Judge jailed for keeping Phensedyl
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a judge to four years in jail for possessing 342 bottles of Phensedyl in December last year. The convict Javed Imam, 30, is one of the senior assistant judges of Bhola...
View ArticleBNP ready to sit with govt
The BNP is ready to sit with the government anywhere to find a way out of the current political impasse over the polls-time government, party spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday....
View ArticleFair polls with all parties’ participation
Diplomats of different countries and representatives of multinational donor agencies in Dhaka want the next parliamentary elections in Bangladesh to be held in a free and fair manner with the...
View ArticleProf Yunus honoured by rights body
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Muhammad Yunus yesterday said the ultimate goal of the Liberation War was to establish peace in the country and it was yet to be achieved. “If we can bring peace to our...
View ArticleFormer CEC contradicts incumbent’s views
The Election Commission has suddenly claimed to have powers, in addition to the ones under Article 91E of the RPO, to cancel candidacy for electoral offences in parliamentary polls. The EC led by Kazi...
View ArticleRole reversed only in 7 yrs
The UN effort Sheikh Hasina had sought around seven years ago to stop her archrival Khaleda Zia-led alliance from holding a general election without the Awami League seems to have returned to put...
View ArticleS’pore returns Tk 7.4cr more
The Anti-Corruption Commission has brought back the remaining Tk 7.40 crore of around Tk 21 crore that the BNP chairperson’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and his associate siphoned off to Singapore....
View Article5pc progress in 2 years
The government has not been able to ensure enough finance to revive the polluted Buriganga river by connecting it with the Jamuna despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s high sounding political...
View ArticleFirst UN special brigade soldier killed in DR Congo
The UN’s landmark new offensive intervention brigade suffered its first fatality Wednesday when a Tanzanian soldier was killed by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman said. UN...
View ArticlePower blackout hits northeast Brazil
A fire triggered a massive power blackout Wednesday in eight states in northeastern Brazil where three World Cup 2014 host cities are located, authorities said. National electricity operator ONS said...
View Article‘Mini-brain’ grown in test tubes
Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a “tool” that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb. They hope the findings will increase their understanding...
View ArticleEx-girlfriend executed over porn film
Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend has been executed by firing squad along with a dozen fellow North Korean musicians charged with violating laws against pornography, according to reports in a respected South...
View Article2 ‘robbers’ beaten dead in Lakshmipur
Two robbers were beaten to death and 15 people, including a policeman, injured as a mob attacked a gang of robbers around 2:00am in Kazirchar village of Raipur upazila in Lakshmipur. The armed gang of...
View ArticleBus strike over assault of staff
Bus services between Dhaka and ten districts of Khulna division were suspended yesterday afternoon due to a sudden indefinite strike enforced by transport owners and workers. Bangladesh Bus Owners’ and...
View ArticleBB finds proposed law unclear
The finance ministry should make clear the provision in the proposed Grameen Bank Act for electing the microcredit bank’s managing director, the central bank has said. Under the proposed Grameen Bank...
View ArticleBNP indulges in graft when in power
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had been to Singapore twice to save her son’s laundered money, but failed. Speaking at a public rally at Fatikchhari in...
View ArticleBTCL MD, 22 others sued
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday lodged four cases against the managing director of the state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd and 22 others allegedly for misappropriating over...
View ArticleIs Zubaida joining politics?
A billboard at the capital’s Kakoli intersection has raised a question among people whether Zubaida Khan Rahman, wife of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, is joining politics. Erected recently,...
View ArticleOf brave cop on UN job
It was a heart-stopping moment. An angry mob was encircling a house of a young woman in Pleebo, Maryland County in Liberia, threatening to kill her. Liberian police, though armed, failed to control the...
View Article18th witness also tells of Nizami’s role
A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the Pakistani occupation army had killed around 400 people at Rupshi Bausgari in Pabna following instruction of war crimes...
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