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11 boys die in Uganda boarding school fire
09:29 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayEleven boys perished and another 20 suffered severe burns in a fire that gutted their...
Bangladesh wins ASOCIO IT award
09:19 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayBangladesh has won the ASOCIO 2018 Digital Government Award for the advancement in the...
Weeklong income tax fair begins Tuesday
08:38 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayA weeklong ‘Income Tax Fair’ begins tomorrow in the city and other divisional headquarters...
PM to join ‘Let’s Talk’ with youths on Nov 16
07:22 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will join an interactive event, ‘Let’s Talk’, with youths at her...
Khaleda urges top leaders to proceed with unity
06:46 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayThe secretary general of BNP, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said the party chief Khaleda Zia suggested them to proceed with unity. He unfolded this while talking to reporters following a meeting with Khaleda Zia...
8 JMB operatives held at Jatrabari
05:30 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayPolice arrested eight operatives of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh...
Humayun Ahmed’s 71th birthday today
04:55 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayThe 71th birthday of Humayun Ahmed, a great Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and...
Mushfiqur hits second double century in Test
03:18 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayBangladesh wicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim has hit another double century in Test...
Dr Kamal not to contest polls
03:12 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayEminent jurist and Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain won’t contest the 11th parliamentary election which is scheduled to be held on December 30. Dr Kamal, also the top leader of Jatiya Oikyafront, an alliance of the BNP and other political parties, told Jago News over phone. The eminent jurist said he won’t contest the national polls due to old age-complications illness...
Baby Nazneen, Helal Khan buy BNP nomination paper
02:35 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayPopular singer Baby Nazneen and film actor Helal Khan bought nomination forms on Monday to contest the upcoming national polls with BNP ticket...
EC announces new election schedule
01:12 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayThe Election Commission (EC) has announced new election schedule following the demand of different political parties. As per the new schedule, the 11th parliamentary election will be held on December 30. The last date for submitting nomination papers is 28 November. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda disclosed this at the inauguration ceremony...
Mushfiq, Mahmudullah consolidate Bangladesh’s position
12:16 PM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayBangladesh extended their innings on an attritional second morning in Mirpur, Mushfiqur Rahim laying down anchor to go to lunch unbeaten on 135 from 307 deliveries...
BNP starts nomination papers sale
11:43 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) began selling its nomination papers to aspirants on Monday to vie in the 11th parliamentary election. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir bought a nomination form for the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia for Feni-1 constituency. Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan collected another form...
Myanmar prepares for first Rohingya returnees
10:49 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayMyanmar officials said on Sunday the country was ready to receive more than 2,000 Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh on Nov. 15, the first group from 5,000 people to be moved under a deal between the neighbors struck last month...
BNP leader Amir Khasru freed on bail
10:15 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayBNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has been freed on bail in a case filed under the ICT Act and Special Powers Act. He walked out of Chittagong Central Jail after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said senior jail superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik...
Interview of AL nomination aspirants Wednesday
09:39 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayThe interview of nomination seekers of Awami League will be held on November 14 (Wednesday) while aspirants can collect and submit nomination forms by 6pm on Monday...
‘I’m suffocating’: Khashoggi’s last words, says Turkish reporter
09:08 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondayThe head of investigations at the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has told Al Jazeera that Jamal Khashoggi's last words were "I'm suffocating ... Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic", according to an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul...
Israelis ‘kill Hamas commander’ in Gaza exchange of fire
08:35 AM, 12 Nov 2018 MondaySix Palestinians including a local Hamas commander have been killed during an Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say...
Decision on shifting polls schedule Monday: CEC
09:26 PM, 11 Nov 2018 SundayThe Election Commission tomorrow will take the decision whether the schedule for the 11th parliamentary elections will be shifted or not, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said. “I didn’t get any application regarding the change in polls schedule till now. I can’t say anything right now …
Signal 2 for maritime ports as storm ‘Gaja’ intensifies
08:20 PM, 11 Nov 2018 SundayThe maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisting local cautionary signal number two (Rpt) two as the cyclonic storm, ‘Gaja’,