World’s most accurate clock built
US scientists said Thursday they have built the world’s most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other. The clock, made from the...
View ArticleGang rape fuels protests in India
Five men gang-raped a woman photographer in India’s financial hub Mumbai, police said yesterday, fuelling protests and stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi. The attack took...
View ArticleObama won’t rush into costly Syria war
President Barack Obama yesterday called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a “big event of grave concern” but stressed that he would not rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war....
View ArticleRights body demands arrest of BSF man
A human rights body in West Bengal state yesterday demanded the immediate arrest of a Border Security Force (BSF) constable on the charge of raping a Bangladeshi woman at a village in the state’s North...
View ArticleMan shot dead in Chittagong
Miscreants shot a man to death in Eidgaon Kacha Rastar Matha area of the port city yesterday night over past enmity. The dead, Nasir Talukder, 45, son of Abdur Rahman of Jhalokathi, was a resident of...
View ArticleNizami’s trial at snail’s pace
The war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami has bogged down largely due to him being an accused in the 10-truck arms haul case of 2004 and prosecution failures. Nizami was...
View ArticleSpecial ID cards to stop job changes
Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia will be provided with special identity cards from early next year to prevent them from switching jobs before expiry of job contract, reported Malaysian English daily The...
View ArticleRony’s men finally remove party office from school
A faction of Galachipa unit of Awami League, backed by lawmaker Golam Maula Rony, yesterday left a schoolroom it had been using as party office for the last three years. They also removed a party...
View Article10,680 Yaba tablets seized
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members yesterday arrested four drug peddlers along with 10,680 yaba tablets near Morichya Check Post in Ramu upazila here. The arrestees Abdur Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman,...
View ArticleSubsidies in LPG cylinder gobbled up
Government subsidies for LPG cylinder were gobbled up by dealers and middlemen while subsidised furnace oil ended up at wrong hands over the last two financial years. As a result, the subsidies did not...
View Article15 Shibir men held in Rajshahi
Injured Chhatra League leader Tawhid Al Hossain Tuhin was out of danger after undergoing a three and a half hour-long surgery at the capital’s Pongu Hospital yesterday. General secretary of the BCL’s...
View ArticleJU stalemate continues
Session jam at Jahangirnagar University is on the rise, thanks to teachers’ movements over the last one year demanding Vice-Chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain’s removal. Since the appointment of Prof Anwar...
View ArticleNew militant group follows JMB style
The three militant suspects arrested in Bogra on Thursday are believed to be remnants of banned Islamist outfit JMB who set up a new organisation styled BEM and were preparing in full for assault with...
View ArticleHuman body parts found in landfill
Police yesterday recovered around 16 severed human body parts and 13 bones at Dhaka South City Corporation landfill in Matuail. They, however, could not say whether criminals dumped those, in four...
View ArticleAnomalies rife in BPC
The country counted Tk 7,843 crore in revenue loss, demurrage and subsidy wastage in 2010-11 and 2011-12 due to irregularities and lax monitoring at Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), an audit has...
View ArticleUN for dialogue to end crisis
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and urged them to hold talks for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing...
View ArticleGuardian teams up over Snowden documents
The Guardian has agreed with the New York Times to give the US newspaper access to some classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, both papers said on...
View ArticleSyria crisis: US weighs military options
The Pentagon is moving forces closer to Syria as the US weighs its options in the conflict there, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has suggested. He gave no details, but media reports say the US Navy is...
View ArticleSuicide bomber targets Baghdad cafe, killing 25
A suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded more than 50 in Baghdad on Friday when he detonated his explosives inside a busy cafe near a park popular with families, police and medical sources said....
View ArticleObama’s national security team to meet on Syria
President Barack Obama’s security advisers will convene at the White House this weekend to discuss US options, including possible military action, against the Syrian government over an apparent...
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