Dhaka – A young man was stabbed to death by adversaries following a land dispute at Kulunia village in Sadar upazila in Pabna on Saturday night.
Day: August 5, 2018
Two killed in separate incidents in Savar
Dhaka – Two people were killed in separate incidents in Savar on Sunday.
SAFF U-15 Women’s Champs: BD team leave for Bhutan Monday
Dhaka – With a hope to retain the title, a 23-member Bangladesh Women’s Football team will leave here for Bhutan on Monday to participate in the 2nd SAFF Under-15 Women’s Championship-2018 to be held in Bhutanese capital Thimphu on August…
Pacer Abu Hider fined for breaching ICC code of conduct
Dhaka – Bangladesh pace bowler Abu Hider has been fined 20 percent of his match fee for using inappropriate language during his side’s second T20I against the West Indies at Lauderhill on Saturday (Sunday in Bangladesh).
University Football: Fareast University emerge as new champions
Dhaka – Last year’s runners-up Fareast University emerged as the new champions in the Shahjalal Islami Bank Faraaz Gold Cup Inter-University Football Tournament beating South East University by 8-7 goals in tie breaker at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here on…
3rd T20I: Bangladesh, Windies to play series decider Monday
Dhaka – Bangladesh will play host West Indies in the series decider third T20I at Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill in Florida of the USA on Monday.
4 to die for murder in Sylhet
A tribunal here on Sunday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a girl after rape.
Alwaleed’s firm takes $266.7m stake in Deezer
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding has completed a SAR1bn ($266.7m) deal to buy newly issued shares in the French music streaming service Deezer, the company said in a statement. Shares in Deezer will be bought through Kingdom Holding and…
Govt wats to implicate BNP with student movement: Fakhrul
BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is trying to implicate the party with the student movement and violence as part of its plot to divert the agitation to a different direction.
B Chowdhury for special JS session to update laws
Jukta Front chairman AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury urged the government and the President to convene a special session of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) immediately to amend the existing laws to ensure road safety.
UN urgently urges all to keep everyone safe on Dhaka roads
The United Nations (UN) on Sunday urgently called upon all parties to keep everyone – including children and young people – safe on the roads and safe from any kind of violence.
Education Minister asks teacher: Take pupilsts back to classes
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday directed the principals of government and private colleges of Dhaka to convince their students to vacate roads and return to their classes at any cost.
Indian women, inordinately burdened by housework
Underneath two gigantic chandeliers in the conference room of a posh Gurgaon hotel, 250 elegantly dressed women are ferociously beating drums. Faster, slower, louder, stop. It’s easier than it looks. The women break out into a sweat as they whistle…
Facebook opens up on vote meddling, but is the shift real?
For a company bent on making the world more open, Facebook has long been secretive about the details of how it runs its social network — particularly how things go wrong and what it does about them.
Arab world’s resources being mismanaged: Sheikh Mohammed
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE’s Prime Minister and Vice President, has spoken out against the mismanagement of resources in the Arab world, criticising politicians for their lack of action. In a series of messages on Twitter, Sheikh…
Uber completes 1bn rides in South Asia
Uber, the world’s largest ridesharing company, hit yet another milestone in South Asia as it rolled past the 1 billion mark.
BNP’s Amir Khasru sued over ‘leaked phone conversation’
A case was filed against BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury with Kotwali Police Station in the port city under the Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Act and Special Powers Act on Saturday night.
Students block Dhaka’s Shahbagh crossing to protest attacks
Several thousand university students on Sunday blocked Shahbagh intersection, one of the city’s busiest areas, protesting Saturday’s attacks on school and college students in Jigatala during their demonstrations demanding safe roads.
RU students protest Jhigatala attacks
The students of Rajshahi University brought out a silent procession on the campus protesting Saturday’s attacks on school and college students in Dhaka’s Jhigatala during their demonstrations demanding safe roads.
US embassy: “Nothing can justify” attacks on protesters
The US Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday said “nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence” over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights in supporting a safer Bangladesh.
6 photojournalists injured in attacks by ‘BCL’
At least seven photojournalists were injured in attacks by unruly youths in Jigatala and Science Laboratory areas of the city on Sunday while taking snaps of an attack on protesting students.
ড্রোন হামলা থেকে বেঁচে গেলেন ভেনেজুয়েলার প্রেসিডেন্ট
ভেনেজুয়েলার রাজধানী কারাকাসে প্রেসিডেন্ট নিকোলাস মাদুরোর লাইভ বক্তব্য দেয়ার সময় ড্রোন বোমা বিস্ফোরণের ঘটনা ঘটেছে বলে জানিয়েছেন দেশটির কর্মকর্তারা। তবে তিনি অক্ষতই রয়েছেন। যোগাযোগ মন্ত্রী হোর্জে রডরিগুজ বলেছেন, মি. মাদুরোকে হত্যা করতেই ওই হামলা চালানো হয়েছিল, যাতে সাতজন সৈনিক আহত…
Don’t pay heed to rumours: PM Hasina’s call
Dhaka, Aug 5 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the people of the country not to pay heed to rumours and get confused by false propaganda.
ওয়েস্ট ইন্ডিজকে হারিয়ে টি টুয়েন্টি সিরিজে সমতা ফেরালো বাংলাদেশ
ফ্লোরিডার লডারহিলে ওয়েস্ট ইন্ডিজের বিপক্ষে তিন ম্যাচ সিরিজের দ্বিতীয় টি টুয়েন্টিতে ১২ রানে জয় পেয়েছে বাংলাদেশ। ফলে তিন ম্যাচের এই সিরিজে সমতায় ফিরলো সফরকারীরা। ফ্লোরিডার লডারহিল স্টেডিয়ামে টসে হেরে প্রথম ব্যাট করতে নেমে ৫ উইকেটে ১৭১ রান সংগ্রহ করে বাংলাদেশ।…
When Sarangi vibrates with Tabla
Ustad Liyakat Ali Khan and Jaffar Khan Talks to the GreenWatch Dhaka representative in Stuttgart, Germany, Monowara Begum Moni It was a beautiful summer day when I met Sarangi Maestro Ustad Liyakat Ali Khan with the legendary Tabalchi Jaffar Khan in…