Arms cache unloaded in 'presence of police'
Urea factory effort leads to seizure; gunrunners, workers hide unchallenged
Smugglers were unloading the largest ever arms cache on the Karnaphuli coast in Chittagong on Friday with 'help from local police', a witness told journalists in a major twist to the seizure top intelligence
Arms cache was on way to 3rd country
Military experts tell The Daily Star
Former military generals believe the 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition seized in Chittagong on Friday were destined for a third country and Bangladesh was used only as a transit route.
Japan to recruit Bangladeshis
For the first time, Japan is going to be opened up for Bangladeshi workers very soon with Tokyo deciding to recruit a good number of workers every year for training and temporary jobs.
MCCI Review of First 9 Months Economy slumps
Law and order slide, ad hoc tariff measures seen as major causes
The country's overall economic situation has worsened over the July-March period of the current fiscal year, reports Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).
Bomb rips through Khulna bus just before riders board
A passenger bus rigged with explosives blew up at Sonadanga inter-district bus terminal here yesterday only minutes before passengers were scheduled to board the Dhaka-bound coach.
Close watch on vessels at Ctg Port
Government intelligence agencies are looking into activities of some cargo vessels that called at the Chittagong Port in last few days to find possible links to the largest-ever arms cache seized on Friday.
Hasina seeks int'l probe
Suspects link of ruling BNP men
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina yesterday demanded an international inquiry into the huge cache of illegal arms and ammunition seized in Chittagong on Friday and suspected the links of ruling BNP to the
Deep water crisis grips city suburbs
Millions of people living at the city's periphery are in an acute water crisis due to rapid decline in ground water level during the current lean period.
Myanmar PM arrives today
Myanmar Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt arrives in Dhaka today on a three-day official visit.
Arafat rejects Sharon threat
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat says he is unmoved by a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to assassinate him which has drawn criticism from the United States.
Dhaka slates Israel PM's statement
Bangladesh yesterday strongly condemned the recent statement by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to assassinate Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and said that Israel would be solely responsiblefor
Rubel swims to gold
Rubel Rana clinched the first swimming gold for Bangladesh in the Ninth SAF Games when he won the 100m backstroke in Islamabad yesterday.
He finished with 1minute 2.
Govt to run full term: PM
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said people had given mandate to the BNP-led four-party alliance to govern the country for five years and the coalition would run its full term.
JP alleges pressure to prevent it from anti-govt movement
The Jatiya Party (Ershad) yesterday accused the government of putting 'undue pressure' on the second largest opposition for keeping it away from the anti-government opposition movement and distortinginformation
SL set for hung parliament
Chandrika's party on for win
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party has inched closer to a general election win, but looks short of a parliamentary majority, complicating efforts to restart peace talks with Tamil rebels.
Pvt firm lobbies for lizard skin export consent
The Department of Forest is allegedly giving a company, owned by one of its ex-official, a dispensation to export 12000 pieces of lizard skin, a forest department source claimed.
Acid horror in Kishoreganj
Baby burnt to death; parents seriously burned
Assailants burnt a one-and-a-half-year-old girl to death and injured her parents seriously with corrosive acid tunnelling their way into the victims' mud house in Kishoreganj early yesterday in an apparent
JCD cadres bash BCL activist at JU
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) cadres bashed a rival Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus yesterday.
AL road march today
Main opposition Awami League (AL) will march the Old Dhaka streets today as part of its one-point oust-government movement for what they described as the ruling alliance's absolute failure to deliver.
Extortionists gouge out eyes of drug peddler
Mob pounds muggers
Extortionists yesterday gouged out the eyes of an alleged drug peddler at Lalbagh in the capital after he had refused to pay them toll while a mob pounded two alleged muggers in Shyampur.
Murder case filed against 4 cops
A mother filed a murder case against four policemen of Shyampur Police Station with the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka yesterday.
BNP leader shot dead in Chuadanga
Unidentified assailants Friday gunned down a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and teacher of a primary school at Jibonnagar in Chuadanga.
Attack on Prof Azad LDF demands Saidee's arrest
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) yesterday demanded immediate arrest of Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Delwar Hossain Saidee as per what it said is the government's promise to arrest anyone blamed by writer
B Chy asks PM to quit on failure
Former president and national committee convenor of the alternative political stream AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday asked Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to step down admitting failure of her cabinet to
No classes held at CU as PSA enforces siege
Academic activities at Chittagong University (CU) virtually stopped due to an indefinite siege on the campus yesterday enforced by Progressive Student Alliance (PSA).
Landlord's son rapes
Son of a landlord allegedly raped a housewife at Sabujbagh yesterday.
New SCBA committee takes over amid protest
The newly-elected office-bearers of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) from the Awami League-backed Ainjibi Samannaya Parishad yesterday took charge of the bar amid protest from a section of pro-BNP
Harris rebuts Saber remark on Tarique
Joint Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Harris Chowdhury yesterday condemned Awami League leader Saber Hossain Chowdhury's remarks on Tarique Rahman, senior joint secretary general
New UK visa application centre opens today
The British High Commission in Dhaka today launches its second visa application centre here for applicants willing to travel to the UK.
