Obama urges world support for Syria strike
US President Barack Obama yesterday urged world support for punitive strikes against Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons, while Damascus vowed retaliation and resistance even if a third world...
View ArticleMartyr’s wife testifies against Mobarak
A war crimes victim yesterday testified that her husband and in-laws had been killed with the help of war crimes accused Mobarak Hossain at Tanmandayl of Akhaura during the Liberation War. “They along...
View ArticleEC asked not to hold polls now
The LGRD ministry has asked the Election Commission not to hold the due elections to 33 upazilas across the country ahead of the national election. As the general election is approaching nearer, it...
View ArticleRobbers kill security guard
A security guard was killed and two market staff were injured when a gang of robbers exploded crude bombs and looted three jewellery shops at a mall in Sylhet’s Zindabazar area last night. The...
View ArticleAlim was peace committee leader
The prosecution in the opening of the closing arguments yesterday tried to prove that war crimes accused Abdul Alim was a top leader of Joypurhat Peace Committee during the Liberation War. Citing some...
View Article47 illegal structures knocked down
The authorities in a joint drive yesterday demolished around 47 illegal structures to free the second channel of the Buriganga from encroachment. The Dhaka district administration, Bangladesh Inland...
View ArticleAL relies on grassroots
Grassroots leaders of the ruling Awami League yesterday began the process of selecting party candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections. In a unique selection procedure, they would propose...
View ArticleCriminals kill schoolteacher
Unidentified criminals shot dead a schoolteacher when he tried to stop them from abducting a 10-year-old boy next door at Shubhorajpur village in Meherpur early yesterday. The deceased, Abdul Halim,...
View ArticleFerry ghat needs shifting
The Daulatdia ferry ghat may need to be shifted from its current location in a year or two, as the Padma river is gradually changing its point of confluence with the Jamuna downwards, causing massive...
View ArticleEC not sure if govt serious
The Election Commission was not sure whether the prime minister’s desire to hold the national election without dissolving parliament was the government’s final decision or not, Election Commissioner...
View Article2 accused of instigation
Detectives have accused two top officials of the rights body Odhikar of publishing “a distorted report and photoshopped images” on the May 5 police action on a Hefajat-e Islam rally in the capital, in...
View ArticleFrayed and feared vs free and fair
There are four elements to Sheikh Hasina’s latest pronouncements on elections: 1) Elections within the tenure of the present parliament; 2) Parliament not to be dissolved during elections; 3) Present...
View ArticleBNP to resist govt bid
The BNP will resort to all possible means including resignation of party lawmakers from parliament to resist the government bid to hold the next general election without dissolving the present...
View ArticleUS Senate panel backs force in Syria
A US Senate panel has approved the use of military force in Syria, in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack. By 10-7, the Committee on Foreign Relations moved the measure to a full Senate...
View ArticleNato general says Afghan forces effective
The top British commander in Afghanistan says the country’s own military is proving to be an “effective force” despite rising casualties. Lt Gen John Lorimer told the BBC that Afghan troops had...
View ArticleUS faces substantial losses if Egypt aid halted: official
The US government faces billions of dollars in potential costs if it decides to cancel foreign military aid to Egypt, a senior Pentagon official told Reuters on Wednesday. Richard Genaille, deputy...
View ArticleRussia’s Putin calls Kerry a liar on Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called US Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, claiming he had denied that al-Qaeda was fighting with the Syrian opposition in that country’s civil war....
View ArticleStocks open positive
Trading at the country’s premier bourse started with upward trend on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 23 points to...
View ArticleJewellers keep shutters down in Sylhet
Jewellers kept their shutters down in Sylhet city since Thursday morning in protest against the looting of three jewellery shops at a mall at Zindabazar and killing of a night guard by robbers. The...
View ArticleMir Quasem indicted
A tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday indicted Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali on 14 charges for his alleged involvement in the crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971....
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