UNB Two sisters were killed and two others including a van driver were injured in a road accident in Jogodal area under Magura Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday afternoon. Police said the accident took place when a mechanized trolley hit a rickshaw van in Jogodal area on the Magura-Narail road at about 2…
UNB Police recovered the hanging bodies of a couple at Amgram village in Durgapur upazila on Saturday morning, a day after they reportedly eloped following their extramarital affair. Officer-in-charge of Durgapur Police Station Parimal Kumar Chakrawarty said locals spotted the bodies of Khokon Islam, 23, son of Abdul Mazid of Amgram village and Tina Khatun,…
UNB A young man was stabbed to death by rival over previous enmity at Panchkitta village of Muradnagar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 24, son of Abdul Malek, a resident of the village. Quoting locals, Mohammad Nurul Alam, sub-inspector of Muradnagar Police Station, said there had been an enmity…
UNB Police arrested Kanaighat pourashava unit BNP general secretary Mizanur Rahman from Kanaighat Bazar in the district on Saturday afternoon on sabotage charges. Mizanur Rahman was accused in four cases with Kanaighat Police Station, said police. Md Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Kanaighat Police Station, said police arrested him from Kanaighat Bazar area around 5pm. However,…
AFP, New Delhi Unsung New Zealand have begun to emerge from Brendon McCullum’s shadow and are revelling in their success over cricket’s big guns, according to veteran Ross Taylor. After they cruised through the group stages of the World Twenty20 in India, winning all four matches, the spotlight is beginning to be shone on a…
AP, Islamabad Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday Tehran was not interested in maintaining tensions with Saudi Arabia and responded positively when Pakistan tried to mediate between the two rivals. Speaking at a news conference in Islamabad to mark the end of his two-day visit to Pakistan, Rouhani said Saudi plays an important role in…
AP, Baghdad U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered his condolences to the families and friends of the 41 people killed in Friday’s suicide bombing at a soccer stadium in Iraq, adding that the “the international community stands with Iraqis in horror and outrage.” Speaking during an official visit to Iraq Saturday, Ban said that the…
AP, Idomeni Hundreds of migrants, egged on by activists, are protesting near the fence separating Macedonia from Greece, demanding that the border be opened to allow them to continue their journey into central Europe. Greek riot police are standing between the fence and the protesters, who are chanting “Open the borders!” and holding placards. Macedonian…
AP, Damascus Syrian government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State fighters from Palmyra on Sunday, ending the group’s reign of terror over a town whose famed 2,000-year-old ruins once drew tens of thousands of visitors each year. Government forces had been on the offensive for nearly three weeks to try to retake…
Different people will tell you different ways of how you make memories. But you will hear about a man named Henry Molaison if you ask a neuroscientist about this. He lost a certain part of his brain in a surgery in 1953 which made him lose the ability to form most kinds of long-term memory…