Unidentified men attacked security guards at a construction site in Dhaka leaving one killed and four injured.Police said that the incident took place at the early hours of Tuesday at the capital’s Khilgaon area.The attackers, armed with sharp weapons, barged…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said BNP leaders’ remarks over the Kalyanpur operation prove that the party is the patron of militants and terrorists.”Naturally, country’s people might think they (BNP) are the patrons of militants and terrorists…they’re patronising and…
A Japanese man who admitted to murdering 19 people at a centre for the mentally disabled grinned to news cameras Wednesday before being questioned over the country’s worst killing spree in decades.The 26-year-old reportedly said he wanted all disabled people…
Landslides in North Korea’s Phyongan Province killed at least ten people, North Korean media reported on Monday.Further casualties included 55 people injured and another four missing. Property and infrastructure damage was also reported.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA),…
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker warned Turkey that talks on its accession to the EU would be stopped immediately if it reinstated the death penalty.The European Union may suspend the negotiations with Turkey on accession to the EU countries.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked Awami League lawmakers to get ready for the next national election.She gave the order in a meeting of Awami League Parliamentary Party on Tuesday.“Two and half years of the government’s tenure has passed. The…
Four days after he had gone missing, police recovered the body of Dutch Bangla Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DBCCI) president Md Hassan Khaled from the Buriganga River on Tuesday afternoon.Sub-inspector of Keraniganj Model Police Station M Ilias Hossain said…
Rapid Action Battalion has updated the list of 261 missing youths, released after such youths were found among the Gulshan and Sholakia attackers, dropping 74 percent names.Media reports said many of the listed youths were found in their workplaces, houses…
A legal notice has been served on the government to cancel the khutba (sermons) for Jum’a prayers fixed by the Islamic Foundation for all mosques across the country.Supreme Court lawyer SM Julfiker Ali Junu sent the legal notice to the…
Turkish authorities issued warrants for the detention of 42 journalists on Monday, private broadcaster NTV reported.Well known commentator and former parliamentarian Nazli Ilicak was among those for whom a warrant was issued, NTV said.Turkish authorities have suspended, detained or placed…
Prince Harry has spoken of his regret that he did not talk about how the death of his mother, Princess Diana, affected him until three years ago.The Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in 1997, when he…
Embattled Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she is resigning, following a leak of emails suggesting an insider attempt to hobble the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival in the White House primaries Bernie Sanders.Wasserman Schultz will step down…
As part of the government’s decision to dismantle commercial structures from residential areas in the city, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkah (Rajuk) launched a drive at Uttara on Monday.During the drive, five unauthorised restaurants and a residential hotel were shut down, said…
Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.83 billion, marking the end of an era for a company that once defined the internet.The sale announced Monday marks the second time in two years that Verizon has snapped up the remains of a…
Sagar Barman, a 10-year-old worker of textile factory in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj, died due to air pumping into his body, said AKM Shafiuzzaman, an assistant professor at the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).Shafiuzzaman came up…
Alliance Française de Dhaka, Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in association with Otobi and Gold of Bengal are presenting a project that aims at promoting the use of jute in an innovative way; creating furniture using composite materials made from jute fibre and…
After the news that three Chinese journalists based in India, who represented the Xinhua news agency, were denied permission for extended stay in the country, reports have surfaced that the decision was taken because the reporters had been “indulging in…
Russia will not receive a blanket ban from Rio 2016 following the country’s doping scandal.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will leave it up to individual sports’ governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to…
The Appellate Division has stayed a High Court order, which barred screening of Indian Bangla movie ‘Kelor Kirti’ in Bangladesh theatres.The four-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the order on Sunday.
Samsung Electronics Co. sued Chinese smartphone maker Huawei for allegedly violating six of its patents in the latest move in a series of deepening patent disputes between Asian smartphone giants.The South Korean company said Friday that it took legal action…
Illegal money, accumulated through corruption, is being used in spreading militancy, says Chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood.“If illegal money is not used in militancy, where from such huge money is coming to foreign bank accounts?” he…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Sunday said the masterminds of Gulshan café attack have been identified and they will be arrested soon.“Those behind the planning have been identified and now it’s a matter of time to…
Police were hunting Saturday for clues to explain why an 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire at a crowded Munich shopping mall and fast-food restaurant, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself.The attack in the Bavarian capital sparked…
At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded in the Afghan capital on Saturday, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed clothing among a large crowd of demonstrators, officials and witnesses said.In a statement issued by its news…
Ten people, including six children, died and some others went missing as a trawler sank in the Arial Khan River at Jongli Shibpur in Raipura upazila on Saturday.Nine of the deceased were identified as Mala Begum, 30, wife of Rabiullah,…
Reiterating her government’s zero tolerance stance to rein in terrorism, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government will contain militancy and terrorism by any means.”We’ll surely eradicate militancy and terrorism whatever the name it takes. We won’t allow…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that climate change is as dangerous as, if not more than, the threats posed by the Islamic State and other extremist groups.Speaking Friday in Vienna at an international climate change conference, Kerry…
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for a new anti-doping commission to be created to shape Russia’s future strategy, as the country faces possible exclusion from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Putin’s intervention came as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrote…
Donald Trump has officially accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States, pledging to champion “Americanism, not globalism” if he is elected to the White House and accusing his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, of a legacy…
A solo painting exhibition titled “Life We Desire; Life We Gain” by artist Bitap Shavan Bachhar has begun at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka. The inaugural ceremony of this exhibition was held on Friday, 22 July 2016.Professor Dr. A…