7 suspected carjackers held
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested seven suspected members, including the ringleader of a carjacker gang, from different parts of the capital and Sylhet district.
GPI: Bangladesh more peaceful than India, Pakistan
Bangladesh has fared better than the neighbouring India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in the Global Peace Index 2014.
NP gets permission to hold black flag procession
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police have given permission to the BNP to bring out its per-announced black flag procession in the capital.
Lawmaker:ISIS massacred 80 Yazidis in Iraq
Islamic State insurgents “massacred” some 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a village in the country’s north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday.
Palestinians accuse Israel of violating Gaza truce
The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza has accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely held since getting off to a shaky start on Thursday.
11 killed in attacks on air force bases in Pakistan
Eleven Taliban-linked militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said.
VF Corporation to pay $17m for workers’ safety
The VF Corporation, an American clothing corporation, has pledged to spend at least $17m in the near future to continue doing its part to improve the safety and working conditions at its contract suppliers’ RMG manufacturing in Bangladesh.
