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Canada’s Bombardier to investigate US-Bangla plane crash
11:46 AM, 14 Mar 2018 WednesdayBombardier will investigate after planes built by the Montreal-based company crashed in Iran on Sunday and in Nepal on Monday, killing a total of about 60 people, reports Toronto Star...
Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking dies
10:11 AM, 14 Mar 2018 WednesdayStephen Hawking died Wednesday after complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He was 76. The world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist was best known for his work on black holes...
Khaleda’s bail suspended till Mar 18
09:34 AM, 14 Mar 2018 WednesdayThe Supreme Court (SC) has suspended till March 18 the bail order of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. A four-member bench of Appellate Division of SC headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order on Wednesday...
UN blames Facebook for fuelling the Rohingya massacre
09:05 AM, 14 Mar 2018 WednesdayThe United Nations has accused Facebook of fuelling the Rohingya massacre by allowing hate speech to spread on the social network in Myanmar. Facebook claimed it is 'seriously' fighting hate speech on its network after the UN suggested the platform had morphed into a 'beast' that helps spread vitriol against Rohingya Muslims...
Medical team ready to go Nepal: Nasim
09:34 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayHealth and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim today said a medical team is ready to go Nepal to provide medical support for the injured people of a US-Bangla Airlines craft crashed near Kathmandu's Tribhuvan Airport...
US Bangla aircraft was fit to fly: CAAB chairman
08:21 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayThe US Bangla Dash model aircraft that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport was totally fit to fly before departing Dhaka, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Chairman Air Vice Marshal M Naim Hassan said here today...
US-Bangla crash: Bodies of 49 victims taken for autopsy
07:52 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayBodies of all 49 passengers who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash have been taken to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu of Nepal on Tuesday. According to Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, the bodies were collected from various hospitals of Kathmandu and sent to the TUTH...
Trump sacks secretary of state Rex Tillerson
07:33 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayUS President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nation’s top diplomat, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday...
US-Bangla crash: 4 receiving treatment ‘out of danger’
06:39 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayFour injured persons, who were rescued and later admitted to the Dhapasi-based Grande International Hospital of Nepal following the US-Bangla aircraft crash, are said to be out of danger...
Nepal transfers 6 air traffic officers to ‘relieve stress’
06:27 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdaySix officers stationed at the Air Traffic Control Tower of Nepal who witnessed the US Bangla air crash have been shifted to another department to ‘minimize shock of the accident’...
Nepal President Bhandari re-elected for 2nd term
05:57 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayIncumbent President of Nepal Bidya Devi Bhandari has emerged victorious with an overwhelming majority and has been re-elected to new term of office, as per the voting result made public following today’s presidential election...
US-Bangla crash: High-level delegates reach Kathmandu
04:48 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayA high-level government delegation from Bangladesh arrived in Kathmandu, on Tuesday to take updates about the fatal crash involving the US Bangla passenger airplane...
SC to hear appeals against Khaleda’s bail Wednesday
04:20 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayThe full bench of the Appellate Division is scheduled to hear on Wednesday two appeals filed by the state and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against a High Court order that granted bail to BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case...
Ekram murder: 39 get death
03:54 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayA Feni court has sentenced thirty-nine people to death in Fulgazi upazila chairman and Awami League leader Ekramul Haque’s murder case. District and Sessions Judge’s Court judge Aminul Huq passed the order on Tuesday around 3.30pm...
US-Bangla plane crash: 3-day mourning at JRRMC
03:37 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayThe authorities of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College (JRRMC) in Sylhet is observing three-day mourning from Tuesday over the US-Bangla plane crash that killed 49 people at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal on Monday...
Confusion in cockpit possibly led to the Nepal plane crash
02:52 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayConfusion within the cockpit of the U.S.-Bangla Airline plane may have been the primary cause...
Farbrace ‘turned down Bangladesh coaching role’
02:24 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayThe BCB claim they have not yet given up hope of securing the services of Paul Farbrace as...
‘People were burning, shouting and falling down’
02:00 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayBangladeshi citizen Shahreen Ahmed, 29, is one of the passengers of US-Bangla aircraft who survived the crash and is undergoing treatment for burn injuries at Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital.
Death sentence to three Noakhali war criminals
12:57 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayThe International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today sentenced three war criminals from Sudharam,
Civil aviation minister off to Nepal
12:41 PM, 13 Mar 2018 TuesdayCivil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal today left here for Nepal to monitor...