Bangladesh in mourning for 3 days
The government yesterday announced a three-day national mourning beginning today to pay homage to South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. The national flag will be kept at half-mast at all...
View ArticleLast statesman of our times
He was the last statesman of the world we inhabit in these parlous times. There was about Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the charisma and the wisdom the world was in sore need of, given that values were...
View ArticleWise words from Mandela
It is always a privilege to be in the presence of great men. But this writer had never been made more aware of that privilege than on Wednesday night (March 26, 1997) listening to the South African...
View ArticleA great light has gone out
The world yesterday mourned the death of Nelson Mandela, the most universally loved and revered leader in history, hailed as an “incredible gift” to humanity. South African President Jacob Zuma...
View ArticleUS reiterates call for talks
The United States again stressed the need for a constructive dialogue between the Awami League and BNP to find an agreed-upon way forward to hold a free, fair and credible polls that reflects the will...
View ArticleMunshiganj bus helper burnt in sleep
Another bus helper suffered severe burn injuries after blockaders set fire to his vehicle where he was asleep in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj early today. Victim Alamgir, 23, was whisked off to the...
View ArticleObama, Bush, Clinton to travel to S Africa
At least three American presidents will travel to South Africa to attend memorial services for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at age 95. The White House said Friday that...
View Article3 killed in Narayanganj road crash
Three people were killed and two injured when a covered van hit a private car on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. The identities of the victims could not be...
View ArticleDhaka sees stray violence
Stray violence like arson, crude bomb blasts and procession are the key features that Dhaka city dwellers experienced today on the first day of the opposition combine-enforced blockade. No injury was...
View ArticleTaranco meets foreign minister, secy
Visiting UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández-Taranco today had separate meetings with Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali and Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque....
View Article2 held for Shahbagh arson attack
Detective Branch (DB) of police today picked up two persons for their alleged involvement with Shahbagh arson attack case that left three people dead and 16 injured. On November 28 immediately after...
View ArticleBomb explodes near Israel patrol in Golan; no casualties
The Israeli army yesterday said that a blast the previous evening on the Golan Heights was from a bomb detonated as patrolling troops passed by, but that there were no casualties. An investigation of...
View ArticleJapan’s secrecy bill condemned by Nobel academics
Japan’s controversial new state secrets law was condemned Saturday as “the largest ever threat to democracy in postwar Japan” by a group of academics, including two Nobel prize winners, reports said....
View ArticleAfghan security pact will be signed
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday said he had received assurances during a visit to Kabul that a long-delayed deal allowing US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 would be signed “in a...
View ArticleDylan’s iconic guitar sells for $1m
Like Elvis’ no-hips-allowed appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ or the Beatles’ arrival in America, or Woodstock, it is considered one of the milestone moments in rock history: Bob Dylan going...
View ArticleGene therapy’s big wins against blood cancers
In one of the biggest advances against leukaemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into...
View ArticleBNP sticks to polls-time govt without Hasina
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night categorically told UN Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernández-Taranco that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must resign and a non-partisan person has to head the...
View ArticleCall off blockade during nat’l mourning
Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the opposition leader to withdraw the blockade and hartal programmes showing respect to the great South African antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela as a...
View Article2 ‘JCD men’ held over Shahbagh bus torching
Detectives yesterday arrested two people for their alleged involvement in torching a bus in the capital’s Shahbagh 10 days ago, that left three passengers dead and 16 injured. After primary...
View ArticleCall for talks by parties lacks heart
The call for dialogue by the feuding parties to resolve the ongoing c lacks heart, Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman, chief adviser to the 1996 caretaker government, said yesterday. “We as a people have...
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