Archive for May 3rd, 2016

Stealing food by the hungry poor not a crime, Italy says

Stealing food by the hungry poor not a crime, Italy says

Italy’s highest court has acquitted a homeless man of stealing cheese and sausages, ruling that the theft of small amounts of food by the hungry poor is not a crime…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · International
Indonesian villagers ‘mistook sex toy for angel’

Indonesian villagers ‘mistook sex toy for angel’

Indonesian villagers thought they had been blessed by an angel fallen from heaven when a beautiful doll washed up on a beach — only to discover it was an inflatable sex toy, reports…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · International
Anisul to be responsible for defence ministry in parliament

Anisul to be responsible for defence ministry in parliament

Public administration minister Syed Ashraful Islam was relieved of the charge of the defence ministry related business in parliament on Tuesday…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Rebel rockets kill 19 in Aleppo, hit hospital

Rebel rockets kill 19 in Aleppo, hit hospital

Rebels bombarded government-held areas of Aleppo with rockets on Tuesday, killing 19 people and hitting a hospital…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · International, Middle East
Leicester City dreams come true [photo album]

Leicester City dreams come true [photo album]

Leicester City have won the England Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time. Here are some great moments in pictures: [Image credit: Reuters]

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Photo
UGC sends two officials on leave for demanding bribe

UGC sends two officials on leave for demanding bribe

The University Grants Commission on Tuesday sent its two high officials on a forced leave after a university vice-chancellor accused them of demanding bribe…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Kuwaiti PM accorded a rousing reception

Kuwaiti PM accorded a rousing reception

A red carpet was rolled out as Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday on a three-day official visit…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Fists fly as Sri Lankan MPs protest changing of the guard for ex-president

Fists fly as Sri Lankan MPs protest changing of the guard for ex-president

Fists flew in Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday, leaving several members injured, the speaker said, as lawmakers supporting former president Mahinda Rajapaksa…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · International, South Asia
Tk 1cr defamation case against Khaleda

Tk 1cr defamation case against Khaleda

A leader of Amra Muktijoddhar Santan filed a defamation case with a Comilla court against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
8 radicalised Bangladeshis held in Singapore

8 radicalised Bangladeshis held in Singapore

The home ministry of Singapore on Tuesday said they have arrested eight radicalised people of Bangladesh…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
1 jailed in Munshiganj for snatching nomination paper

1 jailed in Munshiganj for snatching nomination paper

Munshiganj police on Tuesday caught a man red-handed while he was trying to snatch away nomination paper of Union Parishad member candidate Mahfuz Ahmed…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
ECNEC clears crucial Padma Bridge rail link project

ECNEC clears crucial Padma Bridge rail link project

The executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved ‘Padma Bridge rail link’ project involving…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Long-route bus fare re-fixed at Tk 1.42 per km

Long-route bus fare re-fixed at Tk 1.42 per km

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has re-fixed fare of long-route buses at Tk 1.42 per kilometer reducing…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Five killed in Chakaria road accident

Five killed in Chakaria road accident

At least five people were killed and nine others injured on Tuesday when a Cox’s Bazar-bound bus collided head-on with a human-hauler…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
IU gets first female assistant proctor

IU gets first female assistant proctor

For the first time a female lecturer was appointed as assistant proctor at Islamic University in Kushtia. Afroza Banu, lecturer of English department was…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Police can’t protect everyone at home: IGP

Police can’t protect everyone at home: IGP

The inspector general of police, AKM Shahidul Hoque, on Tuesday said that police cannot protect everyone in their houses…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
Baby girl pulled out alive 3 days after Kenya building collapse

Baby girl pulled out alive 3 days after Kenya building collapse

Rescue workers pulled out a one-year-old girl from the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital on Tuesday morning more…

4 to die, one gets life-term for Kishoreganj war crimes

4 to die, one gets life-term for Kishoreganj war crimes

The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday awarded four war criminals death penalty while another was awarded file-term imprisonment…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National
Protest continues over RU teacher murder

Protest continues over RU teacher murder

Teachers, students and different organisations of Rajshahi University on Tuesday continued their demonstrations on the campus demanding justice to…

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. -- New Age photo

Police claim 2 RU students involved in Prof Rezaul murder

Police on Monday claimed that they have found involvement of two Rajshahi University students in the killing of professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. Both, students of the English department, have remained in hiding since after the killing, said Sardar Tamijuddin Ahmed, additional commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police, adding the two have also militant link and after their arrest it also […]

May 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics

Advertisement