Iraq attacks kill 12 security personnel
Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi policemen and soldiers yesterday while a truck bomb hit a southern port, the latest in a surge in violence that authorities have failed to curb. Security forces have in recent...
View ArticleIt began with £5 online bet
Four years ago, Justyn Larcombe’s life was little short of perfect. He and his wife, Emma, owned a £450,000 townhouse in the genteel Derbyshire village of Ashbourne, where they lived with their baby...
View ArticleBombs hurled at SP’s residence
Unidentified people hurled four cocktails at the official residence of the superintendent of police in the town’s Octroy intersection last night. Three motorcyclists hurled the cocktails, of which one...
View ArticleMugger beaten to death
A mugger was beaten to death and two others were injured by a mob in the capital’s East Monipur area of Mirpur as locals caught them right after they had robbed a family early yesterday. The dead is...
View ArticleChallenged youth dies after 2 days
Physically challenged Shamim, 22, died yesterday from the two-day old injuries inflicted on him by Savar unit Bangladesh Chhatra League convenor Jahidul Islam Faisal and BCL worker Johnny. The...
View ArticleNews report prompts hartal call in Sylhet
Following a recent rumour that missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali is still alive, two pro-BNP organisations yesterday called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sylhet district for August 29, demanding to know his...
View ArticleMros at stake
A gang of land grabbers and timber traders are gradually pushing the Mro community in Lama upazila of Bandarban to leave their homes. The Mros, like other indigenous people in Bandarban, Rangamati and...
View ArticleClose shave
Police yesterday arrested a Shibir activist for illegally entering the ward of injured Gonojagoron Mancha activist Tonmoy at Rangpur Medical College Hospital. The arrested, Rayhanul Islam, is a fourth...
View ArticleOnion relief sought from Myanmar
The government is set to import onion from Myanmar to stem the spiralling prices in the face of a supply crunch in India, the country’s main source of the vegetable, Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed...
View ArticleSufferings for second day
Thousands of Dhaka-bound Eid holidaymakers suffered long delays due to a massive tailback on the Dhaka-Tangail highway and a collapse in train schedules for the second consecutive day yesterday....
View ArticleEgypt for legal ban
Egypt’s prime minister has proposed disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, the government said yesterday, raising the stakes in a bloody struggle between the state and...
View ArticleCairo mosque cleared
Egyptian police yesterday exchanged gunfire with Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi holed up inside a Cairo mosque, an AFP correspondent reported. The clashes came on the fourth day...
View ArticleOdhikar’s Hefajat list under wraps
The rights body Odhikar has refused to provide the media with its controversial list of 61 victims of the crackdown on the Hefajat-e Islam’s demonstrations on May 6 though it provided five human rights...
View ArticleDaughter surrenders
Detectives yesterday detained three people, including prime suspect Oishee Rahman, in connection with the murder of Special Branch of Police inspector and his wife at their Chamelibagh home in the...
View ArticleFree regulator, only
An independent commission was imperative to ensure building safety in the country, said leading civil engineers and architects at a discussion in the capital yesterday. Any local government body, like...
View ArticleAL’s alternatives
The ruling Awami League is considering several alternatives in case the main opposition BNP boycotts the next parliamentary polls if held under an interim government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh...
View ArticleHopes bleak
Prospects for an amicable solution to the stalemate over polls-time government remain dim, as the ruling Awami League yesterday once again ruled out a return to the caretaker system and the opposition...
View ArticleEgypt cabinet to hold crisis meeting
Egypt’s cabinet is set to discuss the crisis in the country, where hundreds have died in clashes in recent days. The interim prime minister has put forward a proposal to legally dissolve the Muslim...
View ArticleBritish embassy in Yemen to reopen
The UK embassy in Yemeni capital Sanaa will open “as normal” on Sunday after staff were withdrawn earlier this month due to “increased security concerns”. Announcing the news on Twitter, British...
View ArticlePakistan ‘blasphemy’ cleric freed
A Pakistani court has dismissed charges against a Muslim cleric who had been arrested on suspicion of framing a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. The imam had accused 14-year-old Rimsha Masih of...
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