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The first round of Cricket World Cup-2019 was concluded through the Australia and South Africa match.India, England, Australia and New Zealand have already booked their names in the semi final.India will face New Zealand as South Africa thrashed Australia while Australia will play against England.Th...
National
Bangladesh Parliamentarian Cricket Team set out to participate in the first ever Inter-Parliamentary Cricket World Cup (IPCWC) from 9-14 July in England.In parallel to ICC World Cup 2019, parliament members from eight cricket-playing nations, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Aust...
World
Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni province on Sunday, government officials and the Taliban said, reports Reuters.The Taliban claimed responsibility f...
Iran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions.Deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran still wanted to salvage the deal but blamed European countries for failing to live up to their own commitment...
Police have arrested the killer of seven-year-old child Sayma from Sonargaon Upazila of Narayanganj on Sunday.The arrested youth is identified as Harun-or-Rashid, cousin of the house owner.Wari Division Acting Deputy Commissioner Iftekher Ahmed confirmed the matter.Earlier, police have identified hi...
BP Online Desk: At least two people were killed and two others injured as a train hit a sand-laden truck which got on the insecure level crossing at Dakkhin Khan area near Dhirasram Station of Gazipur on early Sunday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.The injured were admi...
North Korea says an Australian student who had been detained for several days before being released had been "spying" for news outlets, reports BBC.Alek Sigley, 29, was reported missing in late June, but was freed on Thursday after Swedish officials in Pyongyang met the North Korean govern...
A Quebec education minister is being criticised for posting a photo with education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, reports BBC.The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who wears a headscarf, would not be able to teach in the Canadian province.Quebec recently passed a controversial law barring some civil ser...
Tunisia has banned face-covering veils in state-run buildings for security reasons, ending a policy of official tolerance with the garment.Prime Minister Youssef Chahed signed an order on Friday demanding that ministers, governors and heads of public establishments "take the necessary dispositi...
Sports,Cricket
Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik announced his retirement from the 50-over format shortly after his team bowed out of the Cricket World Cup, narrowly missing out on a semi-finals spot, reports Reuters.All-rounder Malik, 37, played 287 one-day internationals for Pakistan and scored 7,534 runs inc...
Police recovered the body of a seven-year-old girl from an under-construction building at Wari area of the old part of Dhaka on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Sayma, daughter of Abdus Salam and student of Silverdale School.The victim's father said he and his wife found the hanging b...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home on Saturday after completion of a five-day visit to China. She left Beijing at 11 am for Dhaka.The Beijing flight carrying the premier of Bangladesh is to land on Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport sometime this afternoon.Earlier on June 1, the Chinese S...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference on Monday to brief media about the outcomes of her five-day official visit to China.The press conference will be held at PM's official residence Ganobhaban at 4pm, Prime Minister's office sources said.During her visit, Sheikh Hasina a...
A Traffic police was killed as a passenged bus hit him at Jatrabari area in the capital on early Saturday.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Khairul, 30, sub-inspector of Traffic Police.Deputy Commissiner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Traffic East) Muhammad Kamruzzaman confirmed the matter.He s...
The Trump administration will continue to pursue a way of adding a citizenship question to the census, lawyers said in court filings submitted on Friday.But administration lawyers failed to provide any legal justification for the census question by a court deadline.The Supreme Court rejected the ini...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday said it will contact the top leaders of Myanmar to amicably solve the Rohingya crisis and start the repatriation process as soon as possible, reports UNB.CPC Minister for International Affairs Song Tao gave the assurance when he met Prime Minister Sheikh ...
China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research, reports BBC.At the same time as hundreds of thousands of adults are being detained in giant camps, a rapid, large-scale campaign to build boardin...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tribute to Chinese heroes by placing wreath at the Heroes Memorial in Tiananmen Square on Friday afternoon.The national anthems of the two countries were also played at that time and the bugle played the Last Post.After paying tribute, she stood in solemn silence fo...
Bangladeshi expatriates will invest back at home provided the government ensures an environment free from any kind of unnecessary harassments, says a Bangladeshi community leader in the Thai city of Pattaya.“I personally think Bangladeshi expatriates, wherever they live, will invest in Banglad...
Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed won the toss against Bangladesh and decided to bat first in their last league stage game of the ongoing ICC World Cup at Lord’s in London on Friday.Pakistan have to win this match at least by 311 runs to secure a place in the semifinals while lost their previous...
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