AL leader's request / Khaleda urged to celebrate her birthday on Aug 16
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has been requested by the leadership of the ruling Awami League (AL) to shift the date of her birthday celebration....
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20-party alliance’s fresh agitation from Aug 16
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will start its fresh agitation programme from August 16 with a black-flag procession, condemning Israeli holocaust in Palestine, and the government’s...
Ivy out to save some perpetrators: Osman
Shamim Osman, a ruling party MP from Narayanganj-4, on Tuesday alleged that local city mayor Selina Hayat Ivy is trying to save some perpetrators of...
Gaza ceasefire talks ‘difficult’ but truce holds
Reuters, Gaza :Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Gaza militants are “difficult”, Palestinian delegates said on Tuesday, while an Israeli official said...
Maliki refuses to go: UN, US, Iran support new PM / Iraq faces new pol deadlock
Reuters, Baghdad :Iraq’s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki’s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go after...
HSC results today
Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be published on Wednesday.Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid along with chairmen of all education boards will...
Institutionalising of DRR programmes stressed
UNB, Dhaka :Experts at a meeting here on Tuesday stressed the need for giving disaster risk reduction programmes an institutional shape aiming to face the...
Oishee’s bail plea rejected again
A Dhaka court has rejected the bail petition of Oishee Rahman, who is accused of killing her parents, Police Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and housewife Swapna...
US, Australia for global response to M-E foreign fighters
Reuters, Sydney :The United States and Australia plan to push the United Nations to adopt international standards to deal with growing numbers of foreign fighters...
‘Good Morning Vietnam’ hero found dead
President Barack Obama has led tributes to US actor and comedian Robin Williams (63) was found dead, in an apparent suicide. Marin County Police in...