500 ijtema bound foreign devotees sent back from Benapole
The immigration police on Thursday sent back about 500 foreign devotees from no-man’s land area who wanted to join the Bishwa Ijtemaalong Benapole frontier…
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BJP chief phones Khaleda, inquires about health
The presidentof Indian rulingBharatiyaJanata Party, Amit Shah,inquired about the health condition of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia over phone on Wednesday night…
Suicide attacks kill 23 in Iraq
Suicide attacks targeting security checkpoints and Shiite worshippers killed 23 people in Iraq on Thursday, officials said…
DLA rallies against rally ban
The Democratic Left Alliance, a combine of eight left political parties, on Thursday went out on demonstrations in Dhaka protesting at the police ban on holding rallies and bringing out processions in the capital.
4 killed, 10 injured in road accidents in Barisal
Four people were killed and 10 others injured on Thursday in two separate road accidents in Barisal…
French policewoman killed in shoot-out, hunt deepens for militant killers
A policewoman was killed in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, triggering searches in the area as the manhunt widened for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical magazine in…
Indian engineer fired after skipping work for 24 years
Even in India, where government jobs are considered to be for life, AK Verma was pushing it. Verma, an executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department, was fired after…
PM confident of tackling current situation
Citing that BNP activists are currently behaving like their Jamaat counterparts, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said she is able to tackle the country’s political situation as people are with her government…
Govt used banned pepper spray on Khaleda: DAB
Doctors Association of Bangladesh, a pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party physicians’ group, on Thursday alleged that police used pepper spray, a banned chemical weapon, on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia being aware of its health hazards…
Pak gunmen kill ‘blasphemy’ accused after release from jail
Gunmen in Pakistan on Thursday killed a 52-year-old Muslim man arrested for blasphemy after being released from…
Rubel sent to jail
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday sent national cricket team pacer Rubel Hossain to jail after his surrender in a case filed under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act lodged by…
Inflation down due to fall in food prices
Because of fall in food prices, the overall point-to-point inflation came down to 6.11 per cent as of end of December, according to…
Khaleda’s Gulshan office unlocked, blockade to go on
The police opened the lock of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan in Dhaka on Thursday…
Mild cold wave likely to continue
Mild cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Tangail, Rajshahi, Pabna, Jessore, Kushtia and Srimangal and that it may continue…
Bail, remand petitions denied: Court orders to interrogate Salam at jail-gate
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka rejected both the petitions, one by ETV chairman Abdus Salam for bail and another by police for remand and instead ordered the latter to…
50 train riders injured; sabotage, vandalism mark third day blockade
Blockaders unscrewed fishplates in Moulvibazar early Thursday that caused a train to derail, injuring more than 50 riders and interrupting train…
Sri Lankan president’s bid to stay uncertain as election starts
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s bid for a third term hung in the balance as the country’s election began on Thursday…
Police hunt brothers after Paris attack, third man hands himself in
The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself into police…
Two more killed as blockade continues
Two more opposition activists were shot dead on Wednesday as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance continued countrywide non-stop blockade for the second consecutive day and fought pitched battles with law enforcers at places…
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