Level playing field absent
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday alleged that the upcoming national election is yet to have a level playing field, as the entire administration is biased towards the two major political...
View ArticleGovernance goes on in confusion
Confusion runs high among the ministries and departments as they are not sure about the scope of their routine work after the announcement of polls schedule under an elected government. A meeting of...
View ArticleEnsure security for EC staff, offices
Amid growing violence centring the 10th parliamentary election and the recent attack on its offices, the Election Commission (EC) has sought adequate security measures for its secretariat and other...
View ArticleA dream bullet-hit
He dreams to be a star cricketer one day and bring more glory for the country. Besides his college studies the young man practises hard twice a day to materialise his goal. But yesterday’s blockade...
View ArticleSpare students
The 48-hour countrywide blockade beginning yesterday concerned parents who have children taking yearly or board exams. Abu Raihan, a parent from Kalyanpur in the capital, phoned this correspondent...
View ArticleCPB’s no to polls without all parties
Without the participation of all political parties, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) will not join the forthcoming 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5. CPB President Mujahidul...
View ArticleBNP’s lethal vagueness
The BNP-led 18-party alliance did not bother to explain or define the scope of its 48-hour blockade, creating confusion and anxiety among people. Due to vagueness of the blockade’s purview,...
View ArticleChange in polls schedule if parties reach consensus
The scope for changing the polls schedule is there, if all parties could agree on the type of the interim government, said the Election Commission yesterday while it mulls keeping the army on the...
View ArticleBusiness grinds to a halt
The economy has started to bleed as the ongoing countrywide blockade enforced by the opposition has begun to hit the country’s businesses from all fronts. Imported goods have piled up at Chittagong...
View ArticlePeople the victims again
When Aleya entered the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to see her husband yesterday, her first glance of the burnt, peeling face sent her crashing to the floor with a piercing scream. Her...
View ArticleRestrict PM’s power
A delegation of eminent citizens yesterday met President Abdul Hamid, and proposed limiting the prime minister’s powers to overrule ministers’ decisions in order to have the BNP join the polls-time...
View ArticleDistricts delinked
At least seven people, including a BGB man, were killed and over 250 injured as violence flared up across the country yesterday with communications crumbling on the first day of the opposition’s...
View ArticleBritain wins right to keep Litvinenko death papers secret
London’s High Court on Wednesday backed a bid by the British government to keep secret documents linked to an inquest into the death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. The coroner leading the...
View ArticleFrance clears major Roma camp outside Paris
French authorities yesterday cleared one of the country’s largest Roma camps, evicting some 800 migrants from a shantytown north of Paris. France has in recent years pursued a controversial policy of...
View ArticleCIA chief accused of murder over Pakistan drone attack
The political party of former cricketer Imran Khan yesterday named the CIA’s director and a man it said was the agency’s chief in Pakistan as murder suspects over a drone strike. Khan’s Pakistan...
View ArticleCats never evolved to care any one
Any cat owner will tell you that although they are sometimes kept as pets, felines are beholden to no one. A new study from the University of Japan has confirmed this, showing that although pet cats...
View ArticleLatvian PM quits over store collapse
Latvia’s prime minister resigned yesterday, in the wake of a supermarket roof cave-in that killed 54 people, just weeks before the country enters the eurozone. The political thunderbolt announced by...
View ArticleChina for smooth polls in Bangladesh
China hopes there will be a smooth election in Bangladesh in January, which the country’s opposition has pledged to boycott. “As a good and close neighbour of Bangladesh, China sincerely hopes that all...
View Article2 witnesses testify on wartime killings
Two witnesses in the war crimes case against Zahid Hossain Khokon yesterday testified how their fathers were killed during the Liberation War at Meherdia village in Faridpur. One of the witnesses,...
View ArticleBail for Hall-Mark boss extended
A Dhaka court yesterday again extended the bail to Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam till January 22, 2014 in connection with 11 graft cases filed for swindling over Tk 2,600 crore out of Sonali...
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