Govt plotting GB assets looting: B Chy
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury accused the government Sunday of hatching a conspiracy to loot Tk 8,000 crore of assets of Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank by...
View Article4 injured as DU, Tejgaon College students clash at Farmgate
At least four students were injured when students of Dhaka University and Tejgaon College clashed at the city’s Farmgate following altercations, causing huge traffic congestion Sunday. All the injured,...
View ArticleUS ‘not aligned’ with any party in Egypt
US President Barack Obama condemned the ongoing violence in Egypt, and said the United States was not working with any particular party or group as Egypt reels from a military takeover. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleIsraeli F16 crashes into sea, crew unharmed
An Israeli warplane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea yesterday following a malfunction although both crew members were rescued unharmed, a military spokesman told AFP. “An F16 combat aircraft crashed...
View ArticleWestern states ‘in bed with’ US
Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency operates broad secret spying partnerships with other Western governments now complaining about its programmes, in an...
View ArticleAL men fare better in councillor race
The ward level Awami League leaders won the maximum number of councillor posts in the Saturday’s election to Gazipur City Corporation to the consolation of the ruling party. In the election, the...
View ArticleMannan eager to work with rival
Mayor-elect MA Mannan of Gazipur City Corporation yesterday expressed willingness to work with his defeated rival Ajmat Ullah Khan for the development of the city. “I want to work not only with my main...
View ArticleCopper cage effort to quit smoking
The things people will put themselves through to give up smoking. Case in point İbrahim Yücel, a 42-year-old smoker from Kütahya of Turkey who recently decided to wear a locked metal cage over his head...
View ArticlePM goes to Belarus today
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for Belarus today on a three-day official visit, wrapping up her four-day stay in the UK. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, carrying the premier and her...
View ArticleWar hero killed at Nizami’s order
A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that a group of Razakars on Nizami’s instructions had killed a freedom fighter at the end of September 1971 in Pabna. Rathindra...
View ArticleAL conspiring to loot assets of Grameen
The Awami League government is hatching a “conspiracy” to “loot” the assets of Grameen Bank worth Tk 8,000 crore by splitting the bank into 19 pieces. Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza...
View ArticleWater wells dry up
Wells are drying up and underwater tables falling so fast in the Middle East and parts of India, China and the US that food supplies are seriously threatened, one of the world’s leading resource...
View ArticleOf an educator extraordinaire
In an ordinary alley in Khulna city there is an ordinary house with an ordinary corrugated iron sheet roof. From the outside, there is little to indicate that what goes on inside is extraordinary. The...
View ArticleMurray ends long wait
Andy Murray wiped out 77 years of pain and hurt as he became the first British man since 1936 to win the men’s title at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic on...
View ArticleGazipur chooses clean councillors
Voters have largely rejected the councillor aspirants with criminal records in the first-ever Gazipur city polls on Saturday. But they lined up against Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Ajmat Ullah...
View ArticleBuoyed BNP to ride on the wave
BNP wants to move cautiously regarding its ongoing movement for a non-party caretaker government in the wake of “overwhelming support” of people it received in the Gazipur City Corporation polls,...
View ArticleHope for rational accord
Bangladesh expects a workable building and fire safety accord from the international retailers and rights groups as the European Union holds a discussion in Geneva today to fix the action plan for the...
View ArticleBack from jaws of death
It was a miracle for Abu Bakar Siddique, the mariner of Bangladeshi vessel MV Hope which tilted dangerously in the Andaman sea in the early hours of July 4, to return to life from the claws of death....
View ArticleAL’s Black Rose fails to bloom
The Awami League high command had set up its campaign office at the Black Rose hotel in the city’s Uttara and made all-out efforts to secure win for the party mayoral favourite in the Gazipur city...
View ArticleStar honours some unsung war heroes
While many sacrificed their lives for the motherland, Abdul Mannan accepted the fate of a landless farmer by giving up his only piece of land for burial of the villagers massacred by the Pakistani Army...
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