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Discloses detained Indian terrorist; safe homes also built for fugitives Militants fighting in Kashmir have regularly used Bangladesh as a transit point to travel to Pakistan and have built safe havens here to shelter and train militants for terrorist operations in the region. Detained Indian terrorist Mufti Obaidullah, a top leader of the India-based Asif ... Read more

A lawsuit was filed yesterday against former adviser of the immediate past caretaker government Maj Gen MA Matin (retd) and ex-shipping secretary and incumbent member of Privatisation Commission, Sheikh AK Motahar Hossain and Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) claiming Tk 25 crore in compensation. Proprietor of the Everest Enterprise, Shahadat Hossain Selim, filed the lawsuit with ... Read more

The country on Tuesday confirmed a record 34 swine flu cases overnight, while government apprehends the A (H1N1) virus would touch the peak in a week. “We recorded the highest number of 34 swine flu cases today. And this number would grow at least for next one week with more cases detected in laboratory tests,”

Hearing on President’s reference As hearing on presidential reference on trial of BDR mutineers resumed yesterday, jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday told the Supreme Court that the BDR mutineers can not be tried under section 5 of the Army Act by issuing a gazette notification with retrospective effect. He gave his views as amicus curie ... Read more

Traffic congestions continued causing havoc for commuters in the capital yesterday, as vehicles slowed to a crawl on the city streets narrowed by illegally parked vehicles. Things did not improve despite the prime minister’s instructions for the police to act against illegal parking the day before. Cars and microbuses were seen parked on either side ... Read more

I saw this rare crab-eating frog in Nalian Bazar in the Sundarbans recently. It is rare in both India and Bangladesh mainly because it is restricted to the mangrove forests only. Biologically as it sits in the open, unlike other frogs, it is being preyed upon by the daytime predators as well as nocturnal ones ... Read more

The National Education Policy Formulation Committee will submit Wednesday the much-awaited draft report prescribing extension of the primary education level up to class VIII and secondary to class XII, among other basic changes in the country’s outworn education system. Headed by National Professor Kabir Chowdhury, the team of experts will submit its report to the ... Read more

Failure to submit poll expenditure return Over 1,000 UZ candidates might have been sued More than 1,000 candidates of last upazila polls might have been sued for not submitting their respective election expenditure returns. The last date for filing cases against the defaulter candidates of the January 22 upazila polls ended on Monday (August 31), ... Read more

The first swine flu death officially confirmed Monday and refusal of designated hospitals to do initial diagnosis caused a wave of panic among people with cold and fever and left them in confusion over where to go, patients and relatives said. A 35-year woman died at the city’s private hospital, LabAid Sunday night and the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ordered to formulate separate time schedule for schools, markets, offices and banks with a view to easing the nagging traffic jam in the capital. ” Prime Minister gave the necessary directives to set up new separate time tables for schools, markets, offices and banks to ease traffic congestion in the ... Read more

The government has increased land prices in all city corporations and district towns manifold for the next three years while it lowered the land tax, registration and other fees for the same period, Law minister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday. Briefing newsman at his office the minister said the land prices have shot up two and ... Read more

Cabinet abolishes pry scholarship exams Students of class V will have to face a public examination like SSC exams from this year as the cabinet on Monday endorsed the plan to improve the quality of education right from the elementary level. Centrally controlled by the Directorate of Primary Education, the public examination will mark the ... Read more

Khaleda Zia Ziaur Rahman entered into the political arena, incidentally. But his arrival was inevitable. His coming was necessitated by the demands of the nation and the time to fill the void in the leadership. His did not come to join politics through any tortuous path by means of conspiracy in the dark, but his ... Read more

S Asian climate conference calls for fighting together to minimise risks The glaciers of the Himalayas are melting faster than anywhere else changing its ecosystem and causing grave concerns for the region, said the speakers at the South Asian Climate Change Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Himalayas, widely known as the water tower of the ... Read more

Wildlife board suggests govt reduce number to two-thirds; hunting seen as option The Wildlife Advisory Board of the government has suggested downsizing the deer population at Nijhum Dwip to two-thirds as their number in the sanctuary has risen disproportionately to over 15,000 considering the island’s landscape. Now, what comes as a bad news for the ... Read more

The number of bed for cardiac treatment is only one per 1.5 lakh people in the country, according to a statistic of the Bangladesh Cardiac Society. There are only 1,000 beds for cardiac patients both at private and public facilities in the country where about 75 percent people are at risk of the fatal disease, ... Read more

At least 28 people were diagnosed with anthrax in Pabna after consuming beef infected with the Bacillus anthracis, according to IEDCR. ‘Twenty patients were clinically diagnosed with anthrax in Pabna,’ Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told New Age Monday. ‘There was no casualty and the

A record 54 women won seats in Japan’s weekend election but female parliamentary representation still remains low by developed world standards at 11 per cent, results showed Monday. The opposition Democratic Party scored a historic win over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday’s vote fielding a high-profile group of female candidates to take on ... Read more

Donors favour plantation of foreign species; locals keep trust in natural forest The Department of Forest is apparently depleting the Madhupur Sal Forest through implementation of different donor-funded afforestation projects, which mainly plant exotic trees of commercial value. The majority of the donor-funded projects in the past or the projects the government and development partners ... Read more

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday launched a special drive “Operation Clean Street” in the city in a bid to ease traffic congestion during the holy month of Ramzan. On the other hand due to the operation clean street the small number of passenger laden vehicles were on the streets putting the home bound people before ... Read more