Tarique’s name included with political motive
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government had included the name of Tarique Rahman in the August 21 grenade attack cases with a political motive....
View ArticleJU VC kept confined to office
Around 50 Jahangirnagar University teachers have kept their Vice-Chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain confined to his office since 11:00am yesterday demanding his resignation or removal. The teachers, under...
View Article‘Hundreds’ killed in Syria gas attack
Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people – by one report as many as 1,300 yesterday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical...
View ArticleLabour leader murdered
Unidentified criminals stabbed to death a Sramik League leader in the capital’s Malibagh area yesterday morning. Moktar Hossain, 40, was the joint general secretary of Ward No 23 of the Dhaka city unit...
View Article‘Shibir’ activist held for threat
Detectives arrested a suspected activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir in the city’s Farmgate yesterday for threatening to blow up the Egyptian embassy in Dhaka. A team of Detective Branch of police (north)...
View ArticleAttackers can return
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon all to remain alert against the ‘BNP-Jamaat-Hefajat’, saying these elements would resort to terrorism, militancy and killings if they came to power....
View ArticleJustification not justified
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has continuously been portraying her government’s success in holding free and fair polls to local government bodies and by-elections to some parliamentary constituencies as...
View ArticlePMO bins Star report, editorial
The Daily Star received at 7:30 pm last Tuesday a rejoinder signed by Abul Kalam Azad, the press secretary to the prime minister, on two items published by this paper, a news item “PM on Star: Our...
View ArticlePriority high, progress slow
In its election manifesto, the ruling Awami League had attached high priority to upgrading the Dhaka-Chittagong highway into four lanes. Four and a half years down the line, the party has claimed the...
View ArticleMubarak faces house arrest
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is to be put under house arrest following a court order to release him in a corruption case, officials say. The prime minister’s office said the measure would be...
View ArticleMyanmar ‘failed to protect’ UN rights envoy
The UN human rights envoy to Myanmar has accused the country’s government of failing to protect him when his convoy came under attack this week. Tomas Ojea Quintan said this happened during his visit...
View ArticleZimbabwean president due to be sworn in
Robert Mugabe is due to be sworn in for a seventh term as Zimbabwean president. Thursday has been declared a public holiday to allow supporters of the 89-year-old to attend the inauguration ceremony in...
View ArticleAssad’s forces bombard Damascus suburbs
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces bombarded rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, activists said, keeping up pressure on the besieged region a day after the opposition accused the army of...
View ArticleAlleged Syria toxic attacks ‘serious escalation’: UN
UN officials say alleged chemical weapons attacks which Syria’s oppositions says killed hundreds near Damascus were a “serious escalation”. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson made the comments after...
View ArticleStocks positive in early trading
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse gained on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), climbed 41...
View ArticleMuggers shoot Dhaka College student
Muggers shot and stabbed a student of Dhaka College and snatched away his motorbike from the Mohakhali Flyover Thursday morning. Abdur Rob, 25, a master’s student of Economics Department of the...
View ArticleRobbers kill expatriate in Comilla
Robbers killed an expatriate by slitting his throat and looted valuables from his house in Nangalkot upazila on Comilla early Thursday. The deceased, Tazul Islam, 60, has been leaving in Oman for the...
View ArticleMK Anwar gets bail
BNP standing committee member MK Anwar secured bail after surrendering before a Dhaka court in connection with a case filed for creating social and religious anarchy in the country. Metropolitan...
View ArticleHall-Mark probe report in 7 days: ACC
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s probe body will submit the probe report into the Hall-Mark scam to the commission by next seven days, ACC Secretary Faizur Rahman Chowdhury said on Thursday. The ACC...
View ArticleManning says he’s female
Bradley Manning, the US soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation’s history, yesterday said he is female and wants to live as a woman...
View Article