Dhaka – A seven-year-old girl was violated allegedly by a young man in Sontoshpur area of Faridganj upazila on Monday afternoon.
Day: October 31, 2017
Aziza killing: Prime accused Beauty Begum arrested
Dhaka – Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested the prime accused Beauty Begum and two others in the much-talked-about Aziza Begum killing case from Mirergaon village of Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet district early Tuesday.Ali Haidar…
2 to die for killing mason in Gazipur
Dhaka – A court here on Tuesday sentenced two men to death for killing a workshop mason in Kapasia upazila in 2016.The convicts are – Md Shakil, son of Md Mostafa, and Sanjiban Chandra Monidas, residents of Torgaon Madhyapara village…
Biman pilot among 4 held over ‘aircraft sabotage plan’
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested four alleged members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, who had been planning acts of sabotage on an aircraft.The arrested pilot is Sabbir Ahmed,…
Chung wins in Paris Masters 1st round; next plays Nadal
Paris, (AP/UNB) – Hyeon Chung of South Korea swept aside Mischa Zverev 6-0, 6-2 at the Paris Masters on Monday to set up a second-round match against Rafael Nadal.Nadal will begin his quest for a record 31st Masters title –…
BCB Election: Durjoy, Ashfaqul, Alo elected directors
Dhaka – The first Test captain of Bangladesh Naimur Rahman Durjoy, Syed Ashfaqul Islam and Alamgir Hossain Alo were elected directors of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in the much-talked-about election to the country’s most affluent sports body held at the…
National Cricket: Sylhet DSA beat Narsingdi DSA by 7 wkts
Dhaka – Sylhet District made a flying start in the Chittagong phase of the 38th National Cricket Championship beating Narsingdi District by seven wickets in a curtailed 24 over-a-side match at the MA Aziz Stadium in the port city of…
AFC U-19: Bangladesh play goalless draw with hosts Tajikistan
Dhaka – Bangladesh Under-19 Football team forced hosts Tajikistan u-19 side to play goalless draw in their opening Group B match of the AFC Under-19 Championship Qualifiers at the Hisor Central Stadium in Tajikistan on Tuesday.With the day’s feat, touring…
Premier Volleyball: PDB beat Azad SC by straight 3-0 sets
Dhaka – Power Development Board (PDB) made a flying start in the Crony Group Dhaka Metropolis Premier Division Volleyball League beating Azad Sporting Club by straight 25-8, 25-17, 25-16 points (3-0 sets) at the Dhaka Volleyball Stadium on Tuesday.
3 Dinajpur doctors jailed for corruption
Dhaka-A court here on Monday sent three doctors of M Abdur Rahim Medical College and Hospital to jail in a corruption case of purchasing medical equipments of the hospitals in 2015.Dinajpur District and Session Judge Hossain Shahid Ahmed passed the…
Four including co-pilot held on suspected militancy link
RAB has detained four ‘accomplices’ of JMB suicide bomber Abdullah from Dhaka’s Mirpur on charges of planning to ‘sabotage a plane’. Among the detainees are Sabbir Amam, a Biman Bangladesh co-pilot (first officer), whose father had rented out the militant…
Israel-Palestine conflict 100 years of history
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its roots in the late 19th century when Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in Russia and central Europe began emigrating to Palestine. Here is a timeline: A Jewish homeland promised In 1917, during World War I, the British…
EU Commissioner in Dhaka to address Rohingya crisis
Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management of European Commission Christos Stylianides today reached here on a two-day visit to address the Rohingya crisis. His visit comes a week after the EU and its Member States pledged over 5percent of…
200 killed in tunnel collapse near N Korea nuke test site
More than 200 people are feared to have died when a tunnel caved in at North Korea’s nuclear test site after its latest detonation, a Japanese news report said Tuesday. A tunnel collapsed at Punggye-ri in early September, days after…
Unesco recognises Bangabandhu’s 7 March speech
