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Seven killed in road crashes
Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.
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Illegal Migration: 495 foreigners in country’s jail
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said 495 people have so far been arrested for illegal migration from neighbouring countries.
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3-year-old ‘raped’ in Bagerhat
Police have detained a youth on charge of raping a three-year-old girl in Bagerhat’s Fakirhat upazila.
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Bangamata U-19 Gold Cup kicks off tomorrow
Hosts Bangladesh will take on United Arab Emirates when the first Bangamata U-19 Women’s International Gold Cup kicks off tomorrow at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.
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Two N’ganj schools line up students to welcome Salim Osman
Authorities of Kalagasia Union High School in Narayanganj yesterday kept their students lined up on the campus stopping exams to welcome local lawmaker AKM Salim Osman.
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Sexual Harassment: Top Indian judge caught up in storm
India’s Supreme Court yesterday held an extraordinary hearing after a former employee of the apex court accused Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment and persecution.
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No link between BNP joining JS and Khaleda’s release : Hanif
The issue of Khaleda Zia’s bail and the oath-taking of the BNP lawmakers-elect are not linked, Awami League acting general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said yesterday.
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Tk 23.23 lakh fine levied for traffic offences
The traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police filed 4,729 cases and realised fines of Tk 23.23 lakh in separate drives against traffic rules violators in the capital on Friday.
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New IRA Unrest: 2 teens held after killing of journalist
Two teenagers have been arrested over the killing of a journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland, police said yesterday, after a murder that has triggered international condemnation.
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Trump seethes over Mueller probe report
A seething President Donald Trump launched a tirade Friday against the “bullshit” Mueller report on how he tried to thwart the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, while a leading Democratic opponent urged his impeachment.
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Blind Japanese sailor sets record
A blind Japanese sailor completed his non-stop Pacific voyage yesterday, local media reported, becoming the first sightless person on record to navigate a vessel across the vast ocean.
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Israeli police say wound alleged Palestinian assailant
Israeli border police yesterday shot and wounded what they said was a Palestinian knife attacker near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
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Sex Cult Case: US liquor heiress pleads guilty
Clare Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, pleaded guilty Friday to her role in a secretive society of women sex slaves.
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Vietnam police seize a tonne of meth stashed in loudspeakers
Police in southern Vietnam have seized more than a tonne of methamphetamine after uncovering a smuggling operation involving at least two Taiwanese nationals and a Vietnamese man, the third massive bust in a week in the communist state.
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Czech PM says won’t resign if indicted over EU fraud
Czech billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis yesterday said he would not resign if indicted for his alleged role in a two-million-euro EU subsidy fraud.
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Working for 7 years at risky building
Over 150 employees of Bagerhat sub-registrar and land record offices have been working in a tattered building for the last seven years despite serious risks.
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Ninth grader tries to take her own life after ‘rape’
A ninth-grader attempted to die by suicide allegedly after being raped several times and publicly beaten up by the rapist in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon on Thursday.
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UAE minister visits Rohingya camps
UAE State Minister for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.
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AL leader held with gun near party office
An Awami League leader was held with a licensed gun and eight bullets in front of the party’s Bangabandhu Avenue headquarters yesterday afternoon, hours before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined a programme there.
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Rohingyas must return home
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her firm stance on Rohingya repatriation, saying the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals must go back to their homeland.
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CID constable held with 990 yaba pills
A constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one of his associates were held with 990 yaba pills from Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on Thursday evening.
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Two killed in ‘gunfights’ in Gazipur, Bogura
Two men were killed in separate “gunfights” in Gazipur and Bogura early yesterday.
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Democrats keep up pressure on Trump
Congressional Democrats yesterday demanded to see all of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s evidence from his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, as they consider how to use the probe’s findings against President Donald Trump.
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Congress party spokeswoman Priyanka resigns
A spokeswoman for India’s main opposition Congress party resigned yesterday and joined a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, complaining that misbehaviour towards her by male Congress members was ignored.
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Bee-wildering!
Some 200,000 bees inhabiting hives in Notre-Dame cathedral survived the inferno that engulfed the heritage landmark in a miraculous escape, their beekeeper said Thursday.
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PM receives treatment like general patient
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received treatment like a general patient from the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) at Agargaon in the capital.
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UN begins evacuating refugees from Libya to Niger
The UN said yesterday it had evacuated 163 refugees from war-ravaged Libya to neighbouring Niger, but more than 3,000 others were still trapped in detention centres affected by clashes.
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Taliban-Afghan peace hopes suffer setback
Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan’s gruelling conflict suffered a major setback yesterday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan officials was indefinitely postponed.
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French court jails brother of jihadist killer for 30 years
A Paris appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah, brother of a French jihadist who shot dead seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders.
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Malian govt resigns as anger mounts over massacre
Mali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the centre of the country and a massacre last month that left 160 people dead.
