NATO turns 75 with Ukraine and future on line
NATO鈥檚 75th anniversary summit was meant to showcase the triumph of a larger, stronger alliance. Instead, leaders are coming together in Washington in the shadow of setbacks in...
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Nine AL activists sent to jail for hacking Natore BNP convener
The additional chief judicial magistrate court in Natore on Sunday sent nine activists of the ruling Awami League and its youth front Jubo League to jail for attacking Shahidul Islam Bachchu, acting convener of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Natore district unit....
NATO turns 75 with Ukraine, future on line
The summit celebrating NATO鈥檚 75th anniversary was meant to showcase the triumph of a larger, stronger alliance. Instead, leaders are coming together in Washington in the shadow of setbacks in Ukraine and electoral headwinds on both sides of the Atlantic....
66 AL, JL activists sued for attacking Natore BNP convener
A case was filed on Saturday against 66 leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and its youth front Jubo League for beating and hacking main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Natore district unit acting convener Shahidul Islam Bachchu on Wednesday....
90 minuites that shook the liberal world
GIVE me a sec to think. I need to make a list. Two. The genocide in Gaza, the Middle East tinderbox, Bezalel Smotrich, the lost proxy war in Ukraine, relations with Russia, the danger of nuclear war, the fate of NATO, China, the threat of war with Iran, the emergence of a new world order, Europe鈥檚 turn toward populism, third world debt, global inequality...
BSMMU opens Plastination Laboratory and Anatomy Museum
The first-ever Plastination Laboratory and Anatomy Museum Complex was opened in the country鈥檚 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Wednesday...
12 hurt as AL attacks BNP rallies at places
At least 12 leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party were injured in several attacks carried out allegedly by the ruling Awami League in Natore and Patuakhali during the BNP rallies held demanding the release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia...
Confronting NATO鈥檚 war summit in Washington
AFTER NATO鈥檚 catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9 NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the US Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that they don鈥檛 know who blew up...
Oscar-winning Hollywood writer Robert Towne dies
Robert Towne, the Hollywood writer whose 鈥楥hinatown鈥� script is often described as the greatest screenplay ever written, died at 89....
Seven BNP men injured in 鈥楢L鈥� attack in Natore
At least seven leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party were injured in an attack carried out allegedly by the leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League in Natore city on Wednesday morning...
Natore district police withdraws ASI
The Natore district police withdrew assistant sub-inspector Abdus Selim on Saturday night after a video of him beating a rickshaw puller went viral earlier that day...
No such thing as a small nuclear war
THERE was a time when calls for a nuclear-free Europe rang across the continent. It began with the Stockholm Appeal of 1950, which opened with the powerful words 鈥榃e demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples鈥� and then deepened with the...
ASI beating rickshaw puller goes viral in Natore
A video clip of beating a rickshaw puller by an assistant sub-inspector of the police went viral on social media on Saturday, drawing huge criticism....
Man kills wife over family feud in Natore
A man allegedly killed his wife with sharp weapons over a family feud at Bagatipara upazila in Natore early Friday....
NATO names Dutch PM as new boss
NATO鈥檚 32 nations on Wednesday appointed outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte as the alliance鈥檚 next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming...
Elderly man, his daughter-in-law electrocuted in Natore
A man and his daughter-in-law died from electrocution in Singra Upazila of Natore on Wednesday morning...
Juba League leader鈥檚 tendons cut off in Natore
Tendons of a Juba League leader鈥檚 legs were cut off on Monday night allegedly by his rivals in Natore city.....
One shot, another stabbed in Natore over transport sector disputes
A youth was shot and another stabbed by rivals in Natore city over disputes related to establishing supremacy in the bus transport sector early...
NATO says 3,00,000 troops now on high readiness
NATO countries have 鈥榗omfortably exceeded鈥� a target of placing 3,00,000 troops on high-readiness as the alliance grapples with the threat from Russia, a senior alliance official said on Thursday...
NATO鈥檚 Pacific war games
AS THE United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with Asia-Pacific countries, the world鈥檚 largest naval war exercises will be held in the mid-Pacific from June 26 to August 2 and NATO...
Turkey opposes NATO takes part in Ukraine war
Turkey鈥檚 foreign minister said Friday that his country did not want NATO to 鈥榯ake part鈥� in the Ukraine war as other alliance members allow Kyiv to strike...
US seeks to build Asia-Pacific version of NATO: China聽
A Chinese defence official accused the United States on Saturday of seeking to build an Asia-Pacific version of NATO to maintain its hegemony in the region and...
NATO meets as pressure grows to let Ukraine hit Russia
NATO foreign ministers gathered in Prague on Thursday in the face of growing calls for leading allies to lift restrictions stopping Kyiv from using Western weapons to strike inside Russia...
Man gets life term for raping schoolgirl
A Natore Women and Children Repression and Prevention Tribunal on Monday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment in a case over the rape of an eighth grader at Lalpur upazila in Natore around four years back.....
Mango harvesting in Natore to begin May 25
The Natore district administration on Thursday set May 25 to begin mango harvesting and marketing with the Gopalbhog variety this year...
Voting continues in first phase of upazila polls amid tight security
Voting for the first phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election was underway across 139 upazilas nationwide on Wednesday, with polls open from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm without any interruptions...
Youth killed being hit by tractor in Natore
A tractor driver was killed in an accident on Monday night at Gurdaspur upazila in Natore...
Opening cash spigot for Ukraine
YOU know the White House has wrapped itself into a pretzel, when it beseeches its Ukrainian attack dog to stop assaulting Russian oil refineries, while simultaneously going bananas over the need for more weapons for Kiev. Droning Russian refineries boosts...
20 Jamaat activists detained in Natore: police
Police have detained 20 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Natore.....
Awami League leader shot dead in Natore
A leader of the ruling Awami League was shot to death by unidentified assailants in Gopalpur municipality under Lalpur upazila of Natore district Tuesday night.....