Human body parts found in landfill
Police yesterday recovered around 16 severed human body parts and 13 bones at Dhaka South City Corporation landfill in Matuail. They, however, could not say whether criminals dumped those, in four...
View ArticleAnomalies rife in BPC
The country counted Tk 7,843 crore in revenue loss, demurrage and subsidy wastage in 2010-11 and 2011-12 due to irregularities and lax monitoring at Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), an audit has...
View ArticleUN for dialogue to end crisis
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and urged them to hold talks for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing...
View ArticleGuardian teams up over Snowden documents
The Guardian has agreed with the New York Times to give the US newspaper access to some classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, both papers said on...
View ArticleSyria crisis: US weighs military options
The Pentagon is moving forces closer to Syria as the US weighs its options in the conflict there, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has suggested. He gave no details, but media reports say the US Navy is...
View ArticleSuicide bomber targets Baghdad cafe, killing 25
A suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded more than 50 in Baghdad on Friday when he detonated his explosives inside a busy cafe near a park popular with families, police and medical sources said....
View ArticleObama’s national security team to meet on Syria
President Barack Obama’s security advisers will convene at the White House this weekend to discuss US options, including possible military action, against the Syrian government over an apparent...
View ArticleWitness testifies in Bo Xilai trial
The trial of former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai has entered its third day. Bo is expected to cross-examine a witness who testified that he embezzled funds from a government project in Dalian, the...
View ArticleOutlaw killed in Meherpur
A member of outlawed Janajuddho, a faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), was stabbed dead by rivals in Gangni upazila of Meherpur early Saturday, police said. Deceased Nizam Uddin, 50, of...
View Article3 workers hurt in Ctg factory explosion
Three workers were injured, one critically, in an explosion at a glue factory in Chittagong city Saturday morning. Injured Nantu Das, 22, Mridul Dey, 38, and Ranadhir Mallik, 42, were undergoing...
View Article43,550 Yaba pills seized in Cox’s Bazar
Law enforcers detained four people including three smugglers with 43,550 pieces of yaba tablets in separate drives in Cox’s Bazar Friday night and Saturday morning. The first drive was conducted at...
View Article77 more teachers join agitation
The stalemate at Jahangirnagar University (JU) that brewed over the demand for the removal of its vice-chancellor stepped into fourth consecutive day on Saturday as the demonstrating teachers remain...
View ArticleBNP welcomes UN chief’s dialogue call
BNP has welcomed United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for a dialogue between the government and the opposition for holding a free and fair general election, party’s senior leader...
View Article4 killed in Mymensingh, Brahmanbaria
Four people including two of a family were killed and 12 injured in clashes over land dispute in Mymensingh and Brahmanbaria Saturday morning. Abul Kalam, 56 and his son Abul Kashem, 30, were killed in...
View ArticleSpree stabbing in bus kills 4
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when a knife-wielding man went berserk in a bus in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, sending shock waves across the country. As the bus left a stop...
View Article6 yr-old girl shoots playmate in South Africa
A six-year-old girl shot and killed her friend with her grandfather’s revolver while playing at a private game reserve in South Africa. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when the victim,...
View ArticleRich sleep well at night
How do the rich sleep at night? Very well, according to a major study of British bedtime behaviour. A healthy pay packet is revealed yesterday by the Sleep Council as the most important factor in...
View ArticleEC firm against proposed power
Despite widespread criticism, the Election Commission (EC) remains firm on scrapping its proposed authority to cancel one’s candidature in parliamentary polls for violation of electoral laws. Defending...
View ArticleCriminals attack cops
Criminals yesterday snatched an arrestee from police, leaving two law enforcers injured at Ranirhat Bazar in Bakerganj upazila. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bakerganj Police Staion Nurul Islam said...
View ArticleUN inspectors come under sniper attack
UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria met and took samples from victims of an apparent poison gas attack in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus yesterday after the UN team themselves survived a sniper...
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