All News
Myanmar rights commission urges repatriation of Rohingyas
04:04 PM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayThe Myanmar National Human Rights Commission is urging the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh to immediately start the repatriation of more than 700,000 Rohingyas from northern Rakhine State who fled to Bangladesh...
National Fan Factory explosion kills 2 in Tongi
01:04 PM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayAt least two people were killed and 25 others injured in an explosion of heat chamber at National Fan Factory in Tongi BSIC Industrial area on Tuesday. The deceased are Saiful Islam, 18 and Shamsul Haque, 20. Identities of the injured people could not be known immediately...
Shastri reveals reason why Kohli was rested from Asia Cup 2018
12:03 PM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayRavi Shastri, coach of the Indian cricket team, on Tuesday, revealed why skipper Virat Kohli was rested from the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2018...
Facebook’s former News Feed chief will take over Instagram
11:07 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayInstagram has officially named a successor to outgoing CEO Kevin Systrom. Adam Mosseri, who previously ran Facebook's News Feed before moving to Instagram as VP of Product, will take over the role as Instagram's top exec, the company announced...
274 judges transferred
11:04 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayA total of 274 judicial officials have been transferred and given new postings in a major reshuffle in the judiciary. The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs issued a notification on Monday in this regard. Those transferred and given new postings include assistant judges, senior assistant judges, judicial magistrates, senior judicial magistrates and metropolitan magistrates...
34 bodies found in church buried by landslide in Indonesia
10:59 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayThe bodies of 34 Indonesian students have been found under a church which was buried by a mudslide after the quake in Palu of Indonesia, say aid workers...
Maldives president ‘received $1.5m in hard cash’ ahead of vote
10:34 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayAn anti-money laundering body in the Maldives has informed police that President Abdulla Yameen received $1.5m in hard currency days ahead of a contentious presidential election in the Indian Ocean island nation...
Indonesia hit by fresh quakes off island of Sumba
09:23 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayTwo quakes struck in quick succession off the southern coast of Indonesia's Sumba Island on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey said...
Iranian plot to bomb Hajj in 1986
08:34 AM, 02 Oct 2018 TuesdayDamning new evidence has emerged of an Iranian plot to detonate bombs during the Hajj pilgrimage in 1986, using explosives planted in the baggage of innocent pilgrims before they flew to Saudi Arabia. The pilgrims, about 100 elderly men and women from Iran, were unaware that their bags contained bombs...
Bangladesh get off to flying start in Bangabandhu Gold Cup
08:50 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayBangladesh National football team have got off to a flying start in their opening game against Laos in the Bangabandhu International Gold Cup football. The men in red and green beat Laos by a lone goal at Sylhet district Stadium in Sylhet on Monday.
Huda files corruption case against Sinha
08:15 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayFormer BNP minister Barrister Nazmul Huda has filed a corruption case against ex-chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. Huda, who is now chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Alliance (BNA), filed the case with Shahabag Police Station on Saturday.
Bangladesh return winning streak in U-19 Asia Cup
07:45 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayBangladesh U-19 cricket team shrugged off their previous match defeat as they bounced back...
MNP launched to offer cell phone users freedom of choice
06:13 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayThe much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) ervice was launched today “commercially...
No scope to accept BNP’s 7-point demands: Quader
05:19 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday termed the BNP’s seven-point demands as unrealistic saying that there is no scope to accept those before the election...
Novoair declares holiday packages to promote tourism
05:18 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayNovoair, one of the country’s private airlines has declared lucrative holiday packages for Cox’s...
Bangabandhu Int’l Gold Cup football begins today
04:49 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayHost Bangladesh take on Laos in the lone group B opening match of prestigious Bangabandhu International Gold Cup football that begins today at Sylhet district Stadium in Sylhet...
2018 Nobel Medicine Prize awarded for cancer research
04:21 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayAmerican James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, the award-giving body said on Monday.
Govt plans to raise age limit for public job entry to 35: Minister
03:44 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondaySocial welfare minister Rashed Khan Menon on Monday said that the age limit for government job entry would be raised to 35...
DU to hold convocation on October 6
03:08 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayThe Dhaka University (DU) authority is taking all its preparation to hold its 51th convocation...
Don’t be complacent, work for polls victory: PM urges party men
02:50 PM, 01 Oct 2018 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged her party leaders and workers not to be over complacent about coming back to power in the next election instead work together to help win of the candidates in all constituencies in the upcoming polls...