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Pahela Falgun today
09:27 AM, 13 Feb 2019 WednesdayPahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of spring, is being celebrated across the country especially in the capital on Wednesday with wearing yellow dresses, flower-made ornaments and holding traditional musical functions...
Thai princess apologises after being disqualified from PM run
08:37 AM, 13 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe Thai King's sister, disqualified this week by the Election Commission from running for prime minister, apologised on Tuesday (Feb 12) for causing "problems" for the Thai people ahead of next month's election, the country's first since a 2014 coup...
Bangladesh bat, Guptill and Ferguson return for New Zealand
08:20 AM, 13 Feb 2019 WednesdayBangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza elected to bat first against New Zealand in the first ODI at McLean Park in Napier. Sabbir Rahman returned for the visitors, after his ban had been reduced by the BCB to bring him back to the ODI squad. It is his first ODI since July last year...
Five more JS bodies formed
09:34 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe 11th parliament today constituted five more parliamentary standing committees with the approval of Leader of the House and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Pakistan envoy summoned over defamatory statements on Bangabandhu
08:45 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayShah Faisal Kakar, Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has been summoned over defamatory statements on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Tareque Muhammad...
PM says she will stay at village after retirement
07:56 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said she will live at her village in Tungipara after retirement from politics.
Atiqul vows to introduce e-ticketing in DNCC transportation
07:21 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe ruling Awami League-nominated mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation...
HC directs media not to publish child’s identity in criminal cases
05:27 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe High Court (HC) today warned The Daily Star for revealing identity of a child convict while publishing report on November 5, 2018, and directed all other media not to repeat such things in future.
England’s World Cup-winning keeper Banks dead at 81
05:06 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayGordon Banks, the goalkeeper in England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team, has died at the age of 81, his former club Stoke City said on Tuesday...
Docs’ private practice: HC orders to form commission
04:01 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe High Court (HC) has ordered to form a commission to constitute a guideline over the physicians’ private practice. A High Court division bench comprising of FR M Nazmul Ahsan and Md Qamrul Quader passed the order on Tuesday after a hearing against stop private practice of the doctors.
Bangladesh like ‘underdog’ tag against NZ, says coach
03:38 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayBangladesh coach Steve Rhodes said his charges were relishing being underdogs as they...
Manikganj ‘rape’: 2 cops on 6-day remand
02:53 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayTwo police officers who were arrested on charge of raping a woman early today, have been placed on a 6-day remand. Judge Md Golam Sarwar of Judicial Magistrate Court-7 passed the order of the remand at noon after the investigation officer and officer-in-charge of Saturia Police Station Abul Kalam Azad produced them...
PM asks Ansar, VDP to stay alert to check militancy, terrorism
01:22 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all including the members of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP to stay alert to check militancy, terrorism and drugs in the country alongside working together to build a developed and prosperous Bangladesh...
EC declares all 49 candidates valid for reserved seats
12:54 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe Election Commission (EC) has declared valid all 49 candidates for the polls to the reserved seats for women in the 11th national parliament. Returning Officer Abul Kashem announced this after scrutiny of the nomination forms on Tuesday morning...
Jashore board cancels today’s ICT MCQ exam
12:09 PM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe authorities of Jashore board on Tuesday cancelled the today’s Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) examination of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) due to a printable error...
Finance Minister left for Italy
11:11 AM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal left here for Italy on Tuesday morning to attend the 42nd Session of the Governing Council of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to be held in Rome...
3 killed in microbus gas cylinder explosion
11:00 AM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayThree passengers were killed and two others injured in a microbus gas cylinder explosion on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Nizampur college area of Mirsarai upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately...
Russia considers ‘unplugging’ from internet
10:01 AM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayRussia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences...
Indian PM Modi loses 1 lakh followers in Twitter
09:09 AM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayAs allegations of political bias add to the woes of Twitter in India, an independent study on the Twitter profiles of political leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi, has found many of them losing several thousands of followers after...
17 killed in Delhi hotel fire
08:32 AM, 12 Feb 2019 TuesdayAt least 17 people were killed and several injured after a fire at a hotel in Delhi's congested Karol Bagh area early this morning. A woman and a child, among those dead, were killed when they tried jumping from a window, reports said. More than two dozen fire engines were sent to the spot after the fire broke out on the top two floors of Hotel Arpit Palace around 4 am...