B'desh lawyer jailed for 10 yrs in leak case
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced a lawyer of executed 1971 war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowhdury to 10 years in jail for stealing and leaking the draft verdict of an international tribunal ahead of its delivery in 2013. Bangladesh Cyber Tribunal Judge KM Shamsul Alam also fined lawyer Fakhrul Islam Taka 1 crore over the leak that had sparked massive controversy as Chowdhury and his family members at that time claimed the verdict was prepared beforehand by the law Ministry instead of the trial court.
four killed in plane crash in China
Beijing: A light aircraft crashed on Thursday during an air show in Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, killing all four people on board. The plane, lE-500 model with 4-5 seats, was produced by AVIC Industry Corp. Of China. A pilot and three customers were onboard when the accident happened at 4 pm.
2 tourists killed in Bali boat explosion
Bali: Two foreign tourists were killed and about 20 other people were injured in an explosion on Thursday on a speedboat that was ferrying them from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali to lombok, police said.
China 2nd space lab launch successful
Beijing: China on Thursday night successfully launched its second
experimental space lab ‘Tiangong-2’ as part of an ambitious programme by the Communist giant to build a manned space station by 2022, the time when US-led International Space Station expected to go out of service.
World's oldest man in israel turns 113
Jerusalem: The world's oldest man turned 113 on Thursday and the Holocaust survivor living in Israel readied for the Bar Mitzvah he was denied a century ago, his family said. Yisrael Kristal, an observant Jew from Zarnow in what is now Poland and living in Haifa, was born on September 15, 1903, three months before the Wright brothers' first successful powered airplane flight.