Archive for March 16th, 2016

Bangladesh's Sakib al Hasan bats against Pakistan during their ICC World Twenty20 match in Kolkata, India on Wednesday. -- AP photo

Pakistan crush Bangladesh at Eden

Sakib al Hasan hit some form with the bat to score an unbeaten fifty but they were not good enough for Bangladesh to prevent a crushing 55-run defeat in the ICC World Twenty20 in Kolkata on Wednesday…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · Cricket, Sports

BNP invites Hasina, Ashraful to its council session

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday invited ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina and its general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam to the party’s 6th national council session…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
‘Serious reforms’ needed at Bangladesh Bank: Muhith

‘Serious reforms’ needed at Bangladesh Bank: Muhith

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said that Bangladesh Bank`s different systems require serious reforms…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National

Gayeshwar gets bail in defamation case

A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday granted bail to BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in a defamation…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics

2 suicide bombers kill 22 at Nigeria mosque

Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people on Wednesday at a mosque outside the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · International, Other World News

BNP standing committee meets Thursday

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s national standing committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the party’s national council set for March 19…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics

Another killed in pre-UP polls violence in Barisal

A local Awami League activist was killed while 11others injured in an attack carried out by rival group at Baraiya in Mehendiganj of…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics

3 siblings found dead in Brahmanbaria

The police recovered bodies of three siblings from the River Bemalia at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday, a day after…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National

BNP finds delay in filing case over BB money theft mysterious

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday termed ‘mysterious’ the delay in filing of case over theft of reserved money of…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics

Yunusur made bank div secy

Privatisation commission member Md Yunusur Rahman has been made bank and financial institutions division secretary replacing M Aslam Alam…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National

One medical college hospital in each district: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said her government has a plan to set up one medical college hospital in each district, aiming to provide better healthcare services to people…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National

Could hackers turn the lights out?

For a long time computer security experts have warned about the threat hackers pose to the systems that help control the power stations, water treatment plants and transport systems we rely on. Just before Christmas, that theoretical threat become all too real for more than 225,000 Ukrainians who were plunged into darkness by a sophisticated attack on one of the […]

HC rejects pleas of Tarique, 3 others to quash bribery charge

The High Court on Wednesday rejected petitions filed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and three others to quash a bribery charge…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
Worker dies after rod falls from Moghbazar flyover

Worker dies after rod falls from Moghbazar flyover

A construction worker died after an iron rod fell on him at Moghbazar flyover construction site in the city on Wednesday…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Chirkut first Bangladeshi band to participate in SXSW

Chirkut first Bangladeshi band to participate in SXSW

Chirkut is the first Bangladeshi band to ever participate in The South by Southwest in the course of the 30-year history of festival…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · Entertainment, Music
Motiur Rahman Nizami

Nizami to file review against SC verdict consulting lawyer

Death row war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami would file review petition against his death sentences upheld by the Supreme Court…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
Policemen and rescue officials walk near a bus damaged in a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan March 16, 2016. – Reuters photo

Bus blast kills 15 government employees in Pakistan

At least 15 people were killed when a bomb exploded on bus carrying government officials in the northwest Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · International, South Asia

Man stabbed dead for resisting daughter’s kidnap in Narayanganj

A man was stabbed to death while trying to resist a gang of miscreants from kidnapping his daughter at Pagla in Fatullah of…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National

Teenager killed in city road accident

A teenage boy was killed while two of his fellows injured in an accident at Airport Road in the capital early Wednesday…

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. -- AP photo

Trump wins Florida, Kasich takes Ohio as Rubio bows out

US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won a crucial contest in Florida on Tuesday, knocking rival Marco Rubio out of the race, but lost Ohio to John Kasich in a mixed result that set the stage for a long, bitter nominating fight. Trump, a businessman who hoped a sweep of five states would put him on the path to the […]

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