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S Asian foes declare peace 'irreversible'
India, Pakistan soften on Kashmir; decide to open meeting points for divided families, trade
India and Pakistan yesterday asserted the peace process between the nuclear rivals is 'irreversible' and pledged not to allow terrorism impede the process, agreeing to boost cross-border cooperation,trade
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97 still missing
Relatives keep crowding the Savar rescue spot
Maleka Begum with bread and banana in hand has been waiting outside the security cordon of the collapsed garment factory building for her son Rubel for the last eight days.
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Satkhira Tense
Bigots again besiege Ahmadiyya mosque
Religious bigots yesterday laid siege to an Ahmadiyya mosque and ransacked a house in Sundarban Bazar of Shyamnagar in a fresh bout of intimidation of the sect.
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Human Trafficking to Greece
Police yet to trace fake travel agency
Police are yet to track down Ali Overseas Travel Agency that organised the journey to Greece for 90 Bangladeshis rescued from a motor boat in the Bay of Bengal on Sunday.
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'Murdered' boy frees 'killer' mother from jail
Kamala Khatun, a village woman of Sherpur district, was sentenced to life imprisonment along with her second husband eight years ago on charges of "killing and hiding the corpse" of her eight-year-old
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Most of Gulshan Lake goes to grabbers
People with purchase docs from private owners fill water body
Gulshan Lake is once again under the grip of encroachers, who claim "two thirds" of the entire water body with "proofs of purchase" from private owners.
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Tk 3,000cr city dev project revived
The government has revived a six-year-old Tk 3,000 crore project aimed at improving the waterways around the capital and building by-pass roads and other infrastructure for a dynamic city.
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CCC Mayor Post
16 in final race, IOJ pulls out
Sixteen candidates are finally in the mayoral frame for Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls after the candidates of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) and Jagrata Muslim Ummah Oikya Parishad pulled out fromthe
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Collapsed factory workers in fresh hardship
The grocers in Palashbari and the adjoining areas have stopped selling groceries on credit to the workers of the Spectrum Sweater Ltd as the workers could not pay their last month's dues and cannot hope
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JCD factional clash at JU wounds 26
A student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) took bullet and 25 pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists were injured in a fierce battle between two of its factions on the campus yesterday.
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Dhaka seeks US help to combat sea piracy
Bangladesh has sought US logistic support to forestall reemergence of the golden triangle by combating terrorists and pirates in the high terrain and the coastal belt, Foreign Minister M Morshed Khansaid.
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Rocca to visit Dhaka in May
US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca would arrive in Dhaka in the second week of May. "She showed her interest to visit Bangladesh this week and meet me.
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Cardinals start new Pope election
Roman Catholic cardinals held a solemn Mass praying for divine inspiration yesterday, hours before locking themselves away from the world to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II.
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Double Murder
Goldsmiths keep shutters down
Goldsmiths of Tantibazar in old Dhaka yesterday kept closed their businesses to protest the killings of two gold traders on Sunday.
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Fish farmer shot dead
Unidentified assailants yesterday gunned down a fish farm owner in front of his house in Mohakhali in the capital.
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