England’s Danny Willett seeks further fuel for his rapid rise in world golf at this week’s inaugural Maybank Championship Malaysia, where he heads a field including past Major champions Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer.Willett arrives in Kuala Lumpur on a…
A van puller was chopped to death by some miscreants at Zaria village under Sripur upazila of the district on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Nasir Mandol, 45, son of Appil Mandol, a dweller of the same area.Police…
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) Joypurhat region has distributed over Taka 53.79 crore as agricultural loans among 5,846 farmers of the district during the first six months of the current fiscal through its 15 branches.RAKUB Official sources said they have…
At least 70 people were injured as a picnic bus fell into a road side ditch in Pagla bazaar area under Domar upazila of the district this morning.Police said the accident occurred when a Dinajpur-bound picnic bus from Panchagarh fell…
The bodies of four schoolboys who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on Friday morning were recovered from a ditch at the village on Wednesday morning.Informed by locals, police recovered the bodies of Zakaria Ahmed Shuvo, 8,…
A suspected mugger was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Kanhar in Trishal upazila on Tuesday night.Officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station M Maniruzzaman said a group of muggers snatched a motorbike on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the night.
The first-ever census of unregistered Rohingya population in Bangladesh is going on in full swing in Rangamati to determine their exact number throughout the district.Total 36 supervisors and 355 enumerators are working in the district to find out the number…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives recovered 1.9 lakh pieces of Yaba tablet and arrested a Myanmar citizen in Teknaf upazila on Wednesday.BGB-2 Battalion Commanding Officer Lt Col Abu Jar Al Zahid said tipped off a team…
A woman was killed and her husband severely injured in an incident of landslide at a stone quarry in Balughat area of Gowainghat upazila Tuesday afternoon.Officer-in-charge of Gowainghat police station Md Delowar Hossain said Chaina Begum, a resident of Shoti…
An alleged robber was killed in a gunfight with his rivals at Matarbari Connecting Road in Maheshkhali upazila early Wednesday. Officer-in-charge of Maheshkhali Police Station Didarul Ferdous said two local gangs had long been at loggerheads over committing robbery in…
A mobile court on Tuesday fined four invigilators Tk1000 each for helping examinees adopt unfair means during Dakhil examinations. The mobile court led by executive magistrate Munibur Rahman imposed the fine on the four on-duty teachers at Chuadanga Alia Madrasah…
Burglars looted valuables worth Tk34 lakh, including gold and cash, from a house at Sitarampur village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district early Wednesday.Police said a gang of burglars entered the house of Amir Hossain of the village by breaking…
By Miriam Wells The Eagles of Death Metal (EODM), the band who were playing at Paris’ Bataclan concert hall when it was attacked by gunmen last November, will return to the French capital to “finish” the show tonight. In interviews…
By Sally Hayden and Reuters The Kremlin has strongly rejected accusations by Turkey that Russia committed an “obvious war crime” in Syria after missile attacks killed scores of people on Monday, hitting several medical facilities and schools. “We categorically do…
President Park Geun-hye issues tough warning and again accuses Kim Jong-un’s government of using cross-border funding to further weapons programme South Korea’s president has warned that North Korea faces “regime collapse” if it does not abandon its nuclear programme. Park…
Migration is overall not a source of terrorism, according to new research from the University of Warwick. In fact, the study indicates that more migration could create a decrease in the number of terrorist attacks, not an increase. The research…
By Danica Talon The full list of nominees is below, and there’s some tough competition among the contenders. We’ll be updating this list as the winners are announced, so keep an eye on this story and check back throughout the…
Shamshad Akhtar As governments embark on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the first thing they must do is identify and plug gaps in data availability and quality, says UN ESCAP Under-Secretary-General Shamshad Akhtar. 2016 marks the start of the…
Dhaka – A fire broke out inside an apartment at a multi-storied building in the capital’s Shantinagar area on early Wednesday. Sources at the fire service headquarters control room said the fire originated at around 1:00 am inside flat no.…
Charlotte Rampling was a defining symbol of the swinging ‘60s– and in her 50s she became a muse for one of the fashion world’s most unique photographers.With her hooded eyes giving her a perpetually sullen gaze Charlotte Rampling radiated detached…
Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study published Monday that dives into a fierce anthropological debate.Fossils of Homo floresiensis — dubbed “the…
Cox’s Bazar police claims to have killed a history sheeter in a shootout involving them and ‘two robber gangs’ at Moheshkhali Upazila.Moheshkhali police’s Inspector Didarul Ferdous said that the encounter took place at Upazila’s Matarbarhi Union.Police claimed the dead, identified…
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a history-making diplomat who made his mark as an architect of the Camp David accords and then became the United Nations’ first African secretary-general, has died. Rafael Ramirez Carreno, Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador and current head of the U.N.…
By James Gallagher A therapy that retrains the body’s immune system to fight cancer has provoked excitement after more than 90% of terminally ill patients reportedly went into remission. White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in…
A 10-member delegation of British Labour Party at a meeting with BNP leaders on Tuesday voiced concern over democratic condition in Bangladesh, said the BNP. “We’ve discussed many issues, mainly Bangladesh’s current democratic condition at the meeting… the Labour Party…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed serious concerns over a barrage of legal cases filed against The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam. It said the attempt to pursue coordinated legal proceedings against the editor was a clear attempt…
A Narayanganj court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against English-language newspaper The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in a defamation suit. Senior judicial magistrate Saiduzzaman Sharif passed the order after taking the case into cognisance. Public prosecutor Wazed Ali…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday said showing Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman arrested despite his bail granted by the High Court is tantamount to contempt of court. Voicing deep concerns over keeping the editor “in…
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Monday seeking a ban on practicing law by retired Supreme Court judges.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) in its weekly meeting on Tuesday approved the 3rd Revision of the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway into four-lane one increasing the project cost by over Tk 626 crore to Tk 3,816.94 crore.