UK suspects fresh attack on foreigners
The British High Commission in Dhaka on Friday updated its travel advisory, alerting its citizens of a fresh attack on foreigners…
Archive for October 9th, 2015
Rajshahi BRAC bank officials detained over Japanese killing
Police on Friday detained two BRAC Bank officials from Rajshahi in connection with the murder of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio in Rangpur…
Professional killers with political backing killed 2 foreigners: Quader
The minister for Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader on Friday said professional killers with political backing killed the two foreign nationals…
Party-based local polls is ploy: BNP
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the government recently initiated a move to hold future local government elections based on political parties as a ‘ploy’ to avoid people’s demand for holding general elections immediately under a neutral government…
Bus- auto-rickshaw collision kills 5 in Ctg
Five people, including four members of a family, were killed and four others injured in a collision between a bus and a Compressed Natural Gas-run auto-rickshaw in Monsha area of Patiya in Chittagong on Friday noon…
Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China
One in three of all the young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco unless a substantial proportion of them succeed in quitting smoking, researchers said on Friday…
Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize
A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement…
Mashrafee admitted to hospital
Bangladesh one-day international skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza was admitted to Dhaka’s Apollo Hospital with high fever on Thursday night…
Family meets Mojaheed at Dhaka jail
The family members of death row war crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed met him at Dhaka Central Jail gate on Friday morning…
Bangladeshi shot by BSF dies at Rangpur hospital
A Bangladesh national, who was shot and wounded by members of Indian Border Security Force on Durgapur border in Aditmari upazila, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital early Friday…
Bangladesh back into CPJ Global Impunity Index with killings of bloggers
The ambush of a convoy in South Sudan and killing bloggers in Bangladesh this year propelled the two nations onto CPJ’s Global Impunity Index…
‘Pirate’ killed in RAB ‘gunfight’ in Sirajganj
A suspected pirate was allegedly killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion in Sirajganj sadar early Friday…
Hit by train, 2 deaf people killed in Gazipur
Two deaf people were killed and their two other fellows injured when a train knocked down them near a railway bridge in Bhurulia area of Gazipur city on Friday…
Giants Brazil, Argentina surprised in first World Cup qualifiers
Argentina and Brazil both lost their opening World Cup qualifiers on Thursday as the South American campaign for Russia 2018 started in unexpected fashion…
US officials say Russian cruise missiles aimed at Syria crashed in Iran
US officials said four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from a warship in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday had crashed in Iran while Russia insisted they had reached their targets in Syria…
DEMAND FOR SEPARATE PAY SCALE : Univ teachers frustrated with delay
A section of public university teachers, taking part in the movement for a separate pay scale for teachers and a review of the new government pay scale, are miffed with their Federation’s decision to give one month time to the government…
Police arrest 2,500 a day in special drive
More than 2,000 people were being arrested every day as the police continued their ‘special drive’ across the country after the killings of two foreign nationals in Dhaka and Rangpur…
FOREIGNER KILLINGS : Dilemma over Kunio’s funeral, Tavella’s body to fly out
The Rangpur City Corporation is in a dilemma over the funeral rites of the Japanese national who was shot dead by assailants on October 3, as he reportedly converted to Islam recently, though no documentary proof of the conversion is available…
SHOOTING AT SCHOOLBOY : MP given time to surrender
The home affairs minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, said on Thursday that ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton, accused of shooting at a nine-year-old schoolboy at Sundarganj in Gaibandha, was given time to surrender…
Hunt for Money Laundering : Swiss Bank’s reply dampens BB
The central bank of Switzerland told Bangladesh Bank that it could provide information relating to deposits of Bangladeshis in Swiss banks only for the use as evidence in the courts of law…
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