The Guardian, UK: Scott Morrison has said 26 January 1788 was “pretty miserable” for his ancestor, in a speech defending the celebration of Australia Day, while tens of thousands of people joined Invasion Day marches around the country calling for the public holiday to b ...বিস্তারিত
Scroll: Malay-alam film director Priyanandan, who recently courted controversy for a Facebook post on the entry of women into Sabariama, was attacked by unidentified men at a shop near his home in Vallachira in Kerala’s Thrissur district on Friday. The incident occurred ar ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News: Turkey may establish its own 32km security zone in northern Syria to keep Kurdish militias away from its border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. The threat by Ankara to “go it alone” with a buffer zone follows silence from Washington o ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT At least 1,441 incidents of violence against women and children occurred in the country last year, Zinat Ara Haque, executive coordinator of We Can Bangladesh, has said. Of them, 996 were women and the rest were children, with around half the incident ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel of DOT: All sorts of necessary preparations have been taken to hold the suspended parliamentary polls to Gaibandha-3 constituency due to death of one contestant tomorrow in a free, fair and peaceful manner, reports BSS. The voting will start at 8 am and will co ...বিস্তারিত
UNB: Bangladesh will import around 1.42 million metric tonnes of petroleum fuel through government-to-government (G-to-G) initiative from eight state-owned companies of different countries from January to June this year. According to official sources at the Energy and Miner ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: Bus registration in Dhaka witnessed a significant decline in 2018 compared to that of 2017, reports The Financial Express. A total of 2,322 buses were registered in 2018 while the number was 3,294 in 2017, according to statistics provided by the Banglade ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT Three members of a family died and a minor went missing after a boat capsized in the Buriganga River on Friday night, reported UNB. The deceased were identified as Motiur Rahman Moti, 55, his wife Rozina Begum, 42, and Momtaz Begum, 50. Abdur Razzak, of ...বিস্তারিত
Rahat Islam of DOT Taliban negotiators and US officials met in Qatar yesterday finalized clauses in a draft agreement to end the 17-year-old Afghan war, according to Taliban sources. US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is reprotedly heading to Afghan capital Kabul to br ...বিস্তারিত
BSS: Megacity Dhaka is getting rid of the load-shedding crisis as its residents are now having uninterrupted power supply for the government steps towards bringing the country under 100 percent electricity coverage by 2021, officials said. “There is no load-shedding in cap ...বিস্তারিত