Before they started appearing in court, most people assumed London’s rioters and looters were unemployed youths with no hope and no future. So there was much surprise when details of the accused began to emerge, and they included some from wealthy backgrounds or with good
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Junta opens up politics for Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s government is urging pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to officially register her National League for Democracy as a party so it can legally take part in politics. Information Minister Kyaw Hsan told a rare news conference yesterday that the government has not cracked down on the group so far in the interests of ... Read more
Hypersonic plane goes missing
US military scientists lost contact with an unmanned hypersonic experimental aircraft on its second test flight, officials said. The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) successfully separated from its rocket but lost contact shortly into its “glide phase”
Schoolteacher beaten to death
A school headmaster was beaten to death allegedly by a tractor driver and his accomplices at Chalakchar under Monohardi upazila here on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Shiraj Uddin, 50, headmaster of Chalakchar Govt Primary School. Police arrested tractor driver Raju Miah and his accomplice Akram Hossain following a case filed by
Rising house rent puts tenants in distress
Tenants are going through hard times because of the spiralling costs of house rent in the capital as well as the common practice of house owners to evict tenants without giving them notices. The House Rent Contract Act 1991 is proving to be ineffective in protecting tenants as very few of them apply to the ... Read more
No repair since 2005
4-lane project saw no light for irregularities The Dhaka-Mymensingh highway has become the worst highway that saw last repair or rehabilitation in 2005. The 120-kilometer highway was supposed to be reconstructed under the road sector reform programme, a World Bank-funded project initiated in 2005. However, the move was abandoned in 2009 without any work done ... Read more
Hasina 7th among 12 top women
The Time magazine has listed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as one of the 12 top women leaders of the world. She has been placed seventh on the list. The top 12 women leaders are: 1) Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of
Errant lawyers to say sorry
Thirteen pro-BNP-Jamaat lawyers involved in creating chaos in the courtroom of a High Court bench with one of them throwing a plastic missile at the bench will apologise to the judges on Sunday. This was decided at a meeting between the attorney general and the Supreme Court Bar Association leaders yesterday on the advice of ... Read more
Heart attack follows arrest
One of the lawyers accused in cop assault case at court fights for life at hospital A pro-BNP lawyer suffered a massive heart attack in police custody and was rushed to a city hospital hours after police picked him up from Segunbagicha area early yesterday. The arrestee MU Ahmed is one of accused in a ... Read more
Experts question GPS tracking feasibility
The absence of an updated road-database, appropriate infrastructure and a centralized traffic monitoring system would make installation of global position system (GPS) trackers in vehicles ineffective, experts fear. They say that given the circumstance, a big question mark hangs over the wisdom of home minister Sahara Khatun’s call on Wednesday to install GPS trackers in ... Read more
Rainfall causes water stagnation
Intermittent rainfall continued in different areas of the country on Thursday, causing water stagnation in low-lying areas already submerged by rainfall for the past four days. Less rainfall compared with that in the past few days was recorded at all places including the capital Dhaka and the port city of Chittagong in 24 hours till ... Read more
Fate of many workers in Malaysia uncertain
The fate of many illegal Bangladeshi workers who cannot register their names under any companies in Malaysia is uncertain as a rise in employment crisis may force them to return home anytime. On June 22, the Malaysian government announced amnesty for the undocumented workers, paving a way for them to get regularised or go back ... Read more
Judicial probe body visits Aminbazar
Judicial probe body visits Aminbazar The one member judicial committee, formed on Wednesday to probe the killing of six students at Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital, visited the spot yesterday and talked to the locals. During his visit at around 1:30pm, committee member Metropolitan Magistrate Utpal Chowdhury told the reporters that the committee ... Read more
A desperate escape act
London Riot A desperate escape act She came to the UK in March to learn English and to join her older sister, who has lived in the UK for five years. But when marauding yobs set her street on fire, Monika Konczyk had to fight for her very survival. The image of her jumping from ... Read more
Food adulteration rings alarm bell
STAR-RDRS roundtable told most food items adulterated, pose lethal risks to public health Food adulteration with poisonous chemicals has reached a dangerous proportion posing serious health hazards in the country, said experts and government officials yesterday at a discussion jointly organised by The Daily Star and non-government development organisation RDRS Bangladesh. Basic food items on ... Read more
Rain stops but life not back on track
The cloudburst since Monday has devastated the country. Till yesterday, nearly four lakh people in Bandarban remained disconnected from the rest of the country after the torrential rain caused landslides and floods in the hilly district. Many roads went under water and a worrisome number of families have lost their homes to
2/3 of foods not certified
In absence of a national food control system, two-thirds of the total food items hit the market without any quality check, according to facts revealed at a discussion organised by The Daily Star and RDRS Bangladesh yesterday. Some 150 food items that include everything from rice to fish, vegetable to meat and from edible oil to baby ... Read more
Bangalees stand against rioters
Members of Bangalee community fended off looters and chased them out of neighbourhoods in London that saw a lull in violence yesterday after three days of rioting. In Whitechapel, home to Britain’s largest Bangladeshi population, Bangalee youths, who had gathered for evening prayers outside East London Mosque, had chased 70 masked rioters out of the ... Read more
847 charged with BDR carnage
A Dhaka court on Wednesday posted for August 24 the beginning of the trial of the 847 people after the the court on the day had completed their indictment with murder and other criminal offences committed during the rebellion at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, in Dhaka in ... Read more
Finger pointed at JU teacher
Student commits suicide after being ditched by him Jahangirnagar University student Majria Jannat Sumi committed suicide after a teacher at the university backed away from his decision to marry her, her family and friends alleged yesterday. Sumi, a master’s student of history department, was found dead Tuesday, her body hanging from a ceiling fan at ... Read more