AL moves to resist arson at Sitakunda
Chittagong north district Awami League yesterday formed 10 squads to resist any sabotage attempt on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila by BNP-Jamaat activists. Each of the squads is...
View ArticleCompensation not enough
For those who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions a year ago, each victim family should get an average of Tk 28 lakh as compensation, demanded a labour rights platform Sramik Nirapatta Forum...
View ArticleMan burnt alive over land dispute
A man was burned alive and his wife critically injured in an arson attack allegedly by his rivals over a land dispute in the district’s Lalpur upazila early yesterday. The dead was Habibur Mandal, 55,...
View ArticleUN climate talks clinch crucial deal
UN negotiators yesterday agreed in overtime talks on cornerstone issues of an ambitious, global climate pact to be signed in 2015 to stave off dangerous Earth warming. A day after negotiations...
View ArticleIt’s a murder
The Latvian president has described the collapse of a supermarket in the capital Riga as “murder”. Andris Berzins said many defenceless people had been killed and that should be the basis for the...
View ArticleShibir men on rampage
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir clashed with cops, vandalised vehicles and blasted crude bombs at the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. About 100 Shibir men brought out a procession in the area...
View ArticleDrug addiction alarming
About half of the five million drug addicts in the country are involved in crimes, said leading anti drug-abuse campaigner Prof Arup Ratan Choudhury yesterday. Bangladesh stands eighth among the...
View ArticleEC steps up polls preparations
With preparations for the 10th parliamentary polls now in full swing, the Election Commission yesterday started sending nomination forms to district election offices. Candidates will collect the forms...
View ArticleLosses immeasurable for victims, not for owner
How should the losses caused by last year’s November 24 fire at Ashulia’s Tazreen Fashions be accounted for? To Delwar Hossain, the owner of the factory and director of Tuba Group that has six other...
View ArticleSpeaker for talks with no precondition
The two major political parties should sit for a dialogue, without any precondition, to resolve the ongoing political crisis over the electoral system, Speaker of the House Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury...
View ArticleAL opts to be generous
The Awami League may field weak candidates or refrain from nominating any in around 70 of the 300 constituencies to allow the Jatiya Party to win the seats in the next parliamentary election. The...
View ArticleAshraf, Fakhrul ‘talk in secret’
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had a closed-door meeting last night on the stalemate over polls-time government, sources...
View ArticleIran nuclear deal agreed at talks
Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme, foreign ministers say. No details have been released about the agreement, which has been reached after...
View ArticleSyria children ‘targeted by snipers’
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria’s civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against...
View Article53 hurt as RMG workers attack Savar fire station
At least 53 people including firefighters and police were injured when garment workers attacked a fire service office, looted valuables and clashed with law enforcers in Savar this morning. The...
View ArticlePickets torch 2 vehicles in Ctg
The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, torched two battery-run three-wheelers in Chittagong as Jamaat observed a daylong hartal (shutdown) in the district today....
View ArticleBPL spot-fixing hearing begins
A three-member tribunal today started conducting the preliminary hearing on the spot-fixing allegations brought against nine individuals who participated in the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier...
View ArticlePolls on time even if BNP boycotts: Amu
The 10th parliamentary election will take place on time even if main opposition BNP does not take part in the polls, newly inducted minister Amir Hossain Amu said today. “The acceptability of the...
View ArticleSQ Chy’s lawyer Fakhrul remanded
A Dhaka court today placed Barrister Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, on a four-day remand in connection with a case filed for leaking out the draft verdict...
View ArticleHannan Shah backtracks on talks remarks
In an unusual move, BNP leader ASM Hannan Shah today backtracked within two hours on his acknowledgement that Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Syed Ashraful Islam had talks Saturday night. “The talks...
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