Tigers crush Afghanistan by 105 runs.
Mashrafee bin Murtaza led Bangladesh from the front to 105-run victory over Afghanistan as Bangladesh got off to a winning start in the World Cup 2015 in Canberra on Wednesday.
Subhan gets death penalty.
International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Wednesday awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan for crimes against humanity that he had committed during the country’s independence war in 1971.
Egyptian warplanes bomb ISIS targets in Libya after killings of Christians.
Egypt's military carried out a series of airstrikes against ISIS militants in Libya on Monday in retaliation for the slaughter of 21 Egyptian Christians by the jihadist group.
ISIS launches major assault on Kurdish front in Iraq,
ISIS fighters launched a major assault Tuesday night southwest of Irbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Kurdish officials said.A "big attack" is taking place near the towns of Gwer and Makhmour,
AL urges diplomats to convey atrocities to their govts .
The ruling Awami League on Tuesday urged foreign diplomats to convey the stories of killing people in arsons in Bangladesh to their respective governments and the world.
Khaleda, 13 BNP leaders prosecuted.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, was prosecuted for the crude bomb blast in an anti-blockade procession led by shipping minister Shajahan Khan at Gulshan-2 that left 20 people injured on Monday.
US for non-violent, responsible ways to resolve crisis: Bernicat.
Political parties would play their role in finding out ‘non-violent’ and ‘responsible’ ways to resolve the present crisis here, the new US ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said at a press conference in Dhaka Tuesday.
BNP, allies extend strike till Friday.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has extended its ongoing 72-hour nationwide shutdown by 48 hours till 6:00am Friday. BNP joint secretary-general Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement through a press release......
72-hr strike continues peacefully on third day.
The third day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide strike, enforced by the BNP-led alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, is passing off peacefully on Tuesday, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Hillary Clinton's talent problem.
Last week, in an unusually public display of campaign discord, a clash between Hillary Clinton political operatives erupted in full view when David Brock, a liberal activist and staunch Clinton supporter, announced his resignation from the board of Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super PAC.
