Homeopath hacked to death, IU teacher injured
Three assailants riding on a motorbike hacked to death a homeopath and injured Kushtia University teacher in Kushtia on Friday morning when the victims were riding on another motorbike.
Cyclone Roanu may hit this afternoon
Cyclone ‘Roanu’, travelling over north and west central Bay of Bengal, is heading north-eastward towards Bangladesh and likely to cross the Barisal-Chittagong coast this afternoon.
Humiliated teacher admitted to DMCH
Piyar Sattar Latif High School headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, who was tortured and subjected to public humiliation in Narayanganj, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday noon for better treatment.
Govt for wiping out hill people: Santu Larma
The chief of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, on Friday said that the government was hatching a deep conspiracy to annihilate the entire Jumma people living in hills and erase their history.
Prices of sugar, garlic, gram on rise
The prices of chicken, sugar, garlic and gram increased in the city’s kitchen markets over the week amid repeated assurance from the commerce ministry that the prices of essential commodities would not be increased ahead of Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims.
EgyptAir Flight 804: Airline official says debris not from plane
The search for EgyptAir Flight 804 is continuing after reports that the plane's wreckage had been found turned out to be false.
Taiwan's first female president walks tightrope as she takes office
When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, takes office Friday, she will have to balance two very different sets of expectations -- from those who voted for her and a Chinese leadership that wants the island on a tight leash.
Embattled San Francisco police chief resigns after shooting
The chief of the beleaguered San Francisco Police Department abruptly resigned Thursday hours after the fatal police shooting of an African-American woman in the city's Bayview District.
'It's unbelievable': Turning point for slavery's last stronghold
It's a development so encouraging one activist called it "unbelievable." For only the second time in the country's history, a judge in Mauritania this week convicted two people on charges of slavery, according to anti-slavery activists and U.S. officials.
I’ll not apologise: Selim Osman
Lawmaker AKM Selim Osman on Thursday said he would not apologise and claimed that he did not humiliate Piyar Sattar Latif High School head teacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta but the ‘crazy teacher’ had opted to go up and down holding the ears.
