PM for more sympathetic towards disabled persons.
Terming the persons with disabilities as a part of the society, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon all to be more sympathetic towards them for flourishing their latent talents.
Officials: Al Qaeda fighters free 270 from Yemeni prison.
Al Qaeda fighters attacked a prison in the coastal Yemeni city of Al Mukallah early Thursday, freeing nearly at least 270 prisoners, a third of whom have al Qaeda links, a senior Defense Ministry official has told CNN.
Al-Shabaab storms Garissa University College in Kenya; 15 dead, hostages taken.
- 7:07 a.m. ET: Heavy gunfire and explosions continue at Garissa University College, more than nine hours after the attack began, CNN affiliate NTV says. Hundreds of students flee, some crawling.
Nominations of Mintoo, Pintu cancelled.
The Election Commission on Wednesday cancelled the mayoral nominations of BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Pintu and four independent aspirants. Returning Officer Shah Alam said that the nomination of Mintoo,
Trainee pilot killed as aircraft crashes.
A female trainee pilot of a private flying academy was killed and her trainer sustained critical injuries after their small aircraft crashed and caught fire a while after it took off at Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi on Wednesday,
Kamal quits as ICC president.
Bangladesh’s AHM Mustafa Kamal resigned as president of the International Cricket Council on Wednesday having fallen ‘victim to unconstitutional strong-arming by the ICC high-ups’ during the just concluded World Cup.
Does Israel have a military option vs. Iran nuclear program?
The Iran nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, reportedly have made substantive progress, inching closer toward a provisional agreement between the P5+1 and Iran.
Power outage hits much of Turkey; officials won't rule out terrorism.
A massive power outage spread across Turkey on Tuesday, blacking out a broad swath of the country and affecting some flights.Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said all possible causes were under investigation,
Germanwings co-pilot reported depression during training.
Years before he was at the controls of a Germanwings plane that plunged into the French Alps, Andreas Lubitz told the airline he worked for that he'd had a bout with depression.Lubitz,
Hartal on Thursday Dhaka-Ctg out of purview of hartal
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance held off calling a hartal today, the day Higher Secondary Certificate examinations starts across the country, but called 24-hour countrywide shutdown – outside Dhaka and Chittagong city – on Thursday.
