BSS Members of the Chittagong Metropolitan police in a raid arrested two men for their alleged involvement in peddling drugs from city’s Eidgah area in Halishahor thana on Tuesday night. They also seized 850 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession. The arrestees were identified as Nur Hossain, 28 and Nazrul Islam, 29, hailed from…
BSS Two labourers were killed and five others injured as a boiler blasted at a rice mill at Rameshwargati village in Raiganj upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Nasiruddin, 25, son of Altaf Ali, and Idris Ali, 24, son of Nasim Sheikh, residents of the village. Officer-in-charge of Raiganj Police Station Rashedul…
AP, Brussels The NATO-Russia Council is meeting for the first time in nearly two years, with the U.S.-led alliance planning to object to what it deems provocative and dangerous actions by Moscow’s military. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday’s meeting at alliance headquarters is being held to exchange views on Ukraine and other issues, but…
AP Online A fresh tremor rattled Ecuador before dawn Wednesday morning, a 6.1 magnitude jolt that was the strongest aftershock since a lethal earthquake killed hundreds of people. There was no immediate report of further damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor was centered offshore, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the devastated beach…
AP, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Tuesday that Morocco’s expulsion of most of the U.N. peacekeeping mission’s civilian staff in the disputed Western Sahara will likely be exploited by “terrorist and radical elements” and could lead to full-scale war. In a rebuke to Morocco’s unilateral action, the U.N. chief urged the Security Council to…
UNB, Dhaka More than 160 countries have so far confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day that the agreement will be open for signature. “Next Friday will truly be a historic moment. It’ll be a great moment for multilateral efforts and this (UN) organisation,” said…
In the cartoon world Popeye was just another guy flaunting his forearms, eating spinach and smoking his corncob pipe but to us he is Popeye, The Sailor Man. He is one of the cartoon characters that became a brand itself. Popeye started airing on 17, January, 1929 and people instantly liked him. There are a…
Md. Taqi Yasir Philippines bear the largest transgender population where they have sufficient rights to thrive. They do have the proper amount of respect for them as human being and never ever get criticized for their gender-nonconformist. In the Philippines, call centers have become sanctuary for gender-nonconforming people. The transgender do have the sufficient amount…
Nusrat Jahan We often tend to think that a successful career is only about making a lot money, completely overlooking other important factors such as experience and job satisfaction. Although small companies do not guarantee a high paycheck, they do, however, guarantee a lot of other great opportunities that are difficult to find in larger…
Sheersho Zaman It is no new fact that North and South Korea’s separation has lead them to be very different from each other. While one prospers in pop culture and glamour, the other remains in its military oriented and technologically isolated state. The one thing the separated nations have in common though is the language…