BSS A man was killed as a pickup van hit him at Itchakhada Natun Bazaar area in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was Khalilur Rahman, 52, son of Abul Hossain Biswas, a resident of Bajitpur in Jhenaidah district. Sub inspector of Magura Highway Police Abdur Rauf said the accident occurred when the pickup…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 200 grams of heroin from Achua village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district on Wednesday. The arrested were M Mikail, 22, son of M Intaj Ali and M Khairul Islam, 21, son of M Intaj Ali Kalu, both of them residents of…
BSS A youth was killed and three others were injured in a road mishap at Vatipara on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was Ratan Gyine, 20, of Zoaria village under Tungipara upazila of the district. Officer-in-charge of Sadar Thana Selim Reja said the accident occurred when a bus hit…
BSS Chittagong Metropolitan Police detained a professed journalist with a foreign made Pistol from a Dhaka bound bus at city gate area on Tuesday night. The detainee was identified as Shuvashis Acharzee Titu,44, hailed from Mohora area under Chandgaon thana in the city.
UNB An HSC examinee reportedly committed suicide by taking poison at Shahabajpur village in Sadar upazila of Jessore early Wednesday. Abu Bakkar, father of the deceased, said Masura Khatun,18, a student of Kazi Nazrul Islam College, took poison in her room over family feud on Tuesday afternoon.
UNB Detective Branch of police arrested the ringleader of a robber gang along with a pistol and eight rounds of bullet from Mollar Char in Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as Saidur Rahman. Officer-in-charge of Gaibandha DB police Shamim Hasan said the Saidur Rahman-led gang had long been carrying out…
AP, Canberra Australia’s prime minister on Wednesday distanced himself from the man he replaced by announcing a new fund to promote clean energy innovation as the country heads toward a likely early election in July. The announcement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of the 1 billion Australian dollar ($760 million) Clean Energy Innovation Fund comes…
AP, Idomeni Refugees and migrants in Greece have staged protests at the country’s border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast, as officials still are unsure when an international agreement to reduce migration would take full effect. Several hundred protesters camped out at the border disrupted food distribution by charities on Wednesday, and…
AP, Havana President Barack Obama urged Cubans on Tuesday to look toward a hopeful future with the United States, casting his historic visit to the communist nation as a moment to “bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” In a speech peppered with Spanish at the Grand Theater of Havana, Obama…
BBC, Middle East A US air strike has killed dozens of fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in a mountainous region of Yemen, the Pentagon says. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the target was an al-Qaeda training camp that was being used by more than 70 fighters. Tuesday’s air strike was the most…