1 Shahbagh burn victim dies
A youth who sustained burn injuries when miscreants set fire to a bus near Shishu Park in the capital this evening, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital five hours after the incident. Nahid...
View ArticleUPDF man shot dead
Unidentified assailants shot dead an activist of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) at Marakoyla in the district’s Ramgarh upazila yesterday. The dead is Gopal Chakma alias Tapan, 38, from...
View ArticleGerman envoy for release of BNP leaders
German Ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze yesterday hoped that both the major political alliances would “act responsibly” ahead of the Bangladesh visit of a senior c. UN Assistant Secretary-General for...
View Article‘Mastermind’ arrested
Detectives yesterday arrested one of the key accused in last year’s Ramu atrocities case at Naikhongchhari in Bandarban. Tofayel Ahmed, a suspended chairman of Naikhongchhari upazila, and a local...
View ArticleDr Kamal under fire at AL meeting
Without mentioning the name of eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the president of a political party is creating obstacles for the government to...
View ArticleErshad expels, gets ‘expelled’
A presidium member is expelling his party chief! Within half an hour of receiving the orders of his removal around 12:30pm yesterday, Kazi Zafar Ahmed issued a counter statement expelling Ershad from...
View ArticleFive BNP leaders denied bail again
While five BNP leaders, including Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Miah, have again been denied bail in two cases filed for murder attempt and violence, their party colleague Mir Nasir was...
View ArticleBad days for the poor
Street violence during the last 71-hour blockade could not prevent the working classes from coming out of their homes on account of necessity. They had a choice between staying at home in fear and...
View ArticleClassical music festival begins
Melody, being a universal language, leaves its imprints on the heart anywhere and everywhere. Classical music is certainly a coruscating way of lose oneself in aesthetic contemplation. To depict and...
View ArticleHindu houses, shops looted in Lalmonirhat
Hindus came under attack allegedly by activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat for the second time in a month yesterday. The attackers beat up at least...
View ArticleCivil society members urge dialogue
Thirty-five civil society members yesterday called on the ruling and opposition parties to initiate a dialogue to resolve the current political stalemate and pave the way for a free and fair election...
View ArticleRiskier than before
The Election Commission wants army deployment for a longer period than in the previous polls as it thinks that the ensuing general election poses more risks. The scene is different this time around as...
View Article2 killed on last day of blockade
Two Chhatra League men were killed and five others sustained injuries when pro-BNP Chhatra Dal cadres attacked their anti-blockade demonstration in Narsingdi last night. Anwar Hossain Anu and Shaheedul...
View ArticleA picture and a train
Today we write about a picture that we couldn’t publish and about 500 passengers of a train who could have died or been severely injured. We couldn’t publish the picture. It was just too heart rending,...
View ArticleDisaster averted
It was sheer luck that saved an Opsonin chemical factory and the lives of dozens from an explosion in Barisal city after opposition activists set alight a truck loaded with 480 gas cylinders near the...
View Article19 burnt as bus set afire
A teenage boy died and at least 18 other people were burned after arsonists set fire to a passenger bus near Shishu Park in the capital yesterday, the third day of the opposition blockade. The dead is...
View ArticleDeath rumour prompts Gazipur workers to torch RMG unit
Hundreds of readymade garment (RMG) and sweater factory workers set fire to three buildings of a group of industries in Gazipur Sadar yesterday night following a rumour of deaths of two of their...
View ArticleSyria child refugees suffering schooling loss
School-age children living as refugees outside Syria are increasingly cut off from education and forced to work long hours for low pay, a UN report says. As many as 300,000 living in Lebanon and Jordan...
View ArticleThai anti-gov protesters break into army hq
About 1,000 anti-government protesters forced their way into the compound of the Royal Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok on Friday, the latest escalation in a city-wide demonstration seeking to topple...
View ArticleOpposition calls hartal for Sunday in 4 dists
BNP and the opposition combine today separately called daylong hartal (shutdown) for Sunday in Dinajpur, Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts while a 36-hour hartal in Bogra from the same day. The main...
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