President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian ... Read More »
The High Court on Monday directed the government to take necessary steps to stop the use of polythene bags and one-time plastic products across the country, including the coastal region, within a year. Read More »
A court here on Monday asked the authorities concerned to freeze 194 bank accounts of Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim in a money laundering case. Read More »
The rape victim, a second-year student of Dhaka University (DU), on Monday informed police that the perpetrator was alone who violated her in the city’s Kurmitola area. Read More »
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their Chairperson Khaleda Zia informed them that she wants to go to any advanced health centre as she is not given proper treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Read More »
Dhaka — Former West Indian cricketer and coach Ottis Gibson is maintaining close touch with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to fill the vacant place of Bangladesh National team’s bowling coach. Bangladesh’s last bowling coach and former South African cricketer Charl Langeveldt left Bangladesh recently to take the responsibility of his home country. Gibson is now in Bangladesh and working ... Read More »
Dhaka —Two Bangladeshi umpires— Sharfuddowla Ibne Shahid Saikat and Masudur Rahman Mukul—brought themselves to a new height as they for the first time got the direct match allocations in the upcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup in South Africa this month. The media department of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Monday evening confirmed that Sharfuddowla Ibne Shahid Saikat and Masudur Rahman ... Read More »
Dhaka – Jamal Bhuiyan, the captain of Bangladesh National Football team and the skipper of the Premier Division Football Club Saif Sporting Club got married in Denmark recently. He tied the knot in the Danish capital Copenhagen at the Golden Palace CPH, a venue for wedding ceremonies. Saif Sporting Club Limited congratulated Jamal in its official Facebook page and shared ... Read More »
Dhaka – Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) accorded a warm reception to its executive committee member Harun-ur-Rashid after being elected as Youth and Sports Secretary of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League for second term. Harun-ur-Rashid is also acted as the chairman of Dhaka Metropolis Football League Committee (DMFLC). BFF member and Pioneer Football League Committee Chairman Shawkat Ali Khan Jahangir and ... Read More »
Dhaka – Bangladesh Taekwondo Federation will accord its South Asian Games medalists at the gymnasium of the National Sports Council’s (NSC) old building here on Tuesday. State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Hasan Russell MP will present as chief guest on the occasion while Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports M Akhter Hossain, NSC Secretary Md Masud ... Read More »
Culture Desk A week-long photography exhibition titled ‘Flash on Rohingya Genocide’ is underway at National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), Segunbagicha in the city. Inaugurated on January 2, the exhibition will continue till January 8. Read More »
Australia declared their second innings at 217 for two on Monday, leaving New Zealand the improbable task of scoring 416 runs for victory in the third Test. Read More »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the police personnel to gain public trust and confidence by developing themselves as the ‘force of people’. Read More »
Dozens of illegal brick kilns, set up in arable land near schools and colleges, have formed a powerful clique who are removing the fertile topsoil for making bricks, rendering the fields unusable for agriculture. Read More »
The 77th Golden Globes were meant to be a coronation for Netflix. Instead, a pair of big-screen epics took top honors Sunday, as Sam Mendes’ technically dazzling World War I tale “1917” won best picture, drama, and Quentin Tarantino’s radiant Los Angeles fable “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” won best film, comedy or musical. Read More »
Forty five dengue patients, including 35 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country. Read More »
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said those who failed to wage a movement will never be able to win any election. Read More »
The 77th Golden Globe Awards are under way in Los Angeles, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge among the early winners. Read More »
Teheran, AP/UNB, Jan 06 – Iran said Sunday it would no longer abide by any of the limits of its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, abandoning the accord’s key provisions that block Tehran from having enough material to build an atomic weapon. Read More »
Nairobi, AP/UNB, Jan 06 – Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled, U.S. and Kenyan authorities said. Read More »
Dhaka, Jan 05 – Three chemical warehouses were gutted as a fire broke out following an explosion in one of them in Purba Bandadakpara residential area on Sunday noon. Read More »
Dhaka, Jan 05 – Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment minister Imran Ahmad on Sunday said the government has set a target to send more than 750,000 workers abroad this year. Read More »
Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo hoped that India will rethink its decisions about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Read More »
এবারই প্রথম প্রাথমিক থেকে দ্বাদশ শ্রেণি পর্যন্ত একযোগে শিক্ষাক্রম পরিমার্জনের যজ্ঞ শুরু হচ্ছে। বিরাট মহাযজ্ঞ। যে চার দলিলের ভিত্তিতে এই নতুন কারিকুলাম দাঁড় করানো হচ্ছে, তার গোড়াতেই বড় গলদ। ২০১০ সালের জাতীয় শিক্ষানীতিতে পষ্টাপষ্টি বলা আছে, প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা হবে আট বছর মেয়াদি। অর্থাৎ, অষ্টম শ্রেণি পর্যন্ত। Read More »
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has inaugurated its sub-branch at Natun Bazar in Magura recently. Abu Reza Md. Yeahia, Deputy Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the sub-branch as chief guest. Read More »
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