AP Online The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in Iraq’s north earlier this week said he made “a bad decision” joining IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station that aired late Thursday night. Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, from Alexandria,…
UNB, Dhaka Brac chairman Fazle Hasan Abed on Friday said giving the urban people a meaningful life would be a big challenge for Bangladesh as it will have 50 percent of population living in towns within next 35 years. “In the next 30 years, population of Bangladesh is likely to be around 200 millions. It…
UNB, Dhaka The meeting between the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the $101 heist of Bangladesh Bank has been deferred to Sunday. The meeting was scheduled to be held at the CID headquarters on Friday. Talking to reporters at the CID office on Friday, its…
UNB, Dhaka Aiming to stage a political comeback leaving out its failures in the anti-government movement, BNP goes to its sixth national council in the city today with the theme ‘We’ll must Free Democracy’. Senior leaders and grassroots activists expect a ‘magical overhaul’ of the party’s executive committee and standing committee, and some major…
Mahmudul Alam A case has been filed stating that 101 million dollars (more than 8,000 crore taka) was stolen from the reserve of Bangladesh Bank. The case was filed under the 4 sections of the Money Laundering Prevention Act-2012, section 54 and 379 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act-2006. Sub-section 2 under Section-4…
Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia An office of the boat symbol built for the Awami League nominated candidate at Chadgram Union, Bheramara, Kushtia was set on fire by miscreants. Two bombs were also detonated in the area right before the arson took place. According to the head of the burnt election office, the attack took place…
Staff Reporter 1 out of every 5 deaths during pregnancy is being caused by Hepatitis-E induced jaundice. According to the World Health Organization, every year, 2 crore people get infected by this virus, but only 1% of the people infected die. However, this virus is dangerous for pregnant women. A research paper published by the…
UNB A tribunal here on Thursday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a schoolgirl after rape in 2011. The convicts–Shaheen alias Harun Choukidar, 25, son of late Ratan Choukidar, and Rashed Hawladar alias Hossain Ali, 23, son of Hashem Ali of Koylaghat are in the district town–were also fined…
UNB Police recovered the body of a rickshaw-van puller with the throat slashed at Ghaturia in Kalai upazila early Friday. Locals spotted his body with the throat slit in a field at Ghaturia village on Friday morning. Informed, police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.
UNB Police arrested the district ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Nur Mohammad, from Agardari Abeder Haat village in sadar upazila of Satkhira district early Friday. The law enforcers also recovered huge explosives, 15 crude bombs and some jihadi books from his possession. Tipped off, a team of police conducted a raid on the house of one Khalek…