Bomb kills 2 soldiers in Yemen
A suicide bombing killed two soldiers and wounded six others in eastern Yemen yesterday, a military official said, blaming al-Qaeda militants for the attack. An explosives-laden car “driven by a...
View ArticleNew bird flu strain found
A new strain of bird flu, H7N7, which can infect and kill animals, has been found in chickens at live poultry markets in China. Scientists discovered the strain by accident while testing chickens and...
View ArticleSaudi executes Syrian for drug smuggling
The Saudi authorities executed a Syrian national yesterday after he was convicted of smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said. Ahmed al-Onayzi was found guilty of trafficking “a large amount of...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 6 in Syria restaurant
A suicide bombing in a restaurant in Syria’s second city Aleppo killed six people, including a journalist from pro-government television, state media and a monitoring group said yesterday. The blast...
View ArticleUS soldier apologizes for Afghan shooting
A US Army sergeant who pleaded guilty to killing 16 villagers in a shooting spree in Afghanistan apologized Thursday to his victims’ families and said his behavior was cowardice. Robert Bales, 40,...
View ArticlePak blast death toll rises to two
The death toll in a roadside bomb attack targeting troops in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi has risen to two, officials said yesterday. The blast was aimed at soldiers returning to their barracks by...
View ArticleBombs hurled at BCL office in Jessore
Unidentified criminals yesterday hurled cocktails at an office of Chhatra League, a pro-Awami League student body, at Bablatota in Jessore. Ariful Islam Riyad, president of Jessore district unit BCL,...
View ArticleWorld’s most accurate clock built
US scientists said Thursday they have built the world’s most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other. The clock, made from the...
View ArticleGang rape fuels protests in India
Five men gang-raped a woman photographer in India’s financial hub Mumbai, police said yesterday, fuelling protests and stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi. The attack took...
View ArticleObama won’t rush into costly Syria war
President Barack Obama yesterday called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a “big event of grave concern” but stressed that he would not rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war....
View ArticleRights body demands arrest of BSF man
A human rights body in West Bengal state yesterday demanded the immediate arrest of a Border Security Force (BSF) constable on the charge of raping a Bangladeshi woman at a village in the state’s North...
View ArticleMan shot dead in Chittagong
Miscreants shot a man to death in Eidgaon Kacha Rastar Matha area of the port city yesterday night over past enmity. The dead, Nasir Talukder, 45, son of Abdur Rahman of Jhalokathi, was a resident of...
View ArticleNizami’s trial at snail’s pace
The war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami has bogged down largely due to him being an accused in the 10-truck arms haul case of 2004 and prosecution failures. Nizami was...
View ArticleSpecial ID cards to stop job changes
Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia will be provided with special identity cards from early next year to prevent them from switching jobs before expiry of job contract, reported Malaysian English daily The...
View ArticleRony’s men finally remove party office from school
A faction of Galachipa unit of Awami League, backed by lawmaker Golam Maula Rony, yesterday left a schoolroom it had been using as party office for the last three years. They also removed a party...
View Article10,680 Yaba tablets seized
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members yesterday arrested four drug peddlers along with 10,680 yaba tablets near Morichya Check Post in Ramu upazila here. The arrestees Abdur Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman,...
View ArticleSubsidies in LPG cylinder gobbled up
Government subsidies for LPG cylinder were gobbled up by dealers and middlemen while subsidised furnace oil ended up at wrong hands over the last two financial years. As a result, the subsidies did not...
View Article15 Shibir men held in Rajshahi
Injured Chhatra League leader Tawhid Al Hossain Tuhin was out of danger after undergoing a three and a half hour-long surgery at the capital’s Pongu Hospital yesterday. General secretary of the BCL’s...
View ArticleJU stalemate continues
Session jam at Jahangirnagar University is on the rise, thanks to teachers’ movements over the last one year demanding Vice-Chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain’s removal. Since the appointment of Prof Anwar...
View ArticleNew militant group follows JMB style
The three militant suspects arrested in Bogra on Thursday are believed to be remnants of banned Islamist outfit JMB who set up a new organisation styled BEM and were preparing in full for assault with...
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