The DNA test conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu has found rape evidence. "We've found profile of semen of three men in the dresses and underwear of Tonu in the DNA test conducted at the CID Dhaka laboratory," news agency UNB said quoting Special Police Super of Cimilla CID Dr Nazmul Karim Khan on Monday night. He said they matched…

Washington: A 37-year-old man has admitted in court that he ripped off a Muslim woman's hijab on board a flight in the US after screaming "Take it off! This is America!". Gill Parker Payne of Gastonia, from North Carolina, pleaded guilty in a New Mexico federal court to a misdemeanour hate crime charge of using force to intentionally obstruct the woman's free exercise of her…

Twitter users have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to post pictures of his mother's first visit to his official residence in Delhi on social media.   Heeraben Modi, who is in her nineties, lives in her family house in a town in Gujarat, Mr Modi's native state.     He tweeted that he "spent quality time with her after a long time".   Mr Modi…

Iranian authorities have announced a new crackdown on models who post images of themselves online without their hair covered.   State television reported Monday that officials particularly targeted the picture-sharing application Instagram as part of an operation it called Spider II.   It said authorities arrested eight people out of some 170 people identified as being involved in modeling…

Model-turned-actress Mehzabein Chowdhury has recently acted under the direction of renowned actor-director Mahfuz Ahmed for the first time in the telefilm titled ‘Kokhono Esho Na Phire’.   The shooting of the telefilm has already began in the capital’s Purbachal area. Mehzabein is all set to portray a unique role in her latest project.   Quoting Mehzabein local daily The…

World No.1 women’s doubles pairing of Martina Hingisand Sania Mirza produced a sterling late show against Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova in the final on Sunday to clinch the Rome Masters title. Sania and her Swiss partner won beat the Russian duo 6-1, 6(5)-7, 10-3 for their first title in the Italian capital. The top seeds, who had defeated Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu on Saturday…

Dani Alves has overtaken Pele to become the most successful Brazilian footballer of all time. Alves won the sixth La Liga title of his career on Saturday as Luis Suarez’s hat-trick sealed a 3-0 victory over Granada. The Spanish title is the 30th of Alves’ career to date, and the 33-year-old moves one clear of three-time World Cup winner Pele, who won 29 trophies during his playing days.…

Mustafizur Rahman, a prodigy in Bangladesh cricket, unlocked another milestone by dismissing Kings XI Punjab’s opener Murali Vijay on Sunday (May 15) in ongoing IPL. This was his 50th wicket in T20 career and ‘The Fizz’ reached the milestone playing just 35 match with an outstanding average of 16.42. Besides, Mustafizur has a brilliant economy rate of just 6.13 which is considered…

When Anaya Ellick applied to attend Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake, Va. this year, the school’s superintendent, Ron White, wasn’t sure it could meet her needs. But her parents assured him that Anaya needed no special accommodations — she was just like any other kid in the first grade. She just happened to be born without hands. The 7-year-old does not use prosthetics,…

India is set to divert water from its rivers to deal with a severe drought, a senior minister has told the BBC.   Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said transferring water, including from major rivers like the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, to drought-prone areas is now her government's top priority.   At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India.   The drought is…

Amid growing allegation by the government that BNP is conspiring with Israeli intelligent agency Mossad, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said they want to ‘restore democracy and all rights’ through intensifying their movement together with people, not through any conspiracy. “We don’t believe in any plot, and don’t join hands with conspirators.…

Two Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were assigned under the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, were killed as a cyclone lashed the West African country on Sunday. The deceased are police constables Md Samidul Haque, 30, and Motahar Hossain, 28. The two constables were on duty along with others of the UN peacekeeping mission when the cyclone brushed the coasts of Mali around 5:30pm (local time) on Sunday,…