4 workers die in Chuadanga septic tank collapse
Four construction workers, including father and son, were killed as a septic tank collapsed on them at Boidyanathpur village in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga on Wednesday…
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Nepal’s parliament elects nation’s first female president
Nepal’s parliament has elected a Communist leader who has long campaigned for women’s rights as the Himalayan nation’s first female president…
PCJSS condemns public works ministry circular
The Parbatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samiti on Wednesday condemned a circular issued by housing and public works ministry about use of the word ‘indigenous’ at programmes held at different key installations in Dhaka and elsewhere to identify people of ethnic minority communities…
FIFA gets seven candidates for soccer body presidency
World soccer body FIFA on Wednesday named the seven confirmed candidates vying for the FIFA presidency at a February 26 election…
Amu snubs diplomats’ security concern
The minister for industries, Amir Hossain Amu, on Wednesday questioned the security alerts issued by several diplomatic missions in Dhaka and thanked the law enforcement agencies for maintaining law and order…
Money Laundering: charges framed against Khandaker Mosharraf
Dhaka special Judges’ Court on Wednesday framed charges against Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case…
Indian state chief pushes for coal mining; critics say he’s helping wife
A senior Indian politician has been lobbying New Delhi to lift a ban on dangerous, small-scale coal mining operations in his state, without disclosing that his wife owns several mines there, according to documents seen by Reuters…
Bangladesh’s march forward can’t be stopped with bomb attacks: PM
Noting that the recent bomb attack on a Tajia procession was aimed at tarnishing Bangladesh’s image, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asserted that the country’s march forward cannot be stopped with such bombings…
19 people bitten by dog in Magura
At least 19 people including six minors were bitten by dog within few hours on Wednesday at places in Magura…
Fearing more jailbreaks, Afghanistan rushed inmates out of Helmand
Afghan authorities rushed 150 ‘dangerous’ inmates from a prison in the insurgency-racked southern province of Helmand to the capital Kabul at the weekend, officials said, after Taliban militants orchestrated two major jailbreaks in recent weeks…
SITE accuses Bangladesh govt of waging smear campaign against it
US-based private intelligence group SITE once again claimed its report on Islamic State’s taking responsibility of recent two killings of foreigners and attack on…
Saudi religious police arrest actor for mixing with unrelated women
Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested an actor in a shopping mall in Riyadh for mixing with unrelated women.
The actor, Abdul Aziz Al Kassar, said that he had not expected the ‘overwhelming’ welcome that caused the melee…
‘Forest robber’ killed in Sunderbans ‘gunfight’
An alleged ring leader of a forest robber group was killed early Wednesday in a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion men at Mrigamari canal of Chadpai in Mongla…
Coal laden cargo capsizes near Sunderbans
A cargo vessel carrying 510 tonnes of coal capsized in the Pasur river in Mongla near Sunderbans on Tuesday night…
US still isolated at UN General Assembly over Cuba embargo
The United Nations General Assembly has almost unanimously voted to condemn the US embargo on Cuba, in the first such resolution since US-Cuban diplomatic ties were restored earlier this year…
Pentagon weighing ‘direct action on the ground’ in Iraq
The US is considering increasing its attacks on ISIS through more ground action and airstrikes, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday…
Cassini probe to sweep over Saturn’s moon Enceladus
The Cassini probe is all set to make a daring close flyby of Enceladus, the brilliant white moon of Saturn…
Syria conflict: Iran to be invited to key talks, US says
Iran is likely to be invited for the first time to international talks with the US and Russia over the Syrian conflict, the US says…
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