BSS A violent storm ripped through the Khulna city and district on Tuesday night, damaging several thousand thatched and tin-shed houses, uprooting a huge number of trees and destroying standing Boro paddy on thousands of acres of land. Electricity in the city and district was cut off for nearly 20 hours disrupting normal life and…
BSS Two passengers were killed and 7 others injured when a Moua-bound bus from Dhaka plunged into road side ditch at KC road in Munshiganj on Wednesday noon. Driver of the bus VIP-Apon Paribahan lost his control and the bus plunged into road side ditch and made the accident. Victims are identified as Shimanta Mallik…
BSS Two truck drivers were killed and four others injured when two truck collided head-on at Shimultola area in Kamarkhand of Sirajganj on Wednesday morning. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bangabandhu Bridge West Thana Raquibul Islam said a north Bengal bound truck from Dhaka reached at Shimultola area at about 6.30 am and another truck came from…
AP, Austin The Panama Papers, which illustrate how a small class of global elites find elaborate ways to shield their wealth from tax collectors, bank regulators and police, offer a glimpse into what’s driving the populist outrage that has marked this year’s presidential campaign. The trove of 11.5 million leaked documents have thus far shed…
AP, Johannesburg Calls are growing for South African President Jacob Zuma to resign even though parliament defeated an opposition motion to remove him because of a spending scandal. A coalition of church, academic and other groups is organizing a protest campaign against Zuma, who apologized after the country’s top court ruled that he violated the…
AP, Washington President Barack Obama is underscoring that destroying the Islamic State group is his top priority. He says it remains a difficult fight, but is expressing confidence in victory. He says the group continues to lose ground in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, and is being squeezed financially. Says Obama: “We are going…
AP, The Hague The International Criminal Court terminated the case against Kenya’s deputy president and ended his trial Tuesday, saying there was insufficient evidence he was involved in deadly violence that erupted after his country’s 2007 presidential election. The presiding judge wrote in the majority decision that the reason for the lack of evidence…
AP, Dubai Saudi state television reports that two people and a child were killed and a foreigner was wounded by shelling from neighboring war-torn Yemen. The state television report said the shelling happened around 5 p.m. Tuesday in the kingdom’s southern province of Jazan. It said the child died at a local hospital.
Tara Sattar The project for capacity building of Nursing Services, JICA funded project will hold round table with educators and student at Dhaka Nursing College (DNC) on April 11. They will also hold a policy dialogues with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Nursing Services, DPs as Caada, KOICA on April 12, revealed…
AP, United Nations Israel protested Monday at the U.N.’s decision to ban panels on Jerusalem and Arab Israelis from an exhibition at the United Nations on various aspects of the country and the heritage of the Jewish people. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon initially complained that three panels with photos and text had been barred…