Ex-cop shot dead at home
An unidentified gang shot a former police official dead at his West Rampura residence in the capital yesterday morning. The victim, Fazlur Karim Khan, 66, retired as additional SP from the Criminal...
View ArticleNewspaper reports shown as evidence
A prosecution witness yesterday showed several newspaper reports of December 1971 and January 1972, where photographs of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were published with a call for...
View ArticleAgri scientists not happy
Agriculture scientists working in public sector research stations have denounced a government move to provide them with a special increment in salaries and recreation benefits. Some 1,700 scientists at...
View ArticleNoab for talks before govt decides
Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday urged the government to consult with its members before making any decision on the newspaper industry, especially on the wage board. In a...
View ArticleOSD for 16 years!
The government has spent around Tk 65 lakh on an officer, who has not given any service to the nation for the last 16 years. Strange as it may seem, the person has been an officer on special duty...
View ArticleWest holds back on Syria strike
UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday said his investigating team would report back this week on suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria as the US and its allies held back from immediate military action....
View ArticlePolls-time govt with MPs of dissolved JS
The government is toying with the idea of forming an election-time cabinet with MPs drawn from the current parliament after dissolving it. The idea comes from a never-used provision of the...
View ArticleWisdom dawns on EC, at last
In the face of widespread criticism, the Election Commission has finally backtracked on its move to scrap its sweeping authority to cancel one’s candidacy in the parliamentary polls for serious...
View ArticleBritain says no to action as US readies against Syria
Britain will not join any military action against Syria after a stunning parliamentary defeat on Thursday of a government motion on the issue, dealing a setback to US-led efforts to punish Damascus...
View ArticleLife on earth began on red planet?
Evidence is mounting that life on Earth may have started on Mars. A leading scientist has claimed that one particular element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available...
View ArticleTropical storm kills three in Taiwan
At least three people were killed when torrential rain brought by Tropical Storm Kong-Rey caused widespread flooding in the south of Taiwan, the government said yesterday. A 20-year-old man riding a...
View ArticleFirefighters tame wild blaze in Spain
Firefighters tamed a major wildfire in northern Spain and continued battling smaller ones there and in neighbouring Portugal where blazes have claimed five lives, officials said yesterday. Emergency...
View ArticleObama-Putin bilateral at G20 ‘not planned’: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently not planning to have bilateral talks with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit although there is a chance of an informal encounter, the Kremlin said...
View ArticleChina’s ‘smiling face’ official on trial for graft: media
A Chinese official with a penchant for luxury watches who sparked outrage after he was pictured smiling at the scene of a fatal accident was tried for corruption yesterday, a court said. Yang Dacai was...
View ArticleUS close on extending military role in Philippines: Hagel
The United States and the Philippines are moving towards an agreement that will expand the American military’s presence in the Philippines, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday during a visit to...
View ArticleRussia to deploy ‘star wars’ missile system in 2017: report
Russia’s defence ministry plans to deploy in 2017 a sophisticated new air missile defence system that can hit targets in space, a senior ministry source told Russian news agencies yesterday. “The...
View ArticleJapan eyes defence budget increase
Japan’s defence ministry is looking for its biggest budget hike in two decades, partly to create a Marines-like force, it revealed yesterday, as neighbours fret about Tokyo’s rising assertiveness....
View Article‘Robber’ killed in ‘gunfight’
An alleged robber was killed and seven people, including five police personnel, were injured in a “gunfight” with police in Kalam Char area in Hatiya upazila here early yesterday. The dead is Yunus,...
View Article73 Jamaat-Shibir men held
Police arrested 73 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir from Comilla city last night. Mahiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali Police...
View ArticleWal-Mart ready to lend $50m
Wal-Mart Stores Inc told investors on Thursday that it could provide up to $50 million in low-interest loans or other types of payments to Bangladesh factory owners for building improvements. The money...
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