Bus plunge kills 37 in Malaysia
A Bangladeshi-born Canadian citizen among 37 people died and four of his family members were injured when a bus travelling from Genting Highlands to Kuala Lumpur plunged into a ravine on Wednesday. The...
View ArticlePetition of Oishee’s lawyer rejected
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a petition by the lawyer of Oishee Rahman seeking directives on police to stop disclosing information about her to the media. Schoolgirl Oishee is the prime suspect in...
View ArticleMK Anwar granted bail
BNP standing committee member MK Anwar yesterday secured bail in a case filed against him for instigating social and religious anarchy in the country. Metropolitan Magistrate Mostafa Shahriar Khan...
View ArticleDecision on contempt rule Sept 2
The Human Rights Watch had scandalised the International Crimes Tribunal-1 and its process by a report on the verdict of war criminal Ghulam Azam, said prosecutor Tureen Afroz yesterday. Terming the...
View ArticleSister accuses Mueen, Ashraf
Martyred intellectual Prof Giasuddin Ahmed’s sister Farida Banu yesterday testified that Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were involved in her brother’s abduction on December 14, 1971....
View ArticleAn emotional reunion
The story began almost three years ago, on November 12, 2010. Anwar Hossain, a staff of Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Academy, was restlessly waiting in front of the emergency department of the navy...
View ArticlePressure mounting on UN for action
The United Nations is coming under growing international pressure to act if Syrian activists’ claims that the government has used chemical weapons in a horrific attack on civilians are confirmed....
View Article3 ‘militants’ held in Bogra
Law enforcers arrested three suspected militants in Bogra with firearms, including a light machine gun and a sub-machine gun. During a drive at Thonthonia in Bogra Sadar, the Rapid Action Battalion...
View ArticleSpeaker for dialogue to end crisis
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday said she would play her “due role” if the government and the opposition took any initiative inside parliament to resolve the ongoing political crisis over the...
View ArticleBCL leader hacked by ‘Shibir men’
Shibir cadres cut the tendons of a Chhatra League leader and shot another on Rajshahi University campus last night, police said. Tawhid al Tuhin, general secretary of the BCL’s RU unit, was undergoing...
View ArticleSchoolgirl forced into sex trade
A schoolgirl of Manikganj has been forced to lead a life of a sex worker at a house in Savar on the outskirts of the capital for the last two months. The victim disclosed the horrific story of her...
View ArticleNon-partisan govt a must
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus said yesterday the next parliamentary election must be held under a non-partisan government to rid the country of the ongoing volatile situation and ensure its...
View ArticleBill seeks media immunity
A private member’s bill was submitted to the Parliament Secretariat yesterday seeking to introduce a provision for providing the print and electronic media with immunity from prosecution for airing or...
View ArticleCrisis deepens
The crisis at Jahangirnagar University worsened yesterday as a faction of teachers kept the vice-chancellor confined to his office for the second day despite the education minister’s request to resolve...
View ArticleCommittee crosses line
The national committee for recommending withdrawal of “politically motivated” lawsuits yesterday proposed dropping 72 cases, including around 10 murder cases against Bangladesh Chhatra League and Awami...
View ArticleSpecial JS body’s proceedings back Star editorial
Yesterday we published the full text of the PMO’s response to two items in this newspaper, one a report and the other an editorial. Our report was based on a public pronouncement of the PM, at a press...
View ArticleOut of control
Capital Dhaka is home to some 150 million people. One study shows nearly 80 percent of them live in rented houses, and they do so, as it looks, at the mercy of the house owners. It hardly occurs to...
View ArticleSyria ‘chemical’ attack: Ban Ki-moon urges swift probe
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the alleged chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital “needs to be investigated without delay”. He is sending disarmament chief Angela Kane to Damascus...
View ArticleAL leader shot dead in Jhenidah
Unidentified criminals shot a local Awami League leader to death at Panami village in Jhenidah sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sanaruddin Mandal, 55, general secretary...
View ArticleGang rape of journo shocks Mumbai
A photo journalist in her early 20s was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons to a similar assault in New Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests...
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