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Fake magistrate held at CMM court
An imposter is arrested from the premises of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court in Dhaka on charges of fraudulence.
7 April 2019
Hayabusa2 made history with manmade crater attempt on asteroid
Space explorer Hayabusa2’s successful operation to create a crater by striking the asteroid Ryugu with a lump of copper, when confirmed, is to mark the first such achievement in the world.
7 April 2019
Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt
Archaeologists unveil a well preserved and finely painted tomb thought to be from the early Ptolemaic period near the Egyptian town of Sohag.
7 April 2019
Midday Brief, Sunday, April 7, 2019
Hello readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the headlines so far on April 7, 2019
7 April 2019
DMCH forms medical board for Feni madrasa student
Dhaka Medical College Hospital has formed a nine-member medical board for treatment of an Alim (equivalent to HSC) examinee who was set on fire in Feni yesterday.
7 April 2019
Decomposed body of school boy found in Feni
Seven days after a school student went missing, law enforcers recover his decomposed body in Sadar upazila of Feni.
7 April 2019
Issuing alerts has become a practice of US: Minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says issuance of alerts has become a practice of the United States. “We don’t have any information on any risk. Or there is no such situation. Then, why the United States has issued alerts,” the minister said.
7 April 2019
Provide compensation for Barguna schoolgirl’s death: HC
The High Court issues a rule asking the respondents to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to provide adequate and proper compensation to the family of a Borguna school student who died and to her classmates who were injured as chunks of its building’s ceiling plaster fell on them.
7 April 2019
LGRD minister directs officials to identify risky school buildings
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam directs its officials to identify risky school buildings and ensure stern punishment of those responsible for irregularities during construction of PK Government Primary School in Barguna.
7 April 2019
Rajshahi pharmacy shops shut for 3hrs protesting arrest of owner
Nearly 700 pharmacy shops in Rajshahi city are shut for three hours today protesting the detention of a shop owner and two staff of the shop.
7 April 2019
Man killed as bus hits rickshaw in Gulistan
A man is killed as a bus hit a rickshaw in Dhaka’s Gulistan area.
7 April 2019
NY man charged with threatening to kill Muslim US lawmaker Ilhan
A 55-year-old New York man has been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a Muslim US Congress member from Minnesota, federal prosecutors say.
7 April 2019
Not parole, Khaleda has rights to get bail: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that they would free party’s imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail through waging a tough movement on the street.
7 April 2019
US wants 2yrs to ID migrant kids separated from families
The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.
7 April 2019
SC upholds Khaleda’s bail in Cumilla murder case
The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that granted bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed on charge of killing eight people by torching a bus in Cumilla in 2015.
7 April 2019
Texas civil court judge accidentally resigns
An April Fools’ Day resignation prank? One Texas civil court judge wishes it were so.
7 April 2019
Lok Sabha election in India: 117 polling stations for women in Mizoram
There would be 117 all-women polling stations with women polling officials and security staff for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the north eastern state of Mizoram in India.
7 April 2019
CU BCL clash with cops at campus, 9 hurt
Ruling party’s student front at Chittagong University clashed with policemen at campus leaving at least nine including policemen injured.
7 April 2019
2 RU students die of ‘alcohol poisoning’
Two students of Rajshahi University die of “alcohol poisoning” in the city.
7 April 2019
Netanyahu vows to annex West Bank settlements if re-elected Israel PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected, a dramatic policy shift apparently aimed at rallying his nationalist base in the final stretch of the tight race.
7 April 2019