Jamaat hartal underway
The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the arrest and remand of its top leaders, including Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, is underway on Thursday in a slacked manner.
1.17 lakh registered in a month
Mandatory biometric registration of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh to flee violence in Myanmar is going at a slow pace inside one month of its launching because of inadequate registration points and scattered shelters of the ethnic minority people.
Tigers switch into ODI mood
Bangladesh team will be looking forward to start afresh in the tour match against Cricket South Africa Invitation XI at Bloemfontein today ahead of three-match one-day international against the hosts.
E-wastes, a threat to public health
Gross negligence of electronic and electrical waste management created serious health and environmental hazards in the capital and elsewhere in the country. The problem became widespread due to users leaving the wastes, generated by increasing use of electronic and electrical appliances, in open spaces.
BNP stages demos amid police action
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday held demonstrations, amid police action at places, to protest against issuance of arrest warrant against the party chairperson, Khaleda Zia.
North Korean crabs in China show challenge facing Trump
President Trump complains that China isn't doing enough to squeeze Kim Jong Un's regime over its nuclear weapons program.
US bombers conduct drills off both coasts of Korean Peninsula
(CNN)US Air Force B-1 bombers carried out mock missile launches off both coasts of South Korea Tuesday night in the latest show of force against North Korea, South Korean military officials said.
Exclusive: Clinton 'sick,' 'shocked' and 'appalled' by Weinstein allegations
(CNN)Hillary Clinton said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday that she will donate the money Harvey Weinstein contributed to her political campaigns after multiple sexual assault allegations were leveled against the powerful Hollywood mogul
North Korea foreign minister: Trump has 'lit the wick' of war
(CNN)US President Donald Trump has "lit the wick of the war" against North Korea, a Russian state news agency quoted North Korea's foreign minister as saying on Wednesday.
Report: Massive morale problems aboard US Navy ship
(CNN)Morale aboard a US warship operating in the Pacific reached such a low ebb that one sailor described serving aboard the ship as being akin to being on "a floating prison," according to surveys obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
