M Humayun Kabir: A special tribunal in Dhaka yesterday accepted the charge sheet against eight militants in a case filed over the attack on Gulshan café in 2016. Some 20 hostages, mostly foreign nationals, were killed in the attack and two police officials were also killed during the 12-hour standoff. Judge Mujibur Rahman of the…
Abrar Hussain: Police in Indonesia revealed on Tuesday that an elderly village ‘witch doctor’ deceived a 12 year-old girl into being his sex slave for 15 years by claiming her to be ‘possessed’ by the jin, or spirit, of a young boy. The woman, an identified by police as “H”, was rescued on Sunday in…
Desk Report: The government has decided to increase the number of students by 500 to 3,818 for admission to state-run medical colleges from the 2018-19 session for the first time in about a decade, reports BDnews24. The health ministry took the decision in a meeting yesterday, it said in a statement. At present, 31 public…
Sky News: Mexican police have found cocaine worth thousands of dollars hidden inside more than a dozen bread rolls during an airport drugs raid. Sniffer dogs helped anti-narcotics officers make the discovery at the international airport in Guadalajara, a major city in the west of the country. Each of the 15 rolls was filled with…
UNB: A mobile court in Sadar upazila on Tuesday sentenced four people to different jail terms on charge of possessing drugs. The Department of Narcotics Control and police conducted anti-drug drives in Palpara, Bakultala road at Puran Bazar, Ramdasdi and Modna villages.
Sky News: An Indian sailor is preparing to return home after being stranded aboard a ship in a Norfolk port for 18 months. Nikesh Rastogi, 43, has been living on the offshore supply vessel Malaviya Twenty, moored in Great Yarmouth, since February 2017. The captain has been stuck there with three crew after the ship’s…
BBC: The CEO of Twitter says it will not ban InfoWars or its founder Alex Jones because their accounts do not violate the social media platform’s rules. A number of tech giants, including YouTube and Facebook, deleted the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s content this week, citing hate speech. Mr Jones has accused the platforms of unfair…
M Humayun Kabir: State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the entire gas of the country will be exhausted within the next 8-9 years. “All the gas fields in the country will face complete depletion within 8-9 years because we don’t have any new discovery in recent years. This happened in many…
Reuters: China’s iron ore imports rebounded in July, customs data showed yesterday, buoyed by record steel production and strong margins as official measures to cut pollution curb the output of cheaper products from small mills. The world’s top iron ore importer bought 89.96 million tonnes of the steel making raw material last month.
AP: An Afghan official says eight civilians, including women and children, were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb. Sher Jan Durani, the spokesman for the provincial police chief in the northern Balkh province, says six other civilians were wounded in Wednesday’s blast. He blamed the attack on the Taliban, whose roadside bombs, intended…