SA prepares for historic funeral
South Africa yesterday prepared a sweeping, emotional farewell to Nelson Mandela — a funeral that will draw an unprecedented gathering of world leaders and luminaries, reflecting the anti-apartheid...
View ArticleWTO clinches ‘historic’ deal to smooth trade
The World Trade Organisation’s 159 member countries yesterday agreed to a global trade deal for the first time in the group’s 18-year history, a move that would bring duty-free access for the country’s...
View ArticleHartal added to blockade
With a 72-hour nationwide blockade well in force, the BNP and its associate organisations have called hartal in 11 districts, including Dhaka, for today and in 22 districts for tomorrow. Justifying the...
View ArticleAnother bus helper burnt in sleep
Another bus helper suffered burns as blockaders set fire to the vehicle with him sleeping inside in the early hours yesterday at Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj. By the time local people doused the...
View ArticleTrucks stuck on highways
As thousands of goods-laden vehicles got stranded for several hours on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to a fresh blockade yesterday, police were deployed to escort them through the violence-prone...
View ArticleUN asks if polls can be deferred
Oscar Fernández Taranco, UN assistant secretary general for political affairs, yesterday sought to know from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina if there was any scope for deferring the polls date, to which...
View ArticlePower of the web
Spun from silk, with the strength of steel but with extraordinary elasticity, a spider’s web has long been regarded as one of Mother Nature’s most amazing feats. Now scientists at Oxford University...
View ArticleLast breath of Mandela was his own
The last breath Nelson Mandela drew was his own, free of any life support, in the presence of his closest family members, South African media reported yesterday. “By the time he died on Thursday...
View ArticleVandalism in S’pore
A rare riot broke out in Singapore’s Little India neighbourhood last night, apparently after a Bangladeshi worker was hit and killed by a bus, a local television channel reported. Channel News Asia...
View ArticleDeath valley
Satkhira saw another murder of a ruling party activist yesterday, taking to seven the number of killings in the district since November 21. Awami League activist Ejahar Ali Morol, 55, of Amtoli village...
View ArticleBJP set to win polls in Delhi, 3 states
India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party was yesterday poised to win four state legislature elections by inflicting a defeat on the ruling Congress party. But the biggest success story of the...
View ArticleJustice denied to 11 victims
Eleven people, burnt to death in June 2004 in an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital’s Shahbagh, may never get justice after the failure of the Criminal Investigation Department in...
View ArticlePickets feast on highway trees
The main opposition BNP and its allies are felling thousands of roadside trees to block the highways on every occasion of their protests against the government and establishing their names as “tree...
View ArticleDemand for promotions, postings
Several dozen aggrieved civil servants, who were forced to remain OSD (officer on special duty) for years, yesterday demanded their promotion and posting. Around 30 OSDs met the senior secretary of the...
View ArticleBureaucracy OSD-strung
He tore down illegal billboards of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP chief Khaleda Zia, when the party was in power in 2001-2006. The then chief executive officer of Dhaka City Corporation did not...
View ArticlePM meets president
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban yesterday. During the meeting that lasted from 6:25 pm to 7:33pm, the premier apprised the president of the overall situation...
View ArticleWitness against Sayedee comes under attack
A prosecution witness in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Sayedee was hacked in Pirojpur early yesterday, within 40 days of the attack on the house of another. Though justice seekers and...
View ArticleDeath warrant for Mollah
The war crimes tribunal yesterday issued a warrant of execution for Jamaat leader Quader Mollah, condemned to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War. In protest, Jamaat-e-Islami...
View Article2 more dead
A Chhatra League activist was killed in a clash between Awami League and BNP men in Sylhet while a victim of blockade violence succumbed to her injuries in Savar yesterday. The former, Masud Ahmed, 23,...
View ArticleIn pain, in agony
Alamgir, the bus helper who was burnt while sleeping in a bus at Mawa Ghat early on Saturday, was still in a critical condition yesterday, doctors said. “He inhaled a lot of smoke. So I am very afraid...
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