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Tougher anti-terrorism law if need be
Confident PM tells nation after three years in office
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday sought unwavering support of people for continuing present trend of success of her government in the next two years through more advances in poverty alleviation, improving
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Hasina demands early polls
Promises to desist from political vengeance
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the government to seek fresh mandate through early polls for what she said was the loss of public confidence in the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition's ability
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Opposition observes Black Day with hartal
The main opposition Awami League (AL) and some left-leaning parties yesterday observed "Black Day" to mark the coalition government's three years in office, enforcing a countywide dawn-to-dusk hartalthat
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Full text of Hasina's speech
Dear countrymen,
I have come before you at a time when our beloved country is held hostage by terror, corruption, rising prices, poverty and acute insecurity and 14 million people are helpless
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156 missiles found in a drain in India
Desperate search for military ordnance starts after discovery
India yesterday searched cargo containers for military ordnance after stumbling across huge piles of shells and missiles imported along with scrap metal by private dealers, the army said.
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Govt justifies price upswing on rains
Tk 47cr embezzlement unearthed at Jiban Bima Corp
The commerce ministry yesterday justified the unusual price spiral of essentials citing the recent floods and heavy rainfall and claimed the prices will come down on the back of the government initiatives.
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Rebels hit Baghdad as Rumsfeld visits
18 Iraqis, 2 GIs killed in attacks
Two blasts killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad yesterday hours before Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Mahi refused entry to airforce community centre
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) legislator and spokesman Mahi B Chowdhury was not allowed to attend a wedding ceremony at Falcon Community Centre near Airforce Officers' Mess in the capital yesterday.
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Afghan polls fair despite ink fiasco
Observe monitors
Independent observers described Afghanistan's historic presidential election as mostly fair yesterday despite turmoil over possible multiple voting that led most of the candidates to call for a general
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4 cops hurt as robbers hurl bombs
Four policemen including an officer-in-charge (OC) and two locals were injured as robbers threw bombs at them and snatched away a rifle from a patrol police personnel in the early hours yesterday.
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Clarification
The Finance Division in a clarification Saturday on a report headlined "High Borrowing Fear Looms Large", which The Daily Star ran in its October 8 edition, said the report was not based on proper economic
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5 lawyers sued in Kushtia
Five lawyers including the general secretary of Kushtia Bar Association have been sued for abusing a judge, ransacking a courtroom and threatening its staff with death yesterday.
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3 killed in Pak mosque blast
At least three people including a suicide bomber were killed when a powerful bomb ripped through a Shia mosque in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, police said.
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More than one in three want Blair to go
More than one in three Britons say Prime Minister Tony Blair should resign over the Iraq war but a clear majority do not blame him for the beheading of Kenneth Bigley in Iraq, an opinion poll shows.
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Beijing to install condom machines to fight Aids
Beijing will install about 1,000 condom vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on construction sites in the Chinese capital this month to fight the spread of AIDS, the official Xinhua news
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