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A heart rendering scene emerged when the leader of the main opposition  and the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia embraced her arch political rival Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to condole latter at the sad demise of her husband nuclear scientist Dr Wazed Mian. The former prime minister arrived at the Sudha Sadan at 8.55pm with a ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday offered an amnesty to the Indian Cricket League players asking them to terminate their contracts with the unofficial Twenty20 competition by June 15 if they want their bans to be withdrawn. ‘The players have to terminate their contracts by June 15 to apply for withdrawal of their bans,’ Jalal ... Read more

Low quality of education frustrates students The number of coaching centres in our country has increased rapidly like mushrooms. Most of the coaching centres try to influence the students claiming to be the best. The HSC exam will be over very soon. At this time these coaching centres try to attract students through various leaflets. ... Read more

Several organised gangs are active in Dhaka city to earn money by forcing the physically challenged poor men and women to take to begging on the streets of the capital. The leaders of these gangs take away bulk of the money earned by the beggars defying scorching heat of summer, braving blinding rainfall and ignoring ... Read more

International Mother’s Day is being celebrated today when children will pay homage and shower love to their mother who brought them to the earth and nourished. Mother gets a special treatment from her children on this day. BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia in a message on the eve of the Mother’s Day has ... Read more

The flow of water in Sangu, one of the prime rivers of Bangladesh has been affected due to heavy landslide in Ruma upzila of Bandarban. The authorities could not remove the debris from the river till this afternoon. A large chunk of a hill comprising stones and earth collapsed in the river Sangu on Wednesday ... Read more

Subol Hori, a sexagenarian fisherman of village Koirbottyapara at Borghop, Kutubdia, an island in Cox’s Bazar, the southeastern coastal area of the country, can no more maintain his 20-member family. He is exhausted. All of his four sons, who could not cross the boundary of secondary school, are also fishermen. They use to go for ... Read more

The Awami League government, ending its indecision on how to upgrade passports, has now decided to introduce electronic passport, or e-passport, from the next year in compliance with international requirements for ‘transparent’ identity of Bangladesh citizens. The e-passport project involving an estimated Tk 283 crore will be implemented by the Bangladesh army with logistics support ... Read more

Army ordered to ‘eliminate’ militants; one million displaced in northwest Pakistan Pakistan said yesterday an air and ground offensive to crush the Taliban in the northwest killed more than 140 militants and seven soldiers in an escalating conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands. Warplanes bombed rebel hideouts in the Swat valley, an ex-ski resort, ... Read more

Security measures have been beefed up in the diplomatic enclaves at Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara in the city, following threats issued to the US, UK, Australian and Canadian embassies in Dhaka reportedly by an overseas militant organisation on Thursday. Four separate messages of the threats were faxed to the embassies in Dhaka by a militant ... Read more

Misconduct by transport workers, porters, the presence of criminals, armed extortionists, unauthorized vendors, pickpockets, snatchers and beggars in city’s three inter-district bus terminals create a disgusting atmosphere everyday leading to harassment and suffering of thousands of passengers. As soon as the present AL-led government assumed power all the bad elements returned to the bus terminals. ... Read more

Munna Mia was just five when his family flew to the Middle East to escape the hardships of Bangladesh — but all that awaited him was a life of danger, pain and hunger as a child camel jockey. His father, a bricklayer, had been offered a job in the United Arab Emirates by a recruitment ... Read more

Majority of orphans head towards uncertain life in inadequate and substandard orphanages amid negligence of the government resulting in involvement of a section of them in crime and religious militancy. There are more than 100 orphanages in Dhaka and outskirts most of which cannot provide inmates with required food, clothes, education and shelter due to ... Read more

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today with due religious fervour. The occasion marks three most important events in the life of Buddha — his advent, enlightenment and nirvana — about 2,500 years back. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha ... Read more

Roundtable thrashes industrialists for mindless river contamination, seeks immediate actions to save waters Industries got a whacking yesterday as experts and environmentalists maintained that rivers around Dhaka are getting polluted wholesale by industrial waste. Even industries with effluent treatment plants do not run those facilities. The capital’s sewage is also mostly untreated and dumped into ... Read more

After rescinding 5th amendment to the constitution four principles of independence including secularism will be retrieved without deleting “bismillah” from it. At a press briefing Law Minister Shafique Ahmed clarified the position of the government amid protest by BNP and its ally Jamaat concerning detrimental effect of 5th amendment saying that “Former BNP law minister ... Read more

Malaysia is set to lift the ban on some 55,000 Bangladeshi jobseekers waiting for jobs there, said the expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister, Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, on Thursday. The Malaysian government on March 10 cancelled the visas of more than 55,000 Bangladeshi workers on the plea of the adverse impact of the global economic ... Read more

Stress govt-opposition partnership in parliament to deal with important issues European envoys here Thursday expressed cautious optimism in appraising the performance of the new government, stressing the need for government-opposition partnership in parliament to deal with important issues like impacts of the global recession, climate change and counterterrorism. Nine European Ambassadors and High Commissioners came ... Read more

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said the ADB will provide US$ 200 million to Bangladesh under the next fiscal ‘as special budgetary support’ to pull the economy out of the impact of the global recession. It will be in addition to existing budgetary support programmes to be funded under different projects and development schemes ... Read more

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is in confusion whether it will go for tougher movement against the government before party reconstruction. After 29th December election debacle, the party is yet to reorganize politically. In this situation many senior leaders are thinking whether it will able to carry on movement or not. The party has started month-long ... Read more