CHINA WELCOMES AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN TRADE RESUMPTION
July 17 ,2020
China has applauded the resumption of trade relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan after land crossings between the two neighboring...
SUSPECT IS ARRESTED IN GRISLY KILLING OF TECH C.E.O. FAHIM...
July 17 ,2020
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The personal assistant of a young tech entrepreneur who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan...
BANGLADESH LIFTED 19M PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY BEFORE PANDEMI...
July 17 ,2020
Bangladesh was on track to halve poverty by 2030 because the country lifted around 19 million people out of multidimensional poverty be...
NORMAL LIFE WON'T COME UNTIL NOVEMBER AT THE EARLIEST: BRI...
July 17 ,2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that normal life would not return in full until November at the earliest, cautionin...
COVID-19: DEATH TOLL CROSSES 2,500 IN BANGLADESH, CASES NE...
July 17 ,2020
Bangladesh has crossed 2,500 Covid-19 deaths as 51 more people have died of the infection in the last 24 hours.
With the latest deaths...
PERSON OF INTEREST IDENTIFIED IN FAHIM SALEH MURDER
July 17 ,2020
In the latest development in the investigation into the Fahim Saleh murder, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has narrowed in on a...
ITALY REDUCES ENTRY BAN PERIOD, TO ALLOW BANGLADESHIS IN F...
July 17 ,2020
Italy has reduced the three-month ban on arrivals from Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Bangladeshis will now be able to ente...
DOCTOR FROM KUSHTIA DIES OF COVID-19 AT BSMMU
July 17 ,2020
Another doctor died from Covid-19 while receiving treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University earlier today.
Dr SM Nur Ud...
SRI LANKA CALLS ON ISRAEL TO ABANDON WEST BANK ANNEXATION...
July 17 ,2020
Sri Lanka has called on Israel to abandon the proposed West Bank annexation plan.
Delivering a statement at the 44th Session of the Hu...
WHEN AISHWARYA RAI TURNED DOWN 'TROY'
July 17 ,2020
Back in the mid-2000s, Aishwarya Rai was set to play Briseis in the film, Troy but ended up dropping out due to feeling uncomfortable f...
INDIA’S COVID-19 TALLY CROSSES ONE MILLION MARK, DEATH TOL...
July 17 ,2020
India’s coronavirus tally rose to 10,03,832 on Friday which includes 6,35,756 recovered cases and 3,42,473 active cases acc...
Why Google and Facebook Are Racing to Invest in India
July 17 ,2020
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PRESIDENT'S YOUNGER BROTHER DIES OF COVID-19
July 17 ,2020
Abdul Hie, younger brother of President Abdul Hamid, has died from coronavirus infection early Friday.
He breathed his last at Combine...
EMAJUDDIN AHMED, A POLITICAL SCIENTIST AND EX-VC OF DHAKA...
July 17 ,2020
Educationist Prof Emajuddin Ahmed, a former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, has died in hospital care from brain haemorrhage at th...
Transshipment of Goods to NE: India starts first trial run...
July 17 ,2020
India has begun its first ever trial run of the much-talked-about transshipment of goods to its north-eastern states through Bangladesh...
Pakistan gives consular access to Indian spy second time
July 17 ,2020
Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said India's ill-intentions were revealed when Pakistan provided New Delhi's...
India gives nod to field trials of ground-pe...
July 17 ,2020
India’s union home ministry has given the approval for field trials of hi-tech ground-penetrating radar (GPR) that will help dete...
Besides oil imports, US sanctions hit India plan to develo...
July 17 ,2020
The US sanctions have not only affected India’s oil imports from Iran, but also impacted New Delhi’s plans to develop one o...
INDIAN OFFICIALS LEFT WITHOUT HEARING JADHAV
July 17 ,2020
Pakistan on Thursday provided consular access to Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav for the second time at the Indian request but the Indian d...
STABILITY OF IRAN, AFGHANISTAN 'INTERCONNECTED': ARAGHCHI
July 17 ,2020
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Thursday said that terrorism is a common threat to the entire region, stating t...
AFGHAN FILM ORGANIZATION CELEBRATES 52ND YEAR
July 17 ,2020
On the 52nd anniversary of the Afghan Film Organization, Afghan actors and cinema personalities on Thursday lamented that no major work...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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