Two children drowned in a pond in Monirampur upazila of Jessore Friday morning. The deceased are Akhi, 4, daughter of Akbor Hossain and Apon, 5, son of Shoriful Islam of Ashingari village in the upazila, reports our Narail correspondent. Family sources said the two children were playing near a pond beside their houses in the [...]
Suranjit Sengupta, minister without portfolio, has hoped that the prime minister will call for national unity following the cancellation of World Bank funding for the Padma bridge project. “The country is now facing national and international conspiracy. I wish our prime minister will invite all political parties for a national dialogue in her concluding speech [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ladled Bangladesh with much praise, saying it is quickly advancing towards development with various achievements in several sectors. The UN boss commended Bangladesh at a reception for newly appointed UN Under Secretary General Ameerah Haq on Friday morning (Bangladesh time). Ban Ki-moon said, “Bangladesh is marching towards development especially [...]
Bodies of five fire victims arrived from Malaysia on Friday morning. The five Bangladeshis, hailing from the same Brahmanbaria village, burnt to death in Malaysia three days ago. Foreign ministry officials said coffins carrying the bodies reached Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 4.30am. Later, expat welfare secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan handed over [...]
The Indian border forces have returned two Bangladeshis, including a RAB man, 10 hours after they were picked up from near the border. The Bangladeshi border security force and the elite crime-busters Rapid Action Battalion say that the RAB member Shafiqul Islam and his informer Subrata were abducted across the border by associates of a [...]
BNP demanded a public or judicial enquiry on Friday to investigate the allegations of torturing accused BDR mutineers in custody brought by an international rights group. “I was in Kashimpur Jail some days ago. I saw with my own eyes how the BDR men were kept shackled,” a BNP policymaker, A S M Hannan Shah [...]
Lawmen have arrested two youths for cheating with a fake bank account under the name of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman and extortion over mobile phone claiming to be an ACC commissioner. The elite crime-fighters Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Ziaur Rahman (28) from Jurain and Mohammad Israfil from Rampura on Thursday. They were both produced [...]
A home ministry circular termed a New York based human right watchdog’s report “part of an international conspiracy” after it called for the abolition of elite crime-busting unit, Rapid Action Battalion. This comes a day after the law and home ministers blasted the report, called for its withdrawal and cautioned the rights group ‘not to [...]
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker raised an unprecedented $37 million since taking office in 2011, most of it spent to stave off a bid to recall him after he enacted curbs on public sector unions last year, according to a filing on Thursday. The 44-year-old, first-term governor, who has become a rising national star of the [...]
A Florida judge said George Zimmerman was a flight risk and set bond at $1 million on Thursday for the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman had been released on $150,000 bond but was sent back to jail in June after prosecutors alleged he misled the court about [...]