2 students of Ahsanullah die, 4 go missing in Bay
Two students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in Dhaka have died while swimming near Saint Martin Island in Cox's Bazar on Monday.
They are Montizul Islam, Evan, and Saddam Hossain.
Moreover, four students of the university went missing after being swept away by a strong tide while taking bath in the Bay.
Teknaf police station Officer-in-Charge Ranajit Kumar Barua told the Dhaka Tribune.
Ranajit said: “A group of 34 students of Ahsanullah University went into the sea for a bath at St Martin Island at around 2pm. At the time, five students were seen washing away in the Bay. Later, locals, coast guard members rescued them and took them at Teknaf Hospital.”
Nation celebrating Pahela Baishakh
The nation is celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year 1421, amid much pleasure, joy and gaiety.
The day is a public holiday.
To welcome the Bengali New Year, different socio-cultural organisations and government institutions have chalked out elaborate programmes in the capital as elsewhere across the country.
The programmes of the day began at dawn with the musical soiree of Chayanat, a leading cultural organisation of the country at Ramna Batamul in the capital city.
17.5 kg gold seized in capital, 1 held
Smuggled gold weighting to 17.5 kg was seized at the capital’s Mirpur area on Monday morning.
Police also held a member of a gold-smuggling ring in this connection.
Inspector Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Darussalam police station said they seized 150 pieces of gold bars weighting to 17.441 kg from the possession of a gold smuggler on Mirpur Majar road near Gabtoli at around 8:00am.
“Identified as Mohammad Zahidul Islam, the 35-year-old gold smuggler was arrested while he had been trying to go to his village in Jhenidah with the gold worth around Tk 65 million by a bus through the Gabtoli terminal,” said the OC.
PM greets war-wounded FFs on Pahela Baishakh
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the war-wounded Freedom Fighters (FFs) through sending sweetmeats and fruits to them on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year 1421.
On behalf of the Prime Minister, her Assistant Private Secretary Saifuzzaman Shikhor and Deputy Press Secretary Ashraful Alam Khokan handed over the sweetmeats and fruits to the state-allowance recipients war-wounded FFs at the Freedom Fighters' Rehabilitation Centre in city's Mohammadpur area on Monday noon, reported BSS.
Four dacoits held with arms in Gazipur
Police have detained four dacoits with arms from a bus in Chandra crossing area under Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur early Monday.
The detainees are Anwar Hussain 19, Serajul Islam 18, Shipon, 20 and Rofti, 20.
All of them hailed from Khudra Kushtia village of Shahjadpur of Bogra district.
Kaliakoir police station Officer-in-Charge Omar Faruk said a passenger got down from a running bus at 3am and informed police that the dacoits were looting the passengers of a Dhaka bound bus.
Later, law enforcing men of the area started to halt the buses and checking. Finally, they found the dacoits on a bus of Rahul Paribahan coming from Bogra.
BNP factional clash leaves one dead
A man was killed and seven others were injured in a factional clash of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at Chatura village under Sailkupa upazila in Jhenaidah on Sunday night.
The deceased was identified as Ayub Hossain Mandal alias Ayub Matabbar, 51, son of late Mahtab Mandal, of the village.
Sailkupa police station Officer-in-Charge Maniruzzaman Mollah said there was a long time conflict between BNP leader Ayub Hossain Mandal and his neighbour Nekbar over domination in the village.
Both of them were the supporters of BNP leader and ex-municipality mayor Khalilur Rahman, he said.
Moon is going to turn red
The sun, Earth, and moon will align perfectly, causing the moon to turn red.
On April 15, 2014, at 2:00am ET, Earthlings in the United States will have the pleasure of witnessing a total lunar eclipse, reported businessinsider.
When a full moon drifts into Earth's shadow, called the umbra, a total eclipse takes place.
The moon looks red on Earth because the sun's light filters through the Earth's atmosphere before hitting the moon's surface.
Normally, the sun's white light would head straight to the moon, making it appear white.
Ukraine braces for action
Towns in eastern Ukraine on Monday braced for military action from government forces as a deadline passed for pro-Russian separatists to disarm and end their occupation of state buildings or face a major "anti-terrorist" operation.
Reuters reported this Monday.
As the 9am deadline issued by authorities in Kiev expired, a Reuters reporter in the flashpoint city of Slaviansk, where armed men had seized two government buildings, said there was no outward sign the rebels were complying with the ultimatum.
Angered by the death of a state security officer and the wounding of two comrades near Slaviansk, acting president Oleksander Turchinov warned rebels on Sunday that a full-scale security operation, including the army, would be unleashed unless they met the deadline.
Mangal Shobhajatra brought out on DU campus
Mangal Shobhajatra has been brought out by the students and teachers of IFA (Institute of Fine Arts) on Monday morning marking the Pahela Baishak, the first day of Bangla New Year.
Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Professor AAMS Siddique inaugurated the rally at 9am that started from the Institute of Fine Arts of the university.
Later, the rally returned to the same place after parading Dhaka University campus.
Thousands of people from all walks of life joined the rally with masks and huge papier-mâché creatures that turned into a carnival.
Man in prison isn't ousted Mursi?
Alshymaa, the daughter of President Mohammad Mursi said on Friday she is “certain” that the televised footage showing the ousted leader in prison is not of her father.
Alarabiya reported this on Saturday.
Alshymaa shared two pictures of Mursi on her Facebook page, one while he was president and the other of him during his trial. She claimed in a comment that the one in prison does not resemble her father.
“The one who is on the right side of the picture is my father, the one on the left is not him I’m certain. Check out well, it’s not him,” her Facebook post said.
MH370: Searchers consider undersea robot
Australian officials leading the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean are weighing when to deploy an underwater robot to aid in the hunt, now in its sixth fruitless week.
Searchers are confident they know the approximate position of wreckage of the Boeing 777, some 1,550 km (963 miles) northwest of Perth, after picking up several acoustic signals they believe are from its black box recorders, reported Reuters.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared soon after taking off on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, triggering a multinational search that is now focused on the Indian Ocean.
3 dead in US shooting
A man opened fire outside a Jewish community center on Sunday, killing two people before driving over to a retirement community a few blocks away and killing someone else, authorities said.
Police arrested the suspect in the parking lot of a nearby elementary school shortly after the shootings, which happened minutes apart at around 1pm in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, reported AP.
Authorities declined to release the names of the suspect or the victims, pending the notification of their relatives. At a news conference, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass said the suspect is in his 70s, is not from Kansas and wasn't known to area law enforcement before the attacks. He also said there is no indication that the suspect knew any of the victims.
Jasad leader shot dead in Kushtia
A local leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasad) was shot to death by miscreants in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia on Monday, the first day of Bangla New Year.
The deceased was identified as Imsail Hossain Panjer, 56, former vice-president of Mirpur upazila unit of Jasad.
An Awami League leader Shafiqul Islam, 50, was also injured in the gun attack. He is general secretary of ward-9 unit Awami League of Poradah union of the upazila.
Road crash kills 2 in Kishoreganj
A bus which was heading towards Tarail thana of Kishoreganj on the eve of Bengali new year Day collided with a treactor
Two people were killed and 25 others injured in a road accident on Kishoreganj- Dhaka Highway at Katar bazaar area in Pakundia upazila early in the morning on Monday.
The deceased could not be identified immediately but they were passengers of the bus, police said.
