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AL joins JS for one day after 11 months
AL adopts obituary reference on Ahsanullah Master
The Jatiya Sangsad yesterday adopted an obituary reference mourning the assassination of Awami League (AL) lawmaker Ahsanullah Master with the participation of all parliamentary groups including the main
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Bangla Bhai active for 6 yrs
His outfit spreads tentacles to establish Taliban-like rule
Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) of so-called Bangla Bhai has been active underground for the last six years to establish a Taliban-like rule, although the Islamic militant outfit has grabbed the
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It's a foreign policy challenge for US
Thomas tells The Daily Star on Iraq prisoner abuse
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Harry K Thomas observes that the recent prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq will pose a foreign policy challenges for the US and it is "going to take time" to solve the problem.
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Now shrine turtles poisoned
800 kg fish die at Bayezeed Bostami Mazaar
At least 400 turtles at Hazrat Bayezeed Bostami shrine fell sick as unidentified brutes on Tuesday night poisoned the pond hosting the rare species.
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Planners want ADP free of MPs' silly demands
Tk 19,000cr revised dev programme finalised
Shaking off the practice of humouring lawmakers' goofy development commitments, the country's Annual Development Programme (ADP) from now on should be designed on the basis of national priorities, with
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Tigers on top
After relaxing under the St Vincent sun for three days, Bangladesh started off their Caribbean tour in grand fashion when they took eight wickets in quick time to send a strong West Indies Board XI reeling
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29 submit papers for JS by-polls
A total of 29 people have submitted nomination papers for running the June 6 parliamentary by-polls in Dhaka-10 and Munshiganj-1 constituencies.
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Prisoner Abuse
American beheaded
20 killed in Karbala clash; Sadr offers conditional truce
A video showing the beheading of an American in Iraq was posted on an Al-Qaeda-linked web site, a gruesome killing which Islamic militants claimed was carried out to avenge the abuse of Iraqi detainees
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BJP walks on nerves
Lok Sabha vote counting begins today
Just a day ahead of the counting of votes in parliamentary elections, India's ruling Hindu nationalists were in palpable anxiety yesterday following huge defeat in the state assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh.
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Ahsanullah Murder
Property of five suspects attached
Police yesterday attached the property of five a day after the arrests of four suspects of the May 7 Tongi mayhem that killed opposition lawmaker Ahsanullah Master in a rally amid allegations of misplaced
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Pot extrava-ganza
It doesn't get any better for the marijuana lovers! Thousands of marijuana or ganja lovers seeking spiritual ecstasy from across the country as well as from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Pakistanhave
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Abuse row woman 'ordered to pose'
England claims in interview with CBS; US lawmakers to see new photos; 2 more GIs to stand trial
Army Pfc. Lynndie England, seen worldwide in photographs that show her smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said she was ordered to pose for the photos, and felt "kind of weird" in doing so.
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MP Killing
PM assures neutral inquiry
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday made a categorical assurance that a neutral inquiry must be made to track down the killers of Ahsanullah Master MP.
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Biman grounded as pilots go on wildcat strike
Pilots of Biman Bangladesh Airlines stayed off work yesterday to press their three-point demand, including removal of a deputy director, in a wildcat strike that prompted cancellation of the nationalflag
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Army arrests top criminal, seizes AK-47
Army men in a predawn raid yesterday arrested the boss of infamous Aziz gang of Raozan along with two of his bodyguards at rubber plantation hideout near Kaokali in Rangamati hill district and seizedmodern
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Blast kills six Israeli troops
An explosion ripped apart an Israeli armored personnel carrier yesterday on the Gaza-Egypt border, and Arabic-language TV stations broadcasting in Beirut said six soldiers were killed.
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Cops mount watch on Proshika, frisk staff
Police yesterday kept a watchful eye on the Proshika headquarters in Mirpur and frisked the non-governmental organisation's staff and visitors before letting them in following Tuesday's incident which
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CTG Arms Haul
Woman UP member remanded
A Chittagong court yesterday placed the female union parishad (UP) member, arrested on charge of having a hand in the April 2 arms cache, on a three-day remand.
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25 criminals kill baby boy
Miscreants killed a six-month-old boy and injured two others at a village in Sadar upazila early yesterday.
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Cousin rapes 10-year-old girl in city
An youth allegedly raped his 10-year-old cousin sister at Pirerbagh in Mirpur on Tuesday.Samirul, a rickshaw-puller, went to the girl's house in a shanty in the night when she was asleep.
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BSF guns down two Bangladeshis
Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday gunned down two Bangladeshi nationals, who mistakenly crossed the frontier and entered Indian region.
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