One killed as day-long hartal progresses
The daylong shutdown is passing across the country amid stray incidents, witnesses said.
Police storm New Age premises
A group of police led by Tejgaon industrial police station officer-in-charge Salahuddin on Sunday evening stormed New Age premises without giving any reason at about 8:20pm.
BNP calls countrywide shutdown for Monday
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Monday in protest against the government’s not allowing the party chairperson Khaleda Zia to hold a rally in Gazipur on Saturday. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a news conference at Khaleda Zia’s office in Gulshan on Saturday afternoon.
Zihad brought dead from black hole
The rescuers said that when all sophisticated and modern equipment failed to spot the boy, a simple handmade tool made by a few volunteers, eventually found him, though, it was too late.The locals, with the help of iron-made ‘catcher’, made a last-ditch attempt to pull out the boy five minutes after the fire service closed their rescue operation, and it was all over with the discovery of his body.The volunteers, some of whom also took part in the 2013 Rana Plaza rescue operation in Savar, made the ‘catcher’ with iron rods, a torch, a tripod and a cleat tied to a 600-feet rope.
AirAsia jet missing on way to Singapore; flight started in Indonesia
The plane took off with 155 passengers and crew on board, the news agency Reuters reported, citing Indonesian transport officials.The flight, an Airbus A320-200, was on its way from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, according to the airline's website.The plane left Juanda International Airport at 5:27 a.m. Sunday (5:27 p.m. Saturday ET) and was due to arrive in Singapore at 8:37 a.m. Sunday (7:37 p.m. ET), according to the website.
North Korea lambasts U.S. over 'The Interview,' says Obama is the 'culprit'
The North Korean government is fuming over the release of the "The Interview," claiming President Barack Obama forced the film into theaters and onto streaming video services."U.S. President Obama is the chief culprit who forced the Sony Pictures Entertainment to 'indiscriminately distribute' the movie and took the lead in appeasing and blackmailing cinema houses and theatres in the U.S. mainland to distribute the movie," North Korea's National Defense Commission said Saturday, according to state-run media.
Jihad rescued dead after fire service abandons operation.
Minor boy Jihad, who slipped into 600-foot deep abandoned tube-well of Bangladesh Railway at Shahjahanpur railway colony, was pronounced dead by doctors at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, after he was rushed to the hospital on Saturday noon.
Gazipur strike underway peacefully
The dawn to dusk strike enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, protesting the authorities’s ban on political gatherings in Gazipur, was underway peacefully, witnesses said.BNP’s Gazipur district unit president and central organising secretary Fazlul Haque Milon announced the fresh programmes at a press conference at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office after she held a meeting with senior leaders on Friday.
From Russia with no love: Party-pooping Putin cancels holiday vacation
Vladimir Putin delivered a lump of coal in the Kremlin's stocking this year when he announced Thursday that he has canceled holiday vacations for members of the government.
No sign of human in borehole, claims Asaduzzaman; Police pick up trapped boy’s father
After several abortive attempts and sending a borehole camera inside 254 feet into a 600 feet abandoned water-pump well, the state minister for home, Asaduzzaman Khan, at about 2:45am on Saturday declared that there was no boy trapped into the borehole and it might be a rumour. The rescue operation, however, was not officially suspended and the fire service and civil defence director general said that they would pull out the debris found in the borehole through the camera footage and finally reach a conclusion. The three-and-a-half year old boy, Zihad,
