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Artists for modernizing art syllabuses
09:13 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayArtists from home and abroad here today expressed identical views of modernizing the...
BGB-BSF DG-level conference begins in New Delhi
08:17 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayA director general (DG)-level conference of BGB-BSF today began in Indian capital New Delhi...
Dengue situation not alarming: DSCC Mayor
07:37 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayDhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sayeed Khokon today said although the number...
Cook to retire from int’l cricket after India series
06:16 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayEngland great Alastair Cook announced on Monday he would retire from international cricket after the end of the ongoing home series against India, with the opening batsman saying the time was right as he had ‘nothing left in the tank’...
RU starts admission forms sale
06:07 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayRajshahi University (RU) today began application forms sale for admission to first year...
DMP files 3224 cases for traffic rule violation
05:33 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayTraffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Sunday filed 3224 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation...
Bangabandhu Satellite to begin transmission Tuesday
05:10 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayBangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I (BS-I) is set to start...
UAE postpones Da Vinci unveiling at Louvre Abu Dhabi
04:11 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayThe UAE said Monday it had postponed the unveiling of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s most prized...
Cabinet approves amendment to labour law
03:17 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayThe Cabinet on Monday approved in principal the draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 aimed at making it friendlier for workers alongside disciplining workers and owners conduct for increased productivity...
Murder attempt on 3 Rohingya youths at Teknaf
02:12 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondaySome unidentified miscreants attempted to kill three Rohingya youths by slitting their throat 3 days after the killing of a Rohingya youth in an unregistered Rohingya slum at Leda of Teknaf...
Rachel, Daniel welcome their first child together
01:58 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayRachel Weisz and Daniel Craig have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl. The Oscar-winning actress, 48, and her James Bond star husband, 50, told friends they were "very happy" to welcome their daughter into the world...
Heavy rain, floods kill 16 in India
12:54 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayAt least sixteen people have died in the last 48 hours due to heavy rains and flooding in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh in India, reports NDTV...
Priyanka’s would-be father-in-law files for bankruptcy
12:23 PM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayA Real Estate company of Paul Jonas, father of American singer Nick Jonas and future father-in-law of actress Priyanka Chopra, has over $1 million in debt, including a $268k judgment from a case his company lost...
Truck-pickup van collision kills 3
10:49 AM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayAt least three people were killed and five others injured as a moving pickup van hit a standing truck in Savar of Dhaka on Monday morning...
2 Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar
10:19 AM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayA court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets act while investigating violence against Rohingyas. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while carrying official documents which had just been given to them by police officers...
War heroine Roma Chowdhury passes away
09:28 AM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayLiberation war heroine Roma Chowdhury, who was brutally tortured and violated by the Pakistani occupational army at her village in Boyalkhali of Chittagong during liberation war, has passed away. She breathed her last at 4am at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH)...
State of emergency declared in Tripoli after days of fighting
08:38 AM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayLibya's UN-backed government has announced a state of emergency in the capital, Tripoli, and its outskirts after several days of fierce fighting between rival armed groups...
Brazil’s 200-year-old national museum hit by huge fire
08:10 AM, 03 Sep 2018 MondayA huge fire has broken out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Firefighters are tackling the blaze at the building, which contains more than 20 million items in its collection. It is not yet clear if anyone has been injured in Sunday's fire...
PM blasts Myanmar for spreading disinformation over Rohingyas
09:52 PM, 02 Sep 2018 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday accused Myanmar of spreading disinformation over their minority Rohingya population through misleading photographs of corpses, calling the act “disgusting”. “This is an act of magical trick . . . What they are doing is disgusting...
7 Bangladeshis held for trying to intrude into India
09:35 PM, 02 Sep 2018 SundayBorder Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested seven Bangladeshi nationals as they were trying to cross the border illegally in Bakchar area under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila on Sunday...