Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway's first black Jean Valjean, dies after fall
Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who made history as the first African-American to play the lead role in a Broadway production of "Les Miserables," died Friday night in New York.
BNP, JP want cancellation of power, gas price hike
Different political parties and groups, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Jatiya Party, on Saturday demanded cancellation the latest hike of gas and electricity prices terming it unjustifiable.
MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZE IN LIBYA : Death toll includes 24 Bangladeshis
The death toll of Bangladeshi migrants in the tragedy of Thursday late night’s boats capsizes off the Libyan coast en route to Italy reached at 24, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Saturday late evening.
Austria: 71 refugees found in abandoned truck probably died of suffocation
Dozens of refugees -- most likely fleeing war-ravaged Syria -- probably suffocated inside a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway, authorities said Friday.
9 civilians killed as India and Pakistan exchange fire over disputed border
India and Pakistan blamed each other Friday for exchanges of fire over their disputed border that killed nine civilians and wounded dozens more. The violence is the latest flareup along the heavily armed frontier.
Firepower up close: Witnessing a South Korean military drill
On the side of a hill in Pocheon, about 18 miles (30 kilometers) from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, targets are laid out. They're huge painted numbers and drawings of tanks bearing the North Korean star emblem.
AL-backed panel bags 10 posts in bar council poll
Ruling Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad panel bagged 10 posts out of 14, in the election to the Bangladesh Bar Council, the lawyers’ regulatory body in the country.
Many BNP leaders hold more than one post
Many leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s 386-member national executive committee, 19-member national standing committee and 36-member party chairperson’s advisory council are holding posts in different tiers and fronts of the party.
Kazi Zafar’s 1st janaza held in Tongi
The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party faction chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmad was held at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday morning, United News of Bangladesh reports.
EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERS: Law minister for judicial inquiry
Law minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said allegations of extra-judicial killing by law enforcement agencies should be investigated properly, as stipulated in the law.
