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Sri Lanka to resume executions of drug convicts: Sirisena
09:55 AM, 07 Feb 2019 ThursdayInspired by a similar crackdown in the Philippines, the president of Sri Lanka has said a decades-old moratorium on the death penalty will end within months with the hanging of drug convicts...
Half of US troops to leave Afghanistan by May 1: Taliban
08:39 AM, 07 Feb 2019 ThursdayA Taliban official said on Wednesday the United States had promised to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of April, but the US military said no timeframe had been set. Abdul Salam Hanafi, speaking on the sidelines of a meeting in Moscow between the Taliban and other prominent Afghan figures...
President off to Singapore for health checkup
08:27 AM, 07 Feb 2019 ThursdayPresident M Abdul Hamid left here for Singapore tonight for health checkup. “A regular aircraft of Singapore airlines, carrying the President, took off from Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport at 12.20 am,” President’s Press Secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin told the news agency...
Govt waiting for court verdict to declare Jamaat illegal: PM
09:34 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government cannot proceed with the popular demand of declaring Jamaat-e-Islami illegal as the issue still laying with the decision of the country’s highest court. The prime minister said this in response to a question from...
Dhaka bundle out Rangpur for 142
08:47 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayDhaka Dynamites bundled out defending champions Rangpur Riders for 142 runs in the second...
21 nominated for Ekushey Padak
07:50 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe government today announced the names of 21 eminent personalities for the “Ekushey Padak-2019” for their outstanding contributions to respective fields. An official release of the Cultural Affairs Ministry today disclosed...
Dynamites, Riders battle begin in Mirpur
06:29 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayDhaka Dynamites skipper Shakib Al Hasan have won the toss and sent Mashrafe led Rangpur...
Bangladesh elected vice president of UNICEF executive board
06:10 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayBangladesh has been elected as a member and Vice President of the executive board of...
New Zealand beat India by 80 runs in first Twenty20
05:24 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayAn aggressive 84 by Tim Seifert set up an 80-run win for New Zealand against India in their opening Twenty20 international against India in Wellington on Wednesday.
PM vows to develop entire country, illuminate all houses
04:18 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated six power plants and nine grid substations having capacity of 1062 megawatts (MWs), reiterating her determination to develop the whole country and illuminate its all houses.
Messi named in Barca squad for El Clasico
03:28 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayBarcelona captain Lionel Messi was named in the team's squad to face Real Madrid in...
Ragging: 6 suspended students sued under ICT Act
03:15 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) have filed a case against six suspended students for publishing a video on Facebook after ragging two first-year students...
Reports on plastic rice baseless: Razzak
02:24 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak has said the reports of plastic rice are baseless as the rice which was seized in Gaibandha on suspicion of plastic rice is real rice. The minister said this on Wednesday while talking to the reports after holding a meeting with US Ambassador in Bangladesh Robert Miller...
President asks police to ensure ‘harassment-free’ services
01:27 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPresident Abdul Hamid today asked police to work cordially with utmost devotion so that no service-seeker was harassed anyway...
4,600 engineers, MBAs apply for 14 sweepers’ job
01:12 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPeople with professional qualifications such as M.Tech, B.Tech and MBA, post graduates as well as graduates are in the race to bag the work of sweepers and sanitary workers in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Secretariat of India...
PM opens 6 power plants, 9 grid stations
12:10 PM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayAs much as 1062 megawatts (MWs) of electricity have been added to the country’s national grid as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated six power plants and nine grid substations. The premier opened these power plants and grid substations through a videoconferencing...
Trump confirms second summit with Kim
11:29 AM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayDonald Trump and Kim Jong-un are to hold their second summit in Vietnam at the end of February, the US president has confirmed. In his state of the union speech to Congress, Trump repeated an earlier claim to avert a major with his Korean diplomacy...
Trump vows to build border wall
11:00 AM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPresident Donald Trump vowed in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to build a border wall that is a source of a deep partisan divide and said Democratic attempts at “ridiculous partisan investigations” could damage U.S. prosperity...
“Egg on her face...”: Smriti’s savage attack on Mamata
09:12 AM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayBJP leader Smriti Irani made a piercing comment on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, saying that the Supreme Court's order that Kolkata police chief must cooperate with the CBI in its probe in Bengal ponzi scams, was "egg on her face"...
Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery
08:56 AM, 06 Feb 2019 WednesdayPope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves...