Diplomats not convinced
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday briefed the foreign diplomats in Dhaka, saying the next general election would be held as per the constitutional provision. Dipu Moni also ruled out any possibility...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday made a pointed attack on The Daily Star, singling out the paper saying that the newspaper always distorts whatever she says. “It is The Daily Star! No matter what...
View ArticleDelhi fails again to place bill
Indian government’s efforts to place a constitution amendment bill in Rajya Sabha to ratify the land boundary agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh failed yesterday, with lawmakers of Trinamool Congress and...
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged the Awami League-led government to restore the caretaker government system at the upcoming parliamentary session in order to avoid people’s wrath. Speaking at a...
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Completion of genome mappings of both tossa and deshi (white) genera of jute and that of the plant’s enemy — a deadly fungus — by Bangladeshi geneticists in consecutive three years is a great feat in...
View ArticleOminous draft cleared by govt
The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of the ICT (Amendment) Ordinance-2013 proposing to empower law enforcers to arrest any person without warrant and increase the highest punishment to 14 years....
View ArticleMusharraf indicted in Bhutto murder case
A court in Pakistan has formally indicted former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday with the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in 2007. “He should be tried,” the...
View ArticleBrotherhood spiritual leader held
The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, General Guide Mohammed Badie, has been arrested in Cairo, Egyptian officials say. Reports said he was detained at a residential flat in Nasr City. A...
View ArticleCIA documents acknowledge its role in Iran’s coup
The CIA has released documents which for the first time formally acknowledge its key role in the 1953 coup which ousted Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The documents...
View ArticleJourno partner detention legally sound
Using the Terrorism Act to detain the partner of a Guardian reporter who wrote about US and UK security services was “legally and procedurally sound”, Scotland Yard has said. It was responding to...
View ArticlePrince George photographs released
The first official photographs of Prince George have been released. The baby – who is third in line to the British throne – is pictured with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The pictures...
View ArticleStocks continue gaining streak
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased in early trading on Tuesday, to continue a gaining streak for the last few days. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka...
View ArticleLow over Bay
The three maritime ports of the country have been asked to hoist local cautionary signal No. three as the well marked low is persisting over Northwest Bay off Gangetic West Bengal – Bangladesh on...
View ArticleShibir vandalise vehicles in capital
The activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, vandalised several vehicles and exploded a homemade bomb in Dhanmondi area of the capital Tuesday morning. The vandalism and...
View ArticleMubarak casts shadow over US policy in Egypt
For the Obama administration, there’s a new wrinkle that could further complicate ties with post-coup Egypt: the possible release of the country’s jailed former leader, Hosni Mubarak. For nearly three...
View ArticleIndian held with 8kg gold at Shahjalal
Customs officials detained an Indian national along with 65 gold bars weighing around eight kilograms at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Monday night. They also seized 11,225 memory...
View ArticleDozens of Rohingya escape detention in Thailand
Dozens of Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar escaped yesterday from a Thai immigration centre, police said, as a rights group called for all of them to be freed from detention. Some 87 Rohingya...
View ArticleObese man forklifted to hospital
A Saudi Arabian man who officials say weighs 1,345 pounds has been fork-lifted out of his house on the orders of the king for treatment. Saudi King Abdullah paid for a specially-equipped plane to take...
View ArticleCIA admits role in Iran’s 1953 coup
The CIA has released documents which for the first time formally acknowledge its key role in the 1953 coup which ousted Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The documents...
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood chief detained
Egypt’s government yesterday pressed its relentless campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, dealing a major new blow to the Islamist group by arresting its chief....
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