3 high officials sent to forced retirement
The government on Tuesday sent three senior foreign ministry officials to forced retirement. They are additional foreign secretary Maruf Zaman and directors general of the ministry — Ashraf Uddin and...
View ArticleFirst UN special brigade soldier killed in DR Congo
The UN’s landmark new offensive intervention brigade suffered its first fatality Wednesday when a Tanzanian soldier was killed by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman said. UN...
View ArticlePower blackout hits northeast Brazil
A fire triggered a massive power blackout Wednesday in eight states in northeastern Brazil where three World Cup 2014 host cities are located, authorities said. National electricity operator ONS said...
View Article‘Mini-brain’ grown in test tubes
Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a “tool” that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb. They hope the findings will increase their understanding...
View ArticleEx-girlfriend executed over porn film
Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend has been executed by firing squad along with a dozen fellow North Korean musicians charged with violating laws against pornography, according to reports in a respected South...
View Article2 ‘robbers’ beaten dead in Lakshmipur
Two robbers were beaten to death and 15 people, including a policeman, injured as a mob attacked a gang of robbers around 2:00am in Kazirchar village of Raipur upazila in Lakshmipur. The armed gang of...
View ArticleBus strike over assault of staff
Bus services between Dhaka and ten districts of Khulna division were suspended yesterday afternoon due to a sudden indefinite strike enforced by transport owners and workers. Bangladesh Bus Owners’ and...
View ArticleBB finds proposed law unclear
The finance ministry should make clear the provision in the proposed Grameen Bank Act for electing the microcredit bank’s managing director, the central bank has said. Under the proposed Grameen Bank...
View ArticleBNP indulges in graft when in power
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had been to Singapore twice to save her son’s laundered money, but failed. Speaking at a public rally at Fatikchhari in...
View ArticleBTCL MD, 22 others sued
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday lodged four cases against the managing director of the state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd and 22 others allegedly for misappropriating over...
View ArticleIs Zubaida joining politics?
A billboard at the capital’s Kakoli intersection has raised a question among people whether Zubaida Khan Rahman, wife of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, is joining politics. Erected recently,...
View ArticleOf brave cop on UN job
It was a heart-stopping moment. An angry mob was encircling a house of a young woman in Pleebo, Maryland County in Liberia, threatening to kill her. Liberian police, though armed, failed to control the...
View Article18th witness also tells of Nizami’s role
A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the Pakistani occupation army had killed around 400 people at Rupshi Bausgari in Pabna following instruction of war crimes...
View ArticleEx-cop shot dead at home
An unidentified gang shot a former police official dead at his West Rampura residence in the capital yesterday morning. The victim, Fazlur Karim Khan, 66, retired as additional SP from the Criminal...
View ArticleNewspaper reports shown as evidence
A prosecution witness yesterday showed several newspaper reports of December 1971 and January 1972, where photographs of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were published with a call for...
View ArticleAgri scientists not happy
Agriculture scientists working in public sector research stations have denounced a government move to provide them with a special increment in salaries and recreation benefits. Some 1,700 scientists at...
View ArticleNoab for talks before govt decides
Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday urged the government to consult with its members before making any decision on the newspaper industry, especially on the wage board. In a...
View ArticleOSD for 16 years!
The government has spent around Tk 65 lakh on an officer, who has not given any service to the nation for the last 16 years. Strange as it may seem, the person has been an officer on special duty...
View ArticleWest holds back on Syria strike
UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday said his investigating team would report back this week on suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria as the US and its allies held back from immediate military action....
View ArticlePolls-time govt with MPs of dissolved JS
The government is toying with the idea of forming an election-time cabinet with MPs drawn from the current parliament after dissolving it. The idea comes from a never-used provision of the...
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