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Bangladesh elections: Security on high alert as polling begins

Dhaka: Bangladesh is voting on Sunday in a general election, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with around 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation. More than 100 million people are eligible to vote, the BBC reported. Over 40,000 polling centres across the […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Khaleda cannot contest elections: Bangladesh A-G

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s leader of opposition and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will not be able to contest the upcoming general elections after she was sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison in two separate graft cases, Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam said on Tuesday. “Since she is now a convict, according to the existing law […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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India crush Sri Lanka by 144 runs to lift 6th U19 Asia Cup title

Dhaka: India rode on an all-round show to crush Sri Lanka by 144 runs to bag the Under-19 Asia Cup 2018 title at the Shere Bangla National stadium here on Sunday. This was also India’s sixth U-19 Asia Cup title after winning the tournament earlier in 1989, 2003, 2012, 2014 and 2016. Opting to bat […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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India lose to Maldives in SAFF Cup final

Dhaka: The Indian football team lost 1-2 to much-lower ranked Maldives in the final of the SAFF Cup at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here on Saturday. Maldives scored in either half, and the only Indian goal came in the added extra time of the second half courtesy a Sumeet Passi strike. India, coached by Stephen […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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India beat Pakistan 3-1 to enter SAFF Cup final

Dhaka: Striker Manvir Singh scored twice as 10-man defending champions India got past arch-rivals Pakistan 3-1 to enter the final of the SAFF Cup at the Bangabandhu Stadium here on Wednesday. After a goalless first-half, Manvir scored his first in the 49th minute only to double the score-line twenty minutes later. Substitute Sumit Passi sealed […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Bangladeshi Hindus celebrate colourful Janmashtami in Dhaka

Dhaka: Bangladeshi Hindus took to the streets of Dhaka on Sunday to celebrate Janmashtami, an annual festival that marks the birth of Krishna, revered as the eighth avatar of the ten incarnations of Vishnu. The religious celebration is a public holiday in Bangladesh, where a procession is held in the capital, Efe reported. Participants re-enact […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Chris Hemsworth to star in India-set thriller 'Dhaka'

Los Angeles: Actor Chris Hemsworth has been roped in for India-set kidnap drama “Dhaka”, which will mark directorial debut of Sam Hargrave. Hargrave has graduated from being Chris Evans’ stunt double in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” to fight and stunt coordinator in “Captain America: Civil War”, to holding those jobs plus some second unit […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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22000 arrested in Bangladesh for trafficking drugs

Dhaka: Bangladesh law enforcers have arrested 22,000 people since launching a crackdown on drug trafficking last month, the country’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Monday. He made the remarks at a press conference in capital Dhaka organised on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Tuesday, […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Plane crash at Nepal's Kathmandu airport

Kathmandu: An aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines from Dhaka to Kathmandu crash landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here on Monday, officials said. TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur said the aircraft careened off the runway during landing and crashed onto a football ground near the airport, catching fire. Seven people were rescued. No death […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Uber launches bike-sharing service UberMOTO in Dhaka

Dhaka: Ride-hailing app Uber on Tuesday announced the launch of its bike-sharing service UberMOTO here. Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, skipper of the Bangladesh cricket team, took the first MOTO ride in the city, reports Xinhua news agency. With the launch, Uber will take another step forward in its efforts to redefine urban mobility in Dhaka that it […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
12 Rohingya migrants killed in Bangladesh boat capsize

Dhaka: At least 12 Rohingya migrants were killed after a boat carrying them capsized off the coast of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, police said on Monday. “The bodies of 10 children, one man and one woman have been recovered,” Xinhua news agency quoted a senior police official as saying. He said the accident took place […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Statue of Lady Justice reinstalled in Dhaka

Dhaka: The statue of Lady Justice, a woman holding a scale and sword in her hands, has been reinstalled in front of the Supreme Court’s annex building here after it was taken down on Friday. The statue, which was installed in December, was opposed to by Islamist hardliners. They said it was erected last year […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Gunmen take 20 hostages, kill two in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter

Dhaka: Two persons — an Italian and an Argentinian — were killed after a number of gunmen, said to be eight to nine, attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital late Friday and reportedly took 20 hostages. At least four injured police officials were injured after police exchanged fire with the […]

  • Thursday, 01 July 2021
Bangladesh steps up security at India border over Rohingya fears

Dhaka: Bangladesh has tightened security along its western border with India amid concern that hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees could be pushed into its territory, officials said today. Patrols have been stepped up along the frontier with India’s West Bengal state, where border guards say they have been ordered in recent weeks to steer Rohingya […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
India beat Pakistan 3-1 to top pool in Asia Cup Hockey

  Dhaka: Favourites India continued their winning momentum defeating arch-rivals Pakistan 3-1 in a pool encounter of the 10th men’s Asia Cup hockey tournament, here today. After the two easy wins against Japan (5-1) and hosts Bangladesh (7-0), as expected India had a relatively tough outing against Pakistan but managed to maintain their all-win record. […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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