AP, Harrington Top aides spent the week gingerly courting Republican insiders at a seaside resort in Florida, but front-runner Donald Trump was busy railing against them. While it may seem counterproductive, Trump’s foot-stomping has served as a rallying cry to boost voter turnout and allowed him to continue to appeal to voters who feel disenfranchised….
UNB A housewife was found slaughtered at Dakkhin Char Clerk Adarsha village of Subarnchar upazila on Friday morning. The deceased was identified Kulsuma Begum, 35, 2nd wife of Firoj Alam of the village. Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar Police Station, said Kulsuma used to live alone in a house built on a disputed land…
BSS Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in an overnight raid arrested a drug peddler with 23,800 pieces of Yaba tables worth about Taka 95.20 lakh from a pickup van in front of Abdul karim Market of bus stand area of Cox’s Bazar. A statement of RAB said the arrestee was identified as Mohammad Kamal Uddin, 30,…
BSS The law enforcement agencies seized 25 kilograms of smuggled ganja and arrested five persons from different places in Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat districts on Thursday afternoon, police sources said. The arrested persons are: driver of the ambulance Mozaffar Hossain, 40, assistant driver Shafikul Islam, 29, and Sadekul Islam, 20, of different areas under Rangpur Kotwali…
BSS A student of Chittagong University (CU) drowned in Halda River in Hathazari upazila of the district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Noman, 25, a second year student of International Relations Department of CU. Noman hailed from Rangunia upazila of the district.On information, divers of the Fire Service and Civil Defense rushed…
BSS One person was killed in a road crash in Bhanga upazilla headquarter when his motor cycle he was riding was hit by a unidentified passenger coach on Friday morning. He met the accident on Bhanga-Mawa road in front of Bhanga Fire Service station when he was going to Dhaka from Nalchiti of Jhalakathi district…
AP, Manila A massive leak from a database containing personal details of more than 55 million registered voters in the Philippines will not compromise the May 9 national elections, officials said Friday, in the latest hacking scandal to hit the Southeast Asian nation. Government agents late Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old suspect, a new graduate of…
AP, Brussels German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials plan to travel close to Turkey’s border with Syria in hopes of promoting a troubled month-old agreement to manage a refugee crisis that has left hundreds of thousands stranded on the migrant trail to Europe. Saturday’s trip to the Turkish border city of Gaziantep,…
UNB, Dhaka Following the fall of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, at the hands of the ISIS, the militants started forcing women to a accept temporary marriage or sexual jihad (jihad al-nikah), under the pretext of implementing the Sharia, and the women face severe punishments if they refuse to submit, reports London-based Kurdish…
Nusrat Jahan The Internet is wonderful, and Facebook is like the icing on the cake. Then there are the various groups on Facebook that make our day-to-day lives easier, which are like the cherry on top. We the Bangladeshis loves to be a part of a community, regardless of it being real or virtual. So…