Bomb-hurt blockade victim dies
A woman who sustained injuries in a crude bomb attack at Malibagh in the capital yesterday died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital early today. Victim Anwara Begum, 42, breathed her last around...
View ArticleBNP afraid of polls defeat: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today alleged that the main opposition BNP is trying to boycott the next general election in fear of defeat. The High Court declared illegal the registration of...
View ArticleZafar Iqbal, Yasmeen Haque withdraw resignation
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and his wife Yasmeen Haque withdrew their resignation letters today after Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) authorities decided to go on with holding combined...
View Article5 killed in blockade violence
At least five people were killed and 75 others including 27 policemen injured in blockade violence across the country today, on the final day of the opposition-combine called 48-hour blockade. So far...
View ArticleBlockade extended to 6pm tomorrow
The BNP-led 18-party alliance has extended its countrywide blockade to 6:00pm tomorrow in protest against what it called killings of its activists and government oppression. Rizvi Ahmed, BNP joint...
View ArticleMufti Hannan among 13 Huji men charge-sheeted
The Criminal Investigation Department today pressed charges against 13 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan for bomb blasts on a CPB...
View ArticleTomorrow’s primary exam rescheduled
The primary terminal and equivalent examinations scheduled for tomorrow will now be held on Saturday. The government made the announcement shortly after the BNP-led opposition combine extended its...
View ArticleSSC exams begin Feb 9
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will begin from February 9 next year, an official of education ministry said today. The examinations, which usually begin on February...
View ArticleCocktail hurled at EC office Ctg
Unknown miscreants hurled two bombs at the Election Commission office in Chittagong today. No one was hurt and no valuable was damaged due to the attack, Shafiqur Rahman, an election official, told the...
View ArticleTaranco due Dec 6
Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, UN assistant secretary-general for political affairs, will visit Bangladesh on December 6 to discuss with political leadership, election officials and others concerned about...
View ArticleMushfiqur to lead Tigers till 2015 WC
Mushfiqur Rahim will be retained as the captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team until the end of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The world cup is scheduled to take place in Australia and New Zealand...
View ArticleJamaat leader shot dead in Jessore
Miscreants gunned down a union-level leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Jessore this evening, seven hours after a Juba League leader’s tendon was cut allegedly by Jamaat men. District Jamaat called a...
View ArticleBritain wins right to keep Litvinenko death papers secret
London’s High Court on Wednesday backed a bid by the British government to keep secret documents linked to an inquest into the death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. The coroner leading the...
View ArticleFrance clears major Roma camp outside Paris
French authorities yesterday cleared one of the country’s largest Roma camps, evicting some 800 migrants from a shantytown north of Paris. France has in recent years pursued a controversial policy of...
View ArticleCIA chief accused of murder over Pakistan drone attack
The political party of former cricketer Imran Khan yesterday named the CIA’s director and a man it said was the agency’s chief in Pakistan as murder suspects over a drone strike. Khan’s Pakistan...
View ArticleCats never evolved to care any one
Any cat owner will tell you that although they are sometimes kept as pets, felines are beholden to no one. A new study from the University of Japan has confirmed this, showing that although pet cats...
View ArticleLatvian PM quits over store collapse
Latvia’s prime minister resigned yesterday, in the wake of a supermarket roof cave-in that killed 54 people, just weeks before the country enters the eurozone. The political thunderbolt announced by...
View ArticleChina for smooth polls in Bangladesh
China hopes there will be a smooth election in Bangladesh in January, which the country’s opposition has pledged to boycott. “As a good and close neighbour of Bangladesh, China sincerely hopes that all...
View Article2 witnesses testify on wartime killings
Two witnesses in the war crimes case against Zahid Hossain Khokon yesterday testified how their fathers were killed during the Liberation War at Meherdia village in Faridpur. One of the witnesses,...
View ArticleBail for Hall-Mark boss extended
A Dhaka court yesterday again extended the bail to Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam till January 22, 2014 in connection with 11 graft cases filed for swindling over Tk 2,600 crore out of Sonali...
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