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Singer Lucky Akhand’s 2nd death anniversary Sunday
07:25 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayThe second death anniversary of eminent singer-composer and freedom fighter Lucky Akhand...
495 foreigners in Bangladesh jails: Minister
06:26 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said there are 495 foreigners in Bangladesh jails. “A total of 495 nationals of different countries are now languishing in Bangladesh jails,” he said at a seminar titled “Combating Trafficking: Repatriation of Victims of Trafficking” in the city.
DMP bans fireworks on Shab-e-Barat
05:10 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayDhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed restrictions on the use of fireworks and carrying...
Wasion inks agreement with ‘Twenty One Seventy One’
04:31 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayTwenty One Seventy One signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wasion Group, the leading global tech oversize company...
Tourists follow ‘Game of Thrones’ trail in Northern Ireland
03:59 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayWielding a replica broadsword, Indian tourist Akshay Mannur duels with friends — re-enacting...
Dhaka WASA rejects TIB report
02:32 PM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayDhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (DWASA) has rejected the research report done by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) that said 91 percent clients of the WASA have to boil water before drinking. The Managing Director of Dhaka Wasa Engineer Taksim A Khan on Saturday rejected the report terming it a low-standard quality report...
4 killed in Mymensingh road crash
11:59 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayFour people were killed and two others injured in a road accident at Alalpur area in Mymensingh sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. The injured people were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital...
Priyanka Chaturvedi quits as Congress spokesperson, joins Shiv Sena
11:33 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayCongress national spokesperson and convenor of the party's media cell, Priyanka Chaturvedi, resigned from the party on Thursday...
US man arrested for threatening Democratic politicians
10:58 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayPolice arrested a Florida man on Friday on suspicion of leaving racist, homophobic and Islamophobic messages filled with death threats on the voicemails of several Democratic members of Congress...
Adele announces separation from husband Simon
10:42 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayAdele and her husband Simon Konecki have separated. The pop singer’s representatives Benny Tarantini and Carl Fysh confirmed the news on Friday in a statement...
PM monitoring singer Subir Nandi’s treatment
09:23 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina is constantly monitoring the treatment of critically ill Ekushey Padak-winning singer Subir Nandi, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said...
Rohingyas must go back: PM
08:29 AM, 20 Apr 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her firm stance on Rohingya repatriation, saying the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals must go back to their homeland. “The Rohingya nationals, who took shelter in Bangladesh, must return to their homeland of Rakhaine state in Myanmar,” she said when visiting UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy paid a courtesy call on her at her official Ganabhaban residence here this evening...
London climate-change protesters to target Heathrow Airport
03:55 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayThe Extinction Rebellion group of climate change campaigners said it planned to hold a protest...
PM receives treatment at National Institute of Ophthalmology
03:32 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday received treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology (NIO) and Hospital at city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. She went there in the morning, bought a ticket from the counter and took treatment like any other patient.
India suspends Kashmir border trade with Pakistan
03:03 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayIndia has suspended trade across its disputed Kashmir border with Pakistan, alleging that weapons and drugs are being smuggled across the route, as tensions simmer between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Kashmir has been on edge since a February suicide attack...
Woman shot dead in N Ireland in ‘terrorist incident’
01:29 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayA woman has been shot dead during riots in the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland and...
FIFA backs English players’ social media boycott over racism
12:32 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayFIFA is backing a 24-hour social media boycott by professional players in England in a protest...
Malian PM resigns as anger mounts over massacre
12:07 PM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayMali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following...
Youth killed in Gazipur ‘gunfight’
11:24 AM, 19 Apr 2019 FridayAn unidentified youth was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Salna area in Gazipur early Friday. The deceased was a drug trader, claimed Rab. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted a drive...
Country to maintain 9% average real GDP growth for 20 years
09:38 PM, 18 Apr 2019 ThursdayThe country will have to maintain a 9 percent average real GDP growth for 20 years after 2021 to fulfill its vision of becoming a high income country by 2041, suggests an official estimate. In the growth path, Bangladesh has to remove extreme poverty and attain upper middle income status...