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Personal Secretaries appointed to cabinet members
02:44 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayPersonal Secretaries have been appointed to 46 ministers, state-ministers and deputy ministers. The Public Administration ministry issued an order on Tuesday. They have been appointed under ‘The ministers, ministers of state and deputy ministers remuneration and privileges amendment act, 2016’...
Sylhet Sixers set 169 runs target for Chittagong Vikings
02:22 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdaySylhet Sixers set a challenging total of 169 runs for Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh premier League (BPL) at Sher- e- Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday.
PM, cabinet pay homage to Bangabandhu
01:48 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her new cabinet colleagues paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday on the occasion of installation of her government for the third consecutive term...
Month-long DITF-2019 begins
01:40 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayThe 24th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) begins today at Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, adjacent to Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), in the city.
2 held with fakes notes in Mirpur
01:24 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayMembers of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) of DMP have arrested two people along with fake notes worth Tk 12.95 lakh from Mirpur in the capital...
Sylhet Sixers opt to bat first, Nasir replaces Towhid
01:20 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdaySylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to bat first during their second match of the sixth edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)...
JS goes into first session Jan 30
01:04 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayThe 11th parliament will convene at 3:00pm on January 30. The first sitting will see a speaker and a deputy speaker elected, according to Jatiya Sangsad. The 11th parliamentary elections was held on December 30 last year while Awami League (AL) got landslide victory...
Saudi woman ‘given refugee status’
12:37 PM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayA Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave a Bangkok hotel has been given refugee status by UN, the Australian government says...
Duterte wants state auditors ‘kidnapped, tortured’: Philippines
11:03 AM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has advocated the kidnapping and torture of government auditors for hampering the work of his administration...
Voting underway in 3 B’baria suspended centres
10:12 AM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayRe-balloting in three election centres in Brahmanbaria-2 constituency, where the voting was suspended during the 11th parliamentary elections, began at 8 am Wednesday. The balloting will continue till 4pm without any break...
Cabinet members on way to Tungipara
09:24 AM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayThe new cabinet members began their journey to Tungipara from Jatiya Sangsad to pay homage to Bangabadhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday at 6:30am. State minister for water resources Enamul Haque Shamim confirmed the matter to Jago News...
CEO resigns after vegetative patient gives birth
08:49 AM, 09 Jan 2019 WednesdayThe chief executive of the corporation in charge of an Arizona nursing home where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth has resigned...
Where 518 inmates sleep in space for 170 in Manila jail
04:07 PM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayFor some inmates of the Manila City Jail, making the bed means mopping up sludgy puddles, unfolding a square of cardboard on the tile floor and lying down to sleep in a small, windowless bathroom, wedged in among six men and a toilet...
PM, new cabinet members pay homage to Liberation War martyrs
03:01 PM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War today on the occasion of installation of her government for the third consecutive term...
Kamal warns BNP against sabotage in name of movement
01:57 PM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has warned BNP that they will be curbed strongly if they try to do sabotage in the name of movement. The Home Minister said this while talking to the journalists at the Secretariat in the capital on Tuesday noon...
Dhaka Dynamites beat Khulna Titans by 105 runs
12:33 PM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayDhaka Dynamites, a mighty team in BPL, beat Khulna Titans in their second match by 105 runs at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium at Mirpur on Tuesday. Khulna scored 87 runs after Dhaka set a target of 193 runs...
Hrithik confirms dad Rakesh has early stage cancer
12:06 PM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayBollywood actor Hrithik Roshan has confirmed that father, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan has been diagnosed with early stage throat cancer and is taking on the disease in ‘full spirit’. He also wrote that the actor-turned-filmmaker will undergo a surgery on Tuesday...
New cabinet pay homage to Bangabandhu
10:53 AM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her new cabinet colleagues paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday on the occasion of installation of her government for the third consecutive term. They paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban...
Language movement hero Hannan dies
10:38 AM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayLanguage movement hero and eminent educationist Syed Abdul Hannan has died. He breathed his last at Dhaka’s City Hospital early Tuesday. He left behind his wife, two sons and three daughters to mourn his death...
World Bank President Kim resigns
09:30 AM, 08 Jan 2019 TuesdayWorld Bank President Jim Yong Kim has resigned, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, the multilateral lender said on Monday, reports Aljazeera. Kim, 59, said that he will immediately join a firm and focus on increasing infrastructure in developing countries. The bank did not provide further details...