ATTACKS ON BLOGGERS, PUBLISHERS : Protests spread beyond capital
Ganajagaran Mancha called a half-day countrywide general strike for today, while people of all sections of society continued protests across the country on Monday against the killing of secular blogger and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and attacks on another publisher and two other secular bloggers.
Russian plane crash in Sinai: Questions swirl as 224 aboard are mourned
A Russian passenger jet broke into pieces in midair, a top aviation official said Sunday, but he said it was too soon to say what could have caused the crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Fred Thompson, former U.S. senator and actor, dies in Tennessee
Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor, has died. He was 73.
Turkey's ruling party wins big
Voters delivered a surprise win for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in elections on Sunday.
New assaults on ISIS in Iraq and in Syria
A thick column of black smoke hangs over the Iraqi Syrian border near the town of Ash Shaddadi in Syria 's Hasakah province. Above the area are the circular contrails of coalition planes.
ATTACKS ON PUBLISHERS, BLOGGERS : Dipan buried, no headway in investigations
Secular blogger and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan was laid to rest at Azimpur graveyard on Sunday afternoon with the police making no headway in the investigations into Saturday’s serial attacks on him and three others in the capital.
INCOME TAX DEDUCTION AT SOURCE : NBR to set up 5 spl zones to intensify monitoring
The National Board of Revenue is planning to set up five specialised income tax zones with a view to intensifying monitoring of tax deduction at source or TDS across the country and expediting the revenue collection from the sector.
Law and order situation good: home minister
Home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday claimed that the overall law and order situation of the country was ‘obviously good’ and Saturday’s attacks on publishers and bloggers were isolated incidents.
LOCAL BODY POLLS : EC seeks power to fix time
The Election Commission on Sunday sent a letter to the local government ministry seeking authority to fix the time for elections to local government institutions, including city corporation, upazila parishad, municipal council and union parishad.
JL, BCL clash, vandalise 100 shops in Ctg
Awami Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organisations, clashed, traded gunshots and vandalised business establishments in Chittagong city on Saturday night and Sunday.
