A big haul of gold has been unearthed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in Dhaka. A man has been arrested for the gold haul. Customs Intelligence sources said, they seized 8.4 kilograms of gold worth Tk 42...
Police have been unable to secure any significant information from the retired army major arrested over his ‘objectionable’ Facebook status on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Md Shamsuzzoha, 45, worked as senior specialist for Grameenphone. He was arrested by Detective Branch...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the residence of Fazlur Rahman Razu in Kalabagan in the city on Friday morning to pay her last respect to the late Awami League leader. Razu, Vice President of Dhaka City unit of AL and...
Several communities were evacuated and some international flights were diverted Friday after a volcanic eruption on Papua New Guinea. Authorities in the South Pacific nation had evacuated communities close to Mount Tavurvur which erupted early Friday in Rabaul district on...
Hundreds of rescuers hunted Friday for survivors of a massive landslide in southwestern China that killed at least 14 people. More than 600 members of specialized search and rescue teams were working in a pair of destroyed villages in Guizhou...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon held talks on the latest developments in Gaza on Thursday. Both men held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 6th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance...
President Barack Obama is going on a fundraising sweep through New York and Rhode Island as he continues to help Democrats raise money for November's elections. Obama headlines three events on Friday. Two are just north of New York City,...
Police say a leftist group is claiming responsibility for an arson attack on Berlin's subway system that is causing delays for thousands of commuters. Police spokesman Klaus Schubert said Friday an anonymous online message from the group claims it set...
China showed off the growing sophistication of its defense industries Friday by featuring its newest attack helicopters and main battle tanks at a multinational live-firing military exercise in the country's north. State media said the new hardware performed to expectations...
The chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy has confirmed that a US Coast Guard vessel fired on an Iranian fishing boat in the Persian Gulf but insists the incident was not a ‘clash.’ The US Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the World Health Organization said. A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency also assumes...
A court in Netrakona has convicted three people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man at Alampur village in Durgapur Upazila of Netrakona district on January 12 1998. The convicts were also fined Tk 50,000 each,...
President Barack Obama suggested Thursday that the US might impose new economic sanctions on Russia, blaming it squarely for the warfare in eastern Ukraine. But he ruled out any military options and proposed no shift in an American-led strategy that...
A Taiwanese actor arrested on drug charges along with the son of Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan was released Friday after two weeks in detention, amid a broad anti-drug crackdown in China's capital that has ensnared several celebrities. Kai...
About 400 meters of a flood control embankment at Sheikhpara in Sariakandi Upazila in Bogra district collapsed on Friday, flooding 50 villages rendering over 50,000 people marooned. Three unions in Sariakandi and two under Dhunat upazila were flooded by waters...
An earthquake has rattled southern Greece and was widely felt in the capital, Athens. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury and no tsunami warnings. The US Geological Survey gave a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, while the European...
The giant African snail damages buildings, destroys crops and can cause meningitis in humans. But some people still want to collect, and even eat, the slimy invaders. The Agriculture Department is trying to stop them. Since June, department authorities have...
Islamic State fighters executed scores of Syrian soldiers captured when the militants seized an airbase in the province of Raqqa at the weekend, according to a video posted on You Tube on Thursday. The video, confirmed as genuine by an...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine. Putin's statement came several hours after Ukraine accused Russia of entering its territory with tanks, artillery...
The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year, the UN refugee agency said Friday. The tragic milestone means that about one...
The hidden gunman, dressed in long green coveralls and a SWAT-team-style vest and helmet, looks ominous as he takes aim and fires off a short burst. But this isn't a Taliban attack in the heart of Afghanistan's capital — it's...
Hong Kong's simmering summer of discontent gets even hotter Sunday when Beijing is expected to recommend restricting the first direct elections for the Chinese-controlled financial hub's leader, stepping up chances of a showdown with democracy groups. The former British colony,...
Israeli forensic investigators on Friday identified a recently found body as that of a US religious student who disappeared while hiking in Jerusalem last week, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the body was confirmed early on Friday...
A German foundation has organised a ‘closed-door’ dialogue on India-Bangladesh relations in Dhaka. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) said they brought together ‘a small delegation’ of foreign policy experts and MPs from both sides for the Track-II level dialogue. Challenges and opportunities...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced a new cabinet on Friday keeping key members of the economic management team in place and appointing the man who has managed Ankara's affairs with Europe as foreign minister. Outgoing EU Affairs Minister and...
Malaysia Airlines is to cut 6,000 staff as part of recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year. The reduction in staff numbers represents around 30% of its workforce of 20,000. The airline will become completely state owned,...
Some miscreants have slaughtered a local Juba League leader at Ishwardi in Pabna. Musa Hossain, 25, from ‘Mashuria Para Moholla’, was an activist of the ruling Awami League’s youth front, said its Upazila unit president Abdus Salam on Thursday night....
The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as...
The government has sought nomination/proposal for Ekushey Padak 2015, a national award introduced in memory of the martyrs of Language Movement. The award will be given in different categories including language movement, Shilpakala (music, dance, acting and fine arts), liberation...
State Minister for Labour and Employment Mojibul Haque Chunnu has said that government-buyers committee so far visited 7,946 readymade garment (RMG) units across the country and submitted recommendations for necessary steps. The government has also taken initiative to implement the...
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