I don’t want Modi as PM
Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen yesterday said he does not want him to become India’s prime minister as he does not have secular...
View ArticleGMG not clearing Tk 150cr in dues
An international aircraft leasing firm and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh have filed eight cases against GMG Airlines in connection with around Tk 150 crore the carrier owes them. The Civil...
View ArticleSaline creeping into croplands
As fresh water flow has tapered off on the upper stream of rivers over the last four decades, due to human intervention mainly in neighbouring India, salinity has intruded into 100 rivers and affected...
View ArticleVerdict on Quader Mollah appeals any day
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict any day on two appeals filed over the life imprisonment sentence of war trial convict Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah. This was revealed Tuesday when the...
View ArticleBus crash kills 19 in Thailand
Nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province...
View Article10 hurt as NY plane’s wheel fails
Ten people were left with minor injuries after a plane’s nose wheel collapsed when it landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, officials say. Six of the casualties were taken to hospital after Southwest...
View Article1 killed in attack on pro-Morsi protest
One man was killed and 15 people were injured in an attack against a protest by hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi near CairoUniversity early Tuesday morning, a state-run...
View ArticleStocks dip
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse decreased during the first two hours of trading on Tuesday. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed 104 points to reach...
View ArticleDhaka-Sylhet train service resumes after 12hrs
Rail communications of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong was restored on Tuesday 12 hours after a freight train derailed in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar. Two wagons of a Chittagong-bound cargo train...
View ArticleCrowds celebrate Royal baby at palace
Thousands of well-wishers descended on Buckingham Palace on Monday night to celebrate the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby boy. Many tried to glimpse a formal bulletin announcing the...
View ArticleHuge fire at Feni jute mill
A devastating fire at a jute mill in BISIC Industrial area of Feni gutted large quantity of raw materials, jute products and machinery Tuesday morning. None however was hurt in the blaze, which...
View ArticleWork to keep undemocratic govt at bay: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked deputy commissioners (DCs) to work sincerely so that no unconstitutional government could come to power again. “Election in the country will be held as in...
View ArticleMan held with 17kg gold at Ctg airport
A man was arrested along with 146 gold bars weighing 17 kilograms at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Tuesday. The arrestee, Mir Mohammad Shahnewaz Morshed, returned from Dubai by a...
View ArticleAssaulted Independent TV journos get bail
Two journalists of private television channel Independent TV were granted bail from the High Court for three months on Tuesday in a case filed by ruling Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony. The AL...
View ArticleRushdie, Amis, McEwan appear in New York
Put Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan on a stage and expect a night of high art and school boy humor, of reading, writing and Christopher Hitchens. The three literary stars, all in their 60s...
View ArticleBrazil crowds greet Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities yesterday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his landmark visit to Rio de Janeiro. The fervor...
View ArticleRoad accidents kill 28 in India
Two road accidents have killed at least 28 people in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police said yesterday. A crowded bus plunged off a bridge into a lake in Hassan district on Tuesday, killing...
View ArticleCounsel for SQ Chy fails again
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday gave the defence of war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury another chance to produce their witnesses. After their failure to produce their witness...
View ArticleJoy confident of AL’s win in next polls
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday said he hoped the Awami League would return to power. He said he had this information from the party’s polling, which is done by him. Joy,...
View ArticleDolphins call each other by name!
Bottlenose dolphins have distinct “names” that they use to identify individuals in their social group, according to a study by scientists who followed groups of the animals off the east coast of...
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