No extension
The Election Commission (EC) would not extend the time for submission of nomination papers for the upcoming national election, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday....
View ArticlePut an end to violence
Top business leaders yesterday pleaded with the major political parties to immediately sort out their differences and put an end to the ongoing deadly violence for the sake of the economy and the...
View ArticleTroubled BNP faces leadership crunch
The BNP is in a leadership crisis as many of its top organisers are behind bars, while those out are either on the run to avoid arrests or too old for active politics. In addition, party sources say,...
View ArticleMan injured critically by crude bomb
Mokhlesur Rahman was at a wrong place at a wrong time, unfortunately. After his midday prayers, he was going to his office at Mohakhali in the capital. As soon as he came near Titumir College, a...
View ArticleBlockaders continue targeting trains
Over 60 passengers were injured as the Dhaka-bound Mohanagar Godhuli derailed after blockade supporters removed the fishplates of the rail track in Burichang upazila of Comilla yesterday. The...
View ArticleUN warns against further violence
Deeply worried by the escalation of political violence in Bangladesh, a senior UN official yesterday cautioned that the perpetrators of political or election related violence had faced prosecution in...
View ArticleNetanyahu talks tough on Iran before Vatican talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has restated his firm opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran during a visit to Rome in which he was set to meet Pope Francis and Prime Minister Enrico Letta...
View ArticleTouchscreen-reliant kids can’t hold pencil!
Toddlers these days are barely out of nappies before they are playing with touchscreen toys and fiddling with iPads. And now, it seems, they are paying the price — because when they arrive at nursery...
View ArticleUN team meets EC
A three-member delegation of the United Nations (UN) called on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed at the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat yesterday, but declined to brief the...
View ArticleWoman, 7-year old daughter killed in crash
A speeding bus claimed the lives of a mother and her seven-year-old daughter in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. Mahinur Begum, 30, and Jamila Akter, the youngest of her three children, were...
View Article7-member probe body formed
Police in separate drives until yesterday arrested 41 people in connection with the fire incident at Gazipur factory compound of Standard Group early Friday. A seven-member committee led by Gazipur...
View ArticleRickshaw-puller hit by crude bomb
A rickshaw-puller suffered severe eye injuries when a crude bomb hurled by pro-blockade pickets hit him in the capital’s Kaptanbazar yesterday, the third day of the opposition’s 131-hour countrywide...
View ArticleJapan for talks to end violence
Japan has urged all political parties to engage in constructive dialogue to find a mutually acceptable solution for holding a free, fair and inclusive parliamentary election in the interest of...
View ArticleYusuf accused of Rampal genocide
Another prosecution witness yesterday testified that Razakars, at Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf’s directives, had killed 500-600 Hindus in a single act of genocide at Rampal of Bagerhat during the...
View ArticleJP picks war crimes suspect for JS polls
Jatiya Party has picked a war crimes suspect to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls in Jessore-6 (Keshabpur) constituency. The nomination paper of Mawlana Sakhawat Hossain, who has allegedly been...
View ArticleATMs empty
The ongoing blockade has prevented banks from loading cash into automated teller machines (ATMs), making cardholders unable to withdraw money from them. Banks and ATM operators said insecurity in...
View ArticleRajuk to scrap deal with failed firm
Rajuk is set to cancel this week a contract with a company of a former Awami League lawmaker, as the firm has failed to complete its share of work in the Uttara apartment project. In February, 2012,...
View ArticleTrain rides get risky
Train passengers across the country have been put to great trouble as the railway has become the prime target for arson attacks by opposition activists in the recent blockades. “Though I love...
View ArticleTruckers take to the street
Police yesterday foiled a bid by transport workers to stage demonstrations in front of the BNP chairperson’s residence. They were protesting the attack on drivers and their vehicles during the...
View ArticleChildren suffer in silence
If doing psychological damage to children is the goal of the ongoing violent politics, then the politicians seem to have succeeded. Take the case of Dhrubo, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Goran....
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