Al Arabiya: Saudi security forces arrested on Saturday the man who robbed a Gulf Bank branch in Hawalli, Kuwait, dressed in a abaya (a black cloak or dress) and using toy gun. According to local newspapers, Kuwait’s Criminal Investigation Division arrested the perpetrator on Saturday evening, where the full stolen amount was found in his…
Arab News: A US Border Patrol agent suspected of killing four women was arrested early Saturday after a fifth woman who had been abducted managed to escape from him and notify authorities, law enforcement officials said, describing the agent as a “serial killer.” Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, fled from…
Desk Report: Bangladesh national cricket team looks determined to improve their overall fielding performance as it had made them pay on many occasions, reports Asian Age. Fielding had always been an issue when it comes to Tigers performance as a unit is concerned as some other Test playing nation had improved their fielding to vast…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Police and CNN have issued an all-clear message after the network’s New York offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night because of a phoned-in bomb threat, reports CNN. “The NYPD has now given us the all clear, and employees have been permitted to return to the building,”CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker…
Monirul Alam of DOT The physical progress in construction work of Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) stood 63 percent of total project, Road Transport and Bridge Division Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. While speaking with reporters at his Bridge Division office in the city’s Banani, Quader also said that the underwater dredging for creating road and…
Sakib Khondoker I never thought in my dreams that I would get to witness the real life House Of Cards. If you haven’t watched this amazing TV series, do watch it. I can bet you won’t be able to relate to the ongoing US Presidential Candidate race with anything else. The US political drama portrays…
Tara Sattar Jungle Book by Disney will be released soon. There was a big photoshoot. Scarlett Johansson plays Kaa, Idris Elba is the formidable Shere Khan, Lupita Nyong’o is Raksha, Christopher Walken is the frightening King Louie, Ben Kingsley plays Bagheera, while Giancarlo Esposito is Akela. The actors also shared their interpretation of the character…
Bdnews24: The Department of Narcotics Control has seized around 850kg new psychoactive substance or NPS, which are ‘new’ to Bangladesh’, from the Shahjalal International Airport and a firm at Shantinagar in Dhaka. The seized NPS, which look much like green tea leafs, have been common in Africa for a long time and are recently being…
BBC: Rescuers in the north-western Italian city of Genoa continue to search for possible survivors after the dramatic collapse of a motorway bridge. The interior minister said at least 37 people were killed when dozens of vehicles fell 45m (148ft). About 16 people were injured in the collapse and the number missing ranges from four…
Enayetullah Khan In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary Col Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attacked, Bangabandhu told Col Jamil, and the residence on Road 32 was surrounded. Then the line went dead. On a night when conspiracy was…