Non-submission of DNA report irks HC
The High Court Sunday expressed discontent as the authorities have yet to submit reports of DNA test on the relatives of missing victims of the fire incident at Tazreen Fashions Ltd that killed 112...
View ArticleHC orders action against Hefajat men
The High Court Sunday ordered police to take legal action against the torturer of a female journalist of Ekushey Television during a April 6 rally of Hefajat-e Islam in the capital. The court also...
View ArticlePM defends son’s remark on AL win
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday defended her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s comment that Awami League will come to power again winning the next parliamentary elections. “Joy said one thing; he said that on...
View ArticleStop extortion in transport sector, HC tells govt
The High Court on Sunday directed the government to take steps to immediately stop extortion in the transport sector across the country. The court in a suo moto rule asked the inspector general of...
View ArticleWrits seek immediate DCC polls
Four lawyers Sunday filed petitions with the High Court seeking its directives for holding elections to the Dhaka city corporations without any delay. The HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and...
View ArticleIsrael cabinet backs referendum bill for peace process
The Israeli cabinet has approved a bill requiring any peace deal with the Palestinians to be put to a referendum. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that it was...
View ArticleHackers attack NZ PM’s website
The “hacktivist” group Anonymous yesterday briefly crashed New Zealand Prime Minister John Key’s website in protest at plans to allow the country’s intelligence agency to spy on local residents. A...
View ArticleChina rules out leaders’ summit with Japan
Beijing has ruled out any imminent leaders’ summit with Tokyo, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday after a Japanese official raised the possibility, in a rebuff underscoring tensions over a...
View ArticleDeath spreads like a wave
British scientists have captured death spreading like a wave through the body of a worm, by studying the blue fluorescence that travels cell-to-cell until the whole organism is dead. Researchers from...
View Article100 war crimes suspects in UK
The UK Home Office last year identified nearly 100 suspected war criminals who had made UK immigration applications, figures released to the BBC suggest. The majority of cases involved people already...
View Article12 killed in Nigeria blasts
The death toll from a series of bomb blasts that rocked a mainly Christian area of northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano has risen to 12, the military said on Tuesday, blaming Islamist group Boko...
View ArticleAL looks divided
Ruling Awami League leaders are apparently divided over Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s entry into politics and becoming the party’s candidate from the Rangpur-6 constituency at the next parliamentary polls. Some...
View ArticleProsecution’s argument ends today
International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prosecution to complete its argument by today in the case against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity. Yesterday was...
View ArticleAbducted, killed by the two
Syed Murtoza Nazmul, son of martyred journalist Syed Nazmul Haque, yesterday testified that alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan had been involved in killing...
View ArticleSoldier of freedom
He was among the first to go to war against Pakistan in March 1971. As the Pakistan occupation army launched its genocide in Dhaka on the night of 25 March, continuing well into the next day, Belal...
View ArticleCourt opts to see scientific documents
The High Court yesterday directed the government and the petitioners to submit by September 19 scientific documents, if there are any, on whether Bt brinjal is harmful to public health and the...
View ArticleProject cost up by 111pc
The allocation for the “Ektee Bari, Ektee Khamar (One House, One Farm)” project has been increased by 111 percent in the second revision to cover all unions of the country. The Executive Committee of...
View ArticleCops find MP Rony’s claim baseless
Police have not found any evidence substantiating ruling party lawmaker Golam Maula Rony’s allegations that the TV journalists, whom he had beaten up in his office on July 20, attacked and threatened...
View Article2 ‘carjackers’ killed in Rab fire
Two suspected carjackers were killed in a “shootout” with the Rapid Action Battalion in South Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. Rab suspects that the dead are Sabuj Mia and Mohammad...
View ArticleRiver pillars to be revisited
The task force on river protection yesterday decided to re-demarcate different parts of the rivers around Dhaka city, as the current demarcation pillars have narrowed their widths greatly in some...
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