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Kim says ready to denuclearize, discussing concrete steps
11:40 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday he was willing to give up his nuclear weapons and he would not be holding a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam if he were not...
PIB DG Shah Alamgir passes away
10:57 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe Director General (DG) of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and also the president of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Shah Alamgir died on Thursday morning. He breathed his last at Intensive Care Unit of Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at 10 am. The lecturer of PIB Lajina Jeslin confirmed the death to Jago News...
Kushner meets Salman for first time since Khashoggi murder
10:30 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdaySenior White House adviser Jared Kushner met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Tuesday for the first time since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi...
White House bars 4 reporters from Trump-Kim dinner
09:49 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe White House barred reporters from Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times from covering a dinner between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday after two of them asked Trump questions during his initial interactions with Kim...
Bangladesh fall to Wagner’s short stuff after Tamim blazes hundred
09:24 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayNeil Wagner derailed Bangladesh with a five-wicket haul as the visitors, bowled out for 234, had their bright morning turn into a wasteful afternoon...
Voting in DNCC mayor, 36 ward councillor posts underway
08:27 AM, 28 Feb 2019 ThursdayThe voting in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor and 36 war councilor posts is underway peacefully. The voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm on Thursday without any break. Of the wards, 18 wards are under DNCC and 18 are under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)...
All set to hold DNCC by-polls peacefully: CEC
09:27 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayChief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda today said that the Election Commission...
Rohingya crisis needs political solution: UN envoy
08:34 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe visiting UN Secretary General’s Humanitarian Envoy, Dr Ahmed Al Meraikhi today urged all quarters...
Govt wants to control traffic in Dhaka digitally: PM
07:40 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina today said her government wants to control traffic signal digitally to ease traffic jam in the capital. “We want to control traffic in Dhaka city electronically and digitally… some parts of the capital have already been brought...
Bangladesh U-16 girls crush Philippines 10-0
06:21 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayBangladesh got off to a flying start in the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers-2 as they dumped their Philippines counterparts by 10-0 goals in the Group B match in a one-sided affair held on Wednesday at Mandalar Thiri Stadium in Myanmar.
Govt to shift chemical factories to Shyampur, Tongi
06:05 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayIndustries Ministry today took a decision to shift the chemical factories and warehouses from...
Imran Khan offers to hold talks with India
05:17 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayPakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday afternoon addressed the nation after Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets successfully targeted non-military targets across the LoC earlier in the day and later shot down two Indian Air Force jets that had trespassed...
India claims Pakistan peddling fake news of IAF jet crash
04:31 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayAs India woke up to news of Pakistani fighter jets violating Indian airspace, rumours flew thick and fast on social media on both sides of the border. After Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out airstrike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camps...
Nepal tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari killed in helicopter crash
03:52 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayAll seven on board the helicopter carrying tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari have been killed in the crash near Pathibhara in Taplejung district, confirms Air Dynasty official.
Aerial emergency declared in Pakistan
02:12 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayPakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has declared an aerial emergency across all airports following escalating tension between India and Pakistan on Wednesday. All local and international commercial flights have been suspended across the country...
West Bengal govt shifts Pakistan inmates to high-security cells
02:04 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe West Bengal government has shifted 14 Pakistani prisoners, lodged in two correctional homes here, to separate barracks and "high-security" cells, amid soaring tension between India and its western neighbour, a senior official said...
3 to die for killing 1 in N’ganj
01:51 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayA court in Narayanganj has sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing one in Narayanganj. Judge Razia Sultana of Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge 2, passed the order on Wednesday at 12 pm. The death-row convicts are Rafiq, Habib and Sharif Miah. Of them, Sharif is on run...
Noted cricket coach Syed Altaf passes away
01:27 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe first cricket coach of independent Bangladesh Syed Altaf Hossain has died. He breathed his last on Tuesday night at a hospital in the capital at the age of 81...
Indian helicopter crashes in J&K’s Budgam, 2 killed
12:37 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayAn Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam this morning. Two bodies have been found, said the police. The crash took place in the backdrop of heavy shelling and firing from across the border on a day IAF fighter jets crossed the Line of Control and destroyed...
Voting in Dhaka Bar Association polls underway
12:25 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayThe voting in two-day polls to elect the office bearers for 2019-2020 of Dhaka Bar Association, believed to be the largest Bar of Asia, has started 9 this morning...