Seven hurt as Jamaat men attack cops
Seven policemen were injured in an attack by Jamaat-Shibir men at Sandra in Shalikha upazila of Magura on Thursday night. Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by Sub-inspector Iqbal Hossain raided...
View ArticleIvy accuses Shamim Osman, his nephew
City Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy yesterday demanded death sentence for former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman and his nephew Azmeri Osman in the Toki murder case. She was speaking at a Noubondhon (boat...
View ArticleLittle headway in Milky murder investigation
A month has passed since Jubo League leader Milky’s murder, which was captured on a closed-circuit camera placed at a shopping mall in the capital’s Gulshan. Law enforcers were yet to arrest the four...
View ArticleMajor gold haul
Customs officials seized 155 gold bars, weighing around 18 kilograms, from the capital’s Shahjalal International Airport yesterday morning. According to the officials, the gold bars worth about Tk 6...
View ArticleWB may divert fund
The World Bank (WB) may divert fund for a forest department project on wildlife conservation as about 90 percent of the $36 million loan remains idle even though half the four-year project period has...
View ArticleWork on action plan goes slow
Bangladesh’s work towards getting the suspension of GSP benefits in the US market lifted in December has been rather slow, raising questions whether it could at all be done in the next four months. The...
View ArticleUS makes case for Syria strike
The United States yesterday released intelligence to show why it is certain that Syrian forces have killed civilians with chemical weapons and said Washington has a historic duty to act. As a time...
View ArticleRe-elect AL to keep terrorism at bay
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the people to re-elect the Awami League for a Bangladesh free of terrorism, poverty and hunger. She said the BNP, Jamaat and Hefajat-e Islam, if voted...
View ArticleDefence purchase govt’s priority
The Awami League-led grand alliance government has so far procured military hardware worth Tk 15,104 crore as part of its initiative to modernise the armed forces and enhance defence capabilities....
View Article6 dead as Morsi supporters march in Egypt
Thousands of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi marched through Cairo and cities across Egypt on Friday to demand his reinstatement, in the movement’s biggest show of defiance since...
View ArticleUS weighs ‘limited act’ against Syria
President Barack Obama has said the US is considering a “limited narrow act” in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army. Obama stressed that no “final decision” had been...
View Article6 US ship now in eastern Mediterranean
Sixth US warships are now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a “limited, precise” strike,...
View ArticleTwo troops dead, rebel camp overrun in Philippines
Two soldiers were killed in a firefight with communist guerrillas in the northern Philippines while in a separate clash police backed by helicopters stormed a rebel base near a mountain resort,...
View ArticleVenezuelan gets 5.5 years for shooting US diplomats
A Venezuelan court has sentenced a man to five and a half years in prison for wounding two US diplomats during a May shooting at a Caracas strip club. The man, identified as Carlos Mejias Blanco, has...
View ArticleTaiwan train derailed by mudslides; 17 injured
Seventeen passengers were injured when their train was derailed by mudslides in southern Taiwan yesterday after a tropical storm triggered widespread flooding. The six-carriage train, carrying around...
View ArticleSuicide attack kills 6 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed up to six Afghans and wounded 20 others in an attack outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar as people were waiting to collect their salaries, officials said. He said...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins Google in US spying suit
Microsoft on Friday said that a battle to shed light on secret US government requests for Internet user data would play out in court after failed peace talks. Microsoft and Google filed suits in...
View ArticlePerfect wife ‘sculpted’
Ever since they first met in 2007, Dr David Matlock, a famous Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, has been using his body-sculpting skills to turn his wife Veronica into the perfect wife. When Veronica...
View ArticleDestroy Snowden material
The British government has asked the New York Times to destroy copies of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden related to the operations of the US spy agency and...
View ArticleOutrage in India
An Indian court yesterday sentenced a teenager to three years in a juvenile detention centre over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests. The...
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