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Girls upbeat to win against Nepal
05:07 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayBangladesh U-15 national women’s football midfielder Nilufer Yesmeen expressed her high...
PM to lay foundation of underpass near Ramiz Uddin College Sunday
04:24 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of an underpass adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on the Airport Road in the capital on SUnday...
Monsanto told to pay $289m in cancer trial
02:35 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayChemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer...
6 buses of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan seized
02:05 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 and 4 on Saturday in separate drives seized six buses of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan from different parts of the capital. RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed the matter to Jago News. On August 1, BRTA cancelled the registration of two buses of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ amid...
Moon sighting committee meets Sunday
12:56 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayNational Moon Sighting Committee meeting will be held at 7:15 pm on Sunday at Islamic Foundation conference room in Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to fix the date of holy Eid-ul-Azha and review reports of moon sighting of Jilhajj of 1439 Hijri...
Imran Khan to be sworn in as Pakistan PM on August 18
12:41 PM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayPakistan's World Cup cricket hero Imran Khan will be sworn in as prime minister next week, his party said on Friday, announcing it has the numbers to form a coalition government in the lower house of parliament...
Helicopter crashes in Japan, 9 killed
11:43 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayAll nine people aboard a Japanese search and rescue helicopter that crashed into the central mountains were confirmed dead Saturday, authorities said. The Bell 412EP helicopter carrying seven local rescue workers from the Gunma prefecture and two from a flight service company lost contact about an hour after takeoff Friday and crashed...
Bus drivers say accidents not entirely their fault
10:55 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayKhurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an end to rash driving that killed two teenagers late last month...
Facebook tightens noose around fake accounts
09:59 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayThe world's largest social media network Facebook on Friday took measures to make it more difficult to run fake or compromised accounts on its platform as it demanded authorization from its users who have a large number of followers in the US...
Messi named as new Barcelona captain
09:34 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayLionel Messi has been named as the new captain of Barcelona following Andres Iniesta's departure from Camp Nou...
Dalai Lama apologises after remark on Jawaharlal Nehru
09:20 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayTibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has expressed regret over his recent statement on Jawaharlal Nehru in which he called the former Prime Minister as "self-centred"...
Re-polls at 2 SSC centres underway
08:57 AM, 11 Aug 2018 SaturdayRe-election at two suspended Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) polling stations began at 8am on Saturday and continue till 4pm without any break. There are 2,221 voters at Gazi Burhanuddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School centre while 2,566 at Hobinandi Government Primary School one...
BNP, cohorts tried to topple govt: Anisul
09:22 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayLaw, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Friday said BNP-Jamaat and their cohorts tried to topple government by inciting the recent movement of the students...
Dhaka, Kathmandu sign MoU on hydro-electricity
07:31 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayState Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Friday said Bangladesh has a plan to import 9,000 megawatts electricity from Nepal to mitigate the increasing demand of electricity by 2040. The state minister said this while addressing...
4 killed in shooting in Canadian town: police
07:12 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayFour people were killed on Friday in a shooting in the eastern Canadian town of Fredericton, police said. Police urged people in the area of the shooting to remain in their homes, describing it as an “active incident” on Twitter around an hour after giving first word of the killings...
UNHCR relocating Rohingyas as heavy rain continues in Cox’s Bazar
07:06 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayAmid one of the heaviest monsoon seasons in years in Cox’s azar area, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, together with the Bangladeshi authorities and partners, is pressing on with the relocation of thousands of Rohingya families at high risk of landslides and floods...
New fossil fuel projects – is it really needed?
06:40 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayBangladesh, a country full of natural beauty. We have the largest sea beach, the world largest mangrove forest Sundarban and so many more. We are a developing country and with the growing technology advancement electricity is a faster growing need of the progressing nation. The government is trying its best to fulfill the need. At present, Bangladesh has the installed capacity of power generation is 16,048 MW...
Security lapses found in WhatsApp
05:16 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayResearchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm said Wednesday they had found a flaw in WhatsApp that could allow hackers to modify and send fake messages in the popular social messaging app...
Oscars are now a popularity contest
05:14 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayNot since Faye Dunaway shouted “La La Land!” has an Oscar announcement caused quite as much chaos as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decision to create a new Academy Awards category for “outstanding achievement in popular film....
Dozens dead as Taliban fighters storm Afghanistan’s Ghazni
04:52 PM, 10 Aug 2018 FridayHeavily armed Taliban fighters attacked Ghazni city in central Afghanistan early on Friday, burning police checkpoints, shelling houses and business areas and seizing control of parts of the city before being beaten back, officials said...