4 power plants stay shut for 4 hours
Power generation at four stations in Sylhet remained suspended for over four hours last night, after gas supply stopped from the Jalalabad Gas field operated by US company Chevron. The gas company...
View Article150 accused in 2 charge sheets
Teknaf police yesterday pressed charges in two of 19 cases filed for the attacks on Buddhist temples and houses in Ramu and Ukhia of the district in September last year. The two charge sheets were...
View ArticleNizami was with Pakistan army
A freedom fighter yesterday told International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had witnessed war crimes accused Motiur Rahman Nizami along with Pakistani army during the killing of two people at Sathia in...
View ArticleSon defends accused Alim
Sazzad bin Alim, son of war crimes accused Abdul Alim, yesterday defended his father saying he was not involved in any crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971. Sazzad, third and last defence...
View Article18pc gas price hike proposed
The energy ministry has proposed changes in the contract model for deep-sea gas exploration, drilling and production suggesting that Bangladesh pay oil companies $1 more for every 1,000 cubic feet of...
View ArticleJasim says his students might have killed Rajib
Jasimuddin Rahmani, alleged spiritual leader of emergent militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, yesterday said students inspired by his sermons might have killed blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in...
View Article387 Bangladeshis held in KL so far
Thousands of Bangladeshis will face deportation from Malaysia as the country started a crackdown early Sunday targeting five lakh irregular foreigners staying there. Malaysian police had already...
View ArticleContempt notice served on HRW
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday issued a show-cause notice upon Human Rights Watch in connection with its “biased and unethical” report on the war crimes case against Ghulam Azam. The...
View ArticleVoter list without war crimes convicts
The cabinet approved yesterday a proposed amendment to the electoral roll law to bar convicted war criminals from being registered as voters. As per the proposed change, the name of a person will be...
View ArticleTop Hefajat leader Wakkas detained
Detectives detained Hefajat-e Islam leader and former state minister Mufti Mohammad Wakkas at the capital’s Malibagh yesterday in connection with Hefajat’s May 5 mayhem at Shapla Chattar. Wakkas, Dhaka...
View ArticleA year on, Sonali mulls litigation
Sonali Bank is finally making moves to sue the owners of Hall-Mark Group and some bankers for realising Tk 2,554 crore swindled from the bank more than a year ago. The bank’s board of directors at a...
View ArticleHurt deep down Buddhist heart
When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Ramu today, she can expect to see some happy faces, as the government has rebuilt 19 Buddhist temples that were torched and vandalised in Ramu and Ukhia in...
View ArticleJS to exist, but not in session
Amid confusion over the polls-time administration, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the general election would be held without dissolving the current parliament and the cabinet. She added...
View ArticleOver 2m flee Syria: UN
More than two million Syrians are now refugees, with the total going up by half a million in the past three months, the UN refugee agency has said. More than 700,000 have fled to Lebanon, and more...
View ArticleUS-Brazil tensions rise after new spy report
The US ambassador to Brazil has met with his Brazilian counterpart following revelations that the National Security Agency’s spy program directly targeted the South American nation’s leader. US...
View ArticleIndia upper house passes cheap food plan
India’s upper house of parliament has approved an ambitious plan to subsidise food for two-thirds of the population. The Food Security Bill proposes to make food a legal right and seeks to provide 5kg...
View ArticleMicrosoft to buy Nokia phones unit
Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy “substantially all” of Nokia’s mobile-phone business for 5.4bn euro ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). The deal will also see Nokia licence its patents to Microsoft. Nokia, once a...
View ArticleStocks up at opening
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse increased at opening, shrugging off the last day’s downtrend. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), gained...
View ArticleCop killed in Ashulia road crash
A policeman was killed and another injured as a truck hit their motorbike in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, Tuesday morning. Deceased Mizanur Rahman, 45, a constable of Armed Police...
View ArticleUS Marines website hacked
The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack after the pro-Assad group hacked into the US Marines website on Monday and posted seemingly staged pictures of ‘servicemen’...
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