Reuters: The Croatian town of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and picturesque coastal resort on the Adriatic, is at risk of being overwhelmed by visitors from the cruise ships that arrive daily. Between January and June, almost 280,000 tourists from 188 cruise tours visited the 800 year-old city. Last year, a whopping 749,000 people…
Hossen Sohel: Expressing solidarity with the students demanding safe roads, Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders of Dhaka University unit yesterday distributed chocolates and sweets among the protesters at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka. BCL DU unit President Sanjib Chandra Sarker and Secretary Saddam Hossein went to Shahbagh intersection around 11:30am where around 1,000 students were demonstrating in…
UNB: A fish trader was stabbed to death by miscreants in Old Ferryghat area of Morelganj upazila on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Jahangir Khan, 45, son of Kalu Kha hailing from Hoglapasha village in the upazila.
Arab News: The United Arab Emirates will face China, East Timor and Syria at this month’s Asian Games after the Asian Football Confederation conducted a partial redraw of the football competition on Friday following Iraq’s late withdrawal. The redraw was the second time the group phase of the competition had to be amended after organizers…
UNB: Police in a drive arrested a man from Kamaldia village in Madhukhali upazila on Friday morning for raping a minor girl. The arrestee was identified as Hakim Biswas, 50, of Brahmankanda village in the upazila.
UNB: Each bank has to establish a separate internal audit (IA) department, which will speed up the recovery of loan though legal measure, according to a study.
Reuters: Iran protesters have attacked a religious school in Karaj province near Tehran, the conservative Fars news agency reported on Saturday. “At 9 pm (1530 GMT on Friday) they attacked the school and tried to break the doors down and burn things,” Fars quoted the head of the school in the town of Ishtehad, Hojatoleslam…
Eleven bodies were discovered on Friday in a Mexican town close to the U.S. border, days before president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is due to visit for a series of forums seeking to stem the violence in the country. The bodies of eight men and three women were found in a home in Ciudad Juarez,…
UNB: Police on Saturday afternoon detained a teenage boy from in front of Kolaroa Municipality Bhaban in Satkhira district, on charge of beating a college girl. Detainee Zahid Hasan Rana, 18, is a resident of Murarikati village in the municipality, said Kolaroa Police Station officer in-charge Maruf Ahmed.
Anadolu Agency: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said he was asking Turkish authorities to freeze the assets in Turkey of the US ministers of “justice and interior”, in response to Washington’s sanctions on the detention of an American pastor. “Today I will give our friends instructions to freeze the assets in Turkey of the…