AP, Panama City Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began emerging…
UNB A tribunal here on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for violating a minor girl at Durgasram village in Sadar upazila in 2009. The lifer, Rubel Miah,32, son of Abdul Miah of the village, was also fined Tk20,000, in default, to suffer one year more imprisonment. According to the…
UNB Three people, including two women, were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Natherpetua on the Comilla-Noakhali regional highway in Monohorganj upazila on Tuesday morning. Sub-inspector Lutfar Rahman, in-charge of Lalmai highway police camp, said the accident took place at about 7:00am when the…
UNB Police recovered hanging body of a schoolgirl from her house at Hotatia village in Ramganj upazila on Monday night. Officer-in-charge of Ramganj Police Station Tota Miah said family members found the body of Fatema Akter Jannat, a class VII student of Hotatia High School and daughter of Idris Ali Patwari of the village, hanging…
UNB A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a sales representative of a pharmaceutical company to one year’s imprisonment for assaulting a girl in Banghjal area of the town. The convict is Golam Kabir, a sales representative of Incepta Pharmaceuticals in Natore. Quoting locals, police said locals caught Kabir as he assaulted the class IX…
UNB A court here on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Rampal upazila on Bagerhat in 2014. The convict was Habi Sarder, son of Jahir Sarder, a resident of Gona Balay village of the upazila. According to the prosecution, Hasina Begum, 32, daughter of Torab Ali Mollah,…
AP, Hanoi British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has urged claimants of the South China Sea to refrain from the use of force and uphold international law in resolving their disputes. “It is our firm view that claimants (of the South China Sea ) should refrain from the threat or use of force and from unilateral…
AP, Seoul North Korea has tried warnings of nuclear attack and racist diatribes to criticize U.S. President Barack Obama. Now it’s turning to Abraham Lincoln. North Korea’s state media have constructed an imaginary letter from the 16th U.S. president that attacks Obama’s “deception” over Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is the latest response from…
AP, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan’s president has accepted the resignation of the ex-Soviet nation’s prime minister amid allegations of corruption. Temir Sariyev submitted his resignation Monday after less than a year in office, saying he decided to leave the post to help “preserve stability in the country.” President Almazbek Atanbayev quickly accepted his resignation. Sariyev’s departure comes…
AP, Ankara Five rockets fired from Syria landed in a Turkish border town Monday, wounding at least four people, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. The rockets hit the town of Kilis and at least one of them damaged a house, the Anadolu Agency reported. Several ambulances were sent to the region and the wounded were…