Make Tonu’s 2nd autopsy report public: Civil society
Civil society members in Comilla on Monday demanded that the report of the 2nd autopsy conducted on the body of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu…
Archive for May 23rd, 2016
Journalists demand 9th Wage Board
Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad, a platform of journalists, workers and employees…
Bombs kill more than 140 in Syrian government-held cities
Bomb blasts killed scores of people in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday and wounded many others…
Nurjahan Begum laid to rest
Pioneering Bengali woman journalist and editor of the country’s first illustrated women’s weekly ‘Begum’, Nurjahan Begum,…
Afghan Taliban meet on succession after Mansour ‘s death
Senior Afghan Taliban figures were meeting on Monday to agree on a successor to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the militant movement…
Bangladeshi youth shot dead by BSF in Panchagarh
A Bangladeshi youth was gunned down by the members of Indian Border Security Force at SarialjotKankata bordering area…
Gayeshwar smells another Jan 11 episode
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday said there is a chance of creating another 1/11 episode…
Bangladeshi worker’s poems drafted on cement bags come in print
Angry at a former employer for threatening to cut the workers’ pay, Bangladeshi construction worker Md Mukul Hossine started scribbling poetry on…
3 Indian police shot dead in Kashmir
Three Indian policemen were shot dead at point-blank range on Monday in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, in the first such attacks in…
US lifts arms embargo on Vietnam as regional tensions simmer
US president Barack Obama announced on Monday that Washington will fully lift an embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam, underlining warming relations between…
Yemen suicide attacks kill at least 45 army recruits
A suicide bomber killed at least 12 army recruits and injured dozens of others in the Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, residents and a security…
Everest safety under scrutiny
A 43-year-old Indian mountaineer has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, in the third fatality on the world’s tallest mountain in as…
Turkey threatens scrapping deal with EU
Turkey could suspend all its agreements with the European Union, including a customs union, if the bloc continues its ‘double standards’ in…
Train communications disrupted in Dhaka-Mymensingh route
Train communications on Dhaka-Mymensingh route remained suspended for about six and a half hours as a compartment of a train derailed…
18 girls killed in Thailand school dormitory fire
Police say 18 girls ranging from five to 12 years old have been killed in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in northern Thailand…
3 killed in Munshiganj road accident
At least three teenagers were killed and 14 others injured in a head-on collision between a pick-up van and a truck on Dhaka-Mawa highway at Sirajdikhan…
AL activist killed in Jessore UP polls violence
An activist of the ruling Awami League was beaten to death at village Mirzapur in Keshabpur of Jessore on Sunday night…
Shab-e-Barat observed
Shab-e-Barat, believed to be the night of fortune and forgiveness, has been observed in the country with due religious fervour…
Ken Loach wins second Cannes Palme d’Or with ‘I, Daniel Blake’
British veteran director Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival when ‘I, Daniel Blake’, his latest social-realist drama, took the Best Picture…
Barcelona beats Sevilla in extra time to win Copa del Rey
Barcelona finished its season on a high by capturing the Copa del Rey title to add to its Spanish league trophy won just a week ago…
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