Savar poura mayor held
The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday arrested Savar municipality mayor Refayet Ullah from the capital’s Malibagh area in connection with the Rana Plaza collapse on April 24, said a CID...
View ArticleProf Anwar testifies at war tribunal
Alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan had led the abduction of several intellectuals from the Dhaka University campus on December 14, 1971, another prosecution witness...
View ArticleGovt plans reform in city polls
The government has initiated to annul direct election to the mayor and chairman posts in the local government levels. According to the move, elected councillors and members will elect a mayor or...
View ArticleDCs asked to reduce public sufferings
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday sought cooperation from the DCs to minimise public sufferings on roads and highways across the country ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. “We hope that the DCs...
View ArticleIndictment decision on Aug 1
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed August 1 to decide about framing charge(s) against Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf for his alleged involvement in genocide and crimes against...
View ArticleGSP review in December
Washington may give Dhaka another opportunity in December when it will have a hearing on the reinstatement of tariff-free access of Bangladeshi products to the US market. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary...
View ArticleJS body warns against arrest on false charges
Plain-clothes policemen of different police stations in the capital and its outskirts are engaged in various illegal activities including extortion, and the arrest of innocent people on false charges....
View ArticleSQ Chy’s trial at closing stage
Exercising its inherent power, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday allowed war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to produce an unlisted witness even though there was no provision to...
View ArticleBiggest-ever gold haul
Customs officials at Shahjalal International Airport seized 1,064 gold bars weighing around 124 kilograms from the luggage chamber of a Biman flight yesterday. “This is the biggest ever haul at the...
View ArticleGas field trouble over
After terrorising workers of US oil company Chevron in Moulvibazar gas field for five days, a group of five contractors yesterday withdrew its blocking of the movement of Chevron vehicles in Srimangal....
View ArticleJesun new Spelling Bee champion
Sunjack Jesun, class-X student of St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka, has been crowned champion of this year’s The Daily Star Spelling Bee. The finale, held in front of a capacity audience in the...
View ArticleFinal bid for Teesta deal
In an effort to seal the Teesta river water sharing deal and ratification of the land boundary agreement with India, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni goes to New Delhi today. Even though she was invited by...
View ArticlePrepare for polls without army
The deputy commissioners (DC) have been asked to prepare for the next parliamentary elections in a free, fair and credible manner without the help of the army. “The government has repeatedly proved...
View ArticleATM forgery unearthed
ATM card users are a new target of fraudsters as the use of plastic money is on the rise. The Detective Branch of Police on Tuesday night busted a gang of four fraudsters for stealing around Tk 2 crore...
View ArticleMany families still wait for compensation
Alif is only two and a half years old and he has already lost the dearest person of his life — his mother — who would, otherwise, have been by his side teaching him all the childhood lessons. He...
View ArticleRony arrested
Embattled Awami League MP Golam Maula Rony was arrested yesterday, shortly after a Dhaka court cancelled his bail and ordered his arrest for beating up two TV journalists. After his arrest from the...
View ArticleUS House votes to continue NSA’s phone surveillance
The US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to continue collecting data on US phone calls, in the first legislative move on the programme. In a 205-217 vote, lawmakers rejected an effort to...
View Article77 die as Spanish train derails
A train has derailed in north-western Spain, killing at least 77 of its 218 passengers and injuring more than 100, officials in the Galicia region say. All eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train...
View ArticleUS delays delivery of jets to Egypt
The US says it is delaying the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt amid unrest following the army’s overthrow of Mohammed Morsi as president. Pentagon spokesman George Little said the decision...
View ArticleMilitants kill 14 Shias in Iraq
Militants shot dead 14 Shia tanker-drivers after checking their identity papers at a makeshift roadblock on the main route leading north from the Iraqi capital late on Wednesday, police said. The...
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