IS militants tie captives to Palmyra columns, blow them up
The Islamic State group killed three of its captives in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, then blowing the structures up with explosives…
Archive for October 27th, 2015
ICC says India should hand over Sudan’s Bashir
The International Criminal Court said India should arrest and hand over Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges and expected to…
Rajan murder case: Verdict on Nov 8
A Sylhet metropolitan sessions judges’ court on Tuesday said it will deliver the verdict in the sensational murder of Samiul Alam Rajan nearly four months after lynching of the teenager…
Tendulkar, Warne want cricket at Olympics
All-time greats Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar have called for Twenty20 cricket to become an Olympic sport. Cricket has not featured since 1900 but the sport’s governing body is…
Saudi air strikes hit MSF hospital in Yemen
A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres was hit by a Saudi-led air strike, the group said on Tuesday, another bombing of a civilian target…
India spinner Mishra gets bail after arrest in assault case
India leg-spinner Amit Mishra was arrested by police and then released on bail in Bengaluru on Tuesday in connection with a complaint of assault filed by a woman. The 32-year-old featured in four of the five one-day internationals against South Africa that concluded on Sunday and is also part of the squad for the first two tests of a four-match […]
Pakistan says militants firing from Afghanistan kill 7 soldiers
Islamist militants firing from Afghanistan into Pakistan killed seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday…
Rooppur nuclear power plant to cost $13.5b
The construction of the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant would cost around US dollar 13.5 billion and Russia would provide 90 per cent of the total cost as loan on maximum four per cent interest rate…
PM urges all to give tourism a big boost; seeks roadmap
Observing that Bangladesh has all the treasures to emerge as the world’s new tourist destination, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday called upon the Buddhist-populated countries to…
SC stays Tangail-4 by polls activity till Nov 2
The Appellate Division on Tuesday stayed all the activities regarding the upcoming by election to Tangail 4 parliamentary constituency till…
Shibir leader killed ASI Ibrahim, police iterates
Police on Tuesday iterated their claim that an Islami Chhatra Shibir leader from Bogra stabbed to death assistant sub-inspector Ibrahim Hossain Mollah in the city on Thursday night…
Man held with 23 firearms, 1,523 bullets in Sunderbans
Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested a member of a forest robber gang along with 23 firearms and 1,523 rounds of bullet from Badurjhola Khal of the Sunderbans West Zone in…
Pirates attack 50 trawlers, abduct 50 fishermen in bay
Pirates in an overnight attack swooped on more than 50 fishing boats near fairway buoy in Bay of Bengal, 40 kilometres off Kuakata coast, and abducted…
Men held in Mymensingh over death threat to Ganajagaran Mancha organiser
Detective Branch of police arrested a man in connection with the case filed over issuing death threat to Ganajagaran Mancha organizer Imran H Sarker at…
EU parliament set to vote on net neutrality rules
The European parliament will take a key vote on Tuesday on rules affecting how internet traffic is managed…
Rescuers race to reach quake zones in Afghanistan, Pakistan as toll nears 300
Rescuers on Tuesday rushed to deliver relief aid to victims of a massive earthquake that hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 275 people over a wide swath of mostly mountainous terrain…
China asks US to act cautiously after US Navy begins patrol in South China Sea
The US Navy sent a warship on Tuesday within 12 nautical miles of two artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea..
US NSA warns of cyber-attack by nation states
The deputy director of the US National Security Agency, Richard Ledgett, has warned of the increasing danger of destructive cyber attacks by states…
WHO links processed meat to cancer
The World Health Organisation threw its global weight behind years of experts’ warnings and declared that processed meats raise the risk of colon and stomach cancer and that red meat is probably harmful, too…
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