Economy at multiple risks
The economy of Bangladesh will face two sets of challenges over the next few years of which most immediate are the disruption and uncertainty associated with the forthcoming elections, says an IMF...
View ArticleTwo more die
Another arson victim, who suffered 64 percent burns, died of his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll from arson up to 15 since last month. Trucker Mehedi...
View ArticleDay’s freedom for people ends
Traffic in the capital and elsewhere went haywire yesterday as people, who had been restricted from their usual lifestyle due to the six-day blockade last week, poured out from their homes to attend to...
View ArticleBangladesh in mourning for 3 days
The government yesterday announced a three-day national mourning beginning today to pay homage to South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. The national flag will be kept at half-mast at all...
View ArticleLast statesman of our times
He was the last statesman of the world we inhabit in these parlous times. There was about Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the charisma and the wisdom the world was in sore need of, given that values were...
View ArticleWise words from Mandela
It is always a privilege to be in the presence of great men. But this writer had never been made more aware of that privilege than on Wednesday night (March 26, 1997) listening to the South African...
View ArticleA great light has gone out
The world yesterday mourned the death of Nelson Mandela, the most universally loved and revered leader in history, hailed as an “incredible gift” to humanity. South African President Jacob Zuma...
View ArticleBomb explodes near Israel patrol in Golan; no casualties
The Israeli army yesterday said that a blast the previous evening on the Golan Heights was from a bomb detonated as patrolling troops passed by, but that there were no casualties. An investigation of...
View ArticleJapan’s secrecy bill condemned by Nobel academics
Japan’s controversial new state secrets law was condemned Saturday as “the largest ever threat to democracy in postwar Japan” by a group of academics, including two Nobel prize winners, reports said....
View ArticleAfghan security pact will be signed
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday said he had received assurances during a visit to Kabul that a long-delayed deal allowing US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 would be signed “in a...
View ArticleDylan’s iconic guitar sells for $1m
Like Elvis’ no-hips-allowed appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ or the Beatles’ arrival in America, or Woodstock, it is considered one of the milestone moments in rock history: Bob Dylan going...
View ArticleGene therapy’s big wins against blood cancers
In one of the biggest advances against leukaemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into...
View ArticleBNP sticks to polls-time govt without Hasina
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night categorically told UN Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernández-Taranco that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must resign and a non-partisan person has to head the...
View ArticleCall off blockade during nat’l mourning
Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the opposition leader to withdraw the blockade and hartal programmes showing respect to the great South African antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela as a...
View Article2 ‘JCD men’ held over Shahbagh bus torching
Detectives yesterday arrested two people for their alleged involvement in torching a bus in the capital’s Shahbagh 10 days ago, that left three passengers dead and 16 injured. After primary...
View ArticleCall for talks by parties lacks heart
The call for dialogue by the feuding parties to resolve the ongoing political crisis lacks heart, Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman, chief adviser to the 1996 caretaker government, said yesterday. “We as...
View Article48 challenge EC decisions
A total of 48 appeals were filed with the Election Commission yesterday against the cancellation of their candidacies for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for January 5. Aspirants whose...
View ArticleScrap polls fixture
Shushashoner Jannoy Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday urged the Election Commission to cancel the schedule of the polls to stop it from being a one-party election. “Cancel the schedule of a one-party...
View ArticleConvicts wait for copies of verdict
Most of the convicts in BDR carnage case could not file regular appeal with the High Court against their convictions and sentences, since they did not get certified copies of the trial court verdict. A...
View ArticleSix JP ministers, one adviser ‘to quit today’
The six Jatiya Party ministers of the polls-time government and an adviser to the prime minister will submit their resignation letters to the premier today, party sources have claimed. They claimed...
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