World,WAR
AP, Dubai, UAE:: President Donald Trump said the U.S. destroyed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network and warned that its oil infrastructure could be next if Iran continues to interfere with the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.Trump said U.S. forces on Friday &l...
A building in Dubai’s financial district was struck by debris from an intercepted attack on Friday, marking the second such incident in less than 24 hours as the US-Israel-Iran conflict enters its 15th day. No fires broke out, and no casualties were reported.The Dubai Media Office said via soc...
National,Country, Districts,Transportation & Aviation
UNB, Narail:: Passenger train services on Dhaka-Narail-Khulna and Dhaka-Narail-Benapole routes are currently operating with only one train, forcing travellers to rely on limited schedules and often wait long hours for the next journey.Local people have demanded an increase in train services to ...
National,Country, Districts,Accident, Fire, Disaster
UNB, Bagerhat:: A pall of grief descended on Mongla in Bagerhat district as nine members of the same family who were among the 14 people killed in road crash on Khulna–Mongla highway were laid to rest on Friday.Four other victims were buried in Khulna and another in Rampal upazila of Bag...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a warning against any upcoming protests, describing demonstrators as “neo-ISIS” and cautioning that harsher measures than those in January await them.BBC Persian reported that a mass text message sent by the IRGC’s In...
US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end “when I feel it,” speaking in an interview with Fox News that aired Friday.Trump said he senses the end of the conflict “in my bones” but did not give a specific timeline.About Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba K...
National,Politics,Jatiya Sangsad
Different political parties, cultural organizations and 41 prominent citizens of the country have protested the adoption of a condolence motion in the first session of the 13th National Parliament in the name of war criminals who were executed for crimes against humanity committed during the War of ...
Al-Jazeera:: Occupied East Jerusalem – Basema Dabash sheds tears daily for the home she and her husband, Raed, were forced to demolish in Sur Baher, in the south of occupied East Jerusalem. For years, the couple lived under the spectre of losing their home, ever since the Israeli aut...
The Telegraph, Delhi:: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday night, nearly two weeks after the war in West Asia began on February 28.Modi, however, did not condemn the US-Israel strikes on Iran that began the conflict, unlike in the case of his earlier...
World,Power, Energy, Oil, Gas,WAR
Reuters, Dubai/Jerusalem:: The U.S. has issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian petroleum products currently at sea, hoping to ease oil and gas prices driven up by the war the U.S. and Israel are waging on Iran.However, the waiver appeared to have little effect, with benc...
World
Reuters, Kathmandu:: A three-year-old party won Nepal's general elections by a landslide, authorities said, positioning its candidate Balendra Shah to become the next prime minister, with a mandate for the rapper-turned-politician to restore political stability.The March 5 election was the ...
National,Fair & Festivals,Religion
To spread the message of humanity, compassion, and love during the holy month of Ramadan, an emotional Iftar gathering and prayer programme was held with underprivileged children at the Bangladesh Scouts Bhaban located at Kakrail in the capital city of Dhaka on Thursday evening.The event took place ...
Reuters Report:: President Donald Trump said that he thinks new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father, the former supreme leader, was killed on the first day of the US and Israel's war on Iran, is alive but "damaged."Khamenei has not been seen by Iranians since ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of targeting civilian homes in overnight air attacks in the capital Kabul and the southern province of Kandahar, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its third week, overshadowed by the United States-Israel war on Iran igniting th...
Reuters, Dubai/Beirut: U.S. President Donald Trump derided Iran's leaders as "deranged scumbags" and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region.Th...
UNB, Bagerhat:: Twelve people including ten members of a family were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Khulna-Mongla highway at Gonai Bridge in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat district on Thursday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.The accident ...
Israel’s latest daily large-scale attacks on Lebanon have killed more than a dozen people in Beirut and the south, as Iran and Hezbollah launched coordinated waves of attacks on Israel, with renewed conflict on this volatile front boiling over as part of the wider war launched by the United St...
A condolence motion was adopted in the inaugural session of the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday over the death of several leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami who were executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed initially placed a condolence motion expressi...
National,Politics
Police arrested Professor AKM Jamal Uddin of Dhaka University’s Department of Sociology for allegedly attempting to organise a procession from Dhaka to Tungipara on behalf of the Awami League, whose activities have been banned.He was taken into custody early Wednesday from the Zero Point area ...
National,Politics,Diplomachy,Law & Justice,Humanrights
European and global civil society organisations have issued an urgent appeal to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, calling for immediate release and medical protection of Shahriar Kabir, a 75 year old journalist, author, freedom fighter, and internationally respected human rights advocate whose healt...
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