Nato compound in Kabul attacked; 6 killed
Militants blew up a suicide car bomb at the gate to a Nato compound in Kabul early Tuesday and attacked guards with small-arms fire, killing four guards and two civilians, police said. All four suicide...
View ArticleUnmanned Russian rocket crashes after launch
An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Russian media reported. There...
View ArticleStocks gain
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased on Tuesday after a one-day break. Trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Sunday remained shut due to a bank holiday. DGEN, the...
View ArticleBuet student Dwip dies
A Buet student, who was stabbed at his dormitory on April 9, died at a city hospital early Tuesday. Arif Raihan Dwip, a third year student of the mechanical engineering at Bangladesh University of...
View Article3 robbers arrested in capital after gunfight
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three alleged robbers from the capital’s Gulistan area early Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Rabiul, 24, Kurban, 22, and Yeasin, 26....
View ArticleIndefinite transport strike in Dinajpur
Transport workers began an indefinite strike in all routes of Dinajpur Tuesday morning demanding suspension of plying of shallow-machine and battery-run three-wheelers on the routes. Md Rafique,...
View Article200 workers fall sick at same RMG unit
Trouble continues at a garment factory in Ashulia as over 200 workers fell sick couple of days after as many faced the same drinking water supplied by the factory. Workers of The Rose Dresses Limited,...
View Article19 die in helicopter crash in Siberia
Russian authorities say 19 people have died after a helicopter carrying 28 people, including 11 children, crashed in a remote Siberian region of Yakutia. The Interstate Aviation Committee, Russia’s top...
View ArticleQuader bins administrative interference claim
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of administrative interference in upcoming Gazipur City Corporation election. “The election will be held in a fair and...
View ArticleSaudi extends amnesty till Nov 4
Saudi Arabia has extended by four months the amnesty period for the irregular foreign workers to legalise their status. The decision by King Abdullah, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, comes as a...
View ArticleShibir men blast cocktail in capital
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir blasted a cocktail on Satmasjid Road in the capital on Tuesday on the eve of tomorrow’s countrywide daylong hartal (shutdown). Shibir, the student wing of...
View Article‘GB Commission should apologise’
A civil society group Tuesday demanded the dissolution of the Grameen Bank Commission that recommended splitting the Nobel Prize-winning microlender into 19 separate entities. It also demanded that the...
View ArticleIndia turns down Snowden’s asylum request
An official says India has rejected NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s request for political asylum. External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin says India has carefully examined the asylum request...
View Article8 cops injured in Shibir attack
Eight policemen including an officer-in-charge (OC) were injured in an attack by the activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in Chapainawabganj on Tuesday. Police later picked up five activists of the...
View Article‘Yunus never took dividend from GP’
Yunus Centre, which promotes the works of Prof Muhammad Yunus, has protested the finance minister’s recent statement in the parliament regarding the Nobel Laureate’s taking dividend from GrameenPhone,...
View Article19 people die in Siberia helicopter crash
Nineteen people died yesterday when a MI-8 helicopter crashed in Russia’s Yakutia region in eastern Siberia, the latest disaster to hit the country’s accident-prone aviation industry, an aviation...
View ArticleThai govt reverses rice price cut
Thailand’s premier yesterday reversed a decision to cut the price it gives farmers for rice, a fortnight after stoking anger from its rural heartlands by announcing a 20 percent reduction in the fee....
View ArticleNo asylum yet for US whistleblower
Several countries yesterday spurned asylum requests from Edward Snowden, the former US spy agency contractor wanted for leaking secrets, despite an appeal from Venezuela for the world to protect him....
View ArticleSuranjit bashes Prothom Alo
Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta yesterday criticised the Prothom Alo for an editorial over a decision of the Speaker during the passage of 2013-14 budget in parliament on Sunday. The editorial...
View ArticleWater babe
At just 16 months old, this baby is unlikely to have been walking for long, let alone mastered any other physical activities. But the incredible footage posted on youtube.com shows the tiny toddler...
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