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    Missing businessman found dead in Ctg

    A businessman is found dead a day after he went missing in Fatickchhari upazila of Chittagong.

  • Missing boy found dead in septic tank

    Police recovered the decomposed body of a 14-year-old boy from a septic tank in his school in Homna upazila on Wednesday night and

  • Death toll in Istanbul bombings rises to 44

    The death toll from Saturday night's twin bombings in Istanbul has risen to 44, of whom 36 were police officers, Health Minister Recep Akdag was cited as saying by state-run Anadolu agency and other media on Monday.

  • Turkey mourns after twin Istanbul bombings kill 29

    Turkey declared a day of national mourning on Sunday after twin bombings targeting police struck the heart of Istanbul near the home stadium of football giants Besiktas, killing 29 people.

  • Rivals rule out final game against Chapecoense

    Chapecoense's opponents in the last game of the Brazilian league season said they would not play the match out of respect for the stricken club who lost most of their players in a plane crash.

  • Sting reopens Paris' Bataclan hall on anniversary of militant attack

    Rock star Sting headlined a concert in Paris' Bataclan music hall on Saturday to mark the venue's reopening a year after three Islamist militants gunned down 90 revellers in France's bloodiest terror attack.

  • Unidentified gunman kills 9 football fans in South Sudan

    At least nine people are killed and 11 wounded in South Sudan's capital, Juba, when an unidentified gunman open fire on people watching a football match on television at the weekend.

  • Aus raconteur bowler Max Walker dead at 68

    Former Australia medium-pace bowler and colourful television commentator Max Walker dies at the age of 68 after a long battle with skin cancer.

  • Britain, France mark 100 years of Somme offensive

    With a cannon blast and a piercing whistle, Britain and France on Friday marked 100 years since soldiers emerged from their trenches to begin one of the bloodiest battles of World War I at the River Somme.

  • Substitutes suggested for cricket

    Helmets should be compulsory for batsmen and fielders near the wicket, and substitutes considered for concussed players, a review into the death of Phillip Hughes says on Wednesday.

  • 3 abducted Bandarban traders found murdered

    Three men were found dead in remote Thanchi upazila of Bandarban yesterday two days after they had been abducted.

  • Drik official found dead in N'ganj

    A Drik official was found dead in the bushes beside Dhaka-Narayanganj Link Road in Jalkuri area of Narayanganj on Saturday evening, hours after he had gone missing from Dhanmondi in the capital.

  • Bloodshed stalks polls

    Like in the first phase, violence and irregularities marked the second-phase polls to union parishads yesterday, leaving at least eight people dead and around 130 others wounded in clashes and firing. One of the dead is a 10-year-old boy, who went with his uncle to see voting, and another a Dhaka University student who went to his village ahead of the polls.

  • Public safety ignored

    Construction of the massive 8.7km Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in the capital without adequate safety measures is putting the workers' lives and public safety in great danger, said experts.

  • Rate halved in 15 years

    An estimated 83,100 babies were born dead in Bangladesh last year, which is nearly a 50 percent decrease in stillbirths from 160,300 in 2000, according to The Lancet, a UK-based medical journal.

  • Schoolteacher shot dead

    Unidentified criminals shot dead a primary schoolteacher and inured his younger brother inside their house in the district's Ramu upazila early yesterday.

  • Cox’s Bazar teacher shot dead in his house

    Miscreants have forced in and gunned down a primary schoolteacher and shot his brother inside his house in Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu upazila early today.

  • Economist Dr Mahabub passes away

    Dr Mahabub Hossain, one of the best known agricultural and development economists in Bangladesh and South Asia, passed away at a US hospital on Sunday after a battle with heart disease. He was 71.

  • 2 more killed in election violence

    Two more people who were injured in clashes during Wednesday's municipal election in Barguna and Kishoreganj died from their wounds yesterday.

  • 2 'criminals' shot dead

    Two members of an alleged criminal gang were found dead near Thanchi-Alikadom road in the district's Alikadom upazila yesterday.

  • Killed by Death

    If there was anyone we considered immortal, it was Lemmy.

  • Sweden stunned by school attack

    Sweden has reacted with shock to the killing of a teacher and pupil at a school in the west of the country, near Gothenburg, by a sword-wielding man.

  • Cop found dead in Pabna

    An assistant sub-inspector of Pakshi police camp found dead at a field near Pakshey Paper Mill in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna.

  • Italian shot dead

    An Italian development worker was shot dead in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone, police say.

  • Bureaucrat’s daughter found dead in Dhaka

    The daughter of a joint secretary is found dead at their government quarter in Eskaton Garden area of Dhaka.

  • Wedding shootout in Afghanistan kills 20

    At least 20 people have been killed and 10 wounded in a gunfight at a wedding party in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan

  • Cop found dead on Meghna char

    An on-duty police constable has been found dead on a char in the Meghna River of Chandpur Sadar upazila.

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    Jamaat man killed in Pabna

    Unidentified gunmen today hacked and shot a Jamaat-e-Islami activist to death this evening.

  • construction-worker-killed-Banasree

    Construction worker falls to death

    A construction worker dies after falling from an under-construction 10-storey building at Banasree in Dhaka

  • Afghanistan suicide bomb blast kills 16

    16 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Khost,

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