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PM greets Tigers for T20I series victory against WI
12:25 PM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday congratulated Bangladesh Cricket Team for their T20I series victory over West Indies...
Drivers, helpers of Jabal-e-Nur Paribahan on 7-day remand
12:17 PM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayA Dhaka court has placed two drivers and two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus on 7-day remand in a case filed over the deaths of two college students in bus crash on Airport Road...
Cumilla arson case: Khaleda gets bail for 6-month
11:58 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayThe High Court has granted 6-month bail for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed over the arson attack on a bus in Cumilla that killed eight people in 2015. A bench of Justice AK M Asaduzzaman and Justice SM Mozibur Rahman passed the order on Monday...
N Korea state media urges U.S. to drop sanctions
11:06 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayNorth Korean state media called on Monday for the United States to drop sanctions, saying Pyongyang had demonstrated good faith by ending its nuclear weapons testing and handing over the remains of U.S. troops killed in the Korean War...
Bangladesh beat West Indies to level T20I series
10:50 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayA complete turnaround - of fortune, form and result - was completed when Bangladesh beat West Indies by 19 runs to clinch the T20I series, to go along with their ODI series win. They reached the 2-1 margin when umpires called off play after a second rain interruption late on Sunday evening in front of a large...
Tagore’s 77th death anniversary today
10:29 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayThe nation is observing the 77th death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on Monday with elaborate programmes recalling the great poet who did not leave any human emotion untouched in his works, especially poems and songs...
Bus services resume in capital
09:48 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayThe bus service has resumed in the capital after a suspension for several days following student protests. All types of vehicular movement was normal in different parts of Dhaka...
PTI to formally announce Imran as PM nominee today
09:23 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will formally announce party chairman Imran Khan as a candidate for the next prime minister of Pakistan on Monday...
Bangladesh set 185-run target for Windies
08:38 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayBangladesh set target of 185 runs in the third and final Twenty20 international against West Indies at Central Broward Park at Lauderhill, Florida on Monday. Earlier, Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan decided to bat first against West Indies...
Powerful Indonesia earthquake kills 91
08:18 AM, 06 Aug 2018 MondayAt least 91 people are now known to have died after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok...
Dhaka transport system to be brought under 6 companies: Khokon
09:45 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayDhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Sunday said the transport system of capital Dhaka will be brought under six companies as per the plan of late DNCC mayor Annisul Huq to make the system more disciplined...
Nahid asks teachers to take students back to classes
07:57 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayEducation Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday directed the authorities of schools and colleges to play more active roles for helping return agitating students to classrooms through motivating them...
Major earthquake rocks Indonesia’s Lombok island
07:25 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayA major earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Lombok island Sunday, just a week after a quake had killed 17 people on the holiday island, sending people running from their homes and triggering a tsunami alert...
BNP wants to capture power capitalizing on student movement: Quader
06:52 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP wants to capture state power capitalizing on the students’ movement for safe roads and they are moving ahead with this agenda. “It is clear that they want to divert the non-political student...
Mahrat of ‘Operation Jackpot’ movie on Sept 16
06:51 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayThe Mahrat of ‘Operation Jackpot’, a movie based-on historic operation of the Naval Commandos during the War of Liberation, will be held on September 16...
Kamal warns of actions against student protest “instigators”
06:10 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday warned of tough punitive actions against instigators of student demonstrations and cautioned the protestors as well “not to cross the limit”...
Case filed against Amir Khasru over phone conversation
06:02 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayA case was filed against BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury with Kotwali thana over plotting subversive activities and conspiracy against the state onSaturday night...
Phone app, database help Imran win Pakistan polls
05:22 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayA phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons in the successful campaign of cricket legend Imran Khan in last month’s general election, though rivals allege Khan also received clandestine aid from Pakistan’s powerful military...
Ershad urges students to go back to classroom
05:16 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayJatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday called upon the protesting students to go back to the classroom leaving the streets...
Remittance inflow increases by 18pc in July
04:16 PM, 05 Aug 2018 SundayBangladeshi expatriates sent home US$1,316.93 million remittance in the first month of the current fiscal 2018-19, which is 18 percent higher than the amount received in the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal...