UN experts leave tense Syria
Syria expects a military attack “at any moment” and is ready to retaliate, an official said yesterday, hours after UN experts probing a suspected gas attack blamed on the regime quit the country...
View ArticleDemocracy not within BNP yet
The BNP celebrates today its 35th founding anniversary amid severe organisational weaknesses stemming mainly from a lack of democratic practices within the party. Over the years, the BNP has not called...
View ArticleQuestions aplenty
Odhikar’s fact-finding report, “Assembly of Hefajat-e Islam Bangladesh and Human Rights Violation”, is a composition of half-truths, biased and one-sided presentation of what happened on May 5 and in...
View ArticleA list riddled with holes
Nineteen are traceless, five named twice, three alive. Six died in Narayanganj violence and one of heart attack. Slot number 10 is left vacant. These are the holes a police investigation has found in...
View ArticleGrabbing ‘legalised’
River-saving efforts of the government are backfiring to some extent as around 2,500 acres of foreshores and existing waterways in four rivers in greater Dhaka has been given to “land owners” in the...
View ArticleCameron supports Obama’s stance over Syria
David Cameron has signalled his support for Barack Obama over Syria after the US president said he would ask Congress to vote on military strike action. In a tweet, the prime minister said: “I...
View ArticleYemen PM unhurt in assassination bid
Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has survived an assassination attempt unharmed, officials in the capital Sanaa say. Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on the PM’s motorcade as he returned...
View Article24 Nigeria vigilantes killed by Boko Haram
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 24 members of a vigilante group in north-eastern Nigeria, security officials say. They say another 34 people are missing after the attack near the...
View ArticleIndia Himalayas 1968 plane crash yields body
The body of an Indian soldier killed in an air crash in the Himalayas 45 years ago has been recovered, the army says. The remains of NCO Jagmail Singh were found on the Dhakka glacier in northern...
View ArticleStrong quake strikes off Indonesia
A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia yesterday, the United States Geological Survey said, sending people running from their homes in panic but causing no damage or...
View ArticleAfghan presidential hopeful promoted
Probable presidential candidate Omar Daudzai was appointed as Afghanistan’s acting interior minister yesterday, putting him in a high-profile public role seven months before the country’s first...
View ArticleFailed ‘terrorist’ attack on Suez Canal ship
A container ship in the Suez Canal was the target of a failed “terrorist” attack yesterday aimed at disrupting traffic through the key waterway, the head of the Suez Canal Authority said. Admiral Mohab...
View ArticleWatch your back, watch your hair
They already endure staggering levels of street crime. Now, Venezuelans have something new to fear — muggers who chop off their hair. Members of the scissor-wielding street gangs are called piranas,...
View ArticleUZ chairman killed as AL factions clash
An upazila chairman was killed and 10 others were injured in an intra-party clash in Dhubaura upazila of Mymensingh yesterday. The deceased, Forkan Uddin Mridha alias Pahari Selim, 40, was chairman of...
View Article5 charge sheets submitted
Police yesterday pressed charges in five cases filed for the attacks and looting of Buddhist temples and houses in Ramu and Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar in September last year. Of the five charge sheets, one...
View ArticleDavid Frost no more
British broadcasting great David Frost has died of a heart attack, his family said in a statement yesterday. He was 74. Frost, celebrated for his revealing interviews with former US president Richard...
View Article18,970 Yaba tablets seized in Teknaf
A Border Guard Bangladesh team seized 18,970 Yaba tablets worth Tk 57 lakh from Nazirpara embankment area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday. The team, acting on a tip-off, led a drive around...
View ArticleInterim govt with elected people only
The election-time government to be formed with elected representatives under the current constitutional provision will not make any policy decisions, said Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs...
View ArticleThreat to blow up Ctg court building ‘if SQ Chy not freed’
Seven people sent a letter to the chief judicial magistrate of Chittagong threatening to kill him, blow up the Chittagong court building and other government institutions if war crimes accused BNP...
View ArticleNew specialised bank on cards
The government has moved to set up a specialised bank styled “Polli Shanchay Bank” for members of “Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar” project in order to give a permanent shape to the scheme for development of...
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