Ferry ghat needs shifting
The Daulatdia ferry ghat may need to be shifted from its current location in a year or two, as the Padma river is gradually changing its point of confluence with the Jamuna downwards, causing massive...
View ArticleEC not sure if govt serious
The Election Commission was not sure whether the prime minister’s desire to hold the national election without dissolving parliament was the government’s final decision or not, Election Commissioner...
View Article2 accused of instigation
Detectives have accused two top officials of the rights body Odhikar of publishing “a distorted report and photoshopped images” on the May 5 police action on a Hefajat-e Islam rally in the capital, in...
View ArticleFrayed and feared vs free and fair
There are four elements to Sheikh Hasina’s latest pronouncements on elections: 1) Elections within the tenure of the present parliament; 2) Parliament not to be dissolved during elections; 3) Present...
View ArticleBNP to resist govt bid
The BNP will resort to all possible means including resignation of party lawmakers from parliament to resist the government bid to hold the next general election without dissolving the present...
View ArticleUS Senate panel backs force in Syria
A US Senate panel has approved the use of military force in Syria, in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack. By 10-7, the Committee on Foreign Relations moved the measure to a full Senate...
View ArticleNato general says Afghan forces effective
The top British commander in Afghanistan says the country’s own military is proving to be an “effective force” despite rising casualties. Lt Gen John Lorimer told the BBC that Afghan troops had...
View ArticleUS faces substantial losses if Egypt aid halted: official
The US government faces billions of dollars in potential costs if it decides to cancel foreign military aid to Egypt, a senior Pentagon official told Reuters on Wednesday. Richard Genaille, deputy...
View ArticlePutin calls Kerry a liar on Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called US Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, claiming he had denied that al-Qaeda was fighting with the Syrian opposition in that country’s civil war....
View ArticleStocks open positive
Trading at the country’s premier bourse started with upward trend on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 23 points to...
View ArticleJewellers keep shutters down in Sylhet
Jewellers kept their shutters down in Sylhet city since Thursday morning in protest against the looting of three jewellery shops at a mall at Zindabazar and killing of a night guard by robbers. The...
View ArticleJamaat’s Mir Quasem indicted
A tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday indicted Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali on 14 charges for his alleged involvement in the crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971....
View ArticleInflation falls to 7.39pc in Aug
Average inflation dropped by 0.46 percentage points from July to reach 7.39 percent in August this year. The finding came following new estimates using 2005-06 as the base year, Golam Mostafa Kamal,...
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A man died at a hospital in the capital two and a half hours after he was picked up by police from Shahjahanpur area Wednesday night. Police claimed that Saiful Islam Mithu, 38, a resident of Gulbagh...
View ArticleFukushima water leak risk exaggerated
The chief of Japan’s nuclear watchdog chided the operator of the Fukushima plant yesterday for its inability properly to explain problems, which he said was inflating fears around the world. Shunichi...
View ArticleRussia warns of catastrophe if Syria reactor hit by US strike
Russia said on Wednesday that a military strike on Syria could have catastrophic effects if a missile hit a small reactor near Damascus that contains radioactive uranium. The Foreign Ministry called on...
View ArticleCholera kills 8 in Nigeria
Cholera has killed eight people in southern Nigeria and ten others have been hospitalised, health officials said yesterday, in the latest outbreak to hit the country following a heavy rainy season....
View ArticleObama to meet Russian gay activists
US President Barack Obama will meet with Russian gay rights activists in the course of his visit to Russia, two groups invited to the meeting told AFP Wednesday. The US leader, who called for equal...
View ArticleSaudi beheads two murderers
Saudi authorities beheaded two citizens in Riyadh yesterday after they were convicted of separate murders, the interior ministry announced. Hashan al-Nutayfat shot dead fellow citizen Mohammed...
View ArticlePounding floor tiles to produce power
In a reversal of normal classroom rules, students have been encouraged to run and jump around a corridor at a Kent school in UK. It’s because the corridor has been laid with special kinetic tiles and...
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