Tokyo — At least nine people were killed and 761 injured by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake Thursday night that toppled houses and buckled roads in southern Japan, the government’s chief spokesman said. Yoshihide Suga said he would visit the area…
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Foreign Minister off to Turkey to attend OIC summit
Dhaka – Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali left here for Turkey on Monday morning to attend the 13th Islamic Summit Conference being held in Istanbul. The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has said leaders of the…
SC cancels Minar’s bail in Ekram murder case
Dhaka – The Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the bail granted by the High Court to BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar in the Fulgazi upazila parishad chairman Ekramul Haque killing case, unb news agency reported. A four-member bench of…
Buzz Aldrin plans permanent settlement on Mars
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the Moon. Now the Nasa veteran, and trained engineer, is setting his sights on another part of our Solar System – Mars. By Sue Nelson 11 April 2016 Buzz Aldrin’s passion…
Miscreants loot Tk two lakhs from trader in city
Dhaka – A group of miscreants identifying themselves as members of Detective Branch (DB) of police allegedly looted Tk 2 lakh from a trader in the city’s Malibagh area on Sunday afternoon, UNB news agency reported. Victim Mazibur Rahman filed…
Hot spell across Bangladesh continues
Dhaka – A hot spell has been sweeping across the country, including capital Dhaka, over the last couple of days following the storms and rains caused by a nor’wester. The situation is worse in rural areas, particularly in the northern…
Businesses seek central Bank’s strong vigil over financial sector
Dhaka – Worried over the banking sector, the FBCCI chief seeks ‘responsible behaviour’ equally from both banks and their customers with strong supervision from the central bank so that Bangladesh does not fall in any big financial risk in the…
Couple among four injured in city acid throwing
Dhaka – Four people sustained burn injuries as some miscreants hurled acid towards them in Rupnagar Tin Shed area of the city on Thursday morning. The injured were identified as Masuda Akter Subarna, 28, a garment worker, her husband Suruj…
Compostable plastic bags carry goods and hopes for the future
PresseBox – nova-Institute publishes the first comprehensive market study on the consumption of biodegradable and compostable plastic products in Europe: 100,000 tonnes in 2015, market demand could grow to beyond 300,000 tonnes in 2020. Compostable plastic bags dominate the market…
Major banks deny claims they helped clients avoid tax
International banking giants have denied allegations that they are helping clients to avoid tax by using complicated offshore arrangements. HSBC, Credit Suisse and the Royal Bank of Scotland-owned Coutts Trustees all feature in the leaked Panama Papers.
Myanmar’s former president leaves office, joins monkhood
Yangon – Myanmar’s former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. Thein Sein’s ordination as a monk took place Monday, officials said, four days after he presided over a historic transition…
Mild tremor jolts country
Dhaka – A mild earthquake shook capital Dhaka and other parts of the country on Tuesday.
Renewable energy sector seeks duty cut in next budget
Dhaka – Entrepreneurs in solar and renewable energy sector have placed a 13-point proposal seeking cut in customs duty (CD) and value added tax (VAT) on different items in the upcoming budget for the fiscal year 2016-17, UNB Staff Writer,…
Dubai’s Taqdeer Award an excellent model in labour practices: ILO official
Taqdeer Award is an outstanding initiative to encourage employers to improve their employment practices and the award can well be a model for countries in the area to enhance their labour welfare steps, said asenior official from the International Labour…
Patty Duke’s life and ‘heartbreaking’ youth as a child star
Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker and for headlining her own sitcom, has died, She was 69. In 1985, just ahead of her 40th birthday, the actress sat down with PEOPLE to…
Northwesterly ‘Kalbaishakhi’ squalls, hailstorm forecast
Dhaka – River ports in several districts across the country have been asked to hoist ‘riverine warning signal no. 2’ amid forecast of temporary west or north-westerly squalls.
Pakistani Taliban cliams responsibility for Lahore bomb attack
Islamabad — A bombing on Easter Sunday killed 65 people in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that was crowded with Christians, including many children. A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group claimed responsibility. Ahsanullah Ahsan,…
Fire in Sundarbans Chandpai range now under control
Dhaka – A fire broke out at Shikdar Bari Shila in Chandpai Range of the Sundarbans on Sunday evening UNB news agency reported from Bagerhat. The Station officer of Dhansagar in Chandpai Range, Sultan Mahmud, said forest officials saw some…
Jamaat calls hartal Monday, Hefazat submits memo over state religion
The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a shutdown for Monday, when the High Court is scheduled to start hearing a writ petition on the issue of state religion. It claimed there was a “deep-rooted conspiracy to rid the country of religion by…
Brothers named as Brussels attackers, manhunt continues
By Reuters and VICE News Belgium has confirmed the identities of two of the assailants in the Brussels airport and metro attacks that left 31 dead, with the country’s federal prosecutor Frederic van Leeuw naming a pair of brothers among…
Polling halted in 14 Satkhira, Barisal centres
Dhaka – Polling at 13 centres was suspended in five upazilas during the first phase union parishad (UP) elections on Tuesday morning, UNB news agency reported. The suspension followed an order of the Election Commission over allegations of seizing control…
Two election officials shot at Noakhali centre
Dhaka – An assistant presiding officer and a polling officer received injuries as miscreants opened shots at a polling centre in Char King union of Hatiya upazila on Tuesday morning, UNB news agency reported.
Christian convert freedom fighter killed in Kurigram
Dhaka – A freedom fighter, who converted to Christianity from Islam 15 years ago, was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Haspatalpara in Kurigram town on Tuesday morning, UNB news afwncy reported Tuesday morning.
Two shot for ‘ballot snatching bid’ in Satkhira
Dhaka – Two people were injured in police firing during their alleged attempt to snatch ballots at Bhaghbah polling centre in Kumira union of Tala upazila on Tuesday morning, news agency UNB reported from Satkhira. Election officer AHM Qamrul Hasan…
Two Municipal mayors arrested in Rajshahi
Rajshahi Correspondent Police have arrested two newly elected mayors of Tanor and Putiya Municipal of Rajshahi from different places in different time.
‘I helped create ISIS’ – story of where did ISIS come from?
A former US Marine who served in Iraq in 2003-05 explains how much ISIS is the product of the accumulated wrongs and horrific crimes committed by the US against the Iraqi people during its genocidal military campaign in that country.…
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union
By Eric Bradner, CNN Washington – The White House says President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night will be non-traditional. What that means: Obama will be talking about himself, not asking Congress for a long list of…
Terror attack plot on Brussels,3 arrests
Three people detained on Thursday in connection with an alleged plot to target Brussels on New Year’s Eve are to be held for a further 24 hours, Belgian prosecutors say.
Ten inconvenient truths about Paris Climate Accord
Surya P. Sethi, India’s former Core Climate Negotiator To those who say the Paris Accord “signals an end to the fossil fuel era”; I say please look at Bloomberg’s commodities page – fossil fuels are being produced in never before…
Belgian police arrest 16 in anti-terror raids
Several Belgian media outlets are carrying reports that Salah Abdeslam, the suspected Paris gunman on the run from police, was spotted by police in Liege on Sunday but escaped in a black BMW.