Chapainawabganj Jamaat man killed in BGB firing
An activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed and four were injured as BGB men after being attacked by the party men opened fire on them in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Monday. The members of...
View ArticleHartal demanding Ghulam Azam’s death Tuesday
Gonojagoron Mancha and 11 student organisations including Chhatra Union, Chhatra Federation and Chhatra Front have called a daylong countrywide shutdown for Tuesday demanding death penalty to Ghulam...
View ArticleLaw for physically challenged people okayed
The cabinet on Monday approved three laws including Disabled People’s Rights and Protection Act, 2013. As Bangladesh ratified the related UN convention and protocol, the country is pledge-bound to...
View ArticleBNP mum about Ghulam Azam verdict
The main opposition BNP has remained mum about the verdict of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam saying it would come up with its formal reaction later. When contacted, some senior BNP leaders...
View ArticleWorker stabbed dead in city
A factory worker was stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant in Dhaka on Monday. Sarwar Hossain Babu, 33, a factory worker, was a resident of Kodomtali. Babu was stabbed on his upper abdomen...
View ArticleUS judge to rule on 9/11 damages claim
A US judge is expected to rule this week on whether the owner of the World Trade Center can seek multi-billion dollar damages from the airlines whose planes crashed into into the Twin Towers on...
View ArticleGaddafi compound to turn into amusement park
Slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling residence in Tripoli, Bab al-Aziziya, will be turned into an amusement park under plans announced on Tuesday by the tourism minister. “The work to...
View ArticleMyanmar leader to meet Hollande in Paris
Myanmar President Thein Sein was to meet his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris yesterday, as rights campaigners reacted sceptically to his promise to free all political prisoners. The...
View Article4 cops, prisoner injured in Kashmir attack
Suspected rebels wounded four police officers and a prisoner in Indian Kashmir when they lobbed a grenade at their vehicle yesterday, police said. The attack happened while the police vehicle was...
View ArticleAnger as China law expert defends rape of bar waitress
A legal expert at a top Chinese university has inflamed controversy over a gang-rape case by calling the act less harmful if the victim was a bar waitress. Charges last week against Li Tianyi — the...
View ArticleIran reshuffles hardline electoral body
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday appointed four clerics to Iran’s powerful Guardians Council, a body dominated by ultra-conservatives that interprets the constitution and supervises...
View ArticleAbe visits island near disputed chain
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday visited coastguards who patrol waters around islands at the centre of a dispute with China, as election campaigning stepped up a gear. Abe was in the remote...
View ArticleNotorious law put under scanner
US Attorney General Eric Holder has urged a rethink of “stand-your-ground” self-defense laws following the acquittal of a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in...
View ArticleShipwreck captain’s trial resumes in Italy
The trial of cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino resumed yesterday, with the defendant dubbed “Italy’s most hated man” facing 20 years in prison for a spectacular 2012 wreck in which 32 people lost...
View ArticleSyria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN
Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria’s war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said Tuesday. A host of top officials called on the...
View ArticleGaddafi compound to turn into amusement park
Slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling residence in Tripoli, Bab al-Aziziya, will be turned into an amusement park under plans announced on Tuesday by the tourism minister. “The work to...
View ArticleWWII bomb evacuates 1,500 in Budapest
Hungarian police evacuated around 1,500 people in Budapest yesterday after a World War II bomb was discovered during construction work at an apartment block near Buda Castle. “Around 80 residential...
View ArticleIndian general slashed in ‘revenge’ attack: UK court
The Indian general who commanded the bloody 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault had his throat slashed in a deliberate revenge attack by a Sikh gang in London, a court heard Tuesday. Retired lieutenant...
View ArticleKoreas wrangle over reviving joint factory estate
North and South Korea held fresh talks yesterday about reopening their jointly-run industrial estate, but little progress was reported as they wrangled over who was to blame for the shutdown. The...
View ArticleIndonesia set to ratify haze treaty by 2014
Indonesia said yesterday it hopes to ratify a regional treaty by early next year to fight smog from forest fires that bring misery to millions, but green activists poured cold water on the deal. “We...
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