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Pay Tk 5 lakh each to families of Mim, Rajib: HC
08:17 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThe High Court (HC) on Monday ordered owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan, whose bus on July 29 crushed 2 college students to death and injured several others, to pay Taka five lakh each to the families of the dead...
BB to announce new MPS Tuesday
07:24 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayBangladesh Bank (BB) will announce its Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of the financial year 2018-19 (FY19) Tuesday at the central bank headquarters in the city...
Facebook donates US$ 2.5 lakh to flood-hit children
06:41 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayFacebook has contributed US$ 2.50 lakh to international NGO Save the Children to help flood affected children and their families in Bangladesh...
Air Chief adorned with Air Chief Marshal rank badge
05:42 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayChief of Air Staff Air Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat was adorned with the new rank badge of Air Chief Marshal in thepresence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban here on Monay afternoon...
Voting ends, counting underway in three cities
05:06 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThe voting in Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet city corporations ended this afternoon amid stringent security measures and festivity while the vote counting is being carried out in the polling stations...
SC order on Khaleda’s review plea in Orphanage case Tuesday
04:40 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThe Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Monday set Tuesday to pass an order on a review plea filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia against its order asking the High Court to dispose of her appeal in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case...
Writ seeks compensation for airport road crash victims
03:33 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayA writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking its directive on the owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan to give Tk 2 crore as compensation to the families of 2 school students who were killed in city bus crash...
PM unveils book on Bangabandhu’s prison life
02:43 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today unveiled the cover of a book on the prison life of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
BNP candidate Sarwar boycotts BCC polls
01:15 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayBNP’s Mayoral candidate for Barisal City Corporation, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar has boycotted the city elections protesting at widespread stuffing and manipulation. Sarwar announced the decision from a press conference at Barisal Press Club around 12pm on Monday...
Drivers, helpers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan arrested
12:59 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayTwo drivers and two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan were arrested following a bus accident that killed two students on Dhaka airport road. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 in a drive arrested them in the capital from Sunday night to Monday morning...
India excludes 4,007,707 from draft citizens list in Assam
12:41 PM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayIndia’s registrar general said on Monday that 4,007,707 people had been excluded from a draft national register of citizens in the border state of Assam, in a move that has raised fears for the future of people in the region...
Case filed over students’ death in airport road crash
11:55 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayA case has been filed following the death of two students in a bus accident on Dhaka Airport Road near Radisson Hotel. Jahangir Alam, father of the deceased Dia Khanom Meem, filed a case with accusing the driver of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan and his associate...
Bangabandhu satellite ground station to inaugurate Tuesday
11:28 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThe primary ground station in Gazipur’s Telipara is ready to serve for Bangladesh’s first satellite, Bangabandhu-1, which was launched into space on May 12...
52 Bangladeshis deported from Assam
10:54 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayA day before the publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), at least 52 Bangladeshi nationals who were detained since 2012 in various detention camps in Assam state of India were deported to Bangladesh on Sunday...
Vietnam minibus crash kills 13
10:31 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThirteen people were killed and four injured when a minibus carrying guests on the way to a wedding in central Vietnam collided head-on with a large container truck on Monday, the government said in a statement...
Trump threatens shutdown over wall, immigration
09:51 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayPresident Donald Trump threatened Sunday to push the government into a shutdown ahead of the coming spending deadline in September if Congress does not fund his border wall and change the nation's immigration laws...
Rooney breaks nose and DC United duck with first MLS goal
09:04 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayWayne Rooney enjoyed a night of ecstacy and agony as he scored his first goal for new club DC United in a 2-1 win over Colorado Rapids but later broke his nose...
Voting begins in 3 city elections
08:30 AM, 30 Jul 2018 MondayThe voting in three city corporations - Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet - began at 8 am on Monday and will continue till 4 pm without any break. In Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), four candidates are contesting for the mayoral post. They are - AL-backed AHM Khairuzzaman Litan (Boat), BNP-backed Mohammad Mosaddeq Hossain...
Open girl guides unit in every female educational institution: PM
09:03 PM, 29 Jul 2018 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to open girl guides unit in every female educational institution to strengthen and expand their (girl guides) activities across the country...
Palestinian teen who slapped Israeli soldier released
07:27 PM, 29 Jul 2018 SundayPalestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been freed from an Israeli prison after serving an eight-month prison sentence for slapping a soldier, according to a spokesman for Israel's Prison Authority. Tamimi's mother, Nariman Tamimi, was also released...