NZ mosque massacre kills 49
A ‘right-wing extremist’ armed with semi-automatic weapons rampaged through two mosques in the quiet New Zealand city of Christchurch during afternoon prayers Friday, killing 49 worshippers and wounding dozens more.
Students break hunger strike, Nurul to visit Ganabhaban today
Dhaka University students broke their hunger strike on the fourth day, Friday night, as the university authorities assured them of hearing their demand for re-elections to the Dhaka University Central Students Union and resignation of people engaged in conducting the March 11 elections.
Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar police alerted after New Zealand attack
The police on Friday alerted their units in Cox’s Bazar and tightened checkpoints in the capital’s Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic areas after the extremist attack in mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 people, including three Bangladeshis, killed.
Newly-elected DUCSU leaders to meet PM today
The newly-elected leaders of Dhaka University Central Students Union and hall unions would call on prime minister Sheikh Hasina today.
Nigeria school bulding collapses, 100 feared trapped
An unknown number of people died and up to 100 children were among those feared trapped after a four-storey building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday.
UK MPs to vote on no-deal Brexit
Britain’s Brexit crisis deepened on Wednesday as business leaders warned the country was ‘staring down the precipice’ after MPs overwhelmingly rejected a draft divorce agreement.
Govt rules out UN concerns
The government has ruled out United Nations’ concern over Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char, saying that accommodation of the displaced people from Myanmar staying in Cox’s Bazar camps was the country’s internal affair.
VC rules out re-elections, protests on
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman on Wednesday ruled out re-elections to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union while all but Chhatra League continued protests for the second consecutive day for re-polling and resignation of people engaged in conducting the polls.
Obaidul due for bypass surgery next week: BSMMU director
Physicians at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore were taking preparations to conduct a bypass surgery on ailing Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader next week.
No written test for admission to Class I: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the ongoing written admission test system for Class-I in primary schools terming it a ‘mental torture’ on children.
