Migrants freed from Greek detention, trapped in limbo on islands
Migrants and refugees are being freed from detention centres in Greece but remain trapped on its islands until their asylum requests are processed…
Archive for May 9th, 2016
Cabinet clears bill on preventing communicable diseases
The cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Communicable Diseases Prevention, Control and Eradication Bill, 2016’ aimed…
Australia eases cargo-ban on Bangladesh
The minister for civil aviation and tourism, Rashed Khan Menon, on Monday said that Australia has lifted the ban on cargo transportation from Bangladesh…
Massive fire in downtown Cairo injures 74 people
At least 74 people were injured after a massive fire engulfed a hotel and several nearby buildings in a busy low-price commercial area in…
Sufficient budget demanded for migrants workers
Migrants’ rights campaigners, returnee migrants and private recruiters on Monday urged the government to allocate sufficient budget for the…
2 city corps to become doubled as 16 unions to incorporated
The government on Monday decided to incorporate 16 more unions into the two city corporations of Dhaka, expanding the area of the…
Pak envoy summoned to foreign office
Bangladesh on Monday summoned Pakistani high commissioner in Dhaka Shuja Alam to foreign ministry. During the summon, the foreign office formally reacted to the statement issued by…
Judges sign full-verdict on Nizami’s review plea
The Appellate Division judges has signed the full judgement for condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami that scrapped his review plea against the gallows…
5 to die for murder in Habiganj 22 yrs ago
A Habiganj court on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing a teenage boy in Baniachaung 22 years ago…
ICT frames 6 charges against 2 Kishoreganj war crime suspects
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday framed charges against two people of Nikli in Kishoreganj for their alleged involvement in…
IU bans political activities for indefinite period
The authorities of Islamic University in Kushtia on Monday banned all kinds of political activities on the campus for an indefinite period to…
Brexit could endanger peace, UK PM warns
Peace in Europe could be at risk if Britain votes to leave the European Union, David Cameron is to say. The UK has regretted ‘turning its back’ on Europe in…
Baker, staff lynch minor worker in Lakshmipur
A child bakery worker has beaten to death allegedly by the bakery owner and its staff at Ramkrisnapur in Chandraganj area of Lakshmipur sadar…
Mirza Fakhrul gets bail in crude bomb explosion case
A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a violence case filed with…
3 killed in Satkhira road accident
Three women, including a mother and her daughter, were killed and two others injured as a bus hit a human hauler (locally known as Nasiman) on Satkhira-Jessore highway…
Technicians from SWIFT left Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers
Bangladesh’s central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank…
2 more die in UP polls violence
Two more people died on Monday while undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dhaka and Rajshahi in union parishad polls violence…
Indian foreign secy comes Wednesday
The secretary for ministry of Indian external affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is expected to arrive Dhaka on a two-day visit on Wednesday to discuss issues…
Fire ‘destroys 20pc’ of Fort McMurray
About a fifth of homes have been destroyed in Fort McMurray, a Canadian city ravaged by a huge wildfire…
Trump-like mayor favoured as Philippines votes for new president
Voting for a new Philippine president began on Monday after an acrimonious election campaign that revealed popular disgust with the country’s ruling elite for failing to tackle poverty…
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