Hurt deep down Buddhist heart
When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Ramu today, she can expect to see some happy faces, as the government has rebuilt 19 Buddhist temples that were torched and vandalised in Ramu and Ukhia in...
View ArticleJS to exist, but not in session
Amid confusion over the polls-time administration, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the general election would be held without dissolving the current parliament and the cabinet. She added...
View ArticleOver 2m flee Syria: UN
More than two million Syrians are now refugees, with the total going up by half a million in the past three months, the UN refugee agency has said. More than 700,000 have fled to Lebanon, and more...
View ArticleUS-Brazil tensions rise after new spy report
The US ambassador to Brazil has met with his Brazilian counterpart following revelations that the National Security Agency’s spy program directly targeted the South American nation’s leader. US...
View ArticleIndia upper house passes cheap food plan
India’s upper house of parliament has approved an ambitious plan to subsidise food for two-thirds of the population. The Food Security Bill proposes to make food a legal right and seeks to provide 5kg...
View ArticleMicrosoft to buy Nokia phones unit
Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy “substantially all” of Nokia’s mobile-phone business for 5.4bn euro ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). The deal will also see Nokia licence its patents to Microsoft. Nokia, once a...
View ArticleStocks up at opening
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased at opening, shrugging off the last day’s downtrend. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), gained...
View ArticleCop killed in Ashulia road crash
A policeman was killed and another injured as a truck hit their motorbike in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, Tuesday morning. Deceased Mizanur Rahman, 45, a constable of Armed Police...
View ArticleEgypt bans four Islamist TVs for inciting hatred
A Cairo court yesterday ordered the closure of four television channels, including Al-Jazeera Egypt and Ahrar 25, a network belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, for “inciting hatred” against Coptic...
View ArticleLibya gunmen kidnap ex-spy chief’s daughter
Gunmen kidnapped the daughter of Libya’s former spy chief Abdullah Senussi as she left a Tripoli jail after serving out a prison sentence, Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said yesterday. Senussi was...
View ArticleBraveheart Mumbai teen files molestation case against father
When the 15-year-old confided in her mother that she was stripped and bitten by her father, she was met with a “let it go.” However, the victim was in no mood to let go and went straight to the...
View ArticleFrog can hear with mouth!
Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths, scientists said Monday. Gardiner’s frogs live in the rainforests of the Seychelles, a series of...
View ArticleGovt has nothing to hide
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday insisted that his government has nothing to hide vis-a-vis the coal scam and it was wrong to assume that it was “hiding something”. Manmohan Singh said it would...
View ArticleMore than 2m flee Syria: UN
More than two million Syrians have fled their country, the UN refugee agency said yesterday, as President Barack Obama secured supports from key Republicans for military strikes against Syria, in a...
View ArticleGovt to fix DA considering inflation
The government will fix dearness allowance of the public servants on the basis of inflation and any imminent revision of pay scale, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. “We will make the...
View ArticleBTCL boss, 3 others denied bail
The High Court yesterday rejected bail petitions filed by the managing director of state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd and three others, charged for misappropriating over Tk 607...
View ArticleAlim’s trial at final stage
The case against war crimes accused BNP leader Abdul Alim is set to enter the final stage as International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed today for beginning of closing arguments. The two-member...
View ArticleMadness in the morning
The school-goers of Dhanmondi residential area are the worst sufferers of its confusing traffic system. With muddled up laws that changes almost every day, there is never any telling which way one...
View ArticleRickshaw-puller identifies 8 BCL men
A prosecution witness yesterday identified eight of the 21 Chhatra League men accused of killing Biswajit Das during a road blockade enforced by the BNP-led opposition on December 9 last year. The 13...
View ArticleCEC for extensive scrutiny
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday said the commission would examine whether a level playing field would be created for all candidates if the next general election is held with...
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