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…
UNB Police recovered the body of a teenage boy hanging from a tree of at Shamukhdum Eid ground in the city on Friday morning. Police said being informed by locals, they recovered the body of Riajul Islam, 15, a resident of Sorinkhola area of Bagerhat district, at 10 am. The body was sent to Rajshahi…
UNB Members of Coast Guard in a drive seized 200 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches long) from Taltoli river near Taltori Bazar in Sadar upazila early Friday. Tipped off, a team of Coast Guard conducted a drive on the bank of the river and seized jatka loaded in 52 drums, said…
UNB A young man was beaten to death by an angry mob over theft charges at Dherera village of Chandina upazila early Friday. Rasul Ahmed Nizami, officer-in-charge of Chandina Police Station, said on information, police recovered the body of Shah Alam, 25, son of Shahid Ullah of the village.
AP, Fresno A California college student who went on a stabbing rampage that wounded four people before he was shot down by a campus police officer was inspired by the Islamic State group but acted alone, the FBI said. Faisal Mohammad, 18, appears to have become self-radicalized, drawing motivation from terrorist propaganda that he found…
AP, Cairo The United States, Europe and United Nations have all pinned their hopes for resolving Libya’s chaos and blocking the Islamic State group’s growth there on a newly announced unity government. The problem is: It’s not clear how the government can actually get into the country. The unity government, brokered by the U.N. and…
AP, Beirut With Syria’s shaky cease-fire holding, peaceful protesters have yet again taken to the streets in opposition-held areas of the country. But this time, in addition to President Bashar Assad’s government, they have another despised authority they seek to topple — al-Qaida’s affiliate in the country, the oppressive Nusra Front. The developments have raised…