BSS Two persons were killed in a road accident when their vehicle turned turtle in Chonbunia area in Bamna upazila on the Barguna-Bamna road of the district on Friday. Police said the accident occurred when a lorry turned turtle as one of its front tyres was punctured. The driver of the lorry Yusuf,30,and helper Arif,25,…
BSS Singra Thana Police in raids arrested eight persons including a couple with 70 yaba tablets, 500 grams of ganja and 6 packets of heroin from Singra Pourashava areas on Friday night. The arrested were identified as Md. Alauddin, 50, and his wife Aklima Khatun, 38, of Pat Singra area, Masum,35, son of late Ismail…
UNB A young man died after falling from the rooftop of a building at Duppara village in Benapole port area on Saturday morning. Quoting family members, police sad Rezoan, 18, son of Korban Ali of the village, slipped and fell from the building rooftop while placing straw to erect a shed there in the morning….
UNB At least seven shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Joydebpur bus stand in the city on Saturday morning. Hasibul Islam, an official of Joydebpur fire service station, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a shop of one Anwar Hossain around 6:30 am and soon engulfed six…
UNB Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized 20 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) from the Bhola river in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Coast Guard sources said on a tip-off, a team of the force conducted the drive in the river around 8am and seized the…
Desk Report United States President Barrack Obama praised Democratic lawmakers for supporting through some politically tough votes and encouraged supporters to help elect more of them in November, says reports from UNB. “A Democratic Congress is good for America,” he said on Friday. He also told donors that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted…
AP, Cairo The Saudi-led coalition behind a year-long military campaign against Yemen’s Shiite rebels is ready to commit to a cease-fire as long as the rebels abide by a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for their pullout from Yemeni cities, the alliance’s spokesman said Friday. Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Asiri told The Associated Press that…
AP, Washington The proposed placement of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is “going to happen” despite Chinese opposition, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. Washington and Seoul began talks last month on deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system to combat the threat of North Korean missiles, following a recent…
AP, Seoul North Korea said Saturday it has successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic rocket engine that will give it the ability to stage nuclear strikes on the United States. The engine’s ground test, if true, would be a big step forward for the North’s nuclear weapons program, which saw its fourth atomic test earlier…
Samiul Bashar Samin Okay, it’s “freakout” time again. The trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars story has just been released. This is not, I repeat this is not a drill. After the success of the Star Wars: Force Awakens, the franchise is now trying to pull a spinoff on the story set in an…