What will this election deliver?
Democracy means a system of government in which all the people of a country can vote to elect their representatives. And of course a general election offers people the sweeping right to choose their...
View ArticleQuitting ‘by post’
All six Jatiya Party ministers and an adviser to the prime minister yesterday sent their resignation letters to the premier by post, said party’s Secretary General Ruhul Amin Howlader. “We tried to...
View ArticleAll talks lead to polls schedule
With the ruling and the opposition parties sticking to their stances, the United Nations now looks to deferral of the election for giving the rival camps some more time to find a solution to the crisis...
View ArticleHoroscopes bad for you!
If the horoscope is your favourite page in the newspaper, then beware: the Zodiac is more than just a harmless pastime. People who follow their stars are more likely to abandon their commitments and be...
View Article42 Hindus shot dead on Yusuf’s order
Yet another freedom fighter has testified that 42 Hindus were shot dead at Shakharikathi Bazar of Kachua upazila in Bagerhat on November 5, 1971, following Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer AKM Yusuf’s...
View ArticleIftekhar new IG-Prisons
The government yesterday appointed Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin as the inspector general of prisons, replacing Additional Home Secretary Main Uddin Khandaker, who was given the charge about a week ago....
View ArticleAbsentee counsel loses power of attorney
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday cancelled the vokalatnama (power of attorney) of defence counsel for Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf as the counsel has been remaining absent from court...
View ArticleIt’s plot to kill him
Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday claimed that the government, out of political vengeance, was trying to kill Abdul Quader Mollah, disregarding the constitution, the Supreme Court and the jail code. Issuing a...
View ArticleChina for dialogue
A Chinese special envoy yesterday stressed the need for dialogue between political parties for peace and stability in Bangladesh. Luo Zhaohui was speaking to reporters after meeting BNP Chairperson...
View ArticleWitness testifies on killing of 5
A freedom fighter yesterday testified that four to five detainees were killed at a Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali-controlled Al-Badr torture camp in Chittagong during the Liberation War in 1971....
View ArticleAL to offer JP 60 seats if it joins polls
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has finalised a list of 60 parliamentary constituencies, mostly in Rangpur division, to give up those seats for the Jatiya Party if it agrees to contest the January...
View ArticleJustice Sinha’s village home set on fire
A group of unidentified criminals set fire to the village home of Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, a senior judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar early morning...
View ArticleMilk supply blockade-hit
More than one million consumers of three major metropolises have been suffering severely from milk scarcity for three weeks, as blockades and hartals have snapped the supply chain of the country’s...
View ArticleTearful mourners pay last respect
Nelson Mandela’s tearful widow was among scores of mourners who paid their last respects before his open casket yesterday, as the much-loved leader lay in state. Graca Machel, clad in a black...
View ArticleParalysed by fear
A bustling town up north, Bogra has been brought to its knees in recent weeks by the violent activism that the opposition alliance has unleashed. In broad daylight yesterday, only the odd roadside...
View ArticleHe saw them burn to death
He could not see his daughter and wife for one last time yesterday, nor could he be beside them in their last journey. Offering prayers at their graveside was not possible for him either. Such...
View ArticleJamaat, Shibir on rampage
Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to unleash terror across the country during the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced daylong hartal yesterday, protesting the move to execute convicted war criminal Abdul Quader...
View ArticleMasuma loses battle for life
The motifs of henna in her hands had barely disappeared when she lost her life to mindless political violence. Masuma Akter died around 11:00am at Dhaka Burn Clinic and Diagnostic Hospital yesterday,...
View ArticleFate hangs in the balance
The fate of Abdul Quader Mollah now hangs in the balance, as the Supreme Court may decide today whether to accept or reject the review petition against the death sentence of the convicted war criminal....
View ArticleWar crimes, Kerry & history
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday to warn her that if convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah goes to the gallows, Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections...
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