30 arrested in anti-militancy drive
At least 30 people, many of them leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chattra Shibir, were arrested in Dhaka and other districts in anti-militant drives on Tuesday.
Japan, Belgium become $1-billion export markets, US $6-billion
Bangladesh got Japan and Belgium as its two new billion-dollar export markets in the just concluded financial year 2015-16, riding on a moderate growth in the readymade garment export.
Thousands marooned by flood
Thousands of people living in different chars and low-lying areas in the country’s northern districts were marooned by floods caused by the on-rush of water from India.
Tourists die in Taiwan tour bus blaze
At least 26 people have been killed in a tour bus fire after it crashed into a guardrail on a highway near Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan's official news agency reported. Of the dead, 24 were tourists from China.
Turkey's President Erdogan won't rule out death penalty
Turkey's President refuses to rule out the death penalty for thousands of people arrested after a failed military coup Friday, despite warnings that reintroducing capital punishment could dash Turkey's chances of joining the European Union.
Family's search ends in grief as more Nice victims ID'd
For two days after the attack, Aldjia Bouzaouit's family walked up and down the Promenade des Anglais holding her photograph, desperately asking passers-by if they had seen her.
Trump: Black Lives Matter has helped instigate police killings
Donald Trump said Monday he believes the Black Lives Matter movement has in some cases helped instigate the recent killings of police officers, and suggested he might direct his future attorney general to investigate the civil rights activist group.
Brother of Pakistan's Qandeel Baloch: I'm 'proud' of strangling my sister
The brother of Pakistani social media star, Qandeel Baloch, says he's proud he killed his sister, claiming he did it because "girls are born to stay home."
Operation Irene begins at Ctg Port
Customs Intelligence launched a two-day special drive titled ‘Operation Irene’ at Chittagong Port on Monday.
Drop Ramal thermal power plant project
Leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Ports on Monday called on the government to drop the proposed coal-based thermal power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat to save the Sunderbans, the biggest mangrove forest in the world.
