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Saudi frees Prince Khaled after months of detention

12:13 PM, 04 Nov 2018 Sunday

A Saudi prince arrested for criticising a crackdown on corruption is reported to have been freed from detention...

Asia blasphemy case: Husband pleads for asylum

12:00 PM, 04 Nov 2018 Sunday

The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after eight years on death row has pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada...

‘Shukrana Mahfil’ begins

11:24 AM, 04 Nov 2018 Sunday

A ‘Shukrana Mahfil’ (thanks giving rally) began on Sunday at 9am at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital hailing the government for giving the Dawra-e-Hadith (Taqmil) of Qawmi Madrasas the status of master’s degree...

Tough action if any one creates unrest after polls schedule: Kamal

09:28 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said that tough actions would be taken...

Dialogue for free, participatory polls: PM

08:29 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said despite repeated insults to her from BNP she had agreed to sit for dialogue with leaders of that party in the greater interest of the people and holding a participatory election...

Williams recues Zimbabwe on day 1 in 1st Test

07:30 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Sean Williams scored a responsible half-centuries to rescue visiting Zimbabwe from debacle as...

Twitter removed thousands of accounts discouraging US vote participation

06:43 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Twitter has deleted thousands of automated accounts, many posing as Democrats, that were...

Bangladesh become U-15 SAFF champion

05:00 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Bangladesh age-group male football team have become the champion of the SAFF U-15 Football Championship after beating arch-rival Pakistan in a penalty shootout in Nepal on Saturday.

Mahmudullah picks Williams

04:25 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Bangladesh skipper Mahmudullah Riyad picked the wicket of Zimbabwean left-handed top-order batsman Sean Williams at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

Williams guides Zimbabwe after losing four wickets

03:28 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Zimbabwean left-handed top-order batsman Sean Williams is guiding his side after losing four wickets during their first innings of the first Test against hosts Bangladesh in Sylhet on Saturday.

Cops foil job seekers’ demo at Shahbagh

02:58 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Police on Saturday foiled the demonstration of a group of jobseekers under the banner of Bangladesh Chhatra Parishad demanding extension of age limit to 35 from 30 for entering government jobs. Law enforcers ejected the agitators who took their position at the Public Library and detained seven to eight of them...

Pakistani’s ‘Father of Taliban’ killed in attack amid growing unrest

01:33 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

A Pakistani cleric known as the “father of the Taliban” was stabbed and shot to death in his home outside Islamabad on Friday, his family and aides said, amid ongoing violence days after a Christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy charges...

Yemen girl who turned world’s eyes to famine is dead

12:57 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

A haunted look in the eyes of Amal Hussain, an emaciated 7-year-old lying silently on a hospital bed in northern Yemen, seemed to sum up the dire circumstances of her war-torn country...

Sunday’s JSC, JDC exams rescheduled for Nov 9

12:04 PM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations of November 4 have been rescheduled for November 9. The decision was taken from an emergency meeting at the residence of Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Saturday around 11.15am...

Entrepreneurship workshop in Dhaka Nov 24

11:39 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Ra’dia Inc. in association with Bizz Solutions Ltd. (BSL) is set to organise a workshop titled ‘Funding Mechanism for Entrepreneurs’...

Prof Shahid made VC of Eastern University

11:10 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Prof. Dr. Shahid Akhtar Hossain joined as the Vice Chancellor (VC) of Eastern University on Thursday. He was the former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University and served as a professor in the department of Soil, Water and Environment...

Bangladesh Physics Olympiad held at SEU

10:52 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

The 9th Dutch-Bangla Bank-Prothom Alo Bangladesh Physics Olympiad for Dhaka South Region under the aegis of Bangladesh Physics Olympiad Committee held on Saturday at Southeast University (SEU) Permanent Campus in the capital’s Tejgaon...

Bangladesh bowling in first test against Zimbabwe

09:59 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat in the first of two match test series against Bangladesh on Saturday at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet...

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu, four national leaders

09:41 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders marking the Jail Killing Day...

Erdogan blames Saudi govt for Khashoggi murder

09:07 AM, 03 Nov 2018 Saturday

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for the first time accused the Saudi government directly of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "We know that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government," he wrote in an article in the Washington Post...