Tall women ‘face higher cancer risk’
Taller women may face a higher risk of many cancers than their shorter counterparts, revealed a US study. Researchers looked at a sample of nearly 145,000 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 for the...
View ArticleMorsi now detained on murder suspicion
Egypt’s authorities yesterday formally detained Mohamed Morsi on suspicion of collaborating with Palestinian militants in murdering policemen and staging prison breaks, as tens of thousands of the...
View ArticleMost Indian voters trust Bangladesh
Bangladesh ranks the highest among the countries Indian voters trust while Pakistan ranks the lowest, according an opinion poll jointly conducted by CNN-IBN TV channel and The Hindu newspaper. Asked...
View ArticleDhaka, Washington agree to launch talks
Dhaka and Washington have agreed to initiate discussions on an action plan for worker rights and safety in Bangladesh, nearly three months after the Rana Plaza collapse claimed 1,132 lives. An...
View ArticleBanks’ IT experts helped fraudsters
Arrested debit and credit card forgery gang members told detectives that information technology experts of different banks helped them in the crime. One of the arrestees, Md Selim, the ringleader,...
View ArticleConcern over execution of verdicts
War crimes trial campaigners yesterday expressed concern that the execution of death penalties awarded to war criminals by the international crimes tribunals might not happen during the tenure of this...
View ArticleWorker killed in Gazipur clash
A worker was killed and 50 others were injured in a clash over a land dispute between workers of two spinning mills in Nagarhaola of Sreepur in Gazipur early yesterday. The clash erupted around 6:30am...
View ArticlePrices of Ramadan essentials ease
Prices of most Ramadan essentials have started sliding slowly, thanks to an increased supply of the items. Yesterday, retailers in three kitchen markets in the capital were selling date, gram, sugar,...
View ArticleAL MP killed in Faridpur road crash
Awami League lawmaker Golam Shabur Tulu was killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Barisal highway in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur yesterday. The 60-year-old legislator from Barguna-2...
View ArticleBillboards choke Ctg
Lack of policy regarding hoardings and poor coordination between state-run and local government bodies have let illegal installation of large advertisement hoardings go unchecked in Chittagong city....
View ArticleHostages freed after 17 days
Seventeen days after their abduction, law enforcers early yesterday rescued four staff of Bi Technology and a college student from the jungle of Merung at Dighinala upazila in the hilly district of...
View ArticleRush for Eid tickets
In about the middle of Ramadan, advance sale of bus and railway tickets kicked off in the capital yesterday morning to ease sufferings of home bound passengers. Hundreds of people thronged different...
View ArticleManmohan repeats old pledges
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday assured that India would do nothing to harm Bangladesh’s interests on the issue of waters, but gave no indication when the much-expected Teesta...
View ArticleTradition Lives On
Production of tie-dye and batik print clothes at Rupganj in Narayanganj is in full swing with Eid around the corner. Almost every other family in Rupganj is involved in the clothes business in one...
View ArticleLibyans ransack party offices after killings
Thousands of Libyans yesterday protested against parties including the Muslim Brotherhood blamed for a wave of violence a day after a series of deadly attacks in the east. Protesters ransacked offices...
View ArticleEmotions high as slain Tunisia leader buried
Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets yesterday for the funeral of an opposition leader assassinated with the same weapon that killed a colleague, as tensions soared after anti-government...
View ArticleSyria peace hopes fade further into the distance
Syria’s main opposition group wanted to talk about their “desperate” need for weapons, but Western leaders they met this week preferred to discuss floundering hopes for a peace conference. The two...
View ArticleBrazilian protesters wreck banks in Sao Paulo
Some 300 Brazilian protesters ransacked around 10 banks and set fire to a television news van in Sao Paulo on Friday before police dispersed them with tear gas. The demonstrators marched in the city in...
View ArticleBomb hits police vehicle in Tunis port: ministry
A bomb exploded near a police post in the port of Tunis yesterday, damaging a police vehicle, the interior ministry said. The blast, the first known attack of its kind against a security vehicle in...
View ArticleChef ‘too fat’ to live in NZ
Authorities in New Zealand have told a South African chef he is too fat to be allowed to live in the country. Immigration officials said Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 130kg (286 pounds), did not have...
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