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Water transport services resume

03:14 PM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

Inland water vessels have started plying in different routes across the country from this morning three days after Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended the operation due to cyclonic storm Fani...

Ramadan to begin in Saudi Arabia on Monday

02:31 PM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

The Ramadan crescent was not sighted in Saudi Arabia on Saturday evening, hence Ramadan will begin on May 6 (Monday) and May 5 will be Shabaan 29...

Provide assistance to cyclone Fani victims: PM

01:15 PM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to provide assistance to cyclone Fani victims after quick ascertainment of loss and damage. She also prayed for the salvation of the deceased persons, who died during the cyclone, and expressed deep sympathy to the bereaved families...

Maritime ports asked to lower signal

12:26 PM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to lower signal as squally weather is unlikely to persist over North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of the country, said a met office weather bulletin this morning...

Afridi used Tendulkar’s bat for 37-ball ton

12:12 PM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

Back in 1996, a young Shahid Afridi scored a blazing maiden century off 37 balls against Sri Lanka to create a new ODI world record. Now in his no-holds barred autobiography, "Game Changer", the former Pakistan blunderbuss reveals that the century was scored using Sachin Tendulkar's bat...

Quader to be acting JaPa chairman in Ershad’s absence

11:44 AM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

As he cannot carry out party activities due to his illness, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday night appointed his younger brother GM Quader as the party acting chairman...

Voting in MCC polls underway

11:29 AM, 05 May 2019 Sunday

Voting in the first election to the Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) is underway. The balloting started at 8 am and it will continue till 4 pm without any break on Sunday. A total of 2,96,938 voters will exercise their franchises in electronic voting machines (EVMs) at 127 polling centers under 33 wards...

Water transportation likely to resume Sunday

09:27 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

Transportation on the waterways is likely to resume from Sunday morning after a two-day suspension, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority said Saturday. BIWTA Joint Director of Dhaka Port AKM Arif Uddin said that stormy wind is still prevailing although cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ has weakened.

NU postpones Sunday’s exams

08:44 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The National University (NU) has postponed all the examinations scheduled for tomorrow.

Tigers face Ireland A in warm-up game Sunday

07:59 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

Visiting Bangladesh will take on Ireland A in a 50-over practice game tomorrow at the...

Prof Anisuzzaman gets SAARC Literature Award 2019

07:10 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

National Professor Anisuzzaman has been nominated for the SAARC (South Asian Association...

PM offers ‘shukria’ as Fani causes no big damage

06:10 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in London on an official visit, has offered ‘shukria’ as no...

Cyclone Fani weakens as maritime signals lowered to 3

05:17 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The cyclonic storm Fani which was over Faridpur-Dhaka region and its adjacent areas has moved further to north-eastern and weakened into a land depression owing to which the cautionary signal at maritime ports lowered to 3 from its earlier seven.

Finale of Bangladesh Stockholm Junior Water Prize held at BUET

04:10 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The Finale of Bangladesh Stockholm Junior Water Prize was held on Friday at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET).

Water Resources Ministry’s control room remains open for 24 hours

03:49 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The Water Resources Ministry today urged the people to contact its control room in emergency...

Local airlines cancel 10 flights due to Fani

02:57 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The country’s four local airlines including national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh so far cancelled 10 flights and rescheduled others mostly on domestics’ routes since this morning as the severe cyclone is passing over Bangladesh...

‘Fani’ to remain over country for more 3-4 hours: Met office

01:10 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The cyclonic storm Fani is now located over the capital and its adjoining areas with a maximum wind speed about 62-88 kph as it will remain over the country as a deep depression for more next 3 to 4 hours, said a met official...

Road crash kills 4 in Rajbari

12:36 PM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

Four people were killed and twenty others injured after a triangle collision of a bus, truck and a microbus in Rajbari on Saturday morning...

Cyclone Fani: Death toll rises to 14

11:11 AM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

The death toll rose to 14 following the cyclonic storm Fani that began on Friday. In Barguna, Nur Jahan, 50, and her grandson Zahidul, 16, died after a tree fell on their home when they were asleep around 3 am on Saturday at Charduani village in Patharghata upazila. In Noakhali, a two-year-old child died in a wall collapse in Subarnachar upazila in the wee hours of today...

Boeing 737 slides into Florida river with 136 on board

09:57 AM, 04 May 2019 Saturday

A Boeing 737 commercial jet with 136 people on board slid into the St. John’s River near Jacksonville, Florida after landing on Friday, a spokesman for Naval Air Station Jacksonville said...