SC judgment on appeals this week
The Supreme Court is likely to deliver its verdict this week on appeals filed against conviction and “inadequate sentencing” of war criminal and Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, court sources said....
View Article3 of a family murdered in Mymensingh
Three members of a family, including two children, were killed by unknown assailants at their house in Phulbaria upazila on Thursday night. The dead are Zahura Khatun, 55, her daughter Sima, 12, and...
View ArticleFailure in Geneva meet draws flak
International trade unions and rights campaigners yesterday heavily criticised fashion brands for their complete disregard to the victims of recent garment factory tragedies in Bangladesh after major...
View ArticleResolve political crisis internally
Bangladesh’s political parties will have to find political solutions themselves instead of looking for outside help in holding free and fair elections to continue as a thriving democracy, two leading...
View ArticleHall-Mark boss flouts bail condition
Hall-Mark Chairperson Jasmine Islam had been granted bail in 11 cases last month in connection with the Sonali Bank loan scam, on condition that she would pay back to the bank Tk 100 crore every month....
View ArticleSon shot dead in front of parents
A 20-year-old college student was shot dead by an unidentified gang in the presence of his parents in the capital’s Jatrabari early yesterday. Bokhtiar Mohammad Latif, an A-level student of Academia,...
View ArticleAnwar Hossain passes away
Veteran character actor of Bangla cinema Anwar Hossain yesterday passed away due to old-age complications, at the age of 82. He was admitted to Square Hospital in the capital on August 18 with various...
View ArticleBSF orders fresh trial
The Indian Border Security Force has rejected its special court’s acquittal of a BSF constable charged with killing Felani Khatun on Indo-Bangladesh border in January, 2011. It also decided to hold a...
View ArticleSundarbans shrinking
Encroachers have deforested nearly 50,000 hectares of the Sundarbans in the last decade, a study has found. This means the world’s largest mangrove forest spreading over 6.01 lakh hectares area has...
View Article19 m rupees found in flood-hit Indian town
Workers clearing rubble in a flood-devastated town in the Indian Himalayas have discovered 19 million rupees ($303,000) in a safe which had been swept away by floodwaters, police said yesterday. The...
View ArticleS Korea: man killed near border
South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea yesterday after he ignored repeated warnings to turn back, the defence ministry said. A ministry spokesman said...
View ArticleAfghan poll race kicks off as nominations open
Nominations opened yesterday for Afghanistan’s presidential election, with a large field expected to register in the race to succeed Hamid Karzai as the US-led war winds down. The election next April 5...
View ArticleTime slow for flies
Flies avoid being swatted in just the same way Keanu Reeves dodges flying bullets in the movie The Matrix — by watching time pass slowly. To the insect, that rolled-up newspaper moving at lightning...
View ArticleWest for ‘strong’ UN resolution
France, Britain and the US have agreed to seek a “strong and robust” UN resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines on the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, the office of the French...
View Article12 accused freed on bail
Jubo league leader Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar, one of the prime accused of a gunfight over tender submission that killed two people including an eight-year-old boy on June 24, was release on bail...
View ArticleEC soft on ‘sheaf of wheat’ party
Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz yesterday said they, for the second time, have given the Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) additional time to meet registration requirements to ensure justice and...
View ArticleNizami was behind Azhar’s abduction
The wife of a martyred intellectual yesterday told International Crimes Tribunal-1 that by order of war crimes accused Motiur Rahman Nizami, members of Al-Badr and the Pakistani army had picked up her...
View ArticleACC okays charge sheet against 25
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) probing the Hall-Mark and Sonali Bank loan scams yesterday approved a chargesheet accusing 25 persons, including Hall-Mark bosses, Sonali Bank senior officials and...
View ArticleModified brinjal found okay
An expert committee has termed sound all scientific findings concerning the country’s first genetically modified (GM) crop — Bt Brinjal — and is now preparing its review report on those for forwarding...
View ArticleCancel Hall-Mark chair’s bail
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a petition with the High Court, seeking cancellation of the bail to Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam because she broke her bail condition. A...
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