HSC results Saturday
The results of Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations held under 10 education boards will be published on Saturday, education ministry officials said yesterday. Education Minister...
View ArticleDefence gets 50 days to submit statement
The Supreme Court yesterday asked counsel for Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to submit by September 17 a concise statement on an appeal against the Jamaat leader’s death sentence for crimes...
View ArticleGenocide charges against him proved
BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was involved in the killing of the Hindus of Maddhaya Gohira, Sultanpur and Rauzan of Chittagong during the Liberation War in 1971, the prosecution told the...
View ArticleGovt moves to ease Eid rush
An inter-ministerial meeting yesterday outlined a plan to ease the movement of homebound people ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, to check traffic congestion, accidents and crimes. Lorries and covered vans will...
View ArticleModified brinjal taken to court
Campaigners against genetically modified (GM) crops yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court against a government move to release Bt brinjal, a GM crop, for the first time in the country....
View ArticleGB commission to defend recommendations
The Grameen Bank Commission is set to justify in the final report its recommendations to restructure the bank, which have drawn criticism from different quarters. The commission proposed splitting the...
View ArticleLegacy left in neglect
The musical instruments and other articles made famous through being used by the maestro Ustad Alauddin Khan, a legendary classical musician of the subcontinent, have remained in neglect. Little has...
View ArticleThe two directly involved
Tawheed Reza Noor, son of martyred journalist Serajuddin Hossain, yesterday testified that alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were “directly involved” in the killings...
View ArticleShoe factory blast kills 1
One worker died while at least seven others were critically injured in a fire caused by a chemical drum explosion at a shoe sole factory in West Islamabagh of the old Dhaka yesterday. The fire broke...
View ArticleExtortionists on the prowl
Silent extortion through issuing threats over the phone has been taking place in the capital ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, said police in a press briefing yesterday. To expedite efforts in combating extortion,...
View Article25 more fishing licences
The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to issue 25 new licences to trawlers for fishing in the exclusive economic zone of the Bay of Bengal. The government nod came though there is no study on the...
View ArticlePak cabinet talks about Ghulam
The Ghulam Azam issue appears to have been exercising minds in Pakistan’s political circles of late. In his column in the issue of the Urdu language newspaper Jang yesterday, Hamid Mir reveals that at...
View ArticleArmy to run taxis
In a desperate bid to improve taxicab service, the government has decided to involve Bangladesh Army to launch a new taxicab service for the capital and Chittagong metropolis. Under the new scheme, the...
View ArticleThe sons are coming?
From the looks of it the two sons have arrived, one for a second time and the other for the first. Normally whenever the younger generation comes up to take responsibility from the previous one, it...
View ArticleEC chooses wrong path
The Election Commission headed by Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad could not live up to people’s expectations in the last one and a half years. Some of its activities, particularly those on electoral law reforms,...
View ArticleConfidence in EC eroding
The growing controversy centring on the Election Commission’s performance and move against some major reform proposals has added fuel to the opposition BNP’s anti-EC campaign and shaken the Awami...
View ArticleHearing of Sayedee, govt appeals starts Sep 17
The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed September 17 to start hearing on the separate appeals filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee and the government challenging the war crimes trial...
View ArticleGunmen kill 8 Tunisian troops as political tensions grow
Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led...
View Article240 inmates escape after militants attack Pakistan prison
Taliban militants wearing police uniform have launched an assault on a prison in Pakistan, with an official saying more than 240 prisoners escaped. The attack on the jail in the north-western town of...
View ArticleFreedom fighter Belal Mohammad passes away
Belal Mohammad, a freedom fighter and an organiser of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, died at Apollo Hospital in the capital early Tuesday at the age of 77. The eminent poet, who had been suffering from...
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