UNB Police recovered the throat-slit body of a young man from his house at Golahar village in Khetlal upazila on Friday afternoon. Officer-in-charge of Khetlal Police Station Munirul Islam said family members noticed the body of Dulal Hossain, son of Abdul Motaleb, lying on the floor of his room at about 12:30 pm. On information,…
UNB A tribunal here on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Patharghata upazila in 2009. The court also fined the convict, identified as Babu, son of Kuddus of Lathimara village in the same upazila, Tk 1 lakh. According to the prosecution, the convict violated the four-year girl,…
Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia Alhaj Md. Mozibar Rahman, Chairman of BRB Cable Industries recently received the President’s Award. Representatives of the Kushtia Sangbadik Union went to the chairman’s office and congratulated him on winning such a prestigious award on Thursday. Mozibar Rahman stated, “The honor of winning this award does not belong to BRB alone….
BSS, Rangpur The three-day fifth “Gemcon Golf Tournament- 2016” kicked off on Friday morning on the Golf Ground of Rangpur Cantonment in the city. The Gemcon Group has been sponsoring the tournament being organised by Rangpur Golf Club (RGC). More than 100 contestants including males, females, junior and sub-junior golfers from different golf clubs of…
AP, United Nations Britain, France and Russia on Thursday backed the new U.N.-brokered unity government in Libya and called for international support for its efforts to reunite and stabilize the deeply divided country. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said creating a central authority that can work effectively throughout the country is especially important “in light…
AP, Moscow Russia’s civil aviation authority has issued its first report on last month’s crash of a FlyDubai plane in south-western Russia, shedding light on what caused the sudden descent that killed all 62 people on board. The Interstate Aviation Committee said Friday that a nose-down shift in the horizontal stabilizer occurred as the crew…
AP, Ankara Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says Turkish and Israeli officials have made progress on an agreement to normalize frayed ties and that a deal is expected to be reached soon. A ministry statement issued early on Friday said officials who met in London on Thursday agreed to finalize the deal during their next meeting “which…
Desk Report Islamic State militants abducted 300 cement workers and contractors on Thursday in an area northeast of Damascus, according to Syrian state TV, reports UNB. Further reports say that Thursday’s mass abduction of workers from the al-Badia Cement Company occurred in Dumeir, where miliants had launched a surprise attack against government forces earlier in…
Md. Taqi Yasir Sara El-Amine’s story is that of many Obama supporters who turned from apathetic political bystander to idealistic grassroots organizer. Eight years later, while many of them have moved on to the private sector, or to other campaigns and causes, or even to bashing the president they once adored, El-Amine who was once…
Md. Taqi Yasir If we compare women’s rights in the U.S. with women’s rights in China is an exercise in apples and oranges. China’s very first gender-injustice case has taken place, with the government settling. A little over a year later and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a bipartisan advisory group, has found that:…