AP, Havana Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro flew to Cuba on Friday for a day of high-level meetings and ceremonies that appeared designed to send a message of socialist solidarity two days before Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit the island in nearly 90 years. Maduro was accompanied by his ministers of foreign…
UNB, Dhaka Police recovered the beheaded body of a newborn baby from the city’s Badda area on Saturday. Sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said local people spotted the behead body of the newborn baby girl in a dustbin beside Swadhinata Sarane Khanka Sharif under Badda Police Station around 11am and informed police. Later,…
UNB, Dhaka Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque has said if needed, help would be sought from the international agencies dealing with money laundering, for unveiling the clue to the $101 million cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank. He told reporters this on Saturday during a question-answer session at the city’s Shaheed Police Smrity…
UNB, Dhaka Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has urged all non-communal forces to unite in the fight against terrorism. “There can be differences of opinion in some cases. We have to be united against terrorism and militancy. Efforts to undermine anyone or to defeat them out of political expediency will in fact stand…
BSS, Dhaka The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is probing 24 more war crimes cases from across the country. “We have concluded probing 37 cases so far. Of these, the two tribunals (one is now defunct) have pronounced judgments in 22 cases. Proceedings of four cases are now nearing the end,” said…
UNB, Dhaka Ten municipalities in nine districts are going to polls on today with the participation of two major political parties — Awami League and BNP — in all the 10 mayoral posts. The voting will open at 8am and continue till 4pm without any break. The 10 municipalities are Haragachh in Rangpur, Kaliganj…
AP, Beirut Backed by Russian aircraft, Syrian troops pushed Friday toward the historic central town of Palmyra in an offensive to recapture it from the Islamic State group whose fighters have damaged some of the world’s most precious archaeological sites since they overran the town last May. After night fell, Syria’s state news agency SANA…
International Desk A Passenger Jetliner flying to southern Russia from Dubai crashed on its second landing attempt at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, according to Russian officials reports Reuters. All 62 passengers aboard the jet perished. Returning from Dubai, the FlyDubai Boeing 737-800, attempted to land at 03:50 local time when it missed the runway. The…
AP, United Nations The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that many people in Burundi are living in “terror” with increasing reports of torture, almost daily grenade attacks, arbitrary arrests and killings while the perpetrators go unpunished. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told the U.N. Security Council that “the country remains on the brink of a…
UNB, Dhaka Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq, father of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, has said it is the responsibility of the government to hold the trial of the killers of his son in the interest of establishing the rule of law in the country. “So far as I know there has been no progress in…