Samrat, Arman held, jailed for 6 months
The Rapid Action Battalion said that they arrested on Sunday pro-Awami League youth organisation Jubo League’s Dhaka south city unit president Ismail Chowdhury Samrat along with his associate Armanul Haque Arman from Chuddagram of Cumilla.
9 to visit Europe to inspect 15 lifts
Nine officials, eight of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University and one from the education ministry would visit Switzerland and Spain for 10 days to inspect 15 lifts bought for the university in Mymensingh.
496 children raped in six months: report
A total of 496 children were raped during the first six months of the year, a jump of 41 per cent compared to the previous year, said a report on Sunday.
Suraiya murder verdict deferred to October 10
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court here on Sunday deferred until on October 10 the pronouncement of verdict in Willes Little Flower School and College student Suraiya Akhter Risha murder case.
Solid wastes cause growing concern for habitat
With very limited waste management facilities in both urban and rural areas in the country, Bangladesh will observe today the World Habitat Day 2019, looking to emphasise on ‘Frontier
Diplomats angry and afraid as Ukraine controversy embroils Pompeo's State Department
President Donald Trump's attempts to compel Ukraine to investigate the family of his chief political rival are deepening anger and concern inside the State Department as Secretary Mike Pompeo's
The UFO seekers flocking to a remote Thai hilltop in search of Buddhist aliens
A hilltop in central Thailand is attracting UFO seekers who believe extraterrestrials hover above a huge Buddha statue, send telepathic communiques, walk across nearby sugarcane fields and use a
Half of India couldn't access a toilet 5 years ago. Modi built 110M latrines -- but will people use them?
It was the ambitious sanitation campaign aimed at giving almost half of India's 1.3 billion population access to a toilet in just five years.
India to watch Bangladesh coast
Bangladesh will allow India to establish a coastal surveillance radar system along its coastline that according to an expert might impact the country’s existing relations with China.
Bangladesh allows India to withdraw water from Feni River
No progress on sharing of waters of Teesta, 6 other rivers - ‘Committee’ on Ganges-Padma Barrage Project in Bangladesh formed - Bay of Bengal surveillance system sought by India agreed
