Three out of the five arrested BNP leaders are over 60, but police yesterday showed the five arrested in two cases for “attempted murder of cops and creating violence in the capital.” Law enforcers produced the arrestees — lawmakers…
Criticising the BNP for creating anarchy, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the main opposition party doesn’t understand the language of democracy, it only knows how to kill and torture people. “The BNP was born out of the pocket of…
The prosecution in a war crimes case is likely to press charges today against Syed Mohammad Qaisar, alleged member of a local Peace Committee, for involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide in 1971. “We have prepared formal charges after…
The ruling Awami League would start selling nomination forms from today to pick candidates for the forthcoming 10th general elections. The process would be started through selling of a form for AL President Sheikh Hasina for Gopalganj-3 constituency, party sources…
Influential British weekly The Economist has said the BDR carnage verdict could give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a much-needed boost as the conviction of the mutineers will bolster her position with the army. The reason for the original mutiny appears…
Five BCL activists of Dhaka University were injured when police fired rubber bullets at a group of BCL men at the capital’s Chankharpool after an altercation with them last night. The injured were receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.…
One of the most powerful typhoons in history is believed to have killed 1,200 people in the Philippines, the Red Cross yesterday, as rescue workers raced to reach towns devastated by tsunami-like waves. A day after Super Typhoon Haiyan whipped…
Turkey’s delicious baklava and its crowded Grand Bazaar have always attracted tourists, but now there’s a new reason why men are flocking to the transcontinental country – bushier mustaches and beards. No, it’s not something in the air that makes…
One of around 15 people hurt in an accidental explosion during rehearsals for a Paris musical died overnight of a heart attack, police said yesterday. The man, an employee of the show whose heart had stopped when rescue workers arrived…
The UN’s top court will hand down tomorrow its verdict in a dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over a flashpoint temple that threatens to reignite nationalist tensions. The Hague-based International Court of Justice is to rule in the bitter border…
Insurgents launched an attack on the Malian army in the rebel-hit country’s northeast on Friday, military sources said, in renewed fighting ahead of planned peace talks with the government. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), ambushed soldiers…
Australia yesterday said it will take a boatload of asylum-seekers at the centre of a high-seas stand-off with Indonesia to its Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island. Australia had requested Indonesia take the group of about 60 people who were…
Gunmen yesterdayopened fire on two trucks carrying Nato vehicles in Pakistan’s troubled northwest near the Afghan border, wounding two drivers. The trucks came under fire in Jamrud area of Khyber, one of seven districts that make up Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal…
Nigerian security forces staged lethal raids yesterday on suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the northern city of Kano allegedly plotting “suicide attacks” there and in the capital Abuja, the military said. Five suspected “terrorists” and two soldiers died in gunbattles…
Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan have declined but government forces are suffering higher casualties and the Taliban have strengthened their grip in some rural areas, the Pentagon said Friday. Attacks initiated by Islamist militants decreased six percent and assaults involving homemade…
