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Pry schoolteachers continue strike for third day
05:17 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayAssistant teachers of the government primary schools have been continuing their hunger strike until death for the third consecutive day...
20 killed after Xmas mass bus crash in Philippines
05:04 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayTwenty pilgrims have killed after their bus was involved in a head-on collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass in the Philippines. Local media are reporting a five-month-old baby, a seven-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl are among those who have died...
Google Doodle celebrates “December Global Festivities”
04:45 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayChristmas is here and Google announced the beginning of merriment with a four picture series of Doodles...
Australia coach Lehmann to step down in 2019
04:10 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayDarren Lehmann has confirmed that he will not seek to extend his tenure as Australia's coach beyond his existing contract, which is set to run out following the next Ashes series in 2019...
China, Russia oppose UN resolution on Rohingya
03:34 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayThe UN general assembly has urged Myanmar to end a military campaign against Muslim Rohingya and called for the appointment of a UN special envoy, despite opposition from China, Russia and some regional countries. A resolution put forward by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation was adopted by a vote...
Christmas Day today
02:49 AM, 25 Dec 2017 MondayThe Christian community celebrates Christmas Day in Bangladesh today with festivity commemorating the birthday of Jesus Christ as elsewhere in the world...
PM visits late Mohiuddin Chowdhury’s residence
11:58 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday visited the residence of veteran Awami League (AL) leader and Chittagong city unit President late ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury....
Neo-Nazi boyfriend kills girlfriend’s parents over breakup
11:37 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayAfter concerned parents Scott Fricker and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker pushed their daughter to break up with her neo-Nazi boyfriend...
Cut Suu Kyi’s name from children’s book, demand parents
11:32 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayThe Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is one of the most popular children’s books of 2017, a collection of stories about female role models from Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie to Hillary Clinton and Serena Williams, inspiring girls to aim high and challenge the status quo.
Simple tricks for a good night’s sleep
10:18 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayDo you wake up in the middle of the night and.......
SAFF U-15 girls: Bangladesh beat India to be crowned champions
10:07 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayBangladesh defeated India 1-0 to clinch the SAFF U-15 Women’s Championship title in the final that took place at Birshestha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city’s Kamalapur on Sunday...
Six schoolteachers on hunger strike admitted to DMCH
09:07 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundaySix primary school teachers, who went on hunger strike unto death on Saturday, were admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital ......
Turkey sacks 2766 civil servants over ‘terror’ links
08:51 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayTurkey has dismissed 2,766 people from their posts in state institutions over alleged links to "terror" organisations, according to an emergency decree published in the country's official legal database...
PM vows to turn Bangladesh Navy into ‘Builder Navy’
07:27 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saunday expressed her firm determination to turn Bangladesh Navy into a “Builder Navy”
Pry teachers continue strike for second day
07:16 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayAssistant teachers of the government primary schools have been continuing their hunger strike until death for the second consecutive day demanding 11th grade at the central Shaheed Minar in the capital...
China closes over 13000 websites in 3 years
06:52 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayChina has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules and the vast majority of people support government efforts to clean up cyberspace...
China punishes over 8,000 people for misuse of govt funds
05:55 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayChina has punished 8,123 people for committing fiscal violations after an audit .....
Govt seeks review of SC verdict on 16 amendment
05:55 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayThe government has filed a petition with the Supreme Court (SC) seeking review of its judgement that cancelled the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. The Attorney General’s office on Sunday submitted the 908-page review petition containing 94 grounds on which the apex court may consider the prayer...
US judge partially lifts Trump ban on refugees
05:31 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayA federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States...
Philippines shopping mall fire kills 37
05:00 AM, 24 Dec 2017 SundayFire swept through a shopping mall in the Philippines killing at least 37 people, most of them workers at a call center, city government officials said on Sunday. The vice mayor of the southern city of Davao, Paolo Duterte, said the chance of survival for any of the 37 people missing at the NCC Mall was “zero”...