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Muhith starts unfolding FY19 budget
01:20 PM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayFinance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has started rolling out the national budget for the financial year 2018-19 (FY19) at the Jatiya Sangsad (JS)...
Cabinet okays Tk 4.65 trillion budget for 2018-19
12:55 PM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayThe cabinet in its special meeting today approved the proposed national budget of around Tk 4.65 trillion for fiscal 2018-19. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held in the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban here. The cabinet also endorsed the Appropriation (supplementary) Bill-2018 and the Appropriation Bill-2018...
Asia Cup: Bangladesh beat Thailand by 9 wickets
12:19 PM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayBangladesh Women’s team continued their winning run in the T20 Asia Cup with a convincing Nine-wicket victory over Thailand on Thursday...
Muhith’s post-budget press conference Friday
11:56 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayFinance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will address a post-budget press briefing on Friday, according a finance ministry press release...
PM pays tributes to Bangabandhu on Six-Point Demand Day
11:24 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina this morning paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the historic Six-Point Demand Day. She paid the homage by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city...
HRW to Bangladesh: Suspend deadly ‘war on drugs’
10:00 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayThe Bangladesh government should order an independent investigation into allegations of extrajudicial killings during its new “war on drugs,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today...
PM leaves for Canada today to attend G7 outreach session
09:31 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave here on Thursday evening on a four-day visit to Canada to attend the outreach session of G7 Summit at the invitation of Canadian counterpart Justine Trudeau...
Drive against terrorism, drugs to continue: PM
09:21 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday categorically said that the drive against militancy, terrorism and narcotics will continue to ensure peace and security of the people. There will be no room for unjust and injustice in Bangladesh. Our operation against militancy, terrorism and narcotics will continue … we want to build a drug, militancy and terrorism-free nation...
NY man sentenced to life for killing BD Imam, his assistant
09:01 AM, 07 Jun 2018 ThursdayA New York man convicted of killing a Bangladeshi cleric and his aide has been sentenced to life in prison. Oscar Morel gunned down Imam Maulana Akonjee and Thara Uddin as they walked home after prayers at a mosque in Queens. Morel, who will never be eligible for parole, shot the men in the head...
Prostitute scandal jolts Mexico World Cup squad
09:23 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayMembers of Mexico’s national football squad held a farewell party with around 30 prostitutes..
Study warns of alarming decline in Australian fish
09:02 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayConservation experts warned Wednesday of alarming falls in Australian fish populations and...
Outgoing and new Air Chiefs call on PM
08:53 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayOutgoing Chief of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Chief Air Marshal Abu Esrar, BBP, NDC, ACSC and...
Singer Asif sent to jail
07:45 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayA Dhaka court sent singer Asif Akbar to jail rejecting both his remand and bail petitions in a case...
UCB signs deal with BREB
07:19 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayUnited Commercial Bank Limited signed an agreement with Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board...
Tigers final chance to salvage lost pride Thursday
06:11 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayBangladesh would be looking to salvage some of their lost pride tomorrow as they face high...
RAB picks up Imran from Shahbagh
05:30 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayThe Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday picked up Ganajagaran Mancha’s Spokesperson Imran H Sarker from Shahbagh in Dhaka. He was picked up while went out to stage a rally under the banner of Ganajagaran Mancha protesting the ‘indiscriminate killing’...
Army to be deployed in upcoming general polls: CEC
04:18 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayChief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday said that army personnel would be deployed across the country in the upcoming parliamentary polls. He came up with the announcement while addressing a workshop program at the Barisal Circuit House...
Asia Cup: Bangladesh stun India by 7 wickets
03:46 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayIndia had never suffered a loss at the hands of Bangladesh in any format of the game. But on Wednesday, that record changed as Bangladesh registered their first ever win over India in Women’s Asia Cup T20...
Chronology of national budgets
03:46 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayFinance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will announce the national budget for the fiscal year...
Fake additional police super arrested at Rupnagar
03:25 PM, 06 Jun 2018 WednesdayFake additional police super arrested at Rupnagar Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Tuesday arrested a person for impersonating an additional police super from the city’s Rupnagar area...