Author: Asian Bangla

Police recovered sliced body parts of a man from the Buriganga River in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka on Friday night. The body parts were found in a sack floating in the river. Local people spotted the sack floating in the river in Kholamora Gazirghat area of the upazila around 7:00pm and informed police, said Keraniganj model police station sub-inspector Mansur Ali. Later, a team of police retrieved two legs and two hands of a man’s body wrapped with polythene, reports UNB. Mansur said they sent the sliced body parts to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

The Dhaka-Chittagong highway witnessed 42-kilometre long tailback on Saturday due to heavy pressure of vehicles, causing sufferings to thousands of commuters. Several hundred vehicles were stuck on both sides on the busy highway stretching from Madanpur of Narayanganj to Daudkandi upazila of Comilla. Vehicles ply through the four-lane highway have to cross two-lane Daudkandi, Meghna and Kanchpur bridges that slows down speed of vehicles on the highway, an official of  highway police said. Shoyeb, a banker, said he started journey for Dhaka from Chittagong at 2:00 am. He reached Daudkandi Toll plaza when it was 11:18 am. “Usually I cross…

Awami League general secretary and road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader today alleged that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders were resorting to falsehood regarding the health condition of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia. ‘The civil surgeon has already visited Begum Zia in jail… A medical board will be formed and she will be sent abroad if the board suggests,’ he said after visiting the development work of Baipal-Abdullhapur highway at Zirabo in Ashulia. Quader said that the government would do everything for the proper treatment of Khaleza Zia after taking doctors’ advice. ‘If the doctors suggest the…

US president Donald Trump insisted Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria ‘very soon’ and lamented what he said was Washington’s waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars. In a populist address to industrial workers in Ohio, Trump said US forces were close to securing all of the territory that the Islamic State jihadist group once claimed. ‘We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now,’ he promised, to applause. Trump did not say who the others were who might take care of Syria, but Russia and Iran…

In a broad expansion of the information gathered from applicants for US visas, the federal government is proposing to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States, according to a State Department filing on Friday. The proposal, if approved by the Office of Management and Budget, would require most immigrant and non-immigrant visa applicants to list all social media identities they have used in the past five years. The information will be used to vet and identify them, according to the proposals, which would affect about 14.7 million people annually. The proposals support president…

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for an independent and transparent investigation into the deaths and injuries in Gaza on Friday, his spokesman said in a statement. ‘He also appeals to those concerned to refrain from any act that could lead to further casualties and in particular any measures that could place civilians in harm’s way,’ UN spokesman Farhan Haq said.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and US counterparts. The council’s North Korea sanctions committee acted on a request by the United States, designating 21 shipping companies — including five based in China — 15 North Korean ships, 12 non-North Korean ships and a Taiwanese man. The move comes days after Kim met Chinese President Xi Jinping and an announcement that the North Korean leader would meet South…

At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, pressing for a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel, gathered at five locations along the fenced 65-km frontier where tents were erected for a planned six-week protest, local officials said. The Israeli military estimate was 30,000. Families brought their children to the encampments just a few hundred metres (yards) from the Israeli security barrier with the Hamas Islamist-run enclave, and…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Claiming that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was not a trustworthy political party for democracy, information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Saturday said that the party had repeatedly proved that it was a patron of war criminals and extremists. Inu, also the president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, came up with the remark while talking to local journalists at the founding anniversary progamme of a private television channel. ‘BNP talks about democracy but keeps war criminals, Jamaat men and militants in their pockets,’ he said while replying to a question from reporters. The BNP’s demand for Khaleda Zia’s release…

Bangladesh Nationalist Party claims US intelligence agency FBI has ensured that Bangladesh Bank’s 81 million dollar money reserved in New York Ferderal Bank was stolen under the ‘auspices of state’. At a news briefing at the party’s central office in the city, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday said the FBI recent report had exposed the ‘government’s mask’. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation also informed that names of those involved in the ‘world’s biggest’ reserve money theft were on the final stage for making public. Rizvi said what BNP had complained about the stealing…