Housewife killed in accident at Bhatara
A housewife was killed on Friday evening as her scurf went stuck into the wheels of a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Nurerchala Bazaar of Bhatara in the city…
Archive for February 12th, 2016
3 killed in bus-motorcycle collision in Sherpur
Three people were killed and another injured as the motorcycle collided with a bus in Tengrakhali intersection area of Nalitabari in Sherpur on Friday…
Abducted newborn rescued in city
The Rapid Action Battalion on Friday rescued an abducted newborn baby from an apartment of Shantibag in the city…
5 ‘JMB men’ remanded in Gaibandha
Gaibandha court on Friday placed five suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh on a five-day remand in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act…
BNP to contest in union council polls
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday announced that the party will contest in the upcoming union council polls as a part of movement to expand the ‘prevailing shrink’ space of democracy…
Census on illegal Rohingya people begins
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics on Friday began the primary census on illegal Rohingya people at Ukhya upazila in Cox’s Bazar…
English team bowled out for 0
A cricket team were bowled out for nought in just 20 balls to lose a game by 120 runs, the England and Wales Cricket Board reported Thursday, reports AFP…
Derailment snaps Dhaka rail link with northern region
At least five compartments of a Dhaka-bound train derailed on Friday at Chakmahar railway station under Sirajganj, causing immense suffering to the commuters…
Unesco to assess Rampal power plant’s impacts on Sundarbans
A high-profile Unesco delegation will visit the Sundarbans soon to assess the possible impacts of the proposed coal-based Rampal power plant on the world’s largest mangrove forest…
Palestinian President scheduled to make stopover in Dhaka
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to make a stopover in Dhaka for an hour early Sunday on his way to Japan…
Construction worker dies in city
A construction worker died after falling from a multistory building at Madhya Badda in the capital on Friday morning…
2 burnt in gas explosion in city
Two people, including a university student, were burnt in an incident of gas explosion at Purba Rampura in the capital early Friday…
Major powers agree to plan for ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Syria
Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns…
Drug cartel battle kills 49 in northeastern Mexican prison
A battle between the feared Zetas drug cartel and rivals at a prison left 49 people dead in the northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said on Thursday, days ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis to another jail in Mexico’s far north. The incident was one of the worst in a series of deadly riots in recent years […]
Sakib to play for Jamaica in CPL
All-rounder Sakib al Hasan is only Bangladeshi to be picked for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League.
Einstein’s gravitational waves detected in landmark discovery
Scientists for the first time have detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by Albert Einstein a century ago, in a landmark discovery announced on Thursday…
Phased UP polls to begin on March 22
The Election Commission on Thursday announced the polls schedule to 4,275 union parishads, out of 4,544 in the country, during which chairman candidates will be contesting with political party nomination for the first time…
Law minister for code of conduct for judges
Law minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that it was now necessary to frame a code of conduct for the judges in the wake of recent public statements by judges on the judiciary and appearance of a retired judge to defend a war crimes convict…
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