Army to run taxis
In a desperate bid to improve taxicab service, the government has decided to involve Bangladesh Army to launch a new taxicab service for the capital and Chittagong metropolis. Under the new scheme, the...
View ArticleThe sons are coming?
From the looks of it the two sons have arrived, one for a second time and the other for the first. Normally whenever the younger generation comes up to take responsibility from the previous one, it...
View ArticleEC chooses wrong path
The Election Commission headed by Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad could not live up to people’s expectations in the last one and a half years. Some of its activities, particularly those on electoral law reforms,...
View ArticleConfidence in EC eroding
The growing controversy centring on the Election Commission’s performance and move against some major reform proposals has added fuel to the opposition BNP’s anti-EC campaign and shaken the Awami...
View ArticleHearing of Sayedee, govt appeals starts Sep 17
The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed September 17 to start hearing on the separate appeals filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee and the government challenging the war crimes trial...
View ArticleGunmen kill 8 Tunisian troops as political tensions grow
Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led...
View Article240 inmates escape after militants attack Pakistan prison
Taliban militants wearing police uniform have launched an assault on a prison in Pakistan, with an official saying more than 240 prisoners escaped. The attack on the jail in the north-western town of...
View ArticleFreedom fighter Belal Mohammad passes away
Belal Mohammad, a freedom fighter and an organiser of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, died at Apollo Hospital in the capital early Tuesday at the age of 77. The eminent poet, who had been suffering from...
View ArticleIndia Telangana state decision ‘expected’
India’s ruling Congress party is likely to announce its support for the formation of a new state in the Telangana region of southern Andhra Pradesh state, media reports say. The state has seen protests...
View ArticleMid-East peace talks resume in US
Middle East peace talks have resumed after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators dined in Washington DC with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said it was a “very, very special” moment, as they...
View Article2 ‘carjackers’ killed in ‘shootout’
Two suspected carjackers were killed in a ‘shootout’ with Rapid Action Battalion members in South Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital, early Tuesday. The victims are Sabur, 25, and Matin, 27....
View ArticleStocks down
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse came down during the first one-and-half hour of trading on Tuesday. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed 21 points...
View ArticleJubo League leader shot dead in capital
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a Jubo League leader at Gulshan in the capital early Tuesday. Riazul Haque Khan Milky, 43, was organising secretary of Jubo League, Dhaka metropolitan (south) unit,...
View Article15 workers missing after Florida gas plant blast
Fifteen people are unaccounted for after a series of explosions at a gas plant in the US state of Florida. Between 24 and 26 people were working at the Blue Rhino Propane Plant, in the central town of...
View ArticleAfghan market blast ‘kills four’ in Kandahar
At least four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in an explosion in the southern city of Kandahar, Afghan officials say. At the time of the blast, the market was packed with shoppers...
View ArticlePakistan probes Qaeda link to jailbreak
Pakistan is investigating possible al-Qaeda involvement in a major jailbreak in the country’s militant-plagued northwest that freed nearly 250 prisoners, security officials said yesterday. Dozens of...
View Article6 dead, 26 hurt in Philippines bomb blast
A powerful bomb which was heard for kilometres killed six people yesterday in a southern Philippine city where the United States and other governments earlier warned of a terror threat. The explosive...
View ArticleShooting, bombings kill 15 across Iraq
A series of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 15 people, including a random shooting and the killing of a judge, authorities said. Violence has been on the rise in Iraq all year, but the number of...
View ArticleWorld’s first test tube burger tasted
Scientists yesterday unveiled the world’s first lab-grown beef burger, serving it up to volunteers in London in what they hope is the start of a food revolution. The 140 gramme (about five ounce)...
View ArticleUnicorn of the sea!
Divers in Australia have captured rare images of the Pyrostremma spinosum, or pyrosome, sea creature off the coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is so rare it has been dubbed the ‘Unicorn of the Sea’ and...
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