Australian PM's gay sister: Marriage equality is a human right
Weddings can be a stressful time for any family.It's particularly the case for Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and his sister, Christine Forster, who's engaged to her female partner and says she'd rather get married "sooner rather than later."
Chinese chemical blasts: 112 dead, 95 still missing
Luo Shuhui's home was 700 meters from the chemical plant that exploded last week, hurling fireballs into the sky.
'I am Batman,' Trump tells boy on helicopter ride
A helicopter landed here just after noon on Saturday, causing a short but violent windstorm. Large trees shivered; small ones bent nearly sideways. Dust swirled up from the parking lot, stinging the eyes of the onlookers.
Ready for any sacrifice to establish Bangabandhu’s ideals: PM
Asserting that she is ready for any sacrifice to establish Bangabandhu’s ideals, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she cared little about any conspiracy to derail her from establishing a poverty- and hunger-free ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt of by the Father of the Nation.
ELECTION-TIME GOVT: BNP accepts HC formulas’ ‘underlying essence’
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that it had accepted the ‘underlying essence’ of the High Court’s observations on formation of an election-time government in the country.
Bullet-hit newborn returns to mother’s lap, finally
It was a joyous moment for bullet-injured mother Nazma Begum and her husband Bachchu Bhuiyan as their 23-day-old daughter, who was also bullet-hit in mother’s womb, was released from the neonatal intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the city on Sunday. The baby, now out of danger, finally went to her mother’s lap. ‘I am happy of course.
RAJON MURDER: Police press charges against 13 people
Police submitted the charge sheet for the murder of Samiul Alam Rajon to the court, accusing 13 people, including the prime suspect Kamrul Islam who left the country for Saudi Arabia.
China Tianjin blasts: Evacuations as sodium cyanide found
The Chinese authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents within a 3km radius of the Tianjin blast site over fears of chemical contamination.
BADDA SHOOTING: Death toll rises to three
Another ruling party man succumbed to bullet injuries on Friday morning taking to three the death toll from the incident of shooting at Badda in the city on Thursday night.
President, PM pay homage to Bangabandhu
The president, Abdul Hamid, and the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, paid profound homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the National Mourning Day on Saturday morning by placing wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi road 32 in the capital.
