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River-linking to spell disaster for both Bangladesh, India
Experts tell int'l conference as Dhaka fears mass migration
The Indian River-Linking Project (IRLP) will result in great human and ecological disasters for both downstream Bangladesh and upstream India, speakers at an international conference agreed yesterday.
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Political stability gave Malaysia its economic success
Mahathir says on arrival
Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad who arrived here yesterday said Malaysia can be an example for Bangladesh of how economic success comes through a stable political system.
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PBCP founder Mofakkhar killed in Rab action
Mofakkhar Hossain alias Mahamud Hasan, a top political think-tank of outlawed parties and founder of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), died in an alleged 'crossfire' between Rapid Action Battalion
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India pile on runs
Gautam Gambhir's maiden Test century and a typical Rahul Dravid ton helped India defy a three-prong Bangladesh attack on the opening day of the second and the final Test here on Friday.
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DU to honour Mahathir today
Dhaka University (DU) today confers an honorary Doctorate of Law on former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir bin Muhamad at the opening of its 42nd convocation.
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Human Rights Watch Says
Iraq war crimes tribunal flawed
Iraq's plan to push ahead with early trials of Saddam Hussein's deputies risks launching an unfair process that is flawed and discredited in the eyes of the world, a leading human rights group said yesterday.
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DU-AEC dispute over campus land
Authorities of Dhaka University (DU) and Atomic Energy Centre (AEC), a research institute under the Atomic Energy Commission, are at loggerheads over a piece of 3.
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Tanore 'rapists' held under Section 54!
Case papers still missing
Two of the four BNP men accused of gang-raping a woman 17 years ago in Tanore were arrested Thursday not in the rape case but under Section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
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Govt out to erase Bangabandhu's name : Hasina
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina yesterday blamed the government for 'destroying' the country's economy, image and history of independence and spoiling the main principles of the constitution in a planned
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Govt working hard to ensure people's rights
Bhuiyan tells rally
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday urged the countrymen to be united to build a prosperous nation and implement the dream for which lakhs of people
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Rickshaw ban triggers stray clashes
Mirpur road from Russell Square to Azimpur in the city became off-limits to non-motorised vehicles from yesterday prompting stray clashes between police and rickshaw pullers that left at least 15 people
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Traffickers in Greece torture Bangladeshis
A gang of traffickers held a Bangladeshi in an apartment for three weeks, torturing him with cigarettes and blows and starving him to hand over money for his release, Greek police said yesterday.
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Sharon offers state to Palestinians
Erekat rejects proposal saying nothing new in it
Predicting a year of opportunity for peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held out the prospect of an independent state for the Palestinians if they stop violence against Israel, but Palestinian
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JS team starts assessing CHT situation
Visiting parliamentary team yesterday met with political leaders, government officials and NGO representatives in Khagrachhari to assess law and order situation and make future plans for betterment of
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9 killed in al-Qaeda jailbreak in Kabul
Five Afghan prison guards and police and four prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al-Qaeda inmates yesterday and a shoot-out was going on with another two, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry
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Dr Kamal Says
Rab, Cheetah products of govt failure
Utterly failing to control the law and order, the government has let forces like Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Cheetah and Cobra work wantonly, Dr Kamal Hossain, president of Jatiya Oikya Mancha, said
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'Poor' rice stock worries Kibria
Former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria yesterday called upon the government to take immediate steps to bring down the price of rice and build up a sensible stock to avert a famine.
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'Chemical Ali' faces hearing next week
Saddam Hussein's defense minister, who surrendered to American forces last year, will appear alongside another notorious general - known as Chemical Ali - when investigative trials open next week, anofficial
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