Alba Morales The murder charge against Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officer who fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back on April 4, is unusual. Between 2005 and 2011 murder or manslaughter charges were brought against just 41officers…
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement on Thursday. We urgently call on the Government of Bangladesh to halt the execution of Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, which is reportedly imminent, following…
The High Court has extended its stay order on the Barapukuria coal mine graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The bench of Justice Md. Nuruzzaman and Justice Zafar Ahmed gave the order, extending the stay by six months on…
Jail authorities on Friday evening apparently postponed a decisioin to go ahead with executing the verdict given against Jamaat Leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman who has remained in a death row for sometime. Earlier two magistrates visited the Dhaka Central Jail to…
Former Awami League MP Sarah Begum Kabari has quit the race for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor. BNP leader Abdus Salam, mayor candidate for Dhaka South, also pulled out on Thursday, the last day for withdrawing nomination.
Dhaka: Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation- Rosatom with the support of Ministry of Science and Technology has presented popular science book titled “Nuclear Energy: Questions and Answers” to various schools located at Ishwardi area where country’s first nuclear power plant…
Finally, BNP has extended its support to Tabith Awal, son of party chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo to contest the mayoral polls in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia endorsed him hours after the Supreme Court upheld…
Following in the exalted footsteps of his father, Formula One legend Michel Schumacher, Mick has made his pre-season test debut in Formula Four.
Paleontologists are restoring the good name of Brontosaurus more than a century after it was deemed scientifically invalid and the famous dinosaur was reclassified as another genus called Apatosaurus.
Myanmar may supply enough onions to fill the demand-supply gap in Bangladesh, a top Myanmar official has said.
Dzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.
A former union parishad member was killed as a bus ran over him in Charchamita Baaar area of sadar upazila on Wednesday night.
A teenage girl with physical disability drowned in a pond at Rail Colony in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district on Thursday morning.
The detective police of the district arrested six BNP activists from different parts of the district last night for their suspected involvement in subversive activities, like hurling petrol bombs, blasting cocktails and other terrorist activities in recent times.
Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion(RAB)-8 stationed in Faridpur district recovered 208 bottles of contraband phensidyl and arrested two drug peddlers in this connection from Khondoker Nuru Mia by-pass road on Wednesday.
Police will take special security measures in the city so that people can celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, peacefully.
A man was killed in a road accident at Simakhali on the Magura-Jessore highway under Shalikha upazila of the district this afternoon.
Three suspected robbers were killed in a mass beating at Rajapur village under Sadar upazila early this morning.
Fisheries Department in a drive arrested five persons and recovered 3,000-kg jatka (small hilsa fish) from Khaserhat Bazaar area under Raipur upazila of the district this morning.
Nearly 1,500 farmers of Jessore district would get chance to boost their production as they are going to come under e-Agro service.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Iran over its alleged support for Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen. He said the US would support any Middle Eastern country that felt threatened by Iran, and would not “stand by” if…
In a worst bus accident of recent times in Bangladesh, twenty four people, including five women, were killed and 22 people seriously injured on the Faridpur-Barisal highway at Koidhubi in Bhanga upazila early on Thursday.
Robert J. Burrowes On 15 April 1912, the Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The large and unnecessary death toll –…
The inter department football tournament of Jahangirnagar University (JU) began on wednesday at the central playground on campus around at 10 am.
Allrounder Nasir Hossain will lead the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) XI in the lone one-day practice match against visiting Pakistan schedule to be held on April 15 at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah. BCB XI squad: Imrul…
Police arrested two people in possession of 31,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from Oliabad area near the Naf River in Teknaf upazila early Wednesday.