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KOLKATA, India: Rescuers in Kolkata dug through large chunks of debris from an overpass that collapsed while under construction Thursday, killing at least 14 people and injuring scores of others, officials said. A section of the overpass in the busy Bara Bazaar residential and shopping area in central Kolkata fell on vehicles and people moving underneath, trapping scores in their ... Read More »

The government can recover 40 percent, or about $34 million, of the $81 million stolen by hackers from Bangladesh’s central bank and laundered through the Philippine banking system, the country’s Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said on Wednesday. Interviewed over radio, Recto urged law enforcement agencies to move swiftly to recover portions of the loot still in the country following testimony on Tuesday’s ... Read More »

As shutters fell on the second phase of union parishad elections, reports of three more deaths came in from Chittagong’s Swandip – killed when police opened gunfire in defence. This raised today’s casualty toll to six including the death of a 10-year-old boy being shot dead in Keraniganj and two others in clash of rival parties in Jamalpur and Jessore. In ... Read More »

An overpass under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on to moving traffic below, killing at least 14 people with as many as 150 people feared trapped, police said. Residents were using their bare hands to try to rescue people pinned under a 100-metre (110-yard) length of metal and cement that snapped off at one end and ... Read More »

NEW YORK: Oil futures rose 3 percent Wednesday, rallying in tandem with share prices on Wall Street and in reaction to a weaker dollar, ahead of US government data likely to show a smaller build in crude inventories in the latest week. The International Energy Agency’s remarks downplaying expectations for a deluge of Iranian oil also soothed concerns that a ... Read More »

NEW YORK: America’s Republican Presidential front-runner Donald Trump has labeled a nuclear-armed Pakistan as “a very, very vital problem.” “Pakistan is a very, very vital problem and really vital country for us because they have a thing called nuclear weapons. They have to get a hold of their situation,” said the American billionaire businessman and politician, known for brash statements.  ... Read More »

ADEN: French naval forces have seized a large weapons cache headed toward Somalia on March 20, a CNN report said on Wednesday. It is the second large weapons seizure in the region this month, and both may have been headed to Yemen from Iran. The arms recently seized originated in Iran, and their likely destination was Yemen, said Cmdr. Kevin ... Read More »

Maiden T20i fifty from Roy, late cameos from Root and Buttler gave England a comfortable seven wickets win over New Zealand in the 1st semi-final of ICC WT20 2016 at Delhi, India tonight. Chasing 154, England’s first wicket stand of 82 allowed the lower order batters to finish the job with 17 balls remaining in the match.   England v ... Read More »

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was made BNP secretary general yesterday, around six years after serving the party as acting secretary general. Within half an hour of the announcement from the party around noon, he landed in jail in connection with two cases filed over street violence during the anti-government agitation in January last year. On the way to Dhaka Central ... Read More »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government wants to improve the country's road network to boost its socio-economic development. “The more the country's communication network will be developed, the greater change will be there in its socio-economic scenario,” she told the inauguration programme of the Saat Rasta to Ramna Police Station part of the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover at the city's ... Read More »

Another 639 unions in 47 districts will go to the polls today against the backdrop of the violence in the first phase elections, which left around two dozen people dead last week. The fear of violence has gripped people in the union parishads (UPs) where Awami League-nominated chairman aspirants and the party rebels are at loggerheads over establishing supremacy, according ... Read More »

A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 27 others in connection with a case filed for an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital's Jatrabari in January last year. On February 25 last year, another Dhaka court issued arrest warrants against Khaleda in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. Yesterday, ... Read More »

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed April 3 (Sunday) for hearing the review plea of death row convict and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, a day after he filed the petition, court officials said. They said apex court's chamber judge Mirza Hossain Haider fixed the date as the 1971 war crimes convict sought to get reviewed ... Read More »

ISLAMABAD: Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief, while addressing a joint press conference alongside Federal Information Minister Pervez Rashid on Tuesday termed the arrest of “Indian spy” and former Indian Navy officer Kulbushan Yadav a “big achievement.” According to Dawn, Bajwa said Yadav was directly handled by the RAW chief, the Indian national security adviser and the ... Read More »

BRUSSELS: Bomb-damaged Brussels airport held a drill for a partial restart on Tuesday but warned it could take months to reopen fully, as under-fire Belgian authorities hunted for a suspect still on the run a week after the deadly attacks. As Brussels struggled to get back on its feet, criticism of Belgium’s handling of the case mounted after the sole ... Read More »