NSA gathering 5bn mobile calls daily
The National Security Agency is reportedly collecting almost 5 billion cell phone records a day under a program that monitors and analyses highly personal data about the precise whereabouts of...
View Article4 more to be elected uncontested
Four more candidates are to be declared elected uncontested in the upcoming parliamentary polls, as only their nomination papers will remain valid in the electoral race in their constituencies....
View ArticleAttempt to detain Jamuna boss Babul
The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday attempted to detain Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul in front of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s Baridhara residence in the capital. Babul, however,...
View ArticleHRW calls for calm
Human Rights Watch has urged the government and the opposition to put an end to the ongoing political violence centring the 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5. The BNP-led opposition...
View ArticleAL man killed in Satkhira
Yet another Awami League man was killed allegedly by Islami Chhatra Shibir activists in Satkhira Sadar upazila yesterday evening. Sirajul Islam, 53, was shot by Shibir gunmen at his house in Kachupukur...
View ArticleJSD to get 4; Tarikat, Workers Party 2 each
The Awami League yesterday “initially” agreed to give four seats to Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and two each to Workers Party and Tarikat Federation in the general election scheduled for January 5. The...
View ArticleACC appeals against Tarique’s acquittal
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed an appeal with the High Court, challenging the acquittal of Tarique Rahman, the elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a money-laundering case....
View ArticleEC not worried about JP U-turn
The Election Commission is not worried about Jatiya Party’s announcement on boycotting the next general elections, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said yesterday. “It involves a...
View ArticleReview or no review?
The Supreme Court yesterday released the full judgment on the appeals against war crimes tribunal’s verdict on Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah. Throwing out the sentence of life...
View ArticleGovt vs Ershad
The drama over HM Ershad’s Jatiya Party pulling out of the election race continued yesterday, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top Awami League leaders trying to persuade Ershad to change his...
View ArticleIrony of politics
Twenty-three years ago, on December 6 in 1990, Lieutenant General HM Ershad stepped down from power in the face of a mass movement against his rule. Handing over power to acting president Shahabuddin...
View ArticleBNP clarifies
The BNP in a clarification has said that at no stage there was any request from the Indian side for any one-to- one meeting between the BNP chairperson and the visiting Indian foreign secretary. “If...
View ArticleNo respite for people
Two more lives were lost yesterday, the last day of the opposition’s 131-hour blockade of roads, rail and waterways, that led to clashes, arson, vandalism and blasting of crude bombs across the...
View ArticleUN team due today to rescue politics
The United Nations is sending a high-profile mission to Bangladesh today to encourage the political parties to sit for dialogue and create an environment conducive to holding an inclusive, non-violent...
View ArticleAnother casualty of vicious politics
The current mindless political fray has its many victims — human lives for one, the economy for another. Besides, we have recently seen another victim — political dignity. Take the latest case first....
View ArticleTeenage helper charred; dies
It was not until firemen had doused the fire that they realised a person was inside when blockaders torched the bus in the capital’s Sayedabad yesterday morning. He was merely a boy, still alive but...
View Article4 decide to quit, 3 wait
Four Jatiya Party leaders yesterday handed over their letters of resignation as polls-time cabinet members to party chief HM Ershad for “submission to the president”. They are quitting the cabinet in...
View ArticleNelson Mandela dies at 95
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says. Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s,...
View ArticleFaridpur arson victim dies at DMCH
A truck driver, who suffered burn injuries when blockaders set fire to his vehicle in Faridpur Sadar Saturday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) this morning. Mehedi Hasan, 30, who had 64...
View ArticleThe vivid glow of tradition
We take electricity for granted so much today that power cuts are cause for alarm – and that’s also usually the only time we light a candle. It’s hard for younger people especially to imagine a past...
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