Ex-CJ Amin to lead BCB trial
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is now focused on forming a disciplinary panel after nine individuals — cricketers and officials — were charged by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday...
View ArticleIndian mob beats 2 Bangladeshi boys to death
Two Bangladeshis were beaten to death by a mob in Meghalaya, India after they crossed the border illegally early Tuesday. In another incident, a Bangladeshi cattle trader was killed and another hurt...
View ArticleViolence, arson mark 2nd day’s hartal
A leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir was killed yesterday, on the final day of Jamaat enforced 48-hour shutdown, when police chased a pro-hartal procession in the capital’s Jatrabari area. Chhatra Shibir,...
View ArticleGovt to bring GB under regulatory framework
The government will not increase its stake in Grameen Bank, but will bring the microfinance bank under a regulatory framework under a new law, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. As part of...
View ArticleTurn down proposals to recast Grameen Bank
Forty global luminaries and 32 members of the US Congress have urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to reject recommendations from the Grameen Bank Commission to restructure the microfinance bank. In two...
View ArticleVerdict any day
The war crimes trial of BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has come to an end at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 and all that remains is the verdict delivery. The tribunal kept the case awaiting...
View ArticleNo serious efforts to bring back fugitive killers
The six fugitive killers of Bangabandhu could not be brought back home in the last four and a half years for the lack of persistent efforts on the part of the government. The government’s efforts to...
View ArticleAUGUST 15, 1975 …and after
Thirty eight years ago, the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman put a sudden brake on the idealism that had gone into the creation of this secular and democratic People’s Republic of...
View ArticleEgypt crackdown kills 149
At least 149 Egyptians were killed yesterday after security forces moved in to disperse protesters demanding the reinstatement of President Mohamed Morsi. The government imposed a state of emergency as...
View ArticlePresident, PM pay homage to Bangabandhu
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths on the occasion of National Mourning Day...
View ArticleWorld condemns Egypt crackdown
There has been strong international condemnation of the deadly crackdown against protest camps in the Egyptian capital Cairo. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the events were “deplorable” and “a...
View ArticleQaeda up to breast bomb
Britain has credible intelligence that female suicide bombers with explosives concealed in breast implants are planning to blow up Heathrow airport. Security agencies have found that al-Qaeda’s chief...
View ArticleSuspected Boko Haram attack in north Nigeria kills 11
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have stormed a town in northeast Nigeria, opened fire on police and civilians and killed 11 people, residents and a local lawmaker told AFP Friday. The attack happened...
View ArticleIraq attacks kill 12 security personnel
Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi policemen and soldiers yesterday while a truck bomb hit a southern port, the latest in a surge in violence that authorities have failed to curb. Security forces have in recent...
View ArticleIt began with £5 online bet
Four years ago, Justyn Larcombe’s life was little short of perfect. He and his wife, Emma, owned a £450,000 townhouse in the genteel Derbyshire village of Ashbourne, where they lived with their baby...
View ArticleBombs hurled at SP’s residence
Unidentified people hurled four cocktails at the official residence of the superintendent of police in the town’s Octroy intersection last night. Three motorcyclists hurled the cocktails, of which one...
View ArticleMugger beaten to death
A mugger was beaten to death and two others were injured by a mob in the capital’s East Monipur area of Mirpur as locals caught them right after they had robbed a family early yesterday. The dead is...
View ArticleChallenged youth dies after 2 days
Physically challenged Shamim, 22, died yesterday from the two-day old injuries inflicted on him by Savar unit Bangladesh Chhatra League convenor Jahidul Islam Faisal and BCL worker Johnny. The...
View ArticleNews report prompts hartal call in Sylhet
Following a recent rumour that missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali is still alive, two pro-BNP organisations yesterday called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sylhet district for August 29, demanding to know his...
View ArticleMros at stake
A gang of land grabbers and timber traders are gradually pushing the Mro community in Lama upazila of Bandarban to leave their homes. The Mros, like other indigenous people in Bandarban, Rangamati and...
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