PM asks BCL boys to study
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government had amended the constitution to ensure continuation of democracy through peaceful handover of power. In the statement, she referred to the...
View ArticleFour ‘robbers’ beaten to death
Angry villagers yesterday beat four alleged robbers to death at different places of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali. Locals caught the robbers while they were trying to flee from their hideouts as police...
View Article6 lakh need MRP by Nov
Around six lakh Bangladeshis in the United Arab Emirates with manual passports must apply for the machine-readable version before the deadline expires on November 24, 2015. Bangladeshi Ambassador to...
View ArticleSight to forget
The jhau woods along the Cox’s Bazar seashore are in decline, putting the future of the world’s longest sea beach in jeopardy. Setting up of illegal structures, indiscriminate felling of jhau...
View ArticleJubo League leader killed
A leader of Jubo League, a pro-Awami League youth body, was stabbed to death in the capital’s Pallabi area yesterday morning. Deceased Shah Ali Rocky, 28, vice-president of a Jubo League unit under...
View ArticleAnsarullah led by 5
Led by five persons, the newly emerged militant group Ansaruallah Bangla Team follows the ideals and policies of international terrorist outfits such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and...
View ArticleObama to seek Congress vote on Syria action
President Barack Obama yesterday said the US should take military action against Syria but he would seek congressional authorisation for intervention lifting the threat of immediate punitive air...
View ArticleDhaka for a quick wayout
Bangladesh has called for an immediate resolution of the crisis in war-torn Syria to end the sufferings of the civilians. “Bangladesh believes in amicable solution to all international conflicts...
View ArticleUN experts leave tense Syria
Syria expects a military attack “at any moment” and is ready to retaliate, an official said yesterday, hours after UN experts probing a suspected gas attack blamed on the regime quit the country...
View ArticleDemocracy not within BNP yet
The BNP celebrates today its 35th founding anniversary amid severe organisational weaknesses stemming mainly from a lack of democratic practices within the party. Over the years, the BNP has not called...
View ArticleQuestions aplenty
Odhikar’s fact-finding report, “Assembly of Hefajat-e Islam Bangladesh and Human Rights Violation”, is a composition of half-truths, biased and one-sided presentation of what happened on May 5 and in...
View ArticleA list riddled with holes
Nineteen are traceless, five named twice, three alive. Six died in Narayanganj violence and one of heart attack. Slot number 10 is left vacant. These are the holes a police investigation has found in...
View ArticleGrabbing ‘legalised’
River-saving efforts of the government are backfiring to some extent as around 2,500 acres of foreshores and existing waterways in four rivers in greater Dhaka has been given to “land owners” in the...
View ArticleCameron supports Obama’s stance over Syria
David Cameron has signalled his support for Barack Obama over Syria after the US president said he would ask Congress to vote on military strike action. In a tweet, the prime minister said: “I...
View ArticleYemen PM unhurt in assassination bid
Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has survived an assassination attempt unharmed, officials in the capital Sanaa say. Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on the PM’s motorcade as he returned...
View Article24 Nigeria vigilantes killed by Boko Haram
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 24 members of a vigilante group in north-eastern Nigeria, security officials say. They say another 34 people are missing after the attack near the...
View ArticleIndia Himalayas 1968 plane crash yields body
The body of an Indian soldier killed in an air crash in the Himalayas 45 years ago has been recovered, the army says. The remains of NCO Jagmail Singh were found on the Dhakka glacier in northern...
View ArticleStocks open positive
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse gained at opening on Sunday, the first trading of the week. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 36...
View ArticleStrong quake strikes off Indonesia
A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia yesterday, the United States Geological Survey said, sending people running from their homes in panic but causing no damage or...
View ArticleAfghan presidential hopeful promoted
Probable presidential candidate Omar Daudzai was appointed as Afghanistan’s acting interior minister yesterday, putting him in a high-profile public role seven months before the country’s first...
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