

Aerial emergency declared in Pakistan

02:12 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has declared an aerial emergency across all airports following escalating tension between India and Pakistan on Wednesday. All local and international commercial flights have been suspended across the country...

West Bengal govt shifts Pakistan inmates to high-security cells

02:04 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

The West Bengal government has shifted 14 Pakistani prisoners, lodged in two correctional homes here, to separate barracks and "high-security" cells, amid soaring tension between India and its western neighbour, a senior official said...

3 to die for killing 1 in N’ganj

01:51 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

A court in Narayanganj has sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing one in Narayanganj. Judge Razia Sultana of Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge 2, passed the order on Wednesday at 12 pm. The death-row convicts are Rafiq, Habib and Sharif Miah. Of them, Sharif is on run...

Noted cricket coach Syed Altaf passes away

01:27 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

The first cricket coach of independent Bangladesh Syed Altaf Hossain has died. He breathed his last on Tuesday night at a hospital in the capital at the age of 81...

Indian helicopter crashes in J&K’s Budgam, 2 killed

12:37 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

An Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam this morning. Two bodies have been found, said the police. The crash took place in the backdrop of heavy shelling and firing from across the border on a day IAF fighter jets crossed the Line of Control and destroyed...

Voting in Dhaka Bar Association polls underway

12:25 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

The voting in two-day polls to elect the office bearers for 2019-2020 of Dhaka Bar Association, believed to be the largest Bar of Asia, has started 9 this morning...

Drug dealer killed in ‘gunfight’ in Gulistan

12:09 PM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

A suspected drug dealer was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in front of the Mohanagar Natya Mancha at Gulistan in the capital on Tuesday night. The bullet-hit body were sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctor declared him dead. The body was kept at the DMCH’s morgue, the SI added...

Trump meets Vietnamese president before summit with Kim

11:16 AM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

U.S. President Donald Trump met Vietnam’s president, Nguyen Phu Trong, in Hanoi on Wednesday, hours before Trump was due to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their second summit. Trump and Trong, who is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, met at the grand, colonial-era presidential palace...

India shelling ‘kills 4 civilians’ in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

10:42 AM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Four people, including two children, have been killed and seven others wounded in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's district of Kotli, officials said...

3 killed, 60 feared buried in illegal mine collapse in Indonesia

09:12 AM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Indonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ropes to dig out more than 60 people who were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi that killed at least three...

Nigeria election: Buhari re-elected as president

08:54 AM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday's general election show...

Schools in Jammu town closed due to firing at LoC

08:21 AM, 27 Feb 2019 Wednesday

Pakistani troops fired mortar shells and small arms across the Line of Control at several areas in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of ceasefire violations that have been underway for the last three consecutive days. Five Indian soldiers were injured in the Akhnoor sector by Pakistan's shelling...

No air passengers to be allowed on board without photo ID: CAAB

09:35 PM, 26 Feb 2019 Tuesday

No domestic air passengers will be allowed onboard without showing their valid photo identity card (ID), Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) said in a circular today. The passengers will have to enclose valid passport, national ID...

Jayasuriya banned for two years: ICC

08:26 PM, 26 Feb 2019 Tuesday

Sri Lankan cricket legend Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned from all cricket for two years...

ACC sues two bank officials over Tk 133cr scam

07:38 PM, 26 Feb 2019 Tuesday

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against three people including two AB Bank officials on charges of misappropriating Taka 133 crore.

EU urges ‘maximum restraint’ from India, Pakistan after air strike

07:00 PM, 26 Feb 2019 Tuesday

The EU on Tuesday called on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise “maximum restraint” after Indian warplanes attacked a militant camp in Pakistan, sending tensions soaring between the...