None will be allowed to play with people
Amidst escalation of political violence centring the upcoming parliamentary election, Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said none would be allowed to “play” with people’s voting rights....
View ArticleTalks on behind the scene
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has said all the opposition leaders will be released if BNP reaches a consensus with Awami League. The minister makes the comment at a time when BNP leaders are...
View ArticleIt’s hard to cope with patients
Each hartal and blockade over the last month brought with it more arson victims at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The latest of them were 19 people, who were burnt on Thursday evening...
View ArticleRailway seeks BGB help for security
The Bangladesh Railway seeks support from Bangladesh Ansar and paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to guard its infrastructure as growing attacks on its network by blockaders threaten rail...
View ArticleGrave mistake
A 14-year-old boy sustained injuries when a crude bomb, which he mistakenly thought was a tennis ball, went off in his hand here in Banshkhali yesterday. Ariful Islam, son of expatriate Nurul Islam of...
View ArticleStuck in capital
Nargis Begum had started from Jessore to attend her stepmother’s qulkhwani in Noakhali. Due to the abruptly announced opposition blockade, however, she found herself stuck in the capital yesterday. “I...
View ArticleWe don’t want to see military rule
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has again said that her government will not allow any unconstitutional force to rule the country. “We will allow no unconstitutional forces to grab state power again. We do...
View ArticleDream left in ashes
Only two days ago, he was an employer of 19,000 workers at his apparel factory complex in Gazipur. But a single mindless act of sabotage has taken Mosharraf Hussain, owner and managing director of...
View ArticleLiving in anarchy
SCENE ONE A man’s eye falls out of its socket as the bandage is removed. The sight pushes his distraught wife into unconsciousness. His son, petrified, cries his heart out at the eerie scene before...
View ArticleArson: foul play of outsiders
Friday’s fire at Standard Group’s factory complex in Gazipur was a clear case of arson by workers from neighbouring factories and some influential locals. It all started on November 13, when a meeting...
View ArticleOminous sign
The sights are raw and unthinkable. Over a million square feet of factory space lay charred. Truck after truck of brand apparels just to be exported turned to ashes. The sights also send out a chilling...
View ArticleRizvi held in early hours cop raid
In an outlandish pre-dawn raid on the Nayapaltan headquarters of the BNP, plainclothes detectives yesterday assaulted its Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed and arrested him. During the raid, cops...
View Article4 killed on first day
Announced all of a sudden the night before, the opposition’s three-day blockade left at least four people killed and put tens of thousands of travellers across the country in peril on its first day...
View ArticleStray incidents mark 2nd day of blockade
Stray incidents like crude bomb blasts, processions and fire on rail tracks are the key features that Dhaka city dwellers experienced this morning, on the beginning of the second day of the...
View ArticleBlockaders cut off rail link with Rajshahi
Rail communications between Rajshahi and rest of the country including Dhaka remain suspended since early today after a train derailed in Rajshahi following removal of fish plates from the railway...
View Article1 killed as Thai protests turn violent
At least one person was shot dead and 10 were wounded after anti-government protesters clashed with supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday, the first bloodshed in a week of...
View ArticleCroatia votes on move to ban gay marriage
Croatians yesterday voted in a controversial referendum that could outlaw same-sex marriage in the mostly Catholic country, an issue that has split the EU’s newest member state. The Church-backed...
View ArticleViolence shakes Thai capital
Thai police yesterday fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters trying to storm the government headquarters to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, after violence in the capital left four...
View Article16th anniversary of CHT accord today
As the country is set to observe the 16th anniversary of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord signing today, many promises of the treaty still remain unfulfilled. Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati...
View ArticleNora Shariff passes away
Nora Shariff, who received the Friends of Liberation War Honour in 2012, passed away Friday at her home in South London. Shariff, 73, had been suffering from cancer. She left behind her husband Sultan...
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