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Arrears: Jute workers' demo blocks road, rail
Jute workers of Khulna and Jessore jute industrial belt stage a demonstration and block the Dhaka-Khulna highway and rail line for four hours to press home their 11-point demand including payment of arrears.
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Thousands march to demand justice as Nicaragua toll hits 43
Thousands of Nicaraguans marched peacefully through the capital Managua on Saturday in a mass demonstration to demand justice following the violent suppression of a wave of protests that left 43 people dead.
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Suspected jihadists ill more than 30 Tuaregs in Mali
Suspected jihadists killed more than 30 Tuaregs, including women and children, on Mali's northeastern border with Niger.
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Iran newspaper head arrested over report
The head of Iran's reformist newspaper Shargh was arrested after residents of a northeastern city accused the paper of defamation over a report on "prostitution" there, Iranian media said yesterday.
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Five firefighters among 7 dead in Taiwan blaze
Seven people -- five of them firefighters -- died in a fire that broke out late Saturday in an electronics factory in northern Taiwan, the local fire department said.
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Pope praises Korea leaders' 'brave commitment' to peace
Pope Francis yesterday praised North and South Korean leaders for their "brave commitment" to peace after they agreed to work towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
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'We should never go back' on stockpiling
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday urged the world to keep up the fight against chemical weapons on the anniversary of an international convention banning their use.
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Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life for joining IS
Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, according a judicial source.
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‘Messi’s shorts could swallow him’
Former Barcelona manager Terry Venables believes that despite Lionel Messi’s small build, the Argentine remains the finest performer in the world of football.
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'Jihadists kill 40 Tuaregs in north Mali'
Suspected jihadists kill 40 Tuaregs, mostly young men, in two attacks in northern Mali's Menaka region, local governor says.
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Rozina, who lost leg in road mishap, also dies
Rozina Akter, who lost her right leg in a road accident in the Dhaka’s Banani area on April 20, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
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Call for doing more to protect people from natural disasters
Today is the dreadful April 29. On this day in 1991, Gorky, a tropical cyclone, lashed the coastal areas of southern Bangladesh with a wind speed of 155 miles per hour. It claimed 138,000 lives, leaving about one crore people homeless.
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Ancelotti turns down Italy job, reports say
Carlo Ancelotti has turned down an offer to coach Italy, leaving Roberto Mancini as favourite for the job, Italian media reports say.
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Fruit’s pungent smell mistaken for gas leak, prompts panic
The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building.
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Zidane calls on Real fans to make more noise
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane calls on his club's supporters to be at their noisiest against Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu as the Spanish side aim to reach the Champions League final for a third year in a row.
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Kim offers to close nuclear test site in May, invites US experts
North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul says, as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal with the secretive regime.
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Midday Brief, Sunday, April 29, 2018
Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 29, 2018
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LPG market heating up
The household market for the liquefied petroleum gas is growing amidst intense competition among new players coming into the
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'It's going to be challenging'
1992 was a time when the Bangladesh cricket fraternity were dreaming of World Cup qualification; a time when the current national
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Rampura ML Tower fire doused
The fire that broke out at a garment factory in Rampura of Dhaka is doused.
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From paddy fields to national team
Twelve years ago a girl from the Kamalapur village in Magura used to watch Khaled Mashud's wicketkeeping on her neighbours' television after helping her father in the paddy field.
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Camp or prison?
They are like prisons. Yet, the Myanmar government calls them camps. In those camps in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine, one lakh Rohingyas have been languishing for almost six years.
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Mourinho wants to coach for as long as Wenger
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho believes he can emulate Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger by coaching into his late 60s.
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Keep pressure on Myanmar to expedite repatriation
Bangladesh government has urged the visiting UN Security Council delegation to keep pressure on the Myanmar government to speed up the repatriation process and to recognise the Rohingya situation as a crisis.
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Time for UNSC to show it cares
The UN Security Council, which is entrusted with ensuring global peace and security, has so far failed to protect the human rights
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Promises Myanmar Never Kept
Nurul Amin had fled to Bangladesh along with his parents in 1991, just as more than 2.5 lakh Rohingya who escaped forced labour, rape and religious persecution in Myanmar.
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'Criminal' killed in Satkhira 'gunfight'
A suspected criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sadar upazila of Satkhira.
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Bale leads Real
Gareth Bale scored as a much-changed Real Madrid warmed up for Tuesday's Champions League semifinal second leg against
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Limb lengthening: Orthopaedic surgical focus
Limb lengthening or height increase with Ilizarov technique has been used successfully in both femur and tibia. Bilateral lower extremity lengthening has been used to increase stature.
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Buddha Purnima today
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being observed amid festivity across the country.
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