Bangladesh lodged a strong protest with India on Sunday afternoon against the ‘brutal and senseless killing’ of a minor Bangladeshi girl by Indian Border Security Force on the Kurigram border on January 7, a foreign office release said Monday. The acting foreign secretary Mostafa Kamal summoned high commissioner Rajit Mitter and gave
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Petition filed over Felani murder
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking trial of those who failed to protest at the killing of a Bangladeshi girl ‘Felani’, who was shot dead by Indian border guards along the Kurigram border. The National Forum for Protection of Human Rights filed the petition on Monday with the bench of ... Read more
Fast bucks, dangerous
Over 3 lakh innocent lured into investment with promise for hefty returns by unipay2u; central bank raises swindling alert If you open an account with $65 (Tk 4,500), you will be allowed to purchase up to 75 grams of gold worth Tk 157,000. Once you deposit the money, the purchase is done. The benefit is ... Read more
Drivers ignore meter compliance
Commuters in the capital city had to pay exorbitant fares on Sunday, the first of the new arrangement, as the drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws, barring a few exceptions, continued to charged more and refused to go by the meter. Auto-rickshaw drivers charged fares in excess, often several times more that the newly fixed
Road crashes kill 2 in city
Two persons including a class-V student were killed in road accidents at the capital’s Demra and Jatrabari yesterday. The dead were identified as Monir Hossain, 13, a student of Mannan Government Primary School and a resident of Basherpole at Konapara in Demra, while Afaz Uddin, 55, a resident of Konabari in
Felani killing by BSF gross HR violation: Odhikar
Human rights organization Odhikar in a fact-finding report it released on Sunday said that India’s Border Security Force had breached the border agreement between Bangladesh and India by killing innocent girl Felani Khatun. The report, which interviewed the victim’s family, villagers,
Bangladeshi tortured by BSF dies at RMCH
A young Bangladeshi farmer, who was tortured by the Indian Boarder Security Force on Saturday in Singanagar-Moksedpur border area in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital early Sunday, the police said. The victim, Shahjahan Ali, 22, was a resident of Singnagar Hatatpara village in the upazila,
Bangladeshi scientist stabbed to death in China
A Bangladeshi scientist was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant at a dormitory of North-West A and F University campus in Sanji province of China on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Md Khairul Alam, 32, son of Md Akimuddin of Keshabpur in Jessore. Khairul, a scientist of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), ... Read more
9 cops killed in Narsingdi road accident
Nine cops of Belabo police station, two of them inspectors, were killed in a road accident at Pukurpar in Shibpur upazila on the Dhaka-Sylhet high way Saturday morning, the police said. The fatal accident took the lives of Belabo police station officer-in-charge (administration) 42-year old Faruque Ahmed Khan, officer-in-charge (investigation) 42-year old
Policy against corporal punishment on cards
Mushfique Wadud The education ministry is working out a policy to give guidelines for teachers to stop corporal punishment in schools and madrassahs, the education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury told New Age on Friday. ‘We have already drafted the policy and it is now in the final stages,’ he said as he was asked ... Read more
Youth killed, one injured in ‘crossfire’ in city
A young shoe factory worker was killed and a teenage boy was injured in what the police claimed was crossfire at West Rampura in the city in the early hours of Saturday. The police alleged that the deceased, Shyamol Bepary, a 22-year-old worker of a Savar shoe factory hailing from Kishoreganj, as well as the ... Read more
New CNG fare from today
New fare for the four-stroke CNG-run auto-rickshaw comes into effect today. The lowest fare has been set at Tk 25. As per the revised fare, commuters will have to pay Tk 25 instead of current Tk 14 for the first two kilometres (km). Also, the charge for each subsequent km will be Tk 7 instead ... Read more
Mercury to go up today
Another cold spell by month-end Temperature will rise gradually from today taming the cold wave now sweeping the country but dense fog could continue disrupting communications for the next three-four days. And the country is likely to experience another cold spell at the end of this month, Met office in Dhaka told The Daily Star ... Read more
Saarc to get first woman secy gen
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) is set to get a woman secretary general, for the first time since its inception 25 years ago. The Saarc Secretariat in Kathmandu has confirmed that former lawmaker of the Maldives Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed will be appointed Saarc secretary general on March 1, said diplomatic
Harassment puts girls at risk of dropping out of schools
Mushfique Wadud A large number of girls, mainly in rural areas, are at risk of failing to complete their school and college education if stalking is not stopped, educationists and women’s education activists said. They said that the recent progress Bangladesh has made in women’s education would be badly affected if stalking continued as it ... Read more
Fog disrupts traffic in waterways
2 flights cancelled A dense fog covered much of the country yesterday leading to major traffic disruptions in air and water ways, although temperature rose a bit after three freezing days. Two international flights were cancelled and most of the flights were delayed in both landing and departure due to a very poor visibility, said ... Read more
Truck kills couple in Rajshahi
A truck knocked down and killed a couple on a motorcycle at Talonda crossing under Tanore upazila in Rajshahi on Friday afternoon. The deceased were Ujjal Chndra Das, 35, and his wife Iti Rani, 30, residents of Gollapara of the upazila. Witnesses said a Rajshahi-bound truck hit the motorcycle from behind and ran them over ... Read more
SUST student among 3 dead in road crash
Three people including a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and an auto-rickshaw in the city yesterday. The dead were identified as Alimuddin, from Ghoramara village of Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet and a student of English department of SUST, ... Read more
Continued cold wave disrupts normal life
Cold wave continued to sweep over the country with the mercury level dropping in all the northern districts for the third consecutive day on Thursday. Launch and ferry services remained suspended during the night all over the country due to dense fog. The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 4.6 degree Celsius in ... Read more
AL candidates lead 2nd spell
Candidates backed by the ruling Awami League dominated municipal polls in Barisal and Khulna divisions winning 24 out of 49 municipalities in the second spell of the local government polls on Thursday. Unofficial results showed that the AL-backed mayoral candidates won 15 out of 19 municipalities in Barisal and nine out of 30 municipalities in ... Read more