UNB/ AP, Piraeus Clutching an English phrase book, Mohammed Sawadi is preparing to head north. The 23-year-old university student traveled from Damascus with his two cousins. They knew Greece’s borders were closed before leaving home but say nothing will stop them getting to northern Europe. “We made a vow: We will get to Europe, and…
UNB/ AFP Two teenage girls have been charged in France with allegedly plotting to assault a Paris concert hall some four months after the nation’s deadliest terror attacks, legal sources said on Saturday. The girls, 15 and 17 years old, exchanged messages on Facebook in which they claimed they wanted to launch an attack similar…
UNB, Dhaka Bangladesh-India Cotton Festival 2016, jointly arranged by Bangladesh Cotton Association (BCA) and Indian Cotton Association Limited (ICAL) was held in the city on Saturday. The event was held in cooperation with the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI). Commerce Minister Tofail…
UNB, Dhaka The government has taken hashers measures to prevent jobseekers from resorting to illegal ways for going abroad using visit, short visit and student visas as well as professional and social visit passes (VPs). Sources at the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry said the ministry has already issued a letter with three directives…
UNB/ AP, Paris U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says U.N.-sponsored peace talks on Syria should go ahead Monday as planned, but Russia and U.S. monitors are meeting first to discuss perceived cease-fire violations. Kerry, speaking in Saudi Arabia, said he hoped for a telephone conversation Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about accusations…
UNB, Dhaka Dhaka district CNG-run Autorickshaw Drivers Union will enforce a 24-hour strike in the capital from 6am on today to press home their demands. The decision was taken at a meeting held at its Dhalpur office in the city with its president Md Rafique in the chair on Saturday morning. The meeting decided to…
BSS, Gazipur An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Harun Or Rashid, 36, of Hotapara police camp was killed and three persons, including two police constables, Anis, 45, and Jobbar, 32, and microbus driver Faruk , 30, injured seriously when a sand-laden truck hit a police microbus at Puspwadham of Bagherbazar under Joydebpur police station here early on…
UNB, Brahmanbaria Miscreants hurled a crude bomb at the house of an Awami League rebel candidate at Araishidha village in Ashuganj upazila early Saturday, ahead of the upcoming Union Parishad election. Local people said 2/3 miscreants on a motorcycle arrived and hurled a crude bomb targeting the house of Quamrul Islam Mobarak, candidate of Araishidha…
UNB, Dhaka BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday alleged that Tk 800 crore was stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s account in the US Federal Reserve Bank with the help of government and central bank officials. ”The money from the Bangladesh Bank account was stolen right away, not hacked. There’s no scope of swindling out…
UNB A mobile court here on Saturday sentenced two people, including the matchmaker, to seven days’ jail term for arranging marriage of an underage girl at Shakharipota village in Sharsha upazila on Friday night. Police said being informed by local people, a mobile court led by Sharsha Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Abdus Salam with the…