Unesco has recognised the historic 7th March speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as an important documentary heritage. The speech has been included in the Memory of the World International Register, a list of world’s important…
Manna Film Festival on RTV underway
Entertainment Desk In order to pay a tribute to the lost superstar of Dhallywood Manna, private television channel RTV has organized a film festival in his honor. The channel will air seven of the demised actor’s films as part of…
Prabhudheva choreographs Amitabh for song
Actor-filmmaker Prabhudheva has choreographed Amitabh Bachchan for a song and the megastar seems to have had a tough time shaking a leg at age 75. Amitabh shared a throwback image of himself on Twitter on Sunday and wrote: “At 75…
Singapore opens new, high-tech airport terminal
Singapore’s Changi Airport opened a cutting-edge terminal Tuesday with a fully automated check-in system including facial scanning and computerised baggage drop points, but some passengers struggled with the new technology. Terminal 4, built at a cost of Sg$985 million (US$723…
Stars of S.Korean hit TV show marry in real life
Two South Korean stars who played lovers in a TV drama that took Asia by storm last year tied the knot in real life on Tuesday in a highly-anticipated wedding. Actress Song Hye-Kyo, 35, and actor Song Joong-Ki, 32, who…
$129 bn in extreme weather losses last year: climate report
Extreme weather caused some $129 billion (111 billion euros) in economic losses last year, said a report Tuesday that warned the bill will keep climbing as climate change boosts droughts, storms and floods. There was a 46-percent increase in weather…
China factory activity slows in October
Chinese manufacturing expansion slowed in October after two consecutive months of acceleration, official data showed Tuesday, as weak demand weighed on the world’s second-largest economy. The manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI), a gauge of factory conditions, stood at 51.6 in…
নারী নির্যাতন ও ধর্ষণের ব্যাপকতা বাস্তব সমাধান কী?
শাহ্ আব্দুল হান্নান বাংলাদেশে সব সমস্যাই বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে, বিশেষ করে রাজনৈতিক সমস্যা, অপরাধ, সর্বব্যাপী দুর্নীতি, নদীদূষণ, পরিবেশদূষণ, অবাসযোগ্য শহরাঞ্চল ও ট্রাফিক জ্যাম। আজ কেবল নারী নির্যাতন বিশেষ করে ধর্ষণ, বখাটে কর্তৃক মেয়েদের রাস্তাঘাটে উত্ত্যক্ত করা, তাদের স্কুলে যাওয়া কঠিন হয়ে…
HIV seeks refuge in immune cells to avoid elimination
Neena Bhandari Sydney – Genetically-intact HIV hides in the same cells of the human immune system that are supposed to attack and destroy pathogens, scientists at Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney University, discovered in a new study.
BNP’s protest hartal in Shailkupa for jail term on ex-MP
Jhenidah, Oct 31 – A half-day hartal, was enforced by Shailkupa BNP unit, on Tuesday protesting an eight-year jail term against former lawmaker M A Wahab from Jhenidah-1 (Shailkupa) constituency in a 2008 graft case.
Thailand cancels passports of ousted prime minister
Bangkok, Oct 31 (AP/UNB) — Thailand has the cancelled the passports of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country last month to evade a prison sentence that she said was politically motivated.
7-year-old minor girl violated in Chandpur
Chandpur, Oct 31 – A seven-year-old girl was violated allegedly by a young man in Sontoshpur area of Faridganj Upazila on Monday afternoon.
Saudi women to be allowed into sports stadiums next year
Dubai, Oct 30 (AP/UNB) – Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums as of next year, the kingdom’s latest step toward easing rules on gender segregation — but they will be seated in the so-called family section, an area…
Adolescent health congress skirts abuse-trafficking issues
By Stella Paul New Delhi, Oct 30 (IPS) – Twenty-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi of Mahalapye, Botswana is grateful she was never sent to a so-called “hyena” like scores of girls in neighbouring Malawi were.
The roots of exodus: What compels people to leave their homes?
By Baher Kamal Rome, Oct 30 (IPS) – Facts are facts, and one of them is that while everybody talks about the growing forced movement of people –be they migrants or refugees—decision-makers haven’t seriously acted on the root causes of…