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Turkey election: Erdogan seeks 2nd term in hard-fought contest
12:01 PM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayTurkish voters are going to the polls to decide whether to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a second five-year term, in the most fiercely-fought elections in country in years...
2 bullet-hit bodies found in Jashore
11:19 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayPolice recovered bullet-hit bodies of two unidentified people on Jashore-Monirampur road at Chatiyantola area in Jashore early Sunday. Identities of the deceased could not be known. Mokarram Hossain, officer-in-charge of Monirampur Police Station, said two group of terrorists involved in the gunfight in the area...
2 killed in Sirajganj bus-pickup van collision
10:23 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayTwo people were killed and fifteen others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup van at Harinchara area in Solonga upazila of Sirajganj early Sunday. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately...
4 held with 20,000 Yaba pills in Uttara
10:02 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 in a drive held four drug traders along with 20,000 pieces of Yaba from Uttara in the capital in the wee hours of Sunday. Further details regarding their matter will be disclosed in a press conference at 11am, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, RAB Director (Legal and Media)...
Life-size chocolate Messi for his birthday
09:50 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayWhen Moscow confectioners found out Lionel Messi would be celebrating his birthday during the World Cup, they decided he needed a gift that measured up - a life-size chocolate sculpture in his likeness...
Restaurant owner asks Trump press secretary to leave
09:28 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayDonald Trump's press secretary says she was asked to leave a restaurant because she worked for the US president...
Saudi Arabia lifts ban on women driving
08:52 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayWomen throughout Saudi Arabia waited for the stroke of midnight, turned the keys in the ignition, fired up their engines - and hit the road to a bright new future. It was the moment they had waited for since King Salman issued the royal decree on September 26, 2017, to lift the driving ban on women...
Kroos missile secures last-gasp Germany win
08:34 AM, 24 Jun 2018 SundayA stoppage-time goal from Toni Kroos gave holders Germany a dramatic 2-1 win over Sweden on Saturday to reignite their hopes of qualifying for the World Cup last 16. Having lost their opening game to Mexico, the Germans looked to be heading for a draw until Kroos curled in a superb strike...
JS polls schedule in October: EC secy
08:54 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdaySecretary of Election Commission (EC) secretariat Helal Uddin Ahmed on Saturday said the schedule of 11th Jatiya Sangsad election will be announced in late October...
Lukaku, Hazard score brace in Belgian rout
08:42 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayTwo goals each for Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard and one for Michy Batshuayi swept Belgium to a 5-2 victory over Tunisia on Saturday that put them in command of World Cup Group G and underlined their status as one of the tournament favourites...
Root causes of Rohingya crisis must be addressed: UN
07:39 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayUnited Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng here on Saturday commended the commitment demonstrated by the Bangladesh government in supporting the Rohingyas and highlighted that the root causes of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar must be addressed...
Messi on a mission as Argentina train with renewed hope
07:28 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayLionel Messi and Argentina hit the training ground on Saturday with renewed hope of qualifying for the World Cup last 16...
Govt distributes over 259.79cr free textbooks in 2010-18
06:42 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayThe government distributed 259 crore, 79 lakh, 22 thousand and 902 textbooks free of cost among the pre-primary and secondary level students from the academic year 2010 to 2018...
UN Under-Secretary-General due Sunday
03:49 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayUN Under-Secretary-General (SG) for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and 4 other high officials will visit here on Sunday as part of four Asian countries tour...
Scoring against Argentina isn’t that difficult, says ‘Lionel Musa’
03:30 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayAhmed Musa is ready to inspire Nigeria to victory over Argentina in their final World Cup group game, having apparently been described as ‘Lionel Musa’ in South America...
Ex-S. Korean premier Kim Jong-pil dies
02:15 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayKim Jong-pil, the founder of South Korea’s spy agency whose political skills helped him also serve twice as prime minister, first under his dictator boss and later under a man his agency kidnapped, has died. He was 92...
Chechnya leader grants Salah honorary citizenship
01:51 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayChechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov granted honorary citizenship on Friday to striker Mohamed Salah at a banquet held to say goodbye to Egypt’s World Cup squad...
PM inaugurates AL’s new office building
12:47 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the newly constructed head office building of Bangladesh Awami League at city’s Bangabandhu Avenue at Gulistan here on Saturday, coinciding the 69th founding anniversary of the party...
Messi is not a leader like Ronaldo: Petit
12:37 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayLionel Messi does not have the same leadership qualities as Cristiano Ronaldo, according to former Barcelona player Emmanuel Petit...
Trump says North Korea still ‘extraordinary threat’
12:04 PM, 23 Jun 2018 SaturdayUS President Donald Trump on Friday cited "an unusual and extraordinary threat" from North Korea's nuclear arsenal to extend sanctions on Kim Jong-un's regime, despite touting the success of a historic summit earlier this month...