Criminals attack cops
Criminals yesterday snatched an arrestee from police, leaving two law enforcers injured at Ranirhat Bazar in Bakerganj upazila. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bakerganj Police Staion Nurul Islam said...
View ArticleUN inspectors come under sniper attack
UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria met and took samples from victims of an apparent poison gas attack in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus yesterday after the UN team themselves survived a sniper...
View ArticleYunus would have been in jail if I were PM
Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddique yesterday said Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus would have been in jail had Latif been the prime minister. “Yunus is a traitor because he...
View ArticleNo need for amendment to charter
No constitutional amendment is needed to determine the structure of the interim government that will oversee the next parliamentary election, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday. Political...
View ArticleTwo masons die falling off high-rise
Two workers died after falling from the 11th floor of an under-construction building in the capital’s Wari yesterday, in the absence of any safety measures taken by the builders. Habib and Minhaj,...
View ArticleMozena for cutting flow of funds
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena yesterday stressed the need for cutting off the flow of money to terrorist organisations, saying it acts like oxygen for terrorism. “Money and terrorism … can be two sides of...
View ArticleBNP won’t accept even president-led interim govt
BNP would not even accept the president or the speaker as the head of an interim government for holding the next national polls, let alone the incumbent prime minister, senior party leader Moudud Ahmed...
View ArticleProsecutors rebuked for misconduct
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday rebuked the prosecutors for their misconduct during cross-examination of a witness in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman...
View ArticleOutages back
After not troubling people for months, frequent power cuts started again since Sunday as sultry weather pushed electricity demand up but power generation had dropped. Power Development Board (PDB)...
View ArticleBCL activists go unruly at court
A staff of Meherpur Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court sued eight Chhatra League men for their unruly behaviour in the court yesterday. The incident occurred when Chief Judicial Magistrate Abul Kashem...
View ArticleNazrul’s death anniversary today
The nation observes the 37th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today, 12th Bhadra of Bangla calendar. Various socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes...
View Article90 more fly to KL today
The government will send the second batch of 90 Bangladeshi workers from Dhaka today to join plantation jobs in Malaysia, resuming the operation after a four-month break. They will leave Hazrat...
View ArticleGovt actions in a month, says Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said the government would do whatever it intended to do about the Grameen Bank in the next one month. The government would take actions based on the...
View ArticleProtest against cop extortion
Several hundred traders yesterday blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Amin Bazar for an hour in protest at the increasing extortion allegedly by police. Police have withdrawn all personnel from the...
View ArticleMPs ‘meddling’ in zila parishads
Administrators appointed to the zila parishads (district councils) yesterday demanded the removal of lawmakers from the post of advisers to the councils accusing them of interfering in the local...
View ArticlePeace is very necessary
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has said he will happily share his thoughts with the government if it wishes to hear him like different political parties did in the last two months. “I meet them...
View ArticleHigh zinc rice released
A decade-long research by Bangladesh scientists has culminated in the release of the world’s first zinc-enriched rice variety, capable of fighting diarrhoea and pneumonia-induced childhood deaths and...
View ArticleAgri scientists aggrieved
A government decision to increase the retirement age for only a section of scientists drew immediate flak and deep resentment from agricultural scientists, who have long been promised special...
View ArticleCause lost
The Buriganga forked at Kamrangirchar to form a perfectly flowing channel in the olden days, serving the locality with livelihood like fishing. The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA)...
View ArticleSyria chemical attack undeniable: Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry has condemned what he said was the “undeniable” use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. He described recent attacks in the Damascus area as a “moral...
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