Dhaka Mirror

BDR Carnage National probe report likely in a day or two The national probe committee on BDR carnage is likely to submit its report in the next few days. Sources close to the probe committee told The Daily Star that the report is prepared to submit any time but some other formalities including binding the ... Read more

The number of confirmed swine flu cases has soared again to top 8,000, the World Health Organisation said yesterday as India and Turkey reported their first infections. Japan also confirmed its first three infections among teenage students who had not picked up the virus abroad, and officials voiced fears that it would spread in the ... Read more

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday morning busted a ‘mini-munitions factory’ of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at the city’s East Monipur in Mirpur, and recovered a huge cache of bombs and bomb-making materials. They carried out the raid following up information obtained from detained JMB explosives expert ‘Boma Mizan’ and his wife ... Read more

Extortions continue unabated on a massive scale in all sectors of industries and business despite an intensified countrywide clampdown by law enforcers after the assumption of office by the Awami League-led government. Sources said toll collectors and all kinds of extortionists had been active in industrial and business establishments, shopping malls, bus terminals and construction ... Read more

Business leaders Friday expressed their grave concern over the fast deterioration of law and order, especially in the country’s commercial areas, in recent weeks, saying it will aggravate the economic downturn amid global recession. Terrorists killed one garment entrepreneur and four others in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, mugged and injured many others in the ... Read more

Commission asserts its position The Election Commission (EC) has taken initiatives to stop domination of District Commissioners (DCs) and Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) over the field-level election officials and employees, reliable sources have said. Although the EC is a constitutional institution, and, in accordance with law, the EC Secretariat is independent, the DCs and the ... Read more

Standing committee meeting today BNP yet to announce convening committees due to internal feud Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is yet to announce 74 district convening committees due to party internal feud though the committees were likely to be announced early in this month. The party will take final decision today (Saturday) at a standing committee ... Read more

Almost three quarters of people killed in road accidents in Dhaka city are pedestrians while mostly minibuses are involved in these accidents. Even though pedestrians constitute around 60 percent of the road users in the capital they are one of the least cared for. According to Accident Monitoring Cell of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) ... Read more

Detained Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) man Mizan alias ‘Boma Mizan’ was disowned by his parents five years ago for his Islamist terrorist connection, and his first wife Sharmin was also disowned by her family three months after they had come to know that her husband is a terrorist. “We got married in 2006 after I ... Read more

People advised to avoid roadside sharbat Though the residents of the capital got some respite from the scorching heat as the mercury dipped well below 35 degree Celsius following rainfall that significantly improved the overall situation of water borne diseases, expertes warned people ‘not to be complacent’. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), ... Read more

The Mumbai slum home of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has been demolished by city authorities. Reports say that police smacked the boy, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, with a bamboo stick before ordering him out. The authorities claim he and other families were squatting on land that was owned by ... Read more

Violence against women and children continues across the country as criminals go unpunished in the absence of proper application of law. Women and girls suffer from physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuses while children face corporal punishment at home, school and workplace. A report of Odhikar says 5816 women and children were raped in six ... Read more

Claims indigenous people’s body An organisation working with indigenous people claimed that around 50,000 adivashi people were forced to leave the country due to harassment and repression during the last decade. The Adivashi Manobadhikar Report 2008 claimed that non-adivashi people were relocated to the hilly region under a political scheme of “population transfer” and they ... Read more

A large number of English and Bangla- weekly magazines come out from Dhaka but it is difficult to ascertain the exact number as most of them are irregular and underground publications. However, a number of weekly magazines-both English and Bangla- are found in the market. The well known weekly English weeklies published regularly from Dhaka ... Read more