Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at many places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions today (Saturday). Moderately...
A Malaysian disaster response team including two air accident investigators was due in Kiev on Saturday, after the country’s leader appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to help them gain access to the MH17 crash site. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib...
A youth, who was allegedly involved with the abduction of a collage girl in Uttra, has been killed in a ‘gun battle’ with the law enforcers in the city’s Hatirjheel area on Friday. The deceased, Apon, 28, received bullet injuries...
A wave of corporate deals and generally positive quarterly earnings competed for attention this week with gloomy news developments in Ukraine and Gaza, ultimately leading US stocks higher. For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 156.37 points (0.92...
The dollar steadied against the euro on Friday in cautious trade a day after a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine and Israel launched a Gaza ground assault. Currencies stabilised and Wall Street stocks rebounded from Thursday’s drubbing...
Israel further intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats early Saturday and warned it could ‘significantly widen’ an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. Palestinian health officials said 35 Palestinians, including...
Global commodity markets were gripped this week by the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crash, which has dramatically raised tensions between Russia – a key producer of many raw materials – and the West. The doomed Malaysia jet, which crashed killing...
Miscreants hacked to death a man and dumped his Korotoa River in Bogra district at some time between Wednesday and Thursday. However, the identity of the deceased could not be known. Police sources said locals spotted the chopped body of...
The world of AIDS research was in shock on Friday after dozens of leading HIV experts were feared killed when a Malaysian plane was shot down over Ukraine, fuelling concerns that research on curing the disease could suffer. Among them...
Police arrested a young man in possession of a pistol, two magazines and four rounds of bullet at Alimganj in Poba upazila of Rajshahi district on Friday. The arrested was identified as Raju, 15, son of Raisuddin, a resident of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested 27 people while they were attempting to enter India without valid documents through Benapole border at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore on Friday night. Being tipped off, a BGB patrol team conducted a drive at...
An alleged criminal sustained bullet injuries in a ‘gunfight’ between his associates and police in Kalatali beach area of Cox’s Bazar town early Saturday. The injured was identified as Dilu, 27, a ringleader of miscreants’ gang ‘Dilu Bahini’ in in...
A man was arrested along with 18 gold bars at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in the city on Saturday. The arrested was identified by police as Aslam Sheikh, an Imam of the Civil Aviation department’s mosque. Airport...
Thousands of people, marooned due to the tidal surge in four upazilas of Bhola district for the last one week, are now passing days amid food and shelter crises. Many areas of the coastal district got flooded due to the...
A man was killed and four other people were injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Belkuchi upazila in Sirajganj district on Friday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Abdul Hye, officer-in-charge of Belkuchi Police...
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house in Shantahar area under Adamdighi Police Station in Rajshahi city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Shampa, 20, wife of Nantu Miah, a resident...
A man died after drinking rectified spirit at Gaherpur in Jessore Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. The dead is Motaleb Hossain, 35, son of Tabibar Rahman, a resident of Gaherpur village. Police said Motaleb fell sick after drinking rectified spirit...
A young man was crushed under the wheels of a running train at Kulaura upazila in Moulavibazar district. Identity of the deceased could not be known. Witnesses said a passenger train ran over the man when he was walking on...
A boy has died after being run over by a truck in Chittagong’s BRTC area. The incident took place at Phalmondi on Friday morning. Mohammad Abdullah, 12, lived in Phalmandi but hailed from Mymensingh district. Police Camp Nayek of Chittagong...
A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends over extramarital relationship in Mirpur Upazila in Kushita district on Friday night. The dead is Alamgir Hossain Miraj, 35, son of late Hamza Hossain of Mallikpur Kulpara village. Shahidul...
A Bangladeshi Qwari has secured 6th position among the top 10 places at Dubai International Holy Quran Award (Dihqa) contest on Friday night. Sources at the annual contest said Hafezul Quran Amdadullah Mohammad Tajul Islam won 6th position among the...
First came the loud explosion that made buildings rattle: then it started raining bodies One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines’ Flight MH17 exploded high over...
A man was killed as a human hauler crashed into a motorcycle he was riding in Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Lal Chand, 42, son of Manjur Ali, a resident of Harinagar village...
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was injured in an attack by a gang of smugglers at Dhamoirhat Upazila in Naogaon district on Friday night. The injured was identified as Nesar Uddin, 20, member of Patnitala BGB Battalion-46. Lieutenant...
A 12-year old boy drowned in a pond in Hazaribagh area in the city on Friday night. The deceased was identified as M Sabbir Ahmed Rabbi, 12, a class-VI student of Rayerbazar High School and son of M Salauddin, a...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police in separate drives arrested six alleged drug traders and recovered two kilograms of hemp and 135 bottles of Phensidyl syrup from different areas of Benapole union at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore on...
Police on Saturday arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Hazipara in Sylhet city for his suspected involvement in Thursday’s clash between two rival factions of the BNP’s student wing. The arrestee is Belal Ahmed, president of...
Police recovered the bodies of a father and his son from Mathabhanga River in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district on Friday. The victims were identified as Yiar Ali, 60, and his son Sanwar Hossain, 18, of Mohammadpur village under the...
The law enforcers recovered 1,280 pieces of Yaba tablets in Dakkhinkhan area in the city on Saturday. Three people were arrested in connection with the contraband drug trading. RAB-1 identified the detainees as Omar Faruk Sheikh, 32, Jahangir Alam Prodhan,...
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance will send a delegation to the Israeli aggression-affected Gaza Strip to covey sympathy to the people of Gaza hit by the spate of air and ground assaults by Israel. The decision came at a meeting...
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