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13 killed in Natore road accident
06:32 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayAt least 13 people were killed and 31 others injured when a bus collided head-on with a human hauler (leguna) at Clickmore area on Natore-Pabna highway under Boraigram upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon...
Imran Khan’s cabinet bans first-class air travel for top officials
05:12 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayThe cabinet of newly-appointed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has imposed a ban on first-class air travel by the President, Chief Justice, Senate Chairman and the National Assembly speaker...
10 killed in boiler explosion in Iran
03:31 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayTen people were killed and five wounded after a boiler exploded in a residential area of the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Fars News reported in a Twitter post on Saturday...
Tesla CEO Musk drops pursuit of $72 billion take-private deal
03:16 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayTesla Inc CEO Elon Musk said late on Friday he would heed shareholder concerns and no longer pursue a $72 billion deal to take his U.S. electric car maker private, abandoning an idea that had stunned investors and drawn regulatory scrutiny...
Rohingya protest for ‘justice’ on crackdown anniversary
01:30 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayThousands of Rohingya refugees staged angry protests for "justice" Saturday on the first anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown that sparked a mass exodus to camps in Bangladesh. Many wept as they recalled the brutal killings and rapes inflicted on the Muslim minority last year as 700,000 fled across the border...
Dhupia, Bedi announce pregnancy 3 months after wedding
12:13 PM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayNeha Dhupia and Angad Bedi confirmed pregnancy a little over three months after their wedding. The couple was besieged by pregnancy rumours ever since their secret wedding and Angad took this into account as he wrote on Twitter, “Ha! Turns out this rumour is true..#3ofus.” He also shared pictures of himself and the pregnant Neha Dhupia...
Myanmar crackdown splits Rohingya with little hope of return
11:19 AM, 25 Aug 2018 Saturday"Mummy! Mummy!" 15-year-old Abdullah Razzaq shouted to his mother earlier this week in their once-a-week call, nearly a year after he and his brother, along with more than 700,000 other Rohingya Muslims, fled waves of attacks by Myanmar security forces and crossed the border into Bangladesh. "Why don't you guys come here?"
Kofi Annan to be buried in Ghana on Sept 13
10:38 AM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayFormer United Nations chief and Noble prize laureate Kofi Annan will be buried in his home country Ghana on Sept 13, the West African nation’s president said on Friday...
Hotel fire in Chinese city of Harbin kills 18
10:03 AM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayA fire early on Saturday morning at a hot springs hotel in the far northeastern Chinese city of Harbin killed 18 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The cause of the blaze was under investigation, and rescue work was continuing, the Xinhua report said...
North Korea visit: Trump calls off Pompeo’s trip
09:03 AM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be travelling to North Korea in the immediate future after Donald Trump asked him to call off a planned trip...
US cuts over $200m in aid to Palestinians
08:12 AM, 25 Aug 2018 SaturdayThe United States, a major ally of Israel, has cut more than $200m in economic aid to Palestinians, in a move that comes months after also drastically cutting its contribution to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)...
BNP has to join polls under present govt: Tofail
05:36 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayCommerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Friday said BNP has to join the forthcoming general election to be conducted by Election Commission (EC) keeping the incumbent government in office as there would be no caretaker administration during the polls...
Google deletes Iran-linked accounts on YouTube, Google Plus and Blogger
05:20 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayGoogle announced Thursday that it deleted 58 accounts with ties to Iran on its video platform YouTube and its other sites, the latest sign that foreign agents from around the world increasingly seek to spread disinformation on a broad array of popular websites...
Moderate to heavy rainfall likely
04:01 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayLight to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country in 24 hours commencing 9 am on Friday...
One killed in Tongi bus accident
03:03 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayA woman was killed and her two children were seriously injured while a bus ran over them at Tongi under Gazipur district on Thursday...
34 held in Satkhira
12:49 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayPolice, in special drives arrested 34 persons from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8am on Friday morning...
Fire at city’s warehouse doused
12:27 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayThe fire that broke out at a plastic warehouse in the capital's Lalbagh area on Thursday night was doused within two hours...
Ivy Rahman’s 14th death anniversary observed
12:18 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayThe fourteenth death anniversary of Ivy Rahman, former president of Bangladesh Mahila Awami League and wife of late President M Zillur Rahman, is being observed on Friday in a befitting manner...
Force Myanmar to face ICC for atrocities: South Asian MPs
12:12 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayMore than 130 lawmakers from across Southeast Asia on Thursday demanded the international community bring officials in Myanmar to justice for the atrocious crimes it committed against its Rohingya population in Rakhine State...
16 held in Dinajpur
12:02 PM, 24 Aug 2018 FridayLaw enforcers, in special drives arrested 16 persons including eight drug traders from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8am on Friday morning...