India, Pakistan PMs speak for 1st time since air strikes
The leaders of India and Pakistan spoke by phone on Sunday, their offices said, in their first conversation since before tit-for-tat air strikes in February, their worst bust-up in years.
Nobel winning scientist Murray Gell-Mann dies
Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who theorised the existence of the quark and won a Nobel Prize for his method of classifying particles, has died at age 89, California Institute of Technology said.
RECORDING, SPREADING VIDEO OF NUSRAT’S STATEMENT Charges pressed against removed Sonagazi OC
The police on Sunday pressed charges against withdrawn Sonagazi police station officer-in-charge Moazzem Hossain for illegally recording video of madrassah student Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement made before him about sexual assault on her and posting it on YouTube.
Uneatable foods still sold amid weak monitoring by regulators
Three monitoring teams of food regulators inspected superstores and a few groceries in the capital in search of 52 banned food products on Sunday only to return empty handed.
PM SET FOR TOUR OF JAPAN, KSA, FINLAND Dhaka, Tokyo to sign $2.5bn ODA
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka tomorrow (Tuesday) on a 12-day tri-nation tour of Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Finland.
Female cop, another hurt in city blast
A female police officer and a rickshaw-puller were injured in a crude bomb blast at Malibagh in Dhaka on Sunday night.
Beijing is building hundreds of airports as millions of Chinese take to the skies
When China's air industry hits the news, stories are typically centered on passengers going rogue, punching each other, trying to wrestle open emergency doors mid-takeoff or dangerously tossing coins into airplane engines for luck.
Trump and Abe's friendship day starts with tweet underscoring divides
Hours before President Donald Trump was set to begin a day of male bonding with his Japanese counterpart, he issued a tweet underscoring his lingering divides with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over security matters.
Congress backs Rahul after poll defeat
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, offered to resign Saturday after his Congress party was trounced in a second straight national election but the gesture was rejected, party officials said.
Antibiotics still on sale without prescription
The sale of antibiotics without prescription goes unabated in the capital and elsewhere across the country as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has taken no action against the malpractice.
