12 more killed in lightning strikes
At least 12 more people were killed after getting struck by lightning at places in six districts during the Friday’s rain, coupled with thunder storms and Nor’westers…
Archive for May 13th, 2016
Yaba traders hack six journalists in Teknaf
At least six journalists were hacked by some local yaba traders at Nazirpara of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Friday evening…
Stay alert to prevent militancy, IGP asks cops
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque on Friday asked his subordinates to remain watchful to prevent militant activities…
Hezbollah commander Mustafa Amine Badreddine killed
The man believed to be Hezbollah’s most senior military commander in Syria’s war has been killed in Damascus…
Fire breaks out at BRRI
A fire broke out in an auditorium of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute at Joydebpur in Gazipur on Friday afternoon…
2 siblings killed in Gazipur, BRTC bus burnt
Agitated people set fire to a bus of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for about one hour after an accident…
Eight Turkish soldiers, 21 militants killed as violence widens in southeast
Eight Turkish soldiers and 21 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed on Friday, according to the military and media reports, as violence in the largely Kurdish southeast widened a day after two bombings. After the collapse of a ceasefire between the PKK and the government last July, Turkey’s southeast has seen some of its worst violence […]
BGB sends back 52 Myanmar citizens
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained 52 Myanmar citizens including 17 women and children in Tumbru border of Naikhyangchari in Bandarban…
BNP denies relationship with Israel
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that the party has no relationship with Israel…
SWIFT says second bank hit by malware attack
SWIFT, the global financial messaging network that banks use to move billions of dollars every day, warned on Thursday of a second malware attack…
Ansar man shot dead at Teknaf, arms looted
Suspected robbers on early Friday attacked a camp of ansar members in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar, leaving an ansar commander shot dead…
Decorator shot dead in Comilla, 3 hurt
A decoration shop owner was shot to death and three others were injured by miscreants at Noapara in Comilla sadar early Friday…
Brazil’s Temer calls for unity, confidence for Brazil recovery
Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of ‘national salvation,’ hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his leftist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, for breaking budget laws. Temer, a 75-year-old centrist now moving to steer Latin America’s biggest country toward more market-friendly policies, told Brazilians to have ‘confidence’ they would […]
Number of addl secys reach 4 times sanctioned strength
The number of additional secretaries on Thursday increased to almost four times the sanctioned posts after 85 superseded joint secretaries got their last promotions before retirement.
The much delayed promotions ended their long wait to get some justice…
Nizami execution: Dhaka protests at Islamabad’s stance
Bangladesh summoned Pakistan high commissioner in Dhaka on Thursday about few hours after Pakistan summoned Bangladesh high commissioner in Islamabad as the Pakistan high commissioner was summoned on Monday to protest Pakistan’s interference in Bangladesh’s internal affairs centring the execution of war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami…
No progress on Teesta water sharing treaty
The foreign secretary-level talks in Dhaka on Thursday could make no progress towards Teesta water sharing treaty.
The bilateral talks at state guest house Padma in Dhaka, however, decided to strengthen bilateral mechanism for getting rid of ‘terrorism…
Bandarban BOP shelled from Myanmar
Border Guard Bangladesh authorities have put its personnel on alert along the Myanmar border in Bandarban after six mortar-shells were fired from neighbouring country on Wednesday night…
Govt sets new ADP at Tk 1,10,700cr
The government on Thursday set the size of the annual development programme at Tk 1,10,700 crore for the fresh fiscal year that begins on July 1…
BGB, BSF agree on sharing real-time intelligence to curb militancy
Border Guard Bangladesh and their Indian counterpart Border Security Force on Thursday said they would share real-time intelligence in curbing trans-boundary criminal activities and militancy…
Harassment of govt officials by AL turns serious: Khaleda
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday alleged that harassment of field level government officials by ruling Awami League leaders and activists turned serious…
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