Police check new Diana death details
The Metropolitan Police is assessing new information it has recently received about the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed in 1997. Scotland Yard said it was “scoping” the information and...
View Article27 die as Yemen wedding party swept away in floods
At least 27 members of a Yemeni wedding party have died after the vehicles they were travelling in were swept away by heavy floods, local officials say. The victims, including women and children, were...
View ArticleIndian smuggler dies in Joypurhat BGB firing
An Indian smuggler was killed as members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), after being attacked, opened fire along Hatkhola frontier in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat early Sunday. Two BGB jawans were...
View Article8 more petitions filed against Jasmine’s bail
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed eight more petitions with the High Court to cancel the lower court orders that had granted bail to Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam in eight loan...
View ArticleStocks continue gaining streak
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased on Sunday after a three-day break. Trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday (August 15) remained closed on the occasion...
View Article4 cops, journo hurt in Ctg Jamaat attack
Three policemen and a journalist were injured as activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, launched an attack on law enforcers in Chittagong city Sunday morning. The...
View ArticleFelani’s father, uncle leave for India for deposition
Father and uncle of Bangladeshi girl Felani, who was shot dead by Border Security Force in 2011, left Bangladesh for India on Sunday to give their depositions in the murder case. Felani’s father Nurul...
View ArticleWon’t budge on constitution in holding JS polls: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday insisted that her government would not move away from its position on holding the next parliamentary election in line with the constitution of the country....
View ArticleNoakhali Jamaat man killed while making bombs
A suspected Jamaat-e-Islami activist was killed in a blast while making bombs at a house in Companyganj upazila of Noakhali early Sunday. Two workers of Jamaat-backed Islami Chhatra Shibir were also...
View ArticleCourt summons Khaleda again
A Dhaka court for the sixth time asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it in Zia charitable trust graft case. Khaleda will have to appear before the court on September 16. Judge Md Motahar...
View ArticleCop, wife killing: Daughter on 5-day remand
Oishee Rahman, the daughter of slain inspector of Special Branch (SB) of police and his wife, has been placed on a five-day remand for interrogation in connection with the killing of her parents....
View ArticleSyria refugees flood Iraqi Kurdistan
Thousands of refugees from Syria are pouring over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, the UN refugee agency says. Up to 10,000 crossed at Peshkhabour on Saturday, adding to an earlier influx of 7,000 on...
View ArticleDipu Moni postpones briefing for diplomats
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni Sunday postponed a prescheduled press briefing for foreign diplomats at a very short notice. Scheduled at 3:00pm at the foreign ministry, the briefing was postponed only a...
View ArticleParliament goes into session Sep 12
The Jatiya Sangsad goes into the 19th session on September 12. The president, Abdul Hamid, on Sunday summoned the session of the ninth parliament, sources in parliament secretariat said. The session...
View ArticleLocal variety jute genome sequence decoded
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday announced that Bangladeshi scientists have unravelled the genome sequence of local variety of jute. “Earlier, our scientists have decoded the tossa jute plant...
View Article58 Shibir men held in Ctg
Police on Sunday picked up 58 leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, from a dormitory of Chittagong College in the port city. The Shibir men were detained in...
View ArticleDreadlocks 55 ft long
She is the real life Rapunzel with 55ft long dreadlocks that are longer than a bus. Despite being warned by doctors that her hair that weighs three stone could paralyse her, Asha Mandela said she will...
View Article25 cops killed in ambush
Islamic militants ambushed two mini-buses carrying off-duty policemen in the northern region of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula yesterday, killing 25 of them in a brazen daylight attack. The killings, which...
View ArticleMan buried alive in Joypurhat
A man was buried alive while digging a well in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat yesterday. The dead, Jahangir Hossain, 35, hailed from the upazila’s Hinda Kasba village. He and seven others were digging a...
View ArticleKhaleda seeks scrapping of lower court order
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed a petition with the High Court for scrapping a lower court order that had accepted the charges against her in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case....
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