Top Hefajat leader Wakkas detained
Detectives detained Hefajat-e Islam leader and former state minister Mufti Mohammad Wakkas at the capital’s Malibagh yesterday in connection with Hefajat’s May 5 mayhem at Shapla Chattar. Wakkas, Dhaka...
View ArticleA year on, Sonali mulls litigation
Sonali Bank is finally making moves to sue the owners of Hall-Mark Group and some bankers for realising Tk 2,554 crore swindled from the bank more than a year ago. The bank’s board of directors at a...
View ArticleHurt deep down Buddhist heart
When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Ramu today, she can expect to see some happy faces, as the government has rebuilt 19 Buddhist temples that were torched and vandalised in Ramu and Ukhia in...
View ArticleJS to exist, but not in session
Amid confusion over the polls-time administration, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the general election would be held without dissolving the current parliament and the cabinet. She added...
View ArticleEgypt bans four Islamist TVs for inciting hatred
A Cairo court yesterday ordered the closure of four television channels, including Al-Jazeera Egypt and Ahrar 25, a network belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, for “inciting hatred” against Coptic...
View ArticleLibya gunmen kidnap ex-spy chief’s daughter
Gunmen kidnapped the daughter of Libya’s former spy chief Abdullah Senussi as she left a Tripoli jail after serving out a prison sentence, Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said yesterday. Senussi was...
View ArticleBraveheart Mumbai teen files molestation case against father
When the 15-year-old confided in her mother that she was stripped and bitten by her father, she was met with a “let it go.” However, the victim was in no mood to let go and went straight to the...
View ArticleFrog can hear with mouth!
Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths, scientists said Monday. Gardiner’s frogs live in the rainforests of the Seychelles, a series of...
View ArticleGovt has nothing to hide
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday insisted that his government has nothing to hide vis-a-vis the coal scam and it was wrong to assume that it was “hiding something”. Manmohan Singh said it would...
View ArticleMore than 2m flee Syria: UN
More than two million Syrians have fled their country, the UN refugee agency said yesterday, as President Barack Obama secured supports from key Republicans for military strikes against Syria, in a...
View ArticleGovt to fix DA considering inflation
The government will fix dearness allowance of the public servants on the basis of inflation and any imminent revision of pay scale, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. “We will make the...
View ArticleBTCL boss, 3 others denied bail
The High Court yesterday rejected bail petitions filed by the managing director of state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd and three others, charged for misappropriating over Tk 607...
View ArticleAlim’s trial at final stage
The case against war crimes accused BNP leader Abdul Alim is set to enter the final stage as International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed today for beginning of closing arguments. The two-member...
View ArticleMadness in the morning
The school-goers of Dhanmondi residential area are the worst sufferers of its confusing traffic system. With muddled up laws that changes almost every day, there is never any telling which way one...
View ArticleRickshaw-puller identifies 8 BCL men
A prosecution witness yesterday identified eight of the 21 Chhatra League men accused of killing Biswajit Das during a road blockade enforced by the BNP-led opposition on December 9 last year. The 13...
View ArticleCEC for extensive scrutiny
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday said the commission would examine whether a level playing field would be created for all candidates if the next general election is held with...
View ArticleNokia exits mobile phone business
Microsoft Corp has agreed to buy Nokia Oyj’s handset business and license its patents for €5.44 billion ($7.2 billion), casting together the lot of two technologies companies trying to stay relevant...
View ArticleComments
Wasim Bin Habib yesterday talked to noted jurists and civil society members who observed that it is not possible to have a level playing field for the upcoming national election if the polls are to be...
View ArticleCrisis to deepen
It is clear that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has further hardened the government’s stance on the polls by backtracking from her earlier announcement of holding the general election by dissolving the...
View ArticleCurious buying spree
In Chittagong’s deep-sea fishing business, an entrant has created quite a ripple. He has little business background other than being the government-appointed chairman of the now troubled BASIC Bank....
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