Thousands of people filed past shaheed minars barefooted across the country a minute after midnight past Sunday to pay tribute to the martyrs of the 1952 language movement. People holding flowers and children holding the hand of their mother or riding on the shoulder of their father walked towards the memorial monuments to pay respect ... Read more
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Bangladeshis caught in troubled Libya
Around 450 workers held ‘hostage’ by anti-govt demonstrators; 15 hurt in attack on construction site At least 15 Bangladeshi workers were injured as rioters stormed a South Korean construction site about 30 kilometres west of Tripoli while around 450 others were reportedly taken hostage in the port city of Darnah. The raid on the worksite ... Read more
Rape victim kills herself
Rapists let off the hook An indigenous girl died yesterday, two days after she had set herself on fire in Amtulipara village of Godagari. Serafina Mardi, 14, who was raped 10 months ago, ended her life failing to stand the humiliation any longer, said Rabindranath Soren, general secretary of JatiyaAdibashi Parishad. After being raped by ... Read more
Double blow for victim’s family
Killed in Construction Site Double blow for victim’s family The parents of four-year-old Tawhid Hossain, who died in an accident at a construction site, are passing miserable days hiding from the influential owner of the building. As Tawhid’s father fish vendor Israfil Hawlader filed a case, owner of the building advocate Lutfur Rahman Babu Bhuiyan ... Read more
SC to get four new judges
The government will appoint at least four judges to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court within this week to try and speed up the disposal of over 9,000 pending cases, law minister Shafique Ahmed has said. The four senior high court judges to be elevated to the Appellate Division, according to a recommendation from ... Read more
Same gang killed her brother last May
Tumpa Abduction, Murder Same gang killed her brother last May The same gang that allegedly killed schoolgirl Tumpa after kidnapping her from the capital on February 14, had also killed the victim’s brother eight months ago, police are now suspecting. The gang had been stalking Tumpa for three years, said the victims’ mother Khairunnahar Shikha. ... Read more
Another held on charge of Hena murder
Police yesterday arrested another accused in the case for murder of teenage rape victim Hena Akhter who was whipped following a fatwa at Noria upazila in Shariatpur. Latif Mirmalot, one of the local arbiters on January 24 that ordered Hena to be whipped 101 times, was arrested at his relative’s house in Siddheswari in the ... Read more
Workers clash with cops, 10 injured
Death in Factory Workers clash with cops, 10 injured At least 10 workers of a melamine factory were injured as they clashed with police over the death of a fellow worker in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj yesterday. Mazharul Islam, 25, was electrocuted when he was working around 12:00 noon. Doctors declared him dead after he ... Read more
Toss dictates day’s talks
Lankans, Kiwis thrash minnows New Zealand decimated Kenya in Chennai and Sri Lanka did a similar job on Canada in Hambantota as the ICC Cricket World Cup rolls into other two host nations yesterday. But fans here in Bangladesh were still reeling from Saturday’s defeat to India by 87 runs at Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium ... Read more
Bangla earned thru’ blood
Amar Ekushey Today Bangla earned thru’ blood Syed Badrul Ahsan The Rubicon was crossed on February 21, 1952. The imposition of Section 144 earlier by the provincial government, while it appeared to act as a damper on the spirits of some, by and large acted as a provocation for a majority of students and other ... Read more
Robbers captured upon car chase
Police uniforms, weapons recovered In a movie-like car chase, police yesterday arrested two criminals who commit robberies disguised as law enforcers. They recovered weapons and police uniforms from their possession. The arrestees are alleged ringleader of the gang Billal Hossain Belal, 45, of Chandpur and
Yunus slates ‘loan shark’ microlenders
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has labelled profit-driven microfinance firms as ‘loan sharks’ who undermine the small-credit schemes that he pioneered to help tackle poverty. Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for making loans available to poor entrepreneurs, hit out at the commercial microfinance companies as the concept faces
PM hands over Ekushey Padak
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has urged all to spread the spirit of Amar Ekushey (21st February) among the young generation to build a happy and prosperous technology-based Bangladesh. She gave the call from a function, marking the distribution of Ekushey Padak for 2011, at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium on
Dhaka to get 175 new buses
One seventy-five buses from China will arrive at Chittagong Port tomorrow, and will hit the capital streets in the first week of next month. In addition, the communications ministry is importing 255 buses from South Korea in July, officials said yesterday
11 BGB soldiers jailed
Eleven BGB soldiers of the 46 Border Guard Battalion at Patnitola were on Sunday sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for varying terms on charges of the February 2009 mutiny in Naogaon. The court, presided over by the Rajshahi sector commander, Colonel Ehia Azam Khan, also fined each of the convicts Tk 100 in the judgement delivered ... Read more
Tiger enters locality, injures four
A tiger that intruded into the locality from the Sundarbans on Saturday night injured four people at village Harinagar under Shyamnagar Upazila in Satkhira district. The forest department officials, with the help of the local people, released the tiger in the forest after tranquilizing the animal in the early hours of
Sehwag, Kohli put Tigers down
India attained their twin objectives of confirming their status as tournament favourites and exacting a revenge on their upstart neighbours when they defeated Bangladesh by 87 runs in the World Cup opening match on Saturday. Opener Virender Sehwag made Bangladesh skipper Sakib al Hasan regret his decision
Bus-train collisions kill 16
Sixteen people were killed and more than 60 injured in separate collisions between trains and buses in unguarded level crossings in Jessore and Comilla on Saturday, the police and hospital sources said. Eleven people were killed and 30 injured when the Subarna Express train headed for Dhaka from Chittagong bumped into a bus, headed for ... Read more
Dreams shattered by recession
Scores of jobseekers abroad during 2008-09 return home broke Dreaming of a better future, Momin Bakkar flew to Singapore in June 2008, being completely unaware that the recession-hit economy there had nothing to offer him. Broker Shariful Islam had promised him a job with a monthly pay of Tk 60,000 at Renown Marine Services, a ... Read more
Project work goes on in good pace
Jatrabari-Gulistan Flyover Project work goes on in good pace Implementation of the Jatrabari-Gulistan flyover project in the capital is making headway ahead of schedule after despite procedural and physical adversities, say project officials. They aim at opening the facility for the public in two years from now. As many as 14 pillars have already been ... Read more