Miscreants open fire on agitating RMG workers
Two people including a garment worker sustained bullet wounds when unknown miscreants opened fire on a group of workers agitating for pay hike at the city’s Merul Badda on Tuesday afternoon. Garment...
View Article17 killed in Afghan bomb blast
At least 17 people including women and children have been killed by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, officials have told the BBC. Ten of the dead were members of the same family, police said....
View ArticleTurkish teen becomes fifth fatality from June protests
A 19-year-old university student who was hurt during anti-government protests that rocked Turkey last month has died from his injuries, bringing the death toll in the unrest to five, local media...
View Article2.3 lakh farmers to get incentives
The government has taken up a special incentive programme to rehabilitate 2.35 lakh small and marginalised farmers in four Mahasen hit coastal districts. “Under the programme, we have already started...
View ArticleEgypt orders crackdown
Egypt yesterday ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme leader Mohammed Badie over violence in Cairo that left dozens dead while charging another 200 people over the bloodshed, judicial...
View ArticleGovt opens forex account
The government has opened a separate account with Bangladesh Bank for payments in foreign currency for Padma bridge project. Initially it has deposited $100 million in the account, an official of the...
View ArticleHigh-tech balloon to go to space
Would be astronauts looking to book the trip of a lifetime are being offered the chance to float into space in a high-tech balloon. A Spanish company plans on offering the ultimate day trip to...
View ArticlePM back home a day early
A Biman flight with 120 passengers from the UK was delayed by 23 hours yesterday, as the airlines’ management had to reschedule its London-Sylhet flight due to the prime minister’s early by a day...
View ArticleCommodity prices up
With the arrival of Ramadan, consumers are hit in their pockets as prices of essentials continue to soar amid slack monitoring of markets. Yesterday, retailers in three kitchen markets in the capital...
View ArticleAl-Badr killed Dr Alim on Nizami’s order
The widow of martyred intellectual Dr Abdul Alim Chowdhury yesterday said Al-Badr activists had picked up her husband from their house at the instruction of Motiur Rahman Nizami and his body was found...
View ArticleUS retailers offer factory safety plan
Walmart, Gap, Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s and a dozen other American retailers are announcing a plan on Wednesday aimed at improving factory safety in Bangladesh — an alternative to a plan embraced by 70...
View ArticleOne demo brings city to a halt
A demonstration closing off Shahbagh intersection halted traffic in the surrounding area and the cascading effect crippled the entire capital yesterday. People missed appointments, trains,...
View ArticleSermon Shafi style
Women should take care of furniture, bring up children and stay within the confines of their homes! This is what Hefajate Islam Ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi thinks the conduct of women should be. When...
View ArticleBrinjal modified
Bangladeshi scientists have readied the country’s first genetically modified (GM) crop — brinjal infused with pest-resistant genes — that will see a drastic fall in the use of harmful pesticides in the...
View ArticleNasa finds blue planet where it rains glass
Nasa scientists have discovered a blue planet that possibly rains glass, orbiting a star 63 light years away, marking the first time an exoplanet’s true colour has been determined. Astronomers making...
View ArticleEgypt’s divide turns brother against brother
Islam Ibrahim has no idea if his older brother Nasim was one of the Republican Guardsmen shooting at him when he and hundreds of other Egyptians were wounded and more than 50 killed. The brothers, who...
View ArticleAfghan court ordered release of child-bride torturers
A court in Kabul ordered the early release of three people convicted over the torture of a child bride, an official confirmed yesterday, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for women’s rights....
View ArticleIndia’s food security scheme to launch on Aug 20
Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday asked the States ruled by the party to implement in “letter and spirit” the food security scheme, which it sees as a “game-changer” in the 2014 Lok Sabha...
View ArticleJury meets again in trial of US black teen’s killer
Six-woman jury in the racially-charged trial of a US neighborhood watchman accused of murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin resumed its deliberations yesterday. George Zimmerman, 29, a...
View ArticleJS session resumes today
The 18th session of parliament resumes this morning after an adjournment of 11 days. The House is likely to pass some important bills, including the much-discussed labour law (amendment), during the...
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