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Mushrooming VoIP Trade
Foreign mobile operators involved in racket
A few foreign mobile phone operators, which take out profits of hundreds of millions of dollars from Bangladesh each year, have been largely supporting the phenomenally growing illegal VoIP business in
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Mosharraf sent to jail, Mufti Shahidul gets detention
Arrests, recovery of firearms continue
Former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain was sent to jail yesterday after a court had scheduled the hearing of his bail prayer for Sunday while a Dhaka court sent former lawmaker Mufti Shahidul
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Drive against graft keeps BNP men on the run
Like some influential leaders of the party, most of the top brass of the BNP's front organisations have gone into hiding. They got rich overnight allegedly through corruption in the last five years.
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Arrests of Politicians
AL bigwigs sit soon to study situation
The Awami League (AL) top brass are closely watching the developments following the arrests of BNP and AL bigwigs while the mid- and grassroots-level leaders await the high command's instructions in the
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Arresting the accused not enough for fair polls
Ban them after probe, seminar told
The great challenge for the present caretaker government is to conduct proper investigation into the cases of the corrupt white-collar people and putting them on trial so that politics is made a place
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'Crossfire' with Police
Notorious Salam of Kushtia killed
A criminal gang leader was killed in 'crossfire' between police and his cohorts at village Raidanga of Kumarkhali upazila in the district early yesterday.
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Scuffle with tiger at Dhaka Zoo
Panic gripped the visitors at Dhaka Zoo yesterday noon when a Royal Bengal Tiger attacked its food provider inside the cage, came out of it and roamed the zoo premises for about half an hour.
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BB asks Bogra banks to show accounts of 22
Bangladesh Bank (BB) sent letters to a number of government and non-government banks in Bogra on Thursday asking them to send the last two years' account statements of 22 BNP and Awami League (AL) leaders,
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New OCs in 16 city police stations
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities yesterday appointed 16 inspectors as officers-in-charge (OCs) of 16 police stations and transferred an OC to the Detective and Crime Intelligence unit of the
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US wants to see early polls in Bangladesh
The United States wants to see election in Bangladesh as soon as possible in an appropriate way according to the constitution and rule of law, a State Department spokesman said in Washington.
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Monsur lost his eyesight but never his vision
Tale of the first blind student to receive Master's degree from DU
April is his favourite, as significant events in his life took place during the month, said Monsur Ahmed Choudhuri, the first blind student to receive a master's degree from Dhaka University.
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Bird fair at JU opens
Hundreds of bird lovers from across the country thronged Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday as the daylong bird fair, aimed at raising awareness about birds and the bio-diversity of Bangladesh, was
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Yunus goes to Kolkata Sunday
Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank Professor Muhammad Yunus will visit Kolkata February 11 to 13, his first trip here since winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Woman held at book fair for assaulting cop
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested a woman at the entrance to the Ekushey book fair as she slapped a woman constable of the elite crime-busting force following a tangle about security checking.
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BDR, BSF trade fire in Satkhira
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) traded gunfire on Kergachhi border in Kalaroa upazila early yesterday.
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Fertiliser seized in Satkhira
The joint forces yesterday seized 177 sacks of adulterated fertiliser from Patkelghata bazar in Tala upazila and Shailkhali village in Shyamnagar upazila. They also arrested three people in this connection.
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Palestinian unity govt 'in a week'
Cheer for Hamas-Fatah power-sharing deal
The Palestinian unity government agreed in Makkah will be formed "within a week," an adviser to president Mahmud Abbas told AFP yesterday.
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US think tank urges retreat from Iraq
An independent think tank warned yesterday that the situation in Iraq was beyond repair and urged that US forces should be pulled out whatever the result of the current "surge" of troops into Baghdad.
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Violent clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque
Clashes broke out yesterday near Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound between stone-throwing Muslim worshippers and Israeli police who entered the holy site, police and witnesses said.
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Iraqi, US forces push into Baghdad
3 GIs, 11 Iraqis and 8 insurgents killed, 13 others kidnapped
US and Iraqi forces pushed into Baghdad yesterday to clean up insurgent and militia hotbeds, launching house-to-house searches in a major operation to restore order in the battered Iraqi capital.
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