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Update : 30 Aug 2015, 07:57 AM

BCL men assault SUST teachers

Chhatra League activists have assaulted several teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) who were staging protests demanding the removal of the university's vice-chancellor.

The university's academic council meeting was scheduled to begin at 8am Sunday. Vice-Chancellor Prof Aminul Haque Bhuiyan was supposed to attend the meeting.

Khaleda calls alliance meeting

BNP Chairperson and chief of 20-party alliance Khaleda Zia has called a meeting of the coalition on Sunday night.

BNP's media wing official Shamsuddin Didar said the meeting will be held at 7:30pm at Khaleda's Gulshan office.

3 killed in Cox's Bazar road accident

Three people have been killed and eight others injured after a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Eidgaon Islambadh area in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased are Palongkhali union Ward 7 Member Kamal Uddin, 30, Rezia Begum, 35, wife of Amiruzzaman of Moheshkhali upazila and her son Sagar Uddin, 2.

Woman killed in Kakrail road accident

A woman has been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Nightingale intersection at Kakrail in Dhaka.

Auto-rickshaw passenger Ajibunnesa, 45, died after she was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Man faces capital murder charge in killing of Houston deputy

Sheriff's deputies on Saturday arrested a 30-year-old man who will be charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of a deputy at a suburban Houston gas station, a killing the sheriff tied to anger against police.

Shannon Miles was picked up for questioning early on Saturday following the Friday night shooting, which was captured on surveillance video, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman told reporters. He noted that Miles is black and has a history of prior arrests for trespassing and resisting arrest.

AC Milan beats Empoli 2-1 for 1st Serie A win of the season

Two of AC Milan's new forwards combined to give the Rossoneri a 2-1 win at Empoli on Saturday, but Mario Balotelli remained on the bench following his return from Liverpool last week.

It was Milan's first league win under new coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, following last week's 2-0 loss at Fiorentina.

Researchers find sunken military vessel missing for decades

Researchers made a surprising find when diving in the waters off Hawaii: a large US naval tanker that had been sitting unseen in 80 feet of water for nearly 60 years.

"I turn around, and this giant, looming structure, so eerie," Melissa Price, a maritime archaeologist, told Hawaii News Now.

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