At least four people were killed in separate incidents of ‘shootout’ between miscreants and the law enforcers in Tangail, Jhenidah and Rangpur district during the Eid holidays which ended on Thursday. In Jhenidah, Monirul Islam, 35, a vendor, was killed...
At least 46 people were killed and many more injured in road accidents across the country during four days of Eid holidays on Monday-Thursday. Of them, eight were killed on Monday while 22 on Tuesday, the Eid day, nine on...
Three tourists, including a minor boy, drowned as a boat carrying them sank in Piyain River at Jaflong under Goainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Sakil, 10, son of Khurshed Miah of Bichhamoni...
Initially her apprehension was about not being able to celebrate Eid with families if dues were not paid to her before the festivity. After four days of hunger strike, garment worker Ruma Begum fears she would not get her dues...
BNP’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left Dhaka for Singapore for treatment on Friday morning. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s press wing member Sairul Kabir said Mirza Alamgir will take treatment at Singapore’s National University Hospital for various health...
Major stocks in Europe witnessed negative trend on Thursday after the Dow posted its biggest single sell-off since February on weak eurozone data and as news of Argentina’s debt default and a rise in US jobless claims shook the markets....
Police say two girls died after the boat they were in sank in a beel near Marialoy Belua village in Tongibari in Munshiganj today. The deceased were identified as Taniya Akhter, 18, and Afsana Akhter, 14. Police said six members...
The High Court has granted bail to Tuba Group Managing Director Delwar Hossain in a case filed over a fire incident at Tazreen Fashions Limited in Savar that killed over 116 garment workers two ywars ago. Tazreen Fashions is part...
Some miscreants hacked a shopkeeper to death and dumped his body in a bamboo cluster at Amjhupi village at Meherpur Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The dead is Abdul Kuddus, 45, son of Jan Mohammad of the village. Informed by locals,...
A fracas among holidaymakers over purchasing train tickets turned deadly on Friday at Natore’s Lalpur. The clash left at least 3 persons dead and ten others injured. The clash erupted at Iswardi Bypass Railway Station around 9:30am on Friday, said...
The second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Thursday, prompting warnings for Barbados, Dominica and St. Lucia islands, US forecasters said. Tropical Storm Bertha, packing winds of 45 miles (75 kilometers) per hour, was located east of the...
Kanya thought she was starting a new life in Australia after arriving from India to marry her husband, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. She was barred from going out on her own, forced to cook and clean for...
The war diaries of British poet Siegfried Sassoon have been published online for the first time, revealing early drafts and unpublished material caked with mud from the trenches. Due to the delicate state of the notebooks and journals, the 4,100-page...
Argentina blamed the United States on Thursday for the legal battle that forced it to miss a debt payment and, despite ratings agencies' declarations to the contrary, denied being in default. Ratings agency Fitch declared Argentina in ‘restrictive default’ Thursday...
Three people, including a minor girl, were killed in separate incidents in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur district on Thursday. Sources said a minor girl drowned in a pond while taking bath at her grandfather’s house at Tarakandi village in the...
Gold prices witnessed a modest rebound of Rs 45 to Rs 28,245 after declining for two days at the bullion market in New Delhi on Thursday following renewed buying from jewellery stockists and retail consumers to meet festive season demand....
Three people, including a minor girl, were killed in separate incidents in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur district on Thursday. Sources said a minor girl drowned in a pond while taking bath at her grandfather’s house at Tarakandi village in the...
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Russia to pay former shareholders in defunct oil giant Yukos almost 1.9 billion euros ($2.5 billion), the largest-ever award by the court. The ruling comes just days after an international arbitration...
India's massive 266-run Test defeat to England drew widespread condemnation on Friday with former captain Sunil Gavasker accusing Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team of ‘abject surrender’ in Southampton. ‘To lose this Test even before lunch on the final day showed zero...
A minor boy has been killed in a road accident near Nayatola at Moghbazar in Dhaka. Police said the accident had taken place in Hatirjheel area on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Saqib, 9, son of late...
Results on Thursday from the fourth day of the $1.9 million (1.4m euros) Washington Open (x denotes seed): Men 3rd rd Kevin Anderson (RSA x7) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN) 6-3, 6-4 Steve Johnson (USA) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO x9) 3-6,...
Myanmar's army has freed 91 children and young people from its armed forces, the United Nations said on Friday, in the country's latest move towards ending the use of child soldiers. The reformist government of the formerly junta-run nation committed...
Rescuers pulled 12 more bodies from an Indonesian river Friday, bringing the death toll in two boat sinkings to 36, as millions travel across the country for the Eid holiday season. Most Indonesians in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation spend...
Lebanon's labour ministry said Friday it has suspended the issuance of work permits to residents of several African countries hit by an outbreak of the Ebola virus. In a statement carried by Lebanon's National News Agency, the ministry said that...
Cleaners were busy Friday sprucing up a famed Hindu temple complex in Nepal's capital ahead of a visit to the Himalayan nation by India’s premier aimed at countering Chinese influence by expanding bilateral ties. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set...
A massive blast at an explosives factory in central India killed five workers early Friday, police said. The powerful explosion completely destroyed the factory, which supplied detonators and other explosives to mines in the mineral-rich state of Chhattisgarh. ‘The explosion...
The struggling eurozone's policies have not delivered economic rewards and there is a real risk of deflation, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday. ‘The economic policies of the eurozone are not efficient,’ Valls said, adding that they ‘sadly...
The Israeli army aid two soldiers were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip Friday and named a third man feared captured as a Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23. Earlier an army spokesman said a 72-hour truce that was to...
World silence on Israel 'war crimes' is 'inexcusable:' Saudi king
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