Special JS body’s proceedings back Star editorial
Yesterday we published the full text of the PMO’s response to two items in this newspaper, one a report and the other an editorial. Our report was based on a public pronouncement of the PM, at a press...
View ArticleOut of control
Capital Dhaka is home to some 15 million people. One study shows nearly 80 percent of them live in rented houses, and they do so, as it looks, at the mercy of the house owners. It hardly occurs to...
View ArticleSyria ‘chemical’ attack: Ban Ki-moon urges swift probe
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the alleged chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital “needs to be investigated without delay”. He is sending disarmament chief Angela Kane to Damascus...
View ArticleAL leader shot dead in Jhenidah
Unidentified criminals shot a local Awami League leader to death at Panami village in Jhenidah sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sanaruddin Mandal, 55, general secretary...
View ArticleGang rape of journo shocks Mumbai
A photo journalist in her early 20s was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons to a similar assault in New Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests...
View ArticleHuman body parts found in city
Police on Friday recovered limbs of several human bodies including seven legs and three hands wrapped in seven sacks at DCC garbage dumping zone in capital’s Matuail Friday morning. Police also...
View ArticleI’m ready to resign: JU VC
Vice Chancellor (VC) of Jahangirnagar University Prof Anwar Hossain on Friday said he is ready to resign from his position if President Abdul Hamid also the chancellor of the university asked him to...
View ArticleSyria crisis: Child refugees reach ‘one million’
UN agencies say the number of children forced to flee Syria has reached one million, describing the figure as “a shameful milestone”. The UN’s refugee agency and Unicef say a further two million...
View ArticleYaba seized, 4 held in Cox’s Bazaar
Border Guard Bangladesh on Friday arrested four drug dealers and seized 10,680 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession at Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazar. A team of BGB took position at Moriccha on...
View ArticleFour Jamaat-Shibir men held in Ctg
Police arrested four activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong early Friday. Sitakunda police arrested Md Mohiuddin, 24 and Md Sohel,...
View ArticleUN chief phones Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday urged the opposition to join the next parliament session and place its proposal over the...
View ArticleSyria chemicals grave concern: Obama
US President Barack Obama has said the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria is a “big event of grave concern”. Obama said the US was still seeking confirmation such weapons were used, but if proved...
View Article60 injured in Comilla pile-up
At least 60 people were injured in a three-vehicle pile-up on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla on Friday. Police said a Dhaka-bound bus of Meghna Paribahan collided with a...
View ArticleBomb kills 2 soldiers in Yemen
A suicide bombing killed two soldiers and wounded six others in eastern Yemen yesterday, a military official said, blaming al-Qaeda militants for the attack. An explosives-laden car “driven by a...
View ArticleNew bird flu strain found
A new strain of bird flu, H7N7, which can infect and kill animals, has been found in chickens at live poultry markets in China. Scientists discovered the strain by accident while testing chickens and...
View ArticleSaudi executes Syrian for drug smuggling
The Saudi authorities executed a Syrian national yesterday after he was convicted of smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said. Ahmed al-Onayzi was found guilty of trafficking “a large amount of...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 6 in Syria restaurant
A suicide bombing in a restaurant in Syria’s second city Aleppo killed six people, including a journalist from pro-government television, state media and a monitoring group said yesterday. The blast...
View ArticleUS soldier apologizes for Afghan shooting
A US Army sergeant who pleaded guilty to killing 16 villagers in a shooting spree in Afghanistan apologized Thursday to his victims’ families and said his behavior was cowardice. Robert Bales, 40,...
View ArticlePak blast death toll rises to two
The death toll in a roadside bomb attack targeting troops in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi has risen to two, officials said yesterday. The blast was aimed at soldiers returning to their barracks by...
View ArticleBombs hurled at BCL office in Jessore
Unidentified criminals yesterday hurled cocktails at an office of Chhatra League, a pro-Awami League student body, at Bablatota in Jessore. Ariful Islam Riyad, president of Jessore district unit BCL,...
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