An emotional reunion
The story began almost three years ago, on November 12, 2010. Anwar Hossain, a staff of Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Academy, was restlessly waiting in front of the emergency department of the navy...
View ArticlePressure mounting on UN for action
The United Nations is coming under growing international pressure to act if Syrian activists’ claims that the government has used chemical weapons in a horrific attack on civilians are confirmed....
View Article3 ‘militants’ held in Bogra
Law enforcers arrested three suspected militants in Bogra with firearms, including a light machine gun and a sub-machine gun. During a drive at Thonthonia in Bogra Sadar, the Rapid Action Battalion...
View ArticleSpeaker for dialogue to end crisis
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday said she would play her “due role” if the government and the opposition took any initiative inside parliament to resolve the ongoing political crisis over the...
View ArticleBCL leader hacked by ‘Shibir men’
Shibir cadres cut the tendons of a Chhatra League leader and shot another on Rajshahi University campus last night, police said. Tawhid al Tuhin, general secretary of the BCL’s RU unit, was undergoing...
View ArticleSchoolgirl forced into sex trade
A schoolgirl of Manikganj has been forced to lead a life of a sex worker at a house in Savar on the outskirts of the capital for the last two months. The victim disclosed the horrific story of her...
View ArticleNon-partisan govt a must
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus said yesterday the next parliamentary election must be held under a non-partisan government to rid the country of the ongoing volatile situation and ensure its...
View ArticleBill seeks media immunity
A private member’s bill was submitted to the Parliament Secretariat yesterday seeking to introduce a provision for providing the print and electronic media with immunity from prosecution for airing or...
View ArticleCrisis deepens
The crisis at Jahangirnagar University worsened yesterday as a faction of teachers kept the vice-chancellor confined to his office for the second day despite the education minister’s request to resolve...
View ArticleCommittee crosses line
The national committee for recommending withdrawal of “politically motivated” lawsuits yesterday proposed dropping 72 cases, including around 10 murder cases against Bangladesh Chhatra League and Awami...
View ArticleSpecial JS body’s proceedings back Star editorial
Yesterday we published the full text of the PMO’s response to two items in this newspaper, one a report and the other an editorial. Our report was based on a public pronouncement of the PM, at a press...
View ArticleOut of control
Capital Dhaka is home to some 150 million people. One study shows nearly 80 percent of them live in rented houses, and they do so, as it looks, at the mercy of the house owners. It hardly occurs to...
View ArticleSyria ‘chemical’ attack: Ban Ki-moon urges swift probe
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the alleged chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital “needs to be investigated without delay”. He is sending disarmament chief Angela Kane to Damascus...
View ArticleAL leader shot dead in Jhenidah
Unidentified criminals shot a local Awami League leader to death at Panami village in Jhenidah sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sanaruddin Mandal, 55, general secretary...
View ArticleGang rape of journo shocks Mumbai
A photo journalist in her early 20s was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons to a similar assault in New Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests...
View ArticleHuman body parts recovered in city
Police on Friday recovered limbs of several human bodies including seven legs and three hands wrapped in seven sacks at DCC garbage dumping zone in capital’s Matuail Friday morning. Police also...
View ArticleI’m ready to resign: JU VC
Vice Chancellor (VC) of Jahangirnagar University Prof Anwar Hossain on Friday said he is ready to resign from his position if President Abdul Hamid also the chancellor of the university asked him to...
View ArticleSyria crisis: Child refugees reach ‘one million’
UN agencies say the number of children forced to flee Syria has reached one million, describing the figure as “a shameful milestone”. The UN’s refugee agency and Unicef say a further two million...
View ArticleYaba seized, 4 held in Cox’s Bazaar
Border Guard Bangladesh on Friday arrested four drug dealers and seized 10,680 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession at Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazaar. A team of BGB took position at Moriccha on...
View ArticleFour Jamaat-Shibir men held in Ctg
Police arrested four activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong early Friday. Sitakunda police arrested Md Mohiuddin, 24 and Md Sohel,...
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