Spicezee Bureau Mumbai, Jan 02: New Year has just kicked off and one of the most talked about Bollywood couple is reportedly heading towards splitsville. All doesn`t seem to be well between Ranbir and Deepika, as the lady was recently spotted with a stranger watching a movie in a multiplex. And not just that, grapevine ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Miracle birth in mid-air, thank Indians
MICHAEL LEVENSON Boston, Jan. 2: Seems fair to say that the passengers who boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 59 in Amsterdam yesterday did not expect that by the time they landed in Boston seven hours later they would have new faith in themselves, and almost certainly not in the state of humanity. But as they jubilantly ... Read more
Tigers mull strategy against Murali, Mendis
Azad Majumder . Chittagong Anyone who has never watched the Bangladesh cricket team batting in the nets would take Ashraful Hossain as just another net bowler, who was invited to assist the national players in their practice. But to Mohammad Ashraful and his team-mates the 18-year-old Chittagong boy was just not an
Dhaka Abahani retains solo lead: Arambagh draw with Muktijoddha Sangsad
UNB, Dhaka Holders Dhaka Abahani maintained their solo lead in the Citycell 2nd B. League with a 1-0 win over Chittagong Mohammedan SC at the Chittagong Stadium on Friday. With this result, Dhaka Abahani increased their tally to 26 points, while Chittagong Mohammedan remained at 17 points, both playing 12 matches. In the day’s match, ... Read more
Second round of 17th NID today
Staff Correspondent Twenty-two million children under five will be administered polio vaccines as the second round of 17th National Immunisation Day will be held today. Field workers from the health and family planning ministry along with six lakh volunteers will administer oral polio vaccines to 22 million children aged 0-59 months and Vitamin A capsule ... Read more
ECR yet to begin in most Barisal shops
Anisur Rahman . Barisal Most of the shops in the Barisal City Corporation areas are yet to start using electronic cash registers two days into the deadline. The system is currently applicable for 10 selected sectors, including hotels, restaurants and fast food shops, sweetmeat shops, furniture sales centres, beauty parlours, all sales outlets of luxurious ... Read more
Natore Sugar Mills set to fall short of production target
Our Correspondent . Natore Natore Sugar Mills is set to fall short of achieving its target for the current fiscal year as more than 900 illegal power crushers are producing crude sugar or gur in the mill area. Two Sugar Mills had been constructed in Natore to use the main cash-crop of the district, sugarcane,
GMG to add new aircraft to its fleet
Kazi Azizul Islam Country’s largest private-sector airline GMG is adding a new aircraft to its fleet today as it is preparing to resume flights on several international routes. A senior GMG official told New Age on Friday that decline in fuel prices inspired GMG to resume the flights. On domestic routes GMP presently operates flights ... Read more
MPs-elect take oath today, tomorrow
Shakhawat Liton Members-elect of parliament belonging to Awami League (AL)-led grand alliance will take oath this afternoon at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban and the remaining MPs-elect will
Sheikh Hasina’s acid test
Commentary Sheikh Hasina’s acid test Mahfuz Anam The first cabinet will give the clearest sign of her promised change Two recent elections have been fought on the promise of ‘change’ — Barack Obama’s in the US and Sheikh Hasina’s in Bangladesh — and both of them received resounding endorsement from the electorate and both now ... Read more
About 300 Languish in Jails After Terms
6 foreign prisoners freed, 20 more await their turn Kailash Sarkar The jail authorities have started freeing the foreign nationals languishing in Bangladeshi jails for years after serving their sentences because of diplomatic and bureaucratic tangles. They took the step after failing to repatriate them through the normal procedures. At least six foreign prisoners — ... Read more
Second Test from today
Azad Majumder. Chittagong After a spirited show in Dhaka, Bangladesh are keen to keep up the momentum when they face the visiting Sri Lanka in the second Test at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium starting today. ‘The performance in the second innings of the first Test in Dhaka, gave us a lot of confidence. We are ... Read more
Govt should realise need for rapport: BNP to cooperate for making JS effective
Staff Reporter Conceding the defeat by its rivals in the just concluded parliamentary elections, BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday said the victorious party should form the government and rule the country. Delwar, who, earlier made allegations of vote rigging said, “Let the Awami League led grand alliance form the next government as they ... Read more
AL leaders want Zillur as president
Staff Reporter Awami League (AL) general secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said the cabinet of the coming AL government would not be consist of 40 to 50 members and it will be blended with the veterans, experience and youths merit. Jalil also informed that the party leaders and supporters want to see veteran Zillur Rahman president ... Read more
SCF looks to AL govt for war crimes trial
Bdnews24.com, Dhaka The Sector Commanders’ Forum is optimistic that a pro-independence Awami League-led government will start the legal procedures to hold war crimes trial as soon as possible. “The forum firmly believes, the Awami League-led elected government will start the legal procedure to try war ‘criminals’ and thus the nation will get rid of a ... Read more
Malaysia fast-tracks deportation of illegal migrants
Agence France-Presse . Kuala Lumpur Malaysia said Friday it is fast-tracking the deportation of illegal migrants under a pilot project that will see offenders handed a fine and a one-way ticket home — bypassing court and jail. ‘We have got more than one million people who are illegals in this country so I don’t think ... Read more
Two BCL activists arrested from DU hall
DU Correspondent Two activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were arrested on Friday noon for their alleged involvement in Thursday’s clash between two groups of students at Ziaur Rahman hall of Dhaka University. Central leaders of the BCL, the student wing of the Awami League, provided the provost the names of Maola Baki and Ziaul Huq, ... Read more
Counterfoils of ballots found in Chandpur
Bdnews24.com . Chandpur The Chandpur police on Friday retrieved 300 abandoned ballot counterfoils from a ditch close to Chandpur Akkas Ali Government Primary School. Chandpur Sadar model police sub-inspector Monir Ahmed told bdnews24.com Jihad, a seventh-grade student of the primary school went to the school ground for playing cricket with his friends in the morning. ... Read more
Vatican divorces from Italian law
By David Willey, BBC News, Rome The Vatican City State, the world’s smallest sovereign state, has decided to divorce itself from Italian law. Vatican legal experts say there are too many laws in Italian civil and criminal codes, and that they frequently conflict with Church principles. With effect from New Year’s Day, the Pope has ... Read more
Sri Lankan troops seize rebel HQ
Sri Lanka’s military have seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced. He described the taking of the northern town as an “unparalleled victory” for government forces. A pro-Tamil website confirmed the news but said the town was mostly empty as the rebel fighters had moved ... Read more