Dhaka Mirror

Over 10 lakh to appear as exams start tomorrow Suranjith Deabnath Over 42 percent registered candidates for SSC and equivalent certificates dropped out this year even before the examinations begin tomorrow, due to a plethora of social and financial obstacles. About 5.34 lakh of a total 12.67 lakh high school students who had registered in ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will conduct a special drive from Friday midnight to hunt down criminals in the capital. The decision of launching the special drive came within five days of another drive that continued from February 3-7. The special drive against the criminals comes in the wake of success of the ... Read more

Mustafizur Rahman The Awami League-led government is likely to go ahead with the much-talked about Hatirjheel development project without affecting the BGMEA Bhaban, constructed ‘illegally’ on the wetland in the city. ‘We must go ahead with the project which includes construction of lakes, waterways and walkways to ease traffic congestion and remove water-logging – major ... Read more

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka BNP vice-chairman MK Anwar has said if the prime minister is sincere to combat corruption, a powerful anti-corruption commission should be established to inquire into corruption since the independence of Bangladesh. The BNP leader said this to reporters on Friday at his residence responding to prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique on Friday underscored the need for introducing a unified education system in the primary and secondary levels in line with the recommendations of the Kudrat-e-Khoda Commission to generate productive manpower. As the chief guest at a seminar titled “Quality of Higher Secondary Education & Social Position ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The authors of the controversial book ‘contribution of women in the liberation war’ have denied the charge of plagiarising the manuscript of the book claimed to have been written by Rokeya Kabir. Earlier, on Wednesday, Rokeya Kabir, executive director of Nari Pragati Sangha at a press conference at the National Press Club alleged ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Noble laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said Bangladesh needs more motivation in information technology for achieving swift prosperity. He was speaking as the chief guest at the BUET Alumnae Association reunion programme at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury, president of the association, chaired the inaugural session of ... Read more

Central leader says they have no info Our Correspondent . Rajshahi The police arrested two local leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh at Mohanpur in Rajshahi on Friday on charge of killing a freedom-fighter during the War of Independence in 1971. The officer-in-charge of the Mohanpur police station, Asaduzzaman Milon, told New Age that the police ... Read more

Tushar Hayat . Chittagong Death toll in Thursday’s road accident in Bandarban on Friday rose to at least eight, including six Chittagong College students. Thirty-four were critically injured and one remained missing till Friday evening. One of the five buses, carrying Chittagong College students from a picnic in Bandarban to Chittagong, fell 300 feet down ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Armed assailants shot dead a video editor of private television channel NTV and hijacked his motorbike in a Taltola alley near the Moghbazar level crossing Friday night. Atiqul Islam Atiq, 35, who was shot, died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 10:15pm. Witnesses said a gang of three armed thugs on a ... Read more

Islamic Foundation Three books on Bangabandhu reintroduced Bss, Dhaka The Islamic Foundation has reintroduced three books on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The books–Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mohan Neta Bangabandhu and Hridoy Jure Bangabandhu — were banned by the past four-party alliance government, a press release of the foundation said ... Read more

Afp, New York A commuter plane crashed into a house in New York state unleashing a fireball and killing all 48 passengers and crew and one person on the ground, officials said yesterday. Flames higher than nearby houses lit up the night sky for hours. Firefighters from a nearby fire station were quickly at the ... Read more

Afp, Taipei An overwhelming 82 percent of Taiwanese people who are in relationships do not plan to get married this year, mainly because of lack of money and the economic downturn, a poll showed yesterday. Nearly half of respondents reluctant to tie the knot cited financial woes while 31.77 percent of them said their relationships ... Read more