BSS A man was killed due to bee bites at Madrasa Para village in Haripur upazila of the district on Sunday. The victim is Akhtar Hossain Chowdhury, 50, son of late Abul Kalam Chowdhury of the village. Family sources said Akhtar Hossain Chowdhury was badly bitten by a large group of bees from nearby mango…
BSS Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from near the border area of Dewanganj upazila of the district on Monday morning. Local people found the body, aged about 30, in a paddy field at Rahimpur village under Parramrampur union of Dewanganj upazila, 50 yards inside Bangladeshi territory, from Indian border. Receiving information from…
BSS An unidentified woman was killed on the spot after a passenger bus crushed her at Hajirhat point on the Panchagarh-Dhaka highway on the outskirts of the city on Monday, police sources said. The accident occurred when a Panchagarh bound passenger bus from Dhaka hit the woman, aged about 60, while she was crossing the…
AP, Sanaa Tens of thousands of Yemenis are rallying in a southern city, demanding the secession of the south from the rest of the country. The protesters in the port city of Aden are demanding the return of the one-time independent state of South Yemen. Monday’s demonstration comes as Yemen’s warring sides are to meet…
AP, Baghdad Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad Monday to talk to Iraqi leaders about beefing up Iraqi forces working to retake the northern city of Mosul, a critical goal in the effort to defeat the Islamic State group. A senior U.S. official said that as the U.S. moves to help the Iraqis, it…
Progga Nusrat When we think of women leaving their jobs, the first thing that pops into our minds is “babies”. Why else would a woman leave a job, right? Well, it turns out that we are all wrong. Recently a survey was carried out on around 300 people worldwide, which included women aged 22-35 years,…
Nusrat Jahan Summer may be the time to have fun in Western countries, but here in sweaty Bangladesh, it is the time where you just might die of a heatstroke any day. While a small percentage of the crowd is lucky enough to always have someone chauffeuring them around, most of us have to resort…
AP, Seoul South Korea’s president said Monday there are signs that North Korea is preparing a fifth nuclear bomb test amid reports of increased brisk activity at the country’s main nuclear test site. President Park Geun-hye told her top advisers that North Korea could carry out such a test to try to bolster its internal…
AP, Washington President Barack Obama sets out this week on his first in a series of international farewell tours, a sometimes wistful tradition for presidents in legacy mode. But in a reminder of this president’s uneven ties to allies, Obama’s first stop will involve more damage control than nostalgia, more friction than fondness.
Md. Taqi Yasir Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country’s President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice President, Riek Machar, a Nuer. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern…