By Sally Hayden Another earthquake has hit Nepal killing at least 37, just over two weeks after a 7.8 earthquake resulted in the deaths of more than 8,000 people. This time the epicenter was close to the base camp of…
Day: May 12, 2015
Europe weighs quota system, crackdown in migrant crisis
With thousands from Africa and the Middle East continuing to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Europe’s response to the crisis seemingly comes down to two choices: Stanch the flow, or accept and resettle the migrants. Now, however, it…
Two awarded death, 2 life term for killing old couple
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced two youths to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an old couple in 2013. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka pronounced the verdict on Tuesday afternoon awarding…
Sqn Leader Mamun testifies in grenade attack case
Retired Squadron Leader Abdullah Al Mamun onTuesday testified in the August 21 grenade attack case as witness no. 133. Judge Shahed Nur Uddin of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 recorded the depositions of Mamun, who was another former personal security assistant…
Sexual harassment: Students to gherao Home Ministry
Left-leaning students’ organisations on Tuesday announced to lay siege to the Home Ministry on May 20 if their five-point demands in connection with the DU sexual assault incident are not met within a week. The demands include the arrest and…
Unidentified people kidnapped me: Salahuddin
Salahuddin Ahmed, the joint secretary general of BNP who went disappeared for over two months, says he does not know how he surfaced in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya on Monday morning. Ahmed, who identified himself as a senior…
Lightning kills two in Sylhet
Two boy was killed as lighting struck them at Dakshin surma upazila of the district on Sunday morning.The deceased
Man held with arms in Sylhet
Police in a drive arrested a person along with arms from Vatalia area early Sunday.The arrestee was identified asPinku das , 28. He was a member of a gang of robbers.
Four youths sent to jail for violating school girl in Barisal
A Barisal court on Monday rejecting bail prayer sent four youths to jail for allegedly violating a school girl at Kagashura area under Charbaria union of Sadar upazila in Barisal city skirt.
Police –port users clash left 9 wounded at Benapole
At least nine people including some police men were wounded in clashes between the police and port users at Benapole land port on Sunday noon, eyewitnesses said.
Construction of landfill soon in Sylhet city
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) is going to construct a landfill in the outskirt of the metropolitan area with financial cooperation from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to scientifically manage environmental healthy waste management system at the earliest.Consequently, people in the…
Teenage girl’s hanging body recovered in Sylhet
Police recovered the hanging body of a teenage girl at Goainghat Palli area of the district town on Monday morning. The dead was identified as–Julekha Begum, 17, daughter of Ansar Ali.
Bumper jackfruit production likely in Bogra
An eye bumper production of juicy tasteful jackfruit is likely in this season as the weather condition is most favorable for growing it. Harvesting of the fruits will begin from coming month in the district this season, official sources said.…
Light tremor jolted the Barisal region The only Seismograph in PSTU out of order since last two-year
Reports received from different areas of southern region including Barisal city said that light tremor jolted their areas at 13:15:15 to 13:15:30 pm Tuesday noon.However the only Seismograph in southern region at Patuakhali Science and Technology University, remained out of…
Twenty shops gutted, damaged near Barisal Airport
Fire gutted ten shops and damaged 11 others at Rahamatpur Bazaar under Barisal Airport police station on Monday afternoon.Matiar Rahman, Airport police station officer in charge, fire assumed to be instigated from electric short circuit at about 2:55 PM Monday…
Crisis-hit Bayern with mountain to climb against Barca
Bayern Munich will not only have to overturn a 3-0 Champions League semi-final first leg deficit against Barcelona on Tuesday but they will have to do it against a superb defence and in the midst of their biggest slump in…
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed pulls up USA’s GSP denial
The signing of Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) between Bangladesh and the US will be rendered meaningless unless the country’s products get duty-free access to the American market, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said.”We signed the TICFA to…
Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in ‘Inferno’
Tom Hanks reprises the role of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in the film version of Dan Brown’s thriller “Inferno,” unlocking more mysterious codes as the world-famous character he describes as “the smartest guy in the room”.”Inferno”, which follows on the…
Nano memory stores data like a human brain
Australian scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed nano memory capable of storing information in a way similar to a human brain — a significant step towards the creation of a bionic brain, Australian media reported. The device, 10,000…
Another strong earthquake hits Nepal, 26 killed
At least 26 people were killed and over 150 were injured when a big earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday.Initial reports reaching here said that 19 people were killed in Dolakha district, located about 170 km from here.
Chelsea is winning the heart of Japan
A 15-minute walk from the Shin-Yokohama bullet train stop, just southwest of Tokyo, the Nissan Stadium undergoes an awkward rebranding as the International Stadium Yokohama every time Japan plays host to the “Fifa Club World Cup presented by Toyota”.
10 most expensive paintings in the world
A painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for $179.4m, earning it a place on the top ten list of the most expensive paintings ever sold – a list we first published in February this year when a piece by Gauguin…
Another major quake hits Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Another major earthquake hit Nepal in a remote region near the Chinese border on Tuesday, killing at least four people less than three weeks after the country was ravaged by another deadly quake. The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday’s quake…
Bnp leader Salahuddin Ahmed traced in Meghalaya
BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for over two months, has been traced on Monday morning at a mental hospital in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, closed to the Bangladeshi border. Sources in the capital city…
Human chain in NY protest women harassment in Dhaka
New York Correspondent Bangladeshi Students of Laguardia Community College ofthe city university of New York organised a big human chain recently at Diversity plaza, Jackson heights in New york to protest against girls harassment at pahela Baishakh (Bengali New year…
5th suspected trafficker killed in crossfire
A suspected human trafficker has been killed in an reported encounter with police in Cox’s Bazar as the law-enforcers steped up their crackdown on people engaged in human trafficking. Belal Hossain, 38, killed on Tuesday morning is the fifth suspected…
Sylhet blogger hacked to death
Assailants have hacked to death blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet on Tuesday, according to a report received in Dhaka. Das was an activist of the Ganajagaran Manch, that was set up after Jamaat leader Quader Mollah was awarded imprisonment…
Picasso’s Women of Algiers smashes auction record
Picasso’s Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $179.3m (£115m) at Christie’s in New York. Eleven minutes of prolonged bidding from telephone buyers preceded the final sale – for much more than…
Sy Hersh: US version of Bin Laden raid is ‘full of lies’
The charges are explosive – and cut against a heroic narrative that defined, in part, arguably the greatest foreign policy success of President Barack Obama’s first term in office. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh, the US raid that…
Selina’s no-confidence to N’ganj 7-murder charge-sheet
Selina Islam Beauty, the widow of slain Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam, filed a naraji (no-confidence) petition with a court in Narayanganj on Monday against the chargesheet in the case filed in connection with the sensational seven murders…