Transport workers go on indefinite strike at Benapole
Transport workers enforced indefinite strike in Benapole from Saturday morning protesting vandalism in a bus counter and assault on four transport workers.
Dengue panics Dhaka people as chikungunya continues
An early outbreak of dengue has panicked residents of Dhaka, already faced with the menace of chikungunya. At least 325 people were infected with dengue in three months since April in Dhaka while chikungunya, which also broke out in April, became endemic in Dhaka, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.
City buses go desperate
Bus operators seem to have become desperate, as if in competition of traffic rule violation, in the absence of enforcement, leading to frequent accidents in the capital.
Trump, Putin meeting shifts from discourse to discord
(CNN)The challenge for President Donald Trump heading into his biggest diplomatic gut check yet was to hold his own with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mars on Earth: Scientists look to the Danakil Depression for clues to alien life
(CNN)At the juncture of three tectonic plates in northeastern Ethiopia is an other-worldly and sunken plain. The heat quivers here. Rock formations are colored by minerals in oozing volcanic psychedelia. The Danakil Depression is one of the hottest and most hostile places on earth.
Unruly Delta passenger tried to open exit door in flight, complaint alleges
An unruly passenger who authorities say was trying to open an exit door on a Delta Air Lines flight to Beijing fought with the cabin crew and a passenger and was conked over the head by a flight attendant with two wine bottles, a criminal complaint alleges.
South Korea's Moon: I'll meet Kim 'at any time, at any place'
(CNN)South Korea's president has doubled down on diplomacy at a time when tensions all around him are rising.
US bombers fly over South China Sea ahead of Trump, Xi meet
Washington (CNN)Two US B-1 bombers flew over disputed waters in the East and South China Seas on Thursday, conducting a joint military operation with Japanese fighter jets amid escalating tensions with North Korea and souring relations with China.
Four ‘Neo-JMB men’ arrested in Rajshahi
Police arrested four suspected members of Neo-JMB, a faction of banned extremist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, in Durgapur and Puthia upazilas of Rajshahi early Friday.
FARHAD MAZHAR ABDUCTION Court record bus ticket seller’s statement
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on Thursday recorded the statement of an executive of Hanif Paribahan in Khulna who reportedly issued to poet, writer and researcher Farhad Mazhar a ticket for a Dhaka-bound bus on Monday.
