100 students arrested, 5,000 unnamed prosecuted in 52 cases in Dhaka
At least 100 people, most of them students, were arrested in at least 52 cases filed between July 29 and August 15 with different police stations accusing over 5,000 unnamed people over the violence during the latest student movement for road safety.
‘We have responsibility to materialize Sonar Bangla’: CJ
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said Wednesday, ‘The Father of the Nation would get eternal peace if his dream is materialized.’
Family denied permission to meet Khaleda on birthday, says BNP
Family members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia were denied permission to meet her at the jail to wish her on birthday on Wednesday.
Highway bridge collapses in Italy, leaving about two dozen dead
The sound of jackhammers reverberated through the night in this northern Italian city, where crews searched for survivors of a highway bridge collapse that left about two dozen people dead, officials said.
Turkey's Erdogan pledges US electronics boycott, gets closer with Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a boycott of American electronics Tuesday after US President Donald Trump's decision to hike tariffs on Turkish steel imports.
'China is an empire': Hong Kong independence talk held amid protests
A hotly anticipated speech by a pro-Hong Kong independence activist went ahead Tuesday at the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club, amid government pressure and protests by pro-China groups.
National Mourning Day today
The nation observes National Mourning Day today marking the 43rd anniversary of the death of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Govt expects to bring back Rashed from US
The government is expecting a ‘good outcome’ in its diplomatic and legal efforts for bringing back MA Rashed Chowdhury, one of the six condemned fugitive convicts of the killing of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from the United States, officials have said.
DU female student briefly detained by DB
A Dhaka University female student, also a quota reform movement activist, was briefly detained by Detective Branch of police on Tuesday for her alleged involvement in spreading rumour during the recent student protest.
7 killed in road accident
At least seven people, including three children on their way to a wedding party, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Sonaimorirtak of Shibpur in Narsingdi on Tuesday morning.
