AL leaders seek land on Turag to build FF rehabilitation centre
A group of people who hold positions at different front organisations of the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League, have illegally occupied a portion of Turag and its flood flow zone to install a rehabilitation centre for destitute people and freedom fighters.
False promises lure them into risky sea journeys
Promise of overseas job without advance payment, poverty, unemployment and shrinking labour markets in the Middle East were forcing many fortune seekers into risky sea journey for destinations in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia, Malaysia agree to take in migrant ships, report says
The fate of thousands of migrants believed to be stranded in the Andaman Sea may have taken a step toward resolution with the conclusion of talks between Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
Exclusive: China warns U.S. surveillance plane
The Chinese navy issued warnings eight times as a U.S. surveillance plane on Wednesday swooped over islands that Beijing is using to extend its zone of influence.The series of man-made islands and the massive Chinese military build-up on them have alarmed the Pentagon,
MOBILE TOWER BUSINESS BTRC plans to auction 2 licences.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to go for an open auction to award two licenses which will allow new independent companies to build and manage mobile network towers.
Salah Uddin moved to another hospital for better treatment.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed was shifted to North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences in Shillong on Wednesday from Shillong Civil Hospital,
Mahid, Chutu to die in jail for war crimes
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Wednesday unanimously sentenced Md Mahidur Rahman and Md Afsar Hossain Chutu to imprisonment until death finding them guilty of war crimes in several villages in Chapainawabganj in 1971.
Norwegian cruise ship runs aground near Bermuda
The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship has run aground near Bermuda, an official with the Department of Marines and Ports said.None of the people on board was injured and the ship isn't taking on water, Chief Maritime Operations Controller Denis Rowe said.
U.N. chief: North Korea cancels visit
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said his planned visit Wednesday to a joint industrial complex has been canceled by North Korean authorities.In a speech in Seoul, the secretary-general said there was no explanation given by the North Koreans for the last-minute change.
Texas hunter bags his rhino on controversial hunt in Namibia
Knowlton arrived quietly in Namibia to hunt the famed black rhino.Nearly 18 months ago, the Texas hunter bid $350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in the southern African country of Namibia.
