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Japan urges Myanmar to take “more strenuous efforts” to repatriate Rohingyas
04:58 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayJapanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has urged the Myanmar government to take “more strenuous efforts” to take Rohingyas back from Bangladesh to their place of origin in Rakhine State. During his recent meeting with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.....
Al Qaeda attack kills 19 soldiers in Yemen
04:23 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridaySeparate attacks by Houthi rebels and militants on Thursday hit security forces in Yemen's city Aden, killing at least 49 people, many of them newly trained police cadets, officials said. Al Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen on Friday, security officials said....
Truck hits motorbike leaving 2 dead
03:38 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayThere were two people died when a truck hit them as they were riding on a motorbike at Bathuli area of Dhamrai in Dhaka. Luthfor Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Golra Hingway police station confirmed the accident to Jago News earlier on Friday....
Katy Perry, others ordered to pay $2.78M for copying song
02:28 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayKaty Perry, her collaborators and her record label must pay more than $2.78 million because the pop star's 2013 hit "Dark Horse" copied a 2009 Christian rap song, a federal jury decided Thursday. It was an underdog victory for rapper Marcus Gray, a relatively obscure artist once known as Flame......
Canada wins Pan Am gold, Olympic berth at artistic swimming
01:02 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayAfter they soared with acrobatic skills in the water, Canada's Claudia Holzner and Jacqueline Simoneau embraced Halle Pratt, who wept tears of joy when they won the artistic swimming overall team gold Wednesday at the Pan American Games and an Olympic ticket to Tokyo 2020.......
Mahila Dal stages a rally seeking Khaleda Zia’s release
12:46 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayA procession seeking release of former Prime Minister and Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been shown by Baghladesh Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, a women wing of the party in capital on Friday which was led by Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Senior Joint Secretary General...
Eid-ul-Azha on 11 August in Middle East including Saudi
12:16 PM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayThe moon of Arabic holy month Jilhajj, 1440 Hijri was sighted later on Thursday resulting Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest festival in Islam to be held on 11 August in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia. The holy Hajj, the fifth mandatory religious duty of Islam will be held on 10 August as the moon sighted, declared Saudi Supreme Court later the day....
‘Drug trader’ killed in Gazipur ‘gunfight’
11:38 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayA suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Pubail in the city early Friday. The deceased were identified as Nazrul Islam Naju, son of Mostafa of Tongi area. Tipped off that 6-7 drug traders were gathering in the area, a team of Rab-1 conducted a drive.......
Trump has 'no problem' with North Korean missile tests
11:11 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayUS President Donald Trump has said he has "no problem" with a recent spate of short-range missile tests by North Korea, which is barred from ballistic missile tests under United Nations resolutions. Trump dismissed the launches by Pyongyang as “very standard,” after North Korea carried out its third missile test in eight days .....
Trump escalates trade war with another 10% China tariff
10:49 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayIt came after the latest round of bilateral talks showed little sign of a breakthrough. The new tariffs, due to take effect on 1 September, effectively tax all Chinese imports to the US. The duty is likely target a wide range of goods, from smartphones to clothing.....
Thakurgaon bus collision leaves 9 people dead
10:27 AM, 02 Aug 2019 FridayNine people were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Thakurgaon-Dhaka highway at Borokhochabari in Sadar upazila on Friday. One of the deceased was identified as bus driver Chaina, 40 while the identities of others could not be known immediately.......
IU Al-Fiqh dept gets new chairman
09:31 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAssociate Professor M Anwarul Wahab Shahin has been made the new chairman of Al-Fiqh and Legal Studies department of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia. IU vice-chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari appointed him to the post for the next three years...
People upset at Khaleda’s bail rejection, says BNP
09:13 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayBNP on Thursday alleged that people have got disappointed over the rejection of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail petition by the High Court in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. “People had an expectation that the High Court would grant bail to our leader Khaleda Zia as she has been imprisoned in a false case...
Eid vacation of Shipping Ministry officials, employees cancelled
08:54 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayThe Eid-ul-Azha vacation of the officials and employees of the Shipping Ministry and its three agencies has been cancelled considering the current flood situation. Their leave cancellation is also meant for ensuring peaceful and comfortable journeys of homebound people through river routes....
Dengue cases still on the rise; 1,712 more hospitalised in 24 hrs
08:23 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayDengue cases are still surging across the country as 1,712 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne virus in 24 hours till 8am on Thursday. Of them, 1,150 dengue cases were reported in the capital alone, manifesting that the city is apparently in the grip of a serious outbreak of dengue fever...
No crisis of dengue detection kits: Minister
07:39 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAmid media reports on short supply of kits to detect dengue, Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said there will be no crisis of such kits in the country. “A total of 50,000 kits have been brought for nonstructural protein-1 (NS1) antigen test and 65,000 more will arrive soon....
Bangladesh, Korea join hands to enhance cyber security
07:07 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA seminar titled ‘Enhancing Cyber Security for Digital Bangladesh’ was held in the city on Thursday that discussed ways to enhance cyber security to realise Digital Bangladesh goals. Bangladesh Police, Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
Child kidnapped from Jamshedpur station, then raped and beheaded
06:41 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayIn a savage crime that has left the nation in shock, a three-year-old girl was strangled after being allegedly gang-raped by two men who had kidnapped her from her mother's side in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur. The men, arrested on July 27, have not been able to explain why the child's head is missing...
Major Ziaul, 5 others indicted in Avijit murder case
06:08 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayA court here on Thursday framed charges againstsix leaders and activists of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam, including sacked Major Ziaul Haque, also coordinator of the outfit, in the murder case of blogger Avijit Roy...
A spinoff happily spins its wheels in 'Hobbs & Shaw'
06:02 PM, 01 Aug 2019 ThursdayAdd an "e'' and "Hobbs & Shaw" might have been a time-traveling thriller about playwright George Bernard Shaw and 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Tantalizing as such a pairing may have been to the makers of "Fast & Furious...