Bangladesh-Russia ink $11.385b loan deal for Rooppur nuclear plant
Bangladesh and Russia signed an $11.385 billion supplier’s credit agreement in Moscow on Tuesday for the Rooppur nuclear power.
Body of missing businessman found in Buriganga
The body of Dutch-Bangla Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Hasan Khaled was found in river Buriganga on Tuesday, three days after he went missing on Saturday.
Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead
At least 19 people were killed and 25 injured in a stabbing spree at a facility for disabled people west of Tokyo, making it one of Japan's deadliest mass killings since World War II.
Suicide bomber in Germany pledged allegiance to ISIS leader
The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday.
The massive implications of Trump's Muslim travel ban in 5 maps
Donald Trump's latest proposal to stop immigration "from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism" is an "expansion" of his blanket ban on Muslims, he said in an interview that aired Sunday.
Nine killed in police raid in Kalyanpur
At least nine alleged extremists were killed in a ‘gunfight’ between police and extremists in the capital’s Kalyanpur on early Tuesday, police said.
Rights activists demand scrap of decision of declaring Madhupur land as reserve forest
Ethnic minority leaders and rights activists on Monday urged the government to withdraw the gazette notification declaring over 9,100 acres of lands at Madhupur in Tangail as reserved forest.
Child worker Sagar killing: 27 minor workers rescued from spinning mill
Rupganj police on Monday rescued 27 child workers from Jobaida Textiles and Spinning Mills Limited, just a day after a 10-year old worker Sagar Barman, was killed in the same factory by pumping air through his rectum.
Global network needed to curb terrorism: Bernicat
The US ambassador in Dhaka, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said on Monday that a global network was needed to fight against terrorism.
Fort Myers club shooting: 2 dead, 14 injured outside teen party
The two victims killed in a shooting outside a Florida nightclub have been identified as 14-year-old Shawn Achilles and 18-year-old Ste'fan Strawder, Fort Myers police said. Police also said the shooting early Monday morning was not terror-related.
