Drug addiction alarming
About half of the five million drug addicts in the country are involved in crimes, said leading anti drug-abuse campaigner Prof Arup Ratan Choudhury yesterday. Bangladesh stands eighth among the...
View ArticleEC steps up polls preparations
With preparations for the 10th parliamentary polls now in full swing, the Election Commission yesterday started sending nomination forms to district election offices. Candidates will collect the forms...
View ArticleLosses immeasurable for victims, not for owner
How should the losses caused by last year’s November 24 fire at Ashulia’s Tazreen Fashions be accounted for? To Delwar Hossain, the owner of the factory and director of Tuba Group that has six other...
View ArticleSpeaker for talks with no precondition
The two major political parties should sit for a dialogue, without any precondition, to resolve the ongoing political crisis over the electoral system, Speaker of the House Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury...
View ArticleAL opts to be generous
The Awami League may field weak candidates or refrain from nominating any in around 70 of the 300 constituencies to allow the Jatiya Party to win the seats in the next parliamentary election. The...
View ArticleAshraf, Fakhrul ‘talk in secret’
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had a closed-door meeting last night on the stalemate over polls-time government, sources...
View ArticleIran nuclear deal agreed at talks
Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme, foreign ministers say. No details have been released about the agreement, which has been reached after...
View ArticleSyria children ‘targeted by snipers’
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria’s civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against...
View Article53 hurt as RMG workers attack Savar fire station
At least 53 people including firefighters and police were injured when garment workers attacked a fire service office, looted valuables and clashed with law enforcers in Savar this morning. The...
View ArticlePickets torch 2 vehicles in Ctg
The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, torched two battery-run three-wheelers in Chittagong as Jamaat observed a daylong hartal (shutdown) in the district today....
View ArticleBPL spot-fixing hearing begins
A three-member tribunal today started conducting the preliminary hearing on the spot-fixing allegations brought against nine individuals who participated in the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier...
View ArticlePolls on time even if BNP boycotts: Amu
The 10th parliamentary election will take place on time even if main opposition BNP does not take part in the polls, newly inducted minister Amir Hossain Amu said today. “The acceptability of the...
View ArticleSQ Chy’s lawyer Fakhrul remanded
A Dhaka court today placed Barrister Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, on a four-day remand in connection with a case filed for leaking out the draft verdict...
View Article‘No notable progress’
Confirming that Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had a meeting last night, a senior BNP leader has said the two leaders...
View ArticleCID asked to explain failure to submit Rana plaza probe report
A Dhaka court issued a show cause notice asking the CID to explain why they failed to submit a probe report before it by today in two cases filed over the Rana Plaza collapse that killed 1,132 people...
View ArticleWrit seeks dissolution of JS
A petition sought High Court directives on the prime minister to advise the president to dissolve the parliament before declaration of polls schedule of the 10th general election. Eunus Ali Akond, a...
View ArticleManju made adviser to PM
Anwar Hossain Manju, chairman of Jatiya Party (JP-Manju), has been appointed as an adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Khandaker Md Iftekhar Haider, additional secretary to the Cabinet Division,...
View ArticleWhy not RPO change for ‘no’ vote option, HC asks govt
The High Court today asked the government and Election Commission to explain in two weeks why they should not be directed to bring necessary amendments to the Representation of the People Order (RPO)...
View ArticleOrder on Subhan’s indictment Dec 18
A Dhaka tribunal will decide on December 18 whether it will indict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Abdus Subhan for his involvement with crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation...
View Article6 injured as BCL, JCD clash in Rajshahi
At least six people were injured — two of them bullet-hit — in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Rajshahi today. The clash ensued...
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