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Ishraq urges voters to go to vote centres to ensure fair polls

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:46pm on January 18, 2020

Ishraq Hossain, Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation elections, urges voters to go to the vote centres and cast their votes on January 30 for a free and fair election...
3 of a family killed in Jashore road accident

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:53am on January 18, 2020

Five women, including three of a family, were killed and 13 others were injured in road accidents in Jashore and Gopalganj on Saturday. New Age...
2nd phase of Ijtema ends today

Mohammad Ali Zheelon . Gazipur | Updated at 12:03pm on January 18, 2020

The second phase of the 55th Bishwa Ijtema, an annual event of Tabligh Jamaat, ends today with ‘akheri munajat’ sometime between 10:00am and 11:00am on...
Dhaka air categorised as ‘very unhealthy’ in AQI, ranks 5th worse

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:24pm on January 18, 2020

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka was ranked fifth worst in the Air Quality Index on Saturday morning...
Lawmaker Abdul Mannan dies

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:46pm on January 18, 2020

Awami League leader and parliament member Abdul Mannan of Bogura-1 constituency died early Saturday after suffering from a cardiac arrest. He was 66. He died...
Malaysia seeks ASEAN’s role to resolve Rohingya crisis

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 04:21pm on January 18, 2020

Malaysia has urged ASEAN to address the civil war in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to find a long-term solution to the Rohingya crisis that affects Bangladesh...
Court orders arrest of Prothom Alo editor, 9 others

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:23pm on January 16, 2020

The additional chief metropolitan magistrate court of Dhaka on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of daily Prothom Alo editor and publisher Matiur Rahman,...
Coaching centres to remain closed from Jan 25: Dipu Moni

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:21pm on January 16, 2020

Education minister Dipu Moni on Thursday said that coaching centres across the country would remain closed for a month from January 25 to prevent question...