Portoviejo, Apr 19 (AP) – Ecuador’s government says the death toll from the weekend’s powerful earthquake has climbed to 413. The increase came in the government’s latest bulletin on casualties from the powerful 7.8-magnitude quake that hit the country’s Pacific…
Brasilia, Apr 19 (AP) – President Dilma Rousseff said Monday she is “indignant” over a congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her and vowed to fight what she called the injustice. She again categorically ruled out resigning. In her…
Berlin, Apr 19 (AP) – Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams won the Laureus awards as the top athletes in the world in 2015. Djokovic won for the second straight year and third time overall and Williams picked up her fourth…
London (CNN)British police and government aviation investigators have launched inquiries after a passenger jet was struck by what was believed to be a drone as it approached a London airport Sunday. British Airways Flight BA727 from Geneva, Switzerland, was coming…
New Delhi: India should not try to reclaim the famous Kohinoor diamond as it was neither stolen nor forcibly taken, the government said Sunday. That stand, the Supreme Court has warned, could mean “You will face a problem in the…
Rumour has it Apple will completely redesign the iPhone. Out will go the ranges’ famed aluminum chassis and in its place will be the return of an all-glass enclosure. This will also be complemented by new cutting edge curved OLED…
Nearly 250,000 people have been told to leave their homes amid fears of further quakes in Japan, an aid agency says. Naoki Kokawa, advisor to the Japanese Red Cross Society, told the BBC that more medical teams were being dispatched…
Dhaka – Dolphins are still not safe in the marine protected swatch of no-ground areas of the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans’ dolphin sanctuaries, according to a wildlife expert, unb news agency reported.
New Delhi — Police say a bus carrying members of an opera troupe plunged into a gorge in an India forest, killing at least 25 people and leaving another 11 critically injured.
Brasilia — Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who repeatedly argued that the push against her was a “coup.” Rousseff is accused of using accounting…
Dhaka – A toddler is being hailed as a miniature hero on Chinese social media after he defended his grandmother from urban management officers who were trying to clamp down on illegal street vendors, reports mashable.com. The video of the…
New York – A magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook Ecuador’s central coast on Saturday. The country’s vice president called it the strongest to hit the country in decades. Here is a list of some of the world’s strongest earthquakes since 1900: May…
Pedernales — The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. President Rafael Correa said at least 272 people had died and rescuers were struggling to reach survivors trapped in the rubble.…
Dhaka – A court here on Sunday framed charges against five people, including three policemen and two police informants, in a case filed for torturing jhut trader Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony to death in police custody. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge M…
Dhaka – Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, MP, said today that the US State Department’s recent report on Bangladesh was only partly true. The minister said this at a press conference at the Press Information Department (PID) today. Inu appreciated…
Dhaka – , Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) a leading think-tank has suggested preparing the next budget with a more realistic approach so most of the fiscal policies could be implementable. The think-tank, also attached priority to four areas to…
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ySunday termed putting veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in his eighties on remand as inhuman. “The arrest of such an elderly senior journalist on cooked up charges and taken him on remand was an…
Saudi Arabia has warned US officials that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars of American assets if a new bill is passed that could allow the Saudi government to be held accountable for the 9/11 terror attacks.…
Dhaka – Although 28 days have elapsed since the tragic incident, there is still no breakthrough in the investigation into the killing of Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu unb news agency had reported. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the…
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday termed ‘inhuman’ the remand of journalist Shafik Rehman after his arrest. Talking to reporters after visiting Shaifk Rehamn’s Eskaton Garden residence in the city, he demanded that the journalist…
Dhaka – Distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Sunday suggested the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Ministry to arrange an open hearing over the Bangladesh Bank’s fund heist. “Philippines’ parliament held an open…
Dhaka – Law Minister Anisul Haq said on Sunday journalist Shafik Rehman was arrested on specific charges. “The matter is now under investigation. If the allegations brought against him are proved after investigation, he’ll be punished and if not, he’ll…
By Robert Parry Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry. Sadly, some important duties of journalism,…
An Australian couple had a close encounter with one of the most dangerous birds in the world when a giant flightless cassowary wandered into their home, sending them running for cover.
Dhaka – Eminent writer Syed Shamsul Haq was taken to London on Friday for the treatment of his lung disease. President of Jatiya Kabita Parishad Dr.Muhammad Samad told UNB on Saturday that the prolific writer and poet was admitted to…
Ozu, Japan — The wooden home barely withstood the first earthquake. An even stronger one the next night dealt what might have been the final blow — if not to the house, then to the Tanaka family’s peace of mind.…
Quito – A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador’s central coast on Saturday, killing at least 28 people and spreading panic as far away as the Andean capital of Quito as it collapsed homes and rattled buildings.
Dhaka – Three people, including a local Jubo League leader, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during storm in Habiganj Sadar and Lakhai upazilas here on Saturday afternoon, unb news agency reported. The deceased were identified as Ramjan…
Dhaka – The historic Mujibnagar Day will be observed on Sunday marking the formation of Bangladesh’s first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971, unb news agency reported. Senior leaders of Awami League assembled at Baidyanathtala, a mango…
Dhaka – Hours after his arrest, a court here on Saturday placed journalist Shafik Rehman, former editor of Bangla daily Jaijaidin, on a five-day remand in a case filed with Paltan police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Mazharul Islam passed…