Defence purchase govt’s priority
The Awami League-led grand alliance government has so far procured military hardware worth Tk 15,104 crore as part of its initiative to modernise the armed forces and enhance defence capabilities....
View Article6 dead as Morsi supporters march in Egypt
Thousands of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi marched through Cairo and cities across Egypt on Friday to demand his reinstatement, in the movement’s biggest show of defiance since...
View ArticleUS weighs ‘limited act’ against Syria
President Barack Obama has said the US is considering a “limited narrow act” in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army. Obama stressed that no “final decision” had been...
View Article6 US ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’
Sixth US warships are now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a “limited, precise” strike,...
View ArticleTwo troops dead, rebel camp overrun in Philippines
Two soldiers were killed in a firefight with communist guerrillas in the northern Philippines while in a separate clash police backed by helicopters stormed a rebel base near a mountain resort,...
View ArticleVenezuelan gets 5.5 years for shooting US diplomats
A Venezuelan court has sentenced a man to five and a half years in prison for wounding two US diplomats during a May shooting at a Caracas strip club. The man, identified as Carlos Mejias Blanco, has...
View ArticleTaiwan train derailed by mudslides; 17 injured
Seventeen passengers were injured when their train was derailed by mudslides in southern Taiwan yesterday after a tropical storm triggered widespread flooding. The six-carriage train, carrying around...
View ArticleSuicide attack kills 6 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed up to six Afghans and wounded 20 others in an attack outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar as people were waiting to collect their salaries, officials said. He said...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins Google in US spying suit
Microsoft on Friday said that a battle to shed light on secret US government requests for Internet user data would play out in court after failed peace talks. Microsoft and Google filed suits in...
View ArticlePerfect wife ‘sculpted’
Ever since they first met in 2007, Dr David Matlock, a famous Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, has been using his body-sculpting skills to turn his wife Veronica into the perfect wife. When Veronica...
View ArticleDestroy Snowden material
The British government has asked the New York Times to destroy copies of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden related to the operations of the US spy agency and...
View ArticleOutrage in India
An Indian court yesterday sentenced a teenager to three years in a juvenile detention centre over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests. The...
View ArticlePM asks BCL boys to study
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government had amended the constitution to ensure continuation of democracy through peaceful handover of power. In the statement, she referred to the...
View ArticleFour ‘robbers’ beaten to death
Angry villagers yesterday beat four alleged robbers to death at different places of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali. Locals caught the robbers while they were trying to flee from their hideouts as police...
View Article6 lakh need MRP by Nov
Around six lakh Bangladeshis in the United Arab Emirates with manual passports must apply for the machine-readable version before the deadline expires on November 24, 2015. Bangladeshi Ambassador to...
View ArticleSight to forget
The jhau woods along the Cox’s Bazar seashore are in decline, putting the future of the world’s longest sea beach in jeopardy. Setting up of illegal structures, indiscriminate felling of jhau...
View ArticleJubo League leader killed
A leader of Jubo League, a pro-Awami League youth body, was stabbed to death in the capital’s Pallabi area yesterday morning. Deceased Shah Ali Rocky, 28, vice-president of a Jubo League unit under...
View ArticleAnsarullah led by 5
Led by five persons, the newly emerged militant group Ansaruallah Bangla Team follows the ideals and policies of international terrorist outfits such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and...
View ArticleObama to seek Congress vote on Syria action
President Barack Obama yesterday said the US should take military action against Syria but he would seek congressional authorisation for intervention lifting the threat of immediate punitive air...
View ArticleDhaka for a quick wayout
Bangladesh has called for an immediate resolution of the crisis in war-torn Syria to end the sufferings of the civilians. “Bangladesh believes in amicable solution to all international conflicts...
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