Authorities in Marrakesh, Morocco should drop charges against two teenage girls suspected of same-sex conduct, Human Rights Watch and the Aswat Group for Sexual Minorities, a Moroccan group, said today. The two girls, ages 16 and 17, face up to…
Month: November 2016
Robi registers revenue growth in 3rd quarter
Dhaka – Robi Axiata Ltd (Robi) has announced its financial results for the third quarter of the current year. During the period, total revenue contracted by 1.0 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, data revenue registered…
The Rohingya refugees fleeing torture and rape in Myanmar
They come by the thousands.Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh.They’re fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they suffered rape, torture, or saw their homes burned…
BRTA declares Uber service illegal
Dhaka – Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has declared Uber, an app-based taxi service, illegal for launching its service in the city without permission from the authorities concerned. BRTA issued a circular declaring the service illegal, unlawful and a punishable…
Speaker for women-friendly workplaces
Dhaka – Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Friday stressed the need for ensuring women-friendly environment in workplaces alongside creating women employment. “The creation of jobs for women is not enough. A women-friendly atmosphere will have to be ensured everywhere,…
India 2nd unequal country in world: Wealth Report
India is the second most unequal country in the world with the top one per cent of the population owning nearly 60 per cent of the total wealth, according to a report. According to Global Wealth Report 2016 compiled by…
Indian coal giant to build 2 new Aussie solar plants
Indian energy giant Adani will begin construction of two new Australian solar plants in 2017 as part of its plan for 1,500 megawatts of solar capacity within five years. Adani said on Friday that one of Australia’s largest solar farms…
Inverse psoriasis: Causes, symptoms and treatment
Inverse psoriasis is a skin condition that causes red and inflamed lesions in the skin folds of the body. It is also known as intertriginous psoriasis. The location and appearance of these lesions set inverse psoriasis apart from other types…
Ninth edition of Chobi Mela begins February ’17
Culture Desk The ninth edition of Chobi Mela, the international festival of photography, will begin on February 3, 2017 with participation of 27 artists and 10 fellows from 16 countries of the world. The festival will feature 31 exhibitions four…
Sir Elton John denies he will play at Trump inauguration
Sir Elton John will not perform at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, a spokeswoman for the singer has said. Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Mr Trump’s transition team, had told BBC HARDtalk that Sir Elton would perform in Washington DC in…
Bappi Lahiri enjoyed his first animated voice
Indians seem to be the flavour of the season in Hollywood. After Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone set the tone right, it is Bappi Lahiri who has now decided to spread his bling in the west. The veteran composer has…
5 killed as truck hits rickshaw van in Natore
Dhaka – Five people were killed and two others injured as a truck hit a rickshaw van on Ishwardi-Lalpur road in South Lalpur area of Lalpur upazila in Natore on Friday.
BNP for illegal arms recovery before NCC election
Dhaka – BNP on Friday called upon the Election Commission (EC) to recover illegal arms apart from asking people to deposit their legal ones to ensure a congenial and peaceful atmosphere for Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls billed for December…
Two homicides in one Naogaon family in a single night
Dhaka – A septuagenarian man was allegedly stabbed to death by his younger son and the ‘killer son’ was killed by his elder brother at Shimulia village in Sadar upazila in Naogaon on Thursday night.
4 held over attack on Taiwanese couple in capital
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Friday arrested four people, including a woman from the city’s Uttara area on Thursday night for their suspected involvement in the attack on a Taiwanese couple.
Barber beaten to death in Bagerhat
Dhaka – A barber was beaten and poisoned to death by some miscreants at Basabati in Bagerhat district town on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Tapan Kumar Sheel, 52, son of Bimol Sheel.
An identity lost in post-war Japan took 67 years to reclaim
Japan (AP/UNB) – At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out. Other kids sometimes taunt her. “American, American.” She…
France urges labelling goods from Israeli settlements
Paris (AP/UNB) – France published an official notification Thursday urging businesses to use labels to identify goods produced in the Israeli settlements, prompting a swift condemnation from Israel. It was not immediately clear whether the notice published in the French…
Magnitude 7.0 offshore quake rattles El Salvador
El Salvador (AP/UNB) – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled El Salvador’s Pacific coast Thursday, but the country’s civil defense agency said there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
One held with firearms in Jessore
Dhaka – Police in a drive arrested a man along with three firearms and one bullet from Mahishakura village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night.
Death toll in China construction accident rises to 74
Beijing (AP/UNB) – The death toll from the collapse of scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China rose to 74, state media said Friday, in the country’s worst work-safety accident in over two years.
College student found dead at Kurigram dormitory
Dhaka – A college student was found dead at a dormitory in Krishnapur College area of Kurigram district town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Kajal Mia, 22, a first-year honours student of Kurigram Government College and son of…
34 BD nationals held Bangla-India border at Benapole
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 34 Bangladeshi nationals from Amrakhali area of Benapole under Jessore district on Friday while they were entering the Bangladesh after their undocumented visits to India.
4 suspected ‘robbers’ killed in Faridpur, Pabna ‘gunfights’
Dhaka – Four suspected robbers were killed in ‘gunfights’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Pabna and Faridpur early Friday. In Pabna, two alleged robbers were killed and three others injured in a reported gunfight between their cohorts…
Stop admission test for grade three
Some good initiatives have been taken by the incumbent government. One of the best initiatives is no admission test in grade. We had seen all guardians carrying their wards in the so called coaching centres for getting admission to grade…
Magnitude 7.2 quake at sea shakes Central America as hurricane hits
Dhaka – A strong earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America shook the region on Thursday, and could prompt hazardous tsunami waves, U.S. monitoring agencies said, just as a hurricane barreled into the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Costa…
16,000 turkeys killed in Germany to stop spread of bird flu
Berlin – Authorities in northern Germany have killed 16,000 turkeys and ordered 92,000 chickens slaughtered after detecting an outbreak of bird flu. The dpa news agency reported Thursday that the outbreak of the H5N8 strain of the virus affected three…
CU asst proctor among 10 sued over BCL leader Diaz’s death
Chittagong – A killing case has been filed against 10 people, including Chittagong University assistant proctor Anwar Hossain, over the death of CU BCL leader Irfan Chowdhury Diaz. CU unit Bangladesh Chhatra League president Alamgir Tipu, its former general secretary…
Rosatom, IAEA Held Nuclear Knowledge Management Conference
Rosatom and the IAEA held the 3rd International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) on 7–11 November in Vienna (Austria).
Explain bail to MP Shawkat: HC
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday issued a rule asking Jatiya Party MP Shawkat Ali Chowdhury to explain as to why the bail granted to him by the lower court in two cases filed over loan scam should not…