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7 suicide attackers behind 6 Sri Lanka blasts: Investigator

01:34 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels were carried out by seven suicide bombers, a government investigator said Monday...

Bangladesh, Brunei sign seven instruments

12:56 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Bangladesh and Brunei today signed seven instruments for strengthening cooperation mainly in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, livestock, culture and sports, and the supply of LNG. The instruments were signed after the official bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Brunei’s Sultan Haji...

Zayan’s body to reach Dhaka on Wednesday

12:29 PM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The body of Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, a minor child who was killed in the deadly Sri Lanka blasts, will be flown to Dhaka on Wednesday, family sources said...

Google Doodle celebrates Earth Day 2019

11:23 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Google has created a Doodle featuring fun facts about six fascinating creatures to celebrate Earth Day 2019...

13 under arrest for Sri Lanka blasts: Police

09:30 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels that killed more than 207 people, officials said on Monday. Authorities have not made public details on those held after Sunday's attacks. But a police source told AFP the 13 were detained at two locations in and around Colombo...

Sri Lanka suicide bomber queued at hotel buffet, then set off the blast

08:46 AM, 22 Apr 2019 Monday

The suicide bomber waited patiently in a queue for the Easter Sunday breakfast buffet at Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Grand hotel before setting off explosives strapped to his back...

Sri Lanka blasts: 2 Bangladeshi tourists unaccounted for

06:14 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Bangladesh says two of its nationals have remained missing since blasts rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday...

Journalist Mahfuz Ullah still alive, says daughter

05:51 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah is still on life support at a Thailand hospital, his daughter Nusrat Humaira said on Sunday amid rumours of her father’s death...

Cops asked to remain alert

05:02 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Bangladesh Police Headquarters has directed top police officials to remain alert across the country. The new direction came on Sunday after eight serial blasts in Sri Lanka that claimed almost 200 lives...

All domestic flights in Sri Lanka suspended after multiple blasts

03:58 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Airport authorities said today that they have issued the highest level of threat to all airports both domestic and international in Sri Lanka following a spate of blasts this morning...

Sri Lanka declares curfew with immediate effect

03:37 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

A curfew will be imposed from 6 pm today (Apr 21) until 6 pm tomorrow, Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat announced a short while ago...

Sri Lanka top cop had warned of bombers targeting churches 10 days ago

03:11 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Sri Lanka's police chief made a nationwide alert 10 days before Sunday's bomb attacks in the country that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches", according to the warning seen by AFP...

President, PM condemn blasts in Sri Lanka

02:34 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today strongly condemned the series of blasts in three churches and three hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday today which left multiple people dead and scores other injured...

Ex-BNP minister Barrister Aminul Haque dies

12:21 PM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

The vice chairman of BNP and former minister Barrister Aminul Haque has passed away. He breathed his last at the United Hospital in the capital on Sunday at 10 am, said his nephew Barrister Anik R Haque...

Holy Shab-e-Barat tonight

11:39 AM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

The holy Shab-e-Barat, known as the night of fortune, will be observed across the country tonight with due religious fervour and devotion...

PM leaves for Brunei

11:15 AM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Brunei Darussalam this morning on a three-day official visit at the invitation of the kingdom’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah...

Sri Lanka attacks death toll rises to 290

10:58 AM, 21 Apr 2019 Sunday

The death toll from attacks on churches and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka rose significantly to 290, and about 500 people were also wounded, police said on Monday. The death toll overnight had stood at 207. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera declined to give a breakdown of those killed...

PM flies to Brunei Sunday

09:30 PM, 20 Apr 2019 Saturday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka tomorrow on a three-day official visit to Brunei Darussalam at the invitation of the kingdom’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah.

City remain in control of title race with Spurs revenge

08:51 PM, 20 Apr 2019 Saturday

Manchester City exacted some measure of revenge on Tottenham for their Champions League...

Rubana takes office as BGMEA’s first female president

07:48 PM, 20 Apr 2019 Saturday

Rubana Huq today took the charge of the office of BGMEA president as the first female business leader to steer the trade body for the next two years.