2 dead in apparent murder-suicide at Texas Air Force base
The fatal shooting of two people at a US Air Force base in Texas appears to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Friday, reports Associated Press…
Archive for April 8th, 2016
PM receives invitation from Abe to join G-7 outreach meeting
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been formally invited to the Outreach Meeting of the G-7 nations, a grouping of seven advanced economies…
BNP strongly opposes gas, power tariff hike move
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday threatened to take tougher action programmes if the government raises the gas and power tariffs further…
Chhatra Union launches self-defence training for girls
Left leaning student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra Union on Friday launched a self-defence training programme for women…
CID quizzes 5 over Tonu murder
A team of the Criminal Investigation Department on Friday interrogated five people over the killing of college girl Sohagi Jahan Tonu…
3 killed in Narsingdi road accident
At least three people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a battery-run three-wheeler vehicle…
New Dhaka central jail in Keraniganj to be opened Sunday
The new Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj will be opened on Sunday, said Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin…
US indicates to grant refuge to some Bangladesh bloggers in danger
The United States has condemned the ‘barbaric’ murder of Bangladeshi online activist Nazim Uddin Samad and indicated that granting refuge to a select number of bloggers who face ‘imminent danger’ is under consideration. ‘…my understanding is that for a select number of bloggers who continue to be under imminent danger, that is one option that’s under consideration,’ said Mark C […]
Nomination papers snatched in Comilla election office
Miscreants snatched away nomination papers of the union chairman candidates from the upazila election officer after entering his office in Monoharganj of Comilla on Thursday midnight…
3 killed in Tangail road mishap
A head-on collision between a truck and a Compressed Natural Gas-run auto-rickshaw killed three people and injured two others on Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge highway at Rasulpur in Tangail sadar on Friday morning…
Migrant crisis: Deportations resume from Greece to Turkey
A second group of migrants is being sent back from Greece to Turkey as part of an EU deal to reduce the numbers reaching Europe…
1 killed in pre-UP polls violence in Jhenaidah
An Awami League activist was killed and 10 others injured in sporadic clashes between rival groups of the ruling party at village Soyail in Jhenaidah sadar on Friday morning…
2 cleaners found stabbed dead in Faridpur
Two cleaners were found dead with their bodies carrying stab injuries at West Khabashpur Miapara Road in Faridpur district town early Friday…
Hundreds protest at murder of online activist
Strong protests were launched on Thursday against killings of secular writers, bloggers and publishers in the country as a Jagannath University law student and secular online activist was hacked and shot to death in the Old Dhaka on Wednesday night…
UN, EU, AI urge govt to protect online activists
The United Nations has renewed its call for the security authorities in Bangladesh to ‘adequately protect’ online activists who might be at risk…
TONU RAPE, MURDER : 5 army men quizzed, protests continue
Several thousand people took to the streets on Thursday in the city demanding justice for the killing of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu and threatened to call a countrywide general strike…
EXPORT SUBSIDY : BB seeks Tk 2,250cr to pay arrears
Bangladesh Bank on Thursday demanded Tk 2,250 crore from the government as cash subsidy payable to merchandise exporters in the current fiscal year, after the government yesterday raised the subsidy for the two struggling sectors…
BANGLADESHI LINKS : ACC launches probe after Panama scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday launched a probe into involvement of Bangladeshi people, if any, in illegal investment in offshore companies in the secretive tax haven of the British Virgin Islands…
Cabinet body questions firing on Banshkhali protesters
The cabinet committee on law and order on Thursday questioned the police action against villagers during protests against a coal-based power plant at Banshkhali in Chittagong on Monday and asked the police if the situation could have been managed without casualties…
CUET halts undergrad classes to rein in protests
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology authorities on Thursday declared the university closed for an indefinite period for undergraduate students, facing non-stop demonstration since March 29 when one of
the students died in a road accident on his way to the University…
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