Stocks positive in early trading
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased in early trading on Wednesday, shrugging off the downtrend of the last trading day. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the...
View ArticleMozena worried over HRW contempt rule
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the issue of seeking contempt proceedings against Human Rights Watch. The US envoy made the comment a day after prosecutors of...
View ArticleAnti-cheating hats draw flak
A photo showing students of a renowned Bangkok university wearing strange headgear complete with side flaps to thwart cheating during a midterm exam caused quite a stir after it was uploaded to...
View ArticleMubarak may be freed today
Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as today after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President...
View ArticleDecision on indictment Aug 29
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday fixed August 29 to decide about indicting Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali on crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. The...
View ArticleTribunal allows 3 witnesses
International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday allowed three out of a list of 3,328 defence witnesses to defend former BNP lawmaker Abdul Alim to prove his alibi. The three-member tribunal led by Justice...
View ArticleBASIC Bank gets 3 days
Bangladesh Bank yesterday issued a final ultimatum to the BASIC Bank to submit a report to it within three working days explaining the bank’s gross irregularities in loan approval, recruitment and...
View Article2 witnesses identify attacker
Two prosecution witnesses in a Dhaka court yesterday identified Rafiqul Islam Shakil as the one who had attacked Biswajit Das with a machete during a road blockade programme enforced by BNP-led...
View Article‘Efforts on to ratify deal’
India yesterday said efforts were on for building a consensus on a bill to ratify the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, which could not be placed at the Indian parliament on Monday. Replying to...
View ArticleChina calls for AL-BNP dialogue
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jun has urged the two major political parties to sit for dialogue to build confidence between them and resolve the current political standoff ahead of the next...
View ArticleMozena bats for HRW
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena yesterday expressed deep concern that Bangladeshi prosecutors have charged Human Rights Watch with contempt of court. “We believe organisations such as Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleOishee, house help undergo medical tests
Oishee Rahman, the prime suspect in the killing of her parents Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman, underwent age determination tests at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. With permission...
View ArticleVegetables on water
Growing vegetables on floating beds made of water hyacinth has turned out to be a boon for farmers at Nazirpur upazila in Pirojpur. Under the model, local residents have brought the unused marshland...
View ArticleMueen, Ashraf were involved
A relative of martyred doctor Mohammad Martuza yesterday testified that alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were “directly involved” in the killing of intellectuals and...
View ArticleManning jailed for 35yrs
Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation’s history by providing files to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday. Judge Colonel...
View ArticleTarique’s name included with political motive
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government had included the name of Tarique Rahman in the August 21 grenade attack cases with a political motive....
View ArticleJU VC kept confined to office
Around 50 Jahangirnagar University teachers have kept their Vice-Chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain confined to his office since 11:00am yesterday demanding his resignation or removal. The teachers, under...
View Article‘Hundreds’ killed in Syria gas attack
Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people – by one report as many as 1,300 yesterday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical...
View ArticleLabour leader murdered
Unidentified criminals stabbed to death a Sramik League leader in the capital’s Malibagh area yesterday morning. Moktar Hossain, 40, was the joint general secretary of Ward No 23 of the Dhaka city unit...
View Article‘Shibir’ activist held for threat
Detectives arrested a suspected activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir in the city’s Farmgate yesterday for threatening to blow up the Egyptian embassy in Dhaka. A team of Detective Branch of police (north)...
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