Fukushima water leak risk exaggerated
The chief of Japan’s nuclear watchdog chided the operator of the Fukushima plant yesterday for its inability properly to explain problems, which he said was inflating fears around the world. Shunichi...
View ArticleRussia warns of catastrophe if Syria reactor hit by US strike
Russia said on Wednesday that a military strike on Syria could have catastrophic effects if a missile hit a small reactor near Damascus that contains radioactive uranium. The Foreign Ministry called on...
View ArticleCholera kills 8 in Nigeria
Cholera has killed eight people in southern Nigeria and ten others have been hospitalised, health officials said yesterday, in the latest outbreak to hit the country following a heavy rainy season....
View ArticleObama to meet Russian gay activists
US President Barack Obama will meet with Russian gay rights activists in the course of his visit to Russia, two groups invited to the meeting told AFP Wednesday. The US leader, who called for equal...
View ArticleSaudi beheads two murderers
Saudi authorities beheaded two citizens in Riyadh yesterday after they were convicted of separate murders, the interior ministry announced. Hashan al-Nutayfat shot dead fellow citizen Mohammed...
View ArticlePounding floor tiles to produce power
In a reversal of normal classroom rules, students have been encouraged to run and jump around a corridor at a Kent school in UK. It’s because the corridor has been laid with special kinetic tiles and...
View ArticlePressure mounts on US
US President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from world leaders not to launch military strikes in Syria yesterday at a summit on the global economy that was eclipsed by the conflict. The Group of...
View ArticleTonado kills one, injures 10
At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured by a tornado at Nurullahar Char under Barhatta upazila of the district. The dead is Sohag Rahman Rony, 12, said Sultan Ahmed, officer-in-...
View ArticleProsecution for Khokon’s indictment
The prosecution yesterday asked the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to frame charges against Faridpur BNP leader MA Zahid Hossain Khokon in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the...
View ArticleEC to review it for level playing field
The Election Commission will amend the electoral code of conduct to ensure equal opportunities for all candidates to conduct electoral campaigns, said Election Commissioner Zabed Ali yesterday. “The...
View ArticleMuhith hopeful of talks before polls
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has expressed the hope that dialogue will take place between the ruling party and the opposition to tide over the current political standoff before the coming general...
View ArticleIntellectuals’ names found in Ashraf’s diary
A prosecution witness yesterday testified that the elder brother of alleged Al-Badr leader Ashrafuzzaman Khan had been a tenant in their Nakhalpara house and Ashrafuzzaman occasionally stayed there...
View ArticleMuggers kill sales executive
An official of mobile phone operator Banglalink was shot dead in Tongi of Gazipur yesterday. The deceased, Ahmed Mostafa, 25, son of SM Abu Bakar under Kotwali Police Station in Barisal, was the sales...
View ArticleGirl commits suicide after being stalked
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide yesterday, a day after she was stalked by a boy in Kalai upazila of Joypurhat. The dead is Shabana Akter, 15, daughter of Azgar Ali of Bakhra village of the...
View ArticleMan dies in cop custody
A man died in hospital early yesterday, two and a half hours after police arrested him as a suspected drug addict at the capital’s Shahjahanpur. Saiful Islam Mithu, 35, lived in the capital’s Malibagh...
View ArticleBNP will bring militancy back
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reminded people of the horrific situation created by Bangla Bhai at Baghmara upazila in Rajshahi during the last BNP-Jamaat rule. Speaking at a public rally at...
View ArticleYusuf’s cohorts killed 5 in Bagerhat
Following the order of war crimes accused AKM Yusuf, his associates killed at least five people in three incidents in Morrelganj of Bagerhat during the Liberation War, an eyewitness said yesterday....
View ArticleTutor the killer
Fourteen-year-old Sajal Chandra Majumdar, whose body was found in a sack in Matikata Bazar area, Dhaka Cantonment last week, had been killed by a teacher of his. Sabuj Sutradhar, 25, admitted killing...
View ArticleEviction leads to fight
At least 10 people were injured as Dhaka University students clashed with police and pro-ruling party men over the eviction of the Ananda Bazar kitchen market near Chankharpool in the capital. The...
View ArticleRescued by real cops
Police yesterday chased down two criminals who had been posing as detectives. The men were trying to abduct two private firm employees in a microbus with the motive of snatching Tk 5.3 lakh from them....
View Article