Air raids on Syria’s Homs kill woman, children
Air raids on Homs killed at least three civilians yesterday, monitors said, as Syrian government forces pressed a new bid to retake rebel-held parts of the city dubbed the “capital of the revolution”....
View ArticlePCJSS leader shot dead
Criminals shot dead a leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti near Panchhari upazila health complex under Khagrachhari district on Saturday night. Police said an armed gang ambushed Supan...
View Article70pc pay hike recommended for journos
The Eighth Wage Board formed by the government for newspapers and news agencies has recommended 70 percent pay hike for journalists, employees and workers. Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque, chairman of the...
View ArticleHefajat divided in Gazipur
Hefajat-e Islam is divided over extending support to the mayoral candidates backed by the ruling Awami League and the main opposition BNP in the July 6 Gazipur City Corporation polls. A number of...
View ArticleSpecialist ‘doctors’ without degrees
A man with a secondary school diploma and his wife with a graduate degree had been posing as doctors and treating people for years in Chittagong. A mobile court yesterday sentenced Ujjal Kanti Dev and...
View ArticleChina ramps up response after Xinjiang ‘attacks’
China has vowed to ramp up patrols and “crack down upon terrorist groups” after staging large military exercises in the ethnically-divided Xinjiang region following clashes that killed at least 35...
View ArticleSQ Chy’s new antics
Facing 23 charges of crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury did the unthinkable yesterday and told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he was an...
View ArticleThe MidEast plague may go global
When the Black Death exploded in Arabia in the 14th century, killing an estimated third of the population, it spread across the Islamic world via infected hajj pilgrims. Today, the Middle East is...
View ArticlePolitical violence claimed 258 lives
Political violence claimed lives of 258 people in the last six months while the figure was 84 in the entire last year, states a report published by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). As many as 10,512 people...
View ArticleGovt sits on setting up food courts
They are on paper only. In reality, not a single food court has been set up, even four years after a High Court order to do so. Following a public interest litigation in June 2009, the HC had directed...
View ArticleWorkers in fear of crackdown
Around 2.42 million irregular foreign workers, including Bangladeshis, in Saudi Arabia are in fear of missing the deadline for an amnesty that will allow them to get their status legalised by tomorrow....
View ArticleMorsi given a day to quit
Egypt’s opposition yesterday gave Islamist Mohamed Morsi a day to quit or face civil disobedience after deadly protests demanded the country’s first democratically elected president step down after...
View ArticleWaterbus service resumes Thursday
Even though a previous attempt failed miserably, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation is going to launch a revamped waterbus service around the capital Dhaka from Thursday with six craft....
View ArticleMove on to persuade JP
Awami League-backed mayoral aspirant Ajmat Ullah Khan is yet to get full support from Jatiya Party, a key component of the AL-led 14-party grand alliance, said JP sources. However, JP Chairman HM...
View ArticleAL desperate to retain stronghold
The opposition’s use of national issues like stock market crash, Hall-Mark scam, railway-gate scandal, and the alleged Padma bridge scam, has made ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Ajmat...
View ArticleTribunal irked by SQC deposition
International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday did not allow war crimes accused Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury to give deposition against the prosecution witnesses as it went against the law. The tribunal...
View ArticleAL leader shot dead in Pabna
A Swechhashebak League leader was killed and another Jubo League man injured as a group of armed criminals opened fire on them in Pabna yesterday. The deceased Md Mamunur Rashid Mamun, 38, son of Torab...
View ArticleUnified food safety authority on cards
The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of the Food Safety Act, 2013 with a provision of up to 14 years’ imprisonment for food adulterators. The draft law also sought to form a unified...
View ArticleGovt moves for quick passage of labour law
The government yesterday decided to quickly review the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2013 and pass it in the current parliament session. The move comes as a last-ditch effort to regain the GSP...
View ArticleUS suggests plan of action
The US government has recommended a set of action plans to Bangladesh to reclaim the GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) privileges that the Obama Administration suspended on Thursday over poor...
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