Service dips in divided Dhaka
The splitting of the erstwhile Dhaka City Corporation has not benefited city dwellers in the last 18 months as the administrators cannot run the corporations smoothly due to a short stint. In the...
View Article1 more rescued, 2 bodies recovered
A crew member was rescued and two bodies were recovered on Friday from AndamanSea where the Bangladeshi car ship MV Hope tilted on Thursday. The rescued was identified as Mushfiqur Rahman, an engine...
View ArticleSinger Bipul Bhattacharya no more
Prominent folk singer Bipul Bhattacharya passed away at a private city hospital on Friday morning. He was 58. Bipul Bhattacharya, an active artiste of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra during the country’s...
View ArticleCNG station strike called off
Owners of CNG filling stations called off their indefinite strike on Friday afternoon after the government assured that it will withdraw the mobile court magistrate who allegedly harassed their fellow...
View ArticleEgypt troops kill pro-Morsi marchers
Egyptian security forces have opened fire on supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, killing three people. The incident occurred as crowds gathered outside the officers’ club...
View Article400 RMG workers fall sick taking tiffin
At least 400 workers fell sick after taking tiffin at a garment factory at Telirchala in Mouchak of Kaliakoir upazila on Thursday. Factory sources said the workers of Sezad Design Wear Limited fell...
View ArticleGovt out to manipulate Gazipur polls: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government is against the deployment of army in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls as it is out to manipulate...
View Article12 killed in Afghan suicide blast
At least 12 people have been killed and five wounded in a suicide attack at a police station in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, officials say. Most of the victims are thought to be police...
View ArticleH1N1 flu outbreak in northern Chile kills 11
At least 11 people have been killed in an outbreak of H1N1 flu virus in northern Chile, where the rate of infection is more than six times higher than the rest of the country, authorities said...
View ArticleUN food agencies appeal for more funds to help Syria
The United Nations food agencies yesterday appealed for more funds to help an estimated four million Syrians unable to produce or buy enough to eat as a new report detailed a farming sector severely...
View ArticleSpain urges calm in row over Bolivian leader’s plane
Spain yesterday called for calm in a diplomatic row ignited when Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane was diverted because of suspicions that fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was...
View ArticleMore than 70 killed in warlords’ battle in Somali
Battles between rival warlords in Somalia’s key southern port city of Kismayo killed at least 71 people last month, UN officials said Friday, clashes Mogadishu has accused Kenyan troops of encouraging....
View ArticlePortugal patches up government to avert collapse
Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho yesterday patched up his ruling coalition to avert a potentially calamitous break-up in a row over austerity measures for the bailed-out nation. Bond...
View ArticleBolivia threatens to close US embassy
Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, has warned he might close the US embassy in his country, as South America’s leftist leaders rallied to support him over the rerouting of his presidential plane....
View ArticlePCJSS man shot dead
A supporter of Santu Larma faction of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity was shot dead at Tintahari union under Manikchhari upazila in Khagrachhari yesterday noon. The deceased is Umang Marma,...
View ArticleJapan to stand by Bangladesh
Japan has no plan to cut trade benefits to Bangladesh following the suspension of the generalised system of preferences (GSP) by the USA, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima said...
View ArticleBGMEA blames int’l politics
International politics had played a key role in the US decision to suspend trade preferences for Bangladesh, said Atiqul Islam, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association,...
View ArticleSinger Bipul no more
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Bipul Bhattacharya breathed his last at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 58. He left behind his wife, a son and a daughter. Bipul had been suffering from...
View ArticleJS polls in UK model
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the next general election in Bangladesh would be held in such a manner, which is modelled after the UK and other democratic nations. Hasina said this when British...
View ArticleNo scope of dumping wastewater
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (Bepza) yesterday in a statement said it differs with the June 21 photo caption of The Daily Star that said industrial wastes are dumped by Chittagong...
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