Won’t budge on constitution in holding JS polls: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday insisted that her government would not move away from its position on holding the next parliamentary election in line with the constitution of the country....
View ArticleNoakhali Jamaat man killed while making bombs
A suspected Jamaat-e-Islami activist was killed in a blast while making bombs at a house in Companyganj upazila of Noakhali early Sunday. Two workers of Jamaat-backed Islami Chhatra Shibir were also...
View ArticleCourt summons Khaleda again
A Dhaka court for the sixth time asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it in Zia charitable trust graft case. Khaleda will have to appear before the court on September 16. Judge Md Motahar...
View ArticleCop, wife killing: Daughter on 5-day remand
Oishee Rahman, the daughter of slain inspector of Special Branch (SB) of police and his wife, has been placed on a five-day remand for interrogation in connection with the killing of her parents....
View ArticleSyria refugees flood Iraqi Kurdistan
Thousands of refugees from Syria are pouring over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, the UN refugee agency says. Up to 10,000 crossed at Peshkhabour on Saturday, adding to an earlier influx of 7,000 on...
View ArticleDipu Moni postpones briefing for diplomats
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni Sunday postponed a prescheduled press briefing for foreign diplomats at a very short notice. Scheduled at 3:00pm at the foreign ministry, the briefing was postponed only a...
View ArticleParliament goes into session Sep 12
The Jatiya Sangsad goes into the 19th session on September 12. The president, Abdul Hamid, on Sunday summoned the session of the ninth parliament, sources in parliament secretariat said. The session...
View ArticleLocal variety jute genome sequence decoded
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday announced that Bangladeshi scientists have unravelled the genome sequence of local variety of jute. “Earlier, our scientists have decoded the tossa jute plant...
View Article58 Shibir men held in Ctg
Police on Sunday picked up 58 leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, from a dormitory of Chittagong College in the port city. The Shibir men were detained in...
View ArticleDreadlocks 55 ft long
She is the real life Rapunzel with 55ft long dreadlocks that are longer than a bus. Despite being warned by doctors that her hair that weighs three stone could paralyse her, Asha Mandela said she will...
View Article25 cops killed in ambush
Islamic militants ambushed two mini-buses carrying off-duty policemen in the northern region of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula yesterday, killing 25 of them in a brazen daylight attack. The killings, which...
View ArticleMan buried alive in Joypurhat
A man was buried alive while digging a well in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat yesterday. The dead, Jahangir Hossain, 35, hailed from the upazila’s Hinda Kasba village. He and seven others were digging a...
View ArticleKhaleda seeks scrapping of lower court order
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed a petition with the High Court for scrapping a lower court order that had accepted the charges against her in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case....
View ArticleShahidullah Kaiser was taken to Mueen, Ashraf
Panna Kaiser told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that Al-Badr men abducted her husband martyred journalist Shahidullah Kaiser on December 14, 1971, and handed him over to their leaders Chowdhury...
View ArticleSongs in the water
There was the image of quintessential rural Bangladesh in him. Abdur Rahman Boyati was a necessary reminder, at every point of our national life, of the roots we spring from. In his songs, all brimming...
View ArticleJMB man was to rebuild Huji
Masiur Rahman Milon, one of the nine suspected Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) members arrested last week in Jhalakathi, had taken the responsibility of reorganising Huji. In 2003, he had joined...
View Article10-year jail for MLM touts
The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of the Multilevel Marketing Activities (control) Act-2013, aiming to protect people from being cheated by MLM firms and bring them under a legal framework....
View ArticlePolice now look for instigators
Detectives have been investigating whether anyone instigated the murder of Special Branch inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman or helped their daughter Oishee Rahman kill them at their...
View ArticleFather, uncle testify at Indian court
The father of the teenaged Bangladeshi girl Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force in 2011, testified at the murder trial in an Indian court yesterday. A special court, set up...
View ArticleTk 2,885cr stuck in anomalies
Agrani Bank is mired in losses of Tk 2,885 crore for its reckless lending practices, auditors found recently. The inspection, conducted by the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General (OCAG) at the...
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