Stall closed in book fair for selling pirated books
Copyright taskforce on Tuesday evening shut down a book stall at Suhrawardy Udyan in the Ekushey Book Fair for selling…
Archive for February 9th, 2016
9 dead, more than 100 hurt as trains collide in Germany
Nine people were killed and more than 100 were injured when two passenger trains collided head-on near a Bavarian spa town about 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Munich…
Car bomb in Syrian capital kills 10
A car bomb driven by a suicide attacker exploded Tuesday near a police officers’ club in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and causing wide material damage…
Policeman killed in city road accident
A police constable was killed in a road accident in the capital’s Gulistan on Tuesday…
India U-19 storm into final
India stormed into the final of the ICC Under-19 World Cup with a 97-run victory over Sri Lanka at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the capital on Tuesday…
2 sentenced to death for killing schoolgirl in Gazipur
A Gazipur court on Tuesday sentenced two men to death and another woman to five years in jail for killing a schoolgirl in 2014. District and sessions judge AKM Enamul Haque sentenced…
Shamsuddin attempts to make court premises Awami centre: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday claimed that former Supreme Court judge AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury attempted to turn court premises…
HC asks ACC to submit BASIC Bank inquiry report
The High Court on Tuesday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit to the court in a week the inquiry report that exempted state-owned BASIC Bank’s former…
Taiwan developer arrested after deadly quake fells building
Prosecutors in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan have arrested the developer of a building which collapsed during an earthquake on Saturday killing at least 39 people, officials said on Tuesday, as…
Bangladesh takes measures against Zika virus infection
The government has posted medical teams and necessary equipment at land, sea and air ports to identify people infected with zika virus entering into Bangladesh, said officials of health and family welfare ministry…
Daily Star editor faces Tk 50 crore defamation charge
A Lakshmipur unit Bangladesh Chhatra League leader filed a defamation case against the Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam demanding Tk 50 with a magistrate’s court…
Man killed in ‘gunfight’ in Narsingdi
The ring-leader of Arif Bahini was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with detective Branch of police early Tuesday at Tatapara of Narsingdi…
Indian soldier pulled out alive after six days buried in snow
An Indian soldier declared dead has been found alive under 25 feet (8 metres) of snow, six days after he was buried by an avalanche that hit his military post in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir…
ICT prosecutor M Ali relieved from all duties
The chief prosecutor of International Crimes Tribunal Golam Aref Tipoo has relieved prosecutor Mohammad Ali from all duties of investigation and prosecution in cases pending with the tribunal…
Hearing on condemned Mir Quasem’s appeal begins
The Supreme Court on Tuesday started hearing the appeal filed by condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging the death penalty handed down to him for his war crimes…
30 hurt in Sylhet clash
At least 30 people were injured, including 10 with bullets, in a clash between two rival groups at Shahjirgaon in Bishwanath of Sylhet on Monday night…
‘Hack’ on US govt sites downplayed
US authorities have acknowledged a data breach affecting the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security – but downplayed its severity…
Madhupur accident kills 3
Local people on Tuesday blocked the Tangail-Mymensingh highway at Bomabazar area of Madhupur in Tangail highway as a rickshaw-van puller, his mother and a passer-by died in an accident in Tangail…
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