Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight more girls in northeastern Nigeria. The latest kidnapping happened Sunday night in the village of Warabe, in Borno state. The girls taken were between the ages of 12 and 15, according to a...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said the law enforcement agencies’ negligence of duty in investigation and arresting the accused of the recent abductions and killing of seven people in Narayanganj has contributed to the worsening human rights situation...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit Japan and China in the last week of the current month and early June respectively. Her three-day visit to Japan is expected to begin on May 25 while the China tour after...
LONDON: European stock markets closed lower Tuesday amid mounting concern about the Ukraine crisis. London's FTSE 100 slid 0.35 per cent to close at 6,798.56 points. Germany's DAX 30 lost 0.65 per cent to 9,467.53 points while the CAC-40 in...
A workshop on Research with CSIRO Australia on Bangladesh Integrated Water Resources Assessment will be held at Brac Centre Inn in the capital on Wednesday. Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud will be present at the workshop as the chief...
Two construction workers died after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank in Chakaria municipality area on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Liton Miah, 28 and Arif Hossain, 32. Acting in-charge of Chakaria Fire Service said they rescued Liton...
RAJSHAHI, May 5 (BSS): Instead of the long-lasting conventional method the potato farmers have started using mechanized harvester as it saves cost and reduces labor requirement during the recent past peak harvesting season for the first time in the district....
After around six months of imprisonment, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel was freed from jail on bail on Tuesday. Jewel was released from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail around 9:15pm, JCD senior vice president Bazlul...
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PABNA, May 5: Manikganj police and Santhia thana police of Pabna jointly rescued an abducted boy from a remote village of Santhia Upazila in Pabna Monday noon. Police detained two suspects in connection of abduction. The arrestees Md Jalal Sarkar,...
HABIGANJ, May 5 (BSS): Three people were killed and four others injured in a road accident in Andhiura area on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway under Madhabpur upazila of the district this morning. One of the deceased was identified as Ruhul Amin,...
JOYPURHAT, May 5 (BSS): Farmers of three upazilas in the district are expecting a bumper production of maize this year due to favorable weather. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said, a total of 600 hectares of land were brought...
NARAYANGANJ, May 5 (UNB): A couple was chopped to death by miscreants in Fatullah area of Sadar upazila early Monday. The deceased were identified as Aman Ullah, 55, and his second wife Hosne Ara, 30, residents of Bholail under Fatullah...
FARIDPUR, May 5 (BSS): Two youths were killed and two others injured seriously by lightning at Sonamukhi village under Bhanga upazila of this district today. According to police, the deceased were identified as Shamim Khalifa, 25, and Md Humayun, 35,...
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JHENIDAH, May 5: A university student committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at the college para area in Kaliganj Upazila headquarter in Jhenidah on Monday night taking a pique at her father. The dead, identified as Madhobi Paul,...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday alleged that the killing and abduction of opposition leaders and activists have now become the government’s routine activities. “It seems that atrocious killing, abduction and forced disappearance of opposition leaders and...
BANDARBAN, May 5 (BSS): A farmer was trampled by a herd of wild elephants in Pradhanjhiri area under Naikhyangchhari upazila of the district on Sunday. The victim was identified as Rashid Fakir, 61, of the same area. Police sources said...
JHENIDAH, May 5 (UNB): A transport workers' union leader was chopped to death by miscreants at Ararpur in the district town early Monday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Gaffar Bishwas ,43, general secretary of Jhenidah Bus-Minibus Workers' Union and...
Bus-minibus owners and workers on Tuesday night called an indefinite hartal in Jhenidah district from Wednesday demanding the withdrawal of a ‘false’ case filed against some of their colleagues. The shutdown was announced using mikes in the name of District...
PANCHAGARH, May 5 (BSS): A farmer was killed by thunderbolt at Sarkarpara village under Debiganj upazila of the district here Sunday. The victim was identified as Probat Kumer, 35, son of Sree Deren Chandra of Sarkarpara village. Sonaher UP chairman...
KOLKATA May 5 (agencies): Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial front-runner in India's mammoth general election, reiterated his strong stance against illegal immigrants, just days after a wave of sectarian killings in the north-eastern state of Assam. India deployed...
KANO, May 5 (AFP): Boko Haram on Monday claimed the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in northern Nigeria that has triggered international outrage, threatening to sell them as "slaves". "I abducted your girls," the Islamist group's leader Abubakar Shekau said...
PARIS: Forty-seven countries signed up Tuesday to automatically share bank data, including key financial centres Singapore and Switzerland, the OECD said, in what has been touted as a major step towards cracking down on global tax evasion. Under the declaration,...
COLOMBO, May 5 (AFP): Four of Sri Lanka's most senior hardline Buddhist monks appeared in court Monday accused of insulting the Quran, in the first such case following a spate of religious hate attacks. Police accused the monks, from the...
BEIRUT, May 5 (AP): Fierce fighting around Syria's contested northern province of:leppo killed at least 21 rebels on Monday as rockets slammed into a government-held district in the provincial capital, killing nine people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
Strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattles northern Thailand BANGKOK, May 5: A strong, shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Thailand on Monday afternoon, geologists said, shaking tall buildings in Bangkok hundreds of miles to the south. The quake, at a shallow depth of...
Bangladesh won one gold, two silver and two bronze medals in the just concluded 2nd Mount Everest International Open Taekwondo Competition in Kathmandu, Nepal, reports UNB. Mizanur Rahman won the gold medal in +87 kgs, Anwar Hossain bagged silver medal...
Prime Bank South Zone defeated Islami Bank East Zone by 6 wickets on the third day of a four-day match of Bangladesh Cricket League at the BKSP ground-4 in Savar on Monday, reports UNB. On the third day, Islami Bank...
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