Slack hartal in capital
The Dhaka city residents have defied the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) carrying out almost all their daily activities Thursday. The shutdown, which called to...
View ArticleTaliban ‘shock’ over Malala attack
A Pakistani Taliban leader has sent a letter to schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, 16, expressing shock that she was shot by Taliban gunmen last year. The Taliban were universally condemned after gunmen shot...
View ArticleN Korea urges Panama to release weapons ship
North Korea has urged Panama to release without delay its ship and crew, seized after weapons were found on board. In its first comments on the case, the North Korean foreign ministry said the cargo of...
View ArticlePro-Assad Syrian official killed in Lebanon
A senior Syrian official, Mohammed Darrar Jamo, has been shot dead in the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand. Jamo, a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was attacked early on Wednesday...
View ArticleMandela turns 95 in hospital
Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital in Pretoria, as events take place around the world and in South Africa in his honour. South Africans are being urged to match the former...
View ArticleObama honours Mandela on 95th birthday
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are sending their wishes and prayers to former South African leader Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday. Mandela is critically ill in the hospital,...
View ArticleArson, vandalism mark hartal in districts
The dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami is progressing across the country amid some stray incidents of violence on Thursday. The shutdown has been enforced to protest a death...
View ArticleStocks nosedive
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse plunged on Thursday, to continue a losing streak of the previous trading day. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dipped...
View ArticleGP revenue dips
Grameenphone, the lone listed telecom company, has incurred a 47.20 percent loss in its half-yearly earnings to June 2013. The earnings per share (EPS), which was Tk 7.16 at the same period of last...
View ArticleKhokon Razakar charges accepted
A tribunal in Dhaka Thursday accepted charges of war crimes against fugitive Faridpur BNP leader MA Zahid Hossain Khokon, known as Khokon Razakar. The court issued an arrest warrant against Khokon, the...
View ArticleICT sets deadline for producing defence witnesses
A tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday asked the counsels for war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to produce a defence witness before it on Sunday for cross examination. If the defence counsels fail...
View ArticleAzhar faces 6 charges
The prosecution Thursday pressed six charges of wartime offences, which include mass murder, rape, torture and loot, against Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam. The 61-year-old, now behind the bars, also...
View ArticleCharge framing hearing now starts July 25
A Dhaka tribunal on Thursday re-fixed July 25 for starting hearing on charge framing against Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War...
View Article8 Afghan labourers shot dead
Eight Afghan labourers who were on their way to work at a US military base in Logar province have been shot dead, local officials say. The men, aged between 15 and 25, were in a van when they were...
View ArticleMerkel says ‘Germany not a surveillance state’
Chancellor Angela Merkel said “Germany is not a surveillance state” and insisted she only learnt of sweeping US online snooping through press reports, during a lengthy election-campaign media grilling...
View ArticleMuslims demand Vatican envoy leave Malaysia
Several Islamic groups yesterday demanded the recall of the Vatican’s first envoy to Malaysia, describing him as an “enemy of the state” after he supported the use of the word ” Allah” by non-Muslims....
View ArticlePioneering adult stem cell trial approved by Japan
The first trial of stem cells produced from a patient’s own body has been approved by the Japanese government. Stem cells can become any other part of the body – from nerve to bone to skin – and are...
View ArticleTop Pakistan foreign adviser to meet Karzai
Pakistan’s top foreign affairs official will meet the Afghan president in Kabul Sunday to discuss stalled efforts to begin talks with the Taliban in Qatar, a senior Pakistani official said yesterday....
View ArticleKerry launches new bid to rescue ME peace
US Secretary of State John Kerry was to dash to the West Bank yesterday to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he battled to salvage his Middle East peace bid. A Palestinian official announced...
View ArticleWoman dead, 7 people missing
An Indonesian woman died and seven people remain missing after a wooden boat believed to be smuggling them out of Malaysia to return home for the end of Ramadan overturned, authorities said Friday....
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