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Saudi prepares for hajj as Gulf tensions persist
10:31 AM, 07 Aug 2019 WednesdayMore than 2.5 million Muslims will on Friday begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, against a backdrop of tensions in the Gulf. Crowds of worshippers have already begun to gather in Mecca in the days ahead of the hajj, the focal point of the Islamic calendar...
Bangladesh-India home minister level talks today
09:54 AM, 07 Aug 2019 WednesdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan arrived in India on Tuesday evening on a three-day official visit to attend the 7th round of home minister level talks scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Wednesday. Indian State Minister for Home Affairs G. K Reddy and Bangladesh High Commissioner in New Delhi Syed Muazzem Ali received...
Sushma Swaraj to be cremated today
09:05 AM, 07 Aug 2019 WednesdayThe body of former Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj will be kept for three hours at the BJP headquarters today for party workers and leaders to pay tributes, BJP working president JP Nadda said...
Indian former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj dies
08:25 AM, 07 Aug 2019 WednesdayVeteran Indian politician Sushma Swaraj, 67, passed away in New Delhi late Tuesday after suffering cardiac arrest, according to a hospital statement. A senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Swaraj was the country's foreign minister from 2014 to 2019, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first term in office...
China says India move on Kashmir violates its territorial sovereignty
09:52 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayChina said on Tuesday it opposed India's decision to revoke the special status of Kashmir, a disputed region sandwiched among India, Pakistan and China, because it undermined China's territorial sovereignty. In a move to tighten its grip on the Himalayan region............
PM trashes allegations of custodial torture
09:36 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday shrugged off the allegations of torture in custody by Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies. “Information is gathered from criminals using the methods the other countries apply and nothing is done beyond it,” she said in an interview with the BBC....
3 bikers killed in Rajshahi road crash
09:30 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThree motorcycle riders were killed after being hit by a bus in Court Station area of the city on Tuesday evening. Identities of the victims could not be known immediately. Officer-in-Charge of Kashiadanga Police Station Munsur Ali Arif said the trio was riding a motorcycle which was run over by a truck coming from the opposite direction....
Training Irregularities: TIB seeks CEC’s removal
09:17 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday has expressed their grave concern over allegations of irregularities against the commissioners of Election Commission (EC) including the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) in training projects associated with Jatiya Sangsad and Upazila parishad election....
Twelve cities specify 22941 places to sacrifice cattle
07:35 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThere are two thousand nine hundred and forty one places have been specified to slaughter sacrificial cattle in 12 cities across the country on Tuesday ahead of upcoming holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest mandatory religious program of Muslim. Local Government Minister Md Tajul Islam announced this at a meeting....
Victoria's Secret hires first transgender model
05:46 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe selection of Valentina Sampaio, 22, was seen by some critics of the brand as long overdue. “Never stop dreaming,” she wrote on Instagram. Victoria’s Secret has cast an openly transgender woman for the first time, hiring the Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio for a catalog photo shoot, her agent said........
Prepared to go to any extent to fulfil our obligations to Kashmiri people: ISPR
05:24 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe military leadership "fully supported the government's rejections of Indian actions regarding Kashmir" and is "prepared and shall go to any extent to fulfil our obligations [to the Kashmiri people]," Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said on Tuesday after the conclusion of a Corps Commanders meeting in Rawalpindi....
Admission fraud: 69 students suspended from DU
05:06 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThere were sixty nine students of Dhaka University (DU) have been suspended over allegedly going through an illegal way to admit into honors first year on Tuesday. The decision to suspend the suspected students was taken by a disciplinary council of the university from a meeting heading by Vice-chancellor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman earlier in the day....
Taliban say differences resolved on US troop withdrawal
04:08 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe United States and the Taliban have resolved differences in peace talks over U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as over insurgent guarantees on cutting ties with other extremist groups, a Taliban official said Tuesday. The development came during U.S.-Taliban talks over the past two days in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar.....
Hearing on Minni’s bail plea deferred
03:54 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe High Court on Tuesday referred till Thursday the hearing on the bail petition of Aysha Siddika Minni in a case filed over the killing of her husband Rifat Sharif. An HC bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order following a petition filed by Minni...
India's Chennai rapid growth threatened by water shortages
03:47 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayDozens of billion-dollar companies. Thousands of high-paying IT and manufacturing jobs. Luxury apartments towering over the Bay of Bengal. The southern Indian city of Chennai has one of the world's fastest-growing economies, but it's out of water, threatening to put a brake on all that growth....
Don’t harass Fakhrul, 3 others for six weeks: HC
03:34 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe High Court on Tuesday directed law enforcers not to harass four BNP leaders, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for six weeks in a case filed for issuing ‘death threat’ to Bangladesh Jononetri Paishad President AB Siddique....
‘We will die for Kashmir’, says Amit Shah
03:02 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe Lok Sabha witnessed some heated moments during a debate on the scrapping of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state with Home Minister Amit Shah saying, “We will die for Kashmir’...
7 more die as dengue outbreak continues to rage
02:32 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdaySeven more people have died of dengue in Dhaka, Rangpur, Chandpur and Dinajpur districts as the entire country remains in the grip of the mosquito-borne disease. In the capital, a female Bangladeshi expatriate living in Italy succumbed to the mosquito-borne fever at Anwer Khan Modern Hospital on Monday night, said its director Jasimuddin Khan....
24 customs officials, employees, importers sued in 18 cases
01:34 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayThe Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has separately filed 18 cases against 24 officials, employees and importers of Chattogram customs over alleged bribery and embezzlement of around Tk 4.50 crore...
Brendon McCullum announces retirement from cricket
12:25 PM, 06 Aug 2019 TuesdayNew Zealand superstar Brendon McCullum has announced that he will retire from cricket at the conclusion of the Global T20 Canada...