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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...
Drug dealer killed in ‘gunfight’ in Gulistan
12:09 PM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayA suspected drug dealer was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in front of the Mohanagar Natya Mancha at Gulistan in the capital on Tuesday night. The bullet-hit body were sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctor declared him dead. The body was kept at the DMCH’s morgue, the SI added...
Trump meets Vietnamese president before summit with Kim
11:16 AM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayU.S. President Donald Trump met Vietnam’s president, Nguyen Phu Trong, in Hanoi on Wednesday, hours before Trump was due to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their second summit. Trump and Trong, who is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, met at the grand, colonial-era presidential palace...
India shelling ‘kills 4 civilians’ in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
10:42 AM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayFour people, including two children, have been killed and seven others wounded in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's district of Kotli, officials said...
3 killed, 60 feared buried in illegal mine collapse in Indonesia
09:12 AM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayIndonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ropes to dig out more than 60 people who were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi that killed at least three...
Nigeria election: Buhari re-elected as president
08:54 AM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday's general election show...
Schools in Jammu town closed due to firing at LoC
08:21 AM, 27 Feb 2019 WednesdayPakistani troops fired mortar shells and small arms across the Line of Control at several areas in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of ceasefire violations that have been underway for the last three consecutive days. Five Indian soldiers were injured in the Akhnoor sector by Pakistan's shelling...
No air passengers to be allowed on board without photo ID: CAAB
09:35 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayNo domestic air passengers will be allowed onboard without showing their valid photo identity card (ID), Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) said in a circular today. The passengers will have to enclose valid passport, national ID...
Jayasuriya banned for two years: ICC
08:26 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdaySri Lankan cricket legend Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned from all cricket for two years...
ACC sues two bank officials over Tk 133cr scam
07:38 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayAnti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against three people including two AB Bank officials on charges of misappropriating Taka 133 crore.
EU urges ‘maximum restraint’ from India, Pakistan after air strike
07:00 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe EU on Tuesday called on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise “maximum restraint” after Indian warplanes attacked a militant camp in Pakistan, sending tensions soaring between the...
Signal 3 for maritime ports
06:18 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayMaritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number...
Prepare for all eventualities, Imran tells Pak forces after IAF strikes
05:12 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayPakistan’s national security committee on Tuesday condemned the Indian Air Force’s strikes at a Jaish-e-Muhammed terror camp across the Line of Control. The national security committee, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, said Pakistan...
China urges India, Pakistan to ‘exercise restraint’ after air strike
04:30 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayChina urged India and Pakistan on Tuesday to "exercise restraint" after New Delhi said its warplanes attacked a militant camp...
‘Salute IAF pilots’, says Rahul Gandhi after Air strike on terror camp
03:57 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdaySeveral political leaders, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday reacted to...
Pakistani villagers say 1 wounded in Indian air strike
02:48 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayPakistani villagers in the area where Indian jets struck what officials in New Delhi said was a militant training camp said they heard four loud bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by bomb shards...
4 reasons why this Indian Air Force action is different
02:21 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayIndian government has confirmed it carried out preemptive strikes against terror training camps in Pakistan...
PM urges NRBs to contribute to country’s progress as ‘son of soil’
01:59 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Bangladeshi engineers living abroad to make contribution to the country’s ongoing development as the ‘son of the soil’...
Light earthquake felt in Bangladesh
12:44 PM, 26 Feb 2019 TuesdayThe light tremor, measuring 4.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, was felt in different parts of the country including the capital on Tuesday morning...