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Three members of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) were killed and four others injured after a BAF pickup fell from a flyover at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s third terminal on Monday night.
Police have arrested three alleged members of a snatchers’ gang after Tk 39 lakh was snatched from a man carrying money withdrawn from a bank in the Dhanmondi Lake area of Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 416 people in a 24-hour drive across the capital and filed 30 cases over various allegations, police said.
Various sources indicate that the rate of children going missing in Bangladesh is rising at an alarming pace. According to data held by the Police Headquarters, 15,917 cases were filed as general diaries (GDs) at police stations across the country over the seven months from January to July this year, following reports of children going missing. That amounts to an average of 2,274 GDs a month and more than 75 a day. In other words, a report of a missing child was filed at a police station every 20 to 21 minutes.
Vast in size but calm by nature. Seen from afar, the Indian Ocean may appear that way. Blue waters. Long maritime routes. Rows of commercial vessels. But over the past decade, the picture has changed. Major construction projects have begun across the ocean. Deep-sea ports in some places. Long runways in others. Military bases elsewhere.
“Definitely corrupt and unskilled authorities ”
Bangladesh midfielder Hamza Choudhury has ended his 21-year association with Leicester City after completing a permanent return to Sheffield United on a one-year deal.
Lionel Messi, Argentine legend and eight-time Ballon d'Or winner, has announced his retirement from the national team, ending his international football career.
Real Madrid and Barcelona have both 106 wins in their official matches against each other. On one side the white empire, on the other the blue-red rebellion. On one side the pride of Madrid, on the other Catalan self-identity. In the middle a football—and around it the story of almost a century. How many nights have passed, how many stars have come and gone, how many times the gallery has burst into joy after goals; yet the story of the fight of Real Madrid and Barcelona seems not to end.
India’s teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi has broken a 57-year-old Duleep Trophy record, becoming the youngest player to score a half-century in the tournament at just 15 years and 157 days.
Bangladesh will begin their campaign in the 10th edition of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup when they face Indonesia at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Monday night (August 31).
Germany retained the men’s Hockey World Cup title after beating Spain 1-0 in a tightly contested final at the Belfius Hockey Arena in Wavre, Belgium, on Sunday night (August 31).
Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district has recovered 13 bodies from the river so far, as bodies continue to flow into India's Uttar Pradesh through the Narayani-Gandak river system due to devastating floods and flash floods in Nepal, officials said. Of the 13, six are men and seven are women.
The annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has started in the Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan on the completion of 25 years of its establishment. More than a dozen top leaders of the world including President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of China Xi Jinping are participating in this summit that started on Monday (August 31).
More than 900 workers and engineers have been trapped in the tunnels of various hydropower projects of Nepal after the devastating flood in the Himalayan border region. The operation to rescue them has been intensified. Nepal is conducting this rescue activity with the assistance of experts from China and India.
BNP Standing Committee member and Prime Minister's Political Adviser Mirza Abbas is returning home after undergoing medical treatment in Singapore and Malaysia for over five months . He is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 9pm on Wednesday (September 2) .
Islami Andolan Bangladesh Ameer and Charmonai Pir Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim has said that while the BNP had given the people various promises before the election, there is no visible progress in fulfilling those commitments even six months after forming the government.
Although tensions in Brahmanbaria over the remarks of Member of Parliament and National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Hasnat Abdullah have eased, the party's scheduled programme has been relocated. The NCP changed its venue after being denied permission to hold its organisational coordination meeting and political workshop at the district Shilpakala Academy.
Hasnat Abdullah, Member of Parliament for Cumilla-4 constituency, has expressed regret over a misunderstanding created by his recent remarks regarding the Brahmanbaria incident. In a social media post on Saturday (August 29), he apologised to the people of Brahmanbaria.
Various sources indicate that the rate of children going missing in Bangladesh is rising at an alarming pace. According to data held by the Police Headquarters, 15,917 cases were filed as general diaries (GDs) at police stations across the country over the seven months from January to July this year, following reports of children going missing. That amounts to an average of 2,274 GDs a month and more than 75 a day. In other words, a report of a missing child was filed at a police station every 20 to 21 minutes.
Vast in size but calm by nature. Seen from afar, the Indian Ocean may appear that way. Blue waters. Long maritime routes. Rows of commercial vessels. But over the past decade, the picture has changed. Major construction projects have begun across the ocean. Deep-sea ports in some places. Long runways in others. Military bases elsewhere.
Bangladesh does not need to win the global race for computing power. It needs to rediscover its own strength: organising people so that technology creates shared prosperity.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke paid a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Humayun Kabir at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday, August 30.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of six other countries have congratulated Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on assuming office as President of Bangladesh.
Dhallywood actress Mishti Jannat has brought the news of her marriage into the open. After adding the life event ‘Got Married’ on her own Facebook profile on social media discussion started over the matter and she herself confirmed the matter of marriage in an interview. However this actress does not want to inform the details regarding when, where and whom she has married for the time being.
You meet someone on social media, start talking regularly, develop a mutual interest and perhaps even consider a relationship. Then, suddenly, the conversation stops.
The prices of fuel oil have been kept unchanged for the month of September.
