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The general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange on Sunday experienced the biggest single-day plunge of 600 points for the first time ever in its history as panic-stricken investors went for heavy selling. Although the Securities and Exchange Commission, before the day’s trading began, had made a number of decisions including increasing the ceiling of ... Read more

HC directs govt, police The High Court yesterday issued a set of directives upon the government to stop abduction and maiming of children and forcing them into begging on the streets of Dhaka. The HC also directed the government to immediately suspend Sub-inspector (SI) of Kamrangirchar police station Nurul Alam for trying to save a ... Read more

Four people, including a woman and her son, were murdered in two incidents in the capital on Sunday. Two of the victims were identified as Virginia Rosario, 65, and her son Valentine Rosario alias Milton while the rest could not be identified immediately. Assailants killed a woman and her son in their flat, 16/F on ... Read more

Thieves stole huge amount of gold and silver ornaments adorned on Goddess Durga, charity boxes full of uncounted amount of money, and about Tk 4.5 lakh in cash from the vault of Dhakeswari Mandir on Saturday night. The burglars broke open four locks of the temple’s main gate after it was closed at about 9:00pm

India’s Border Security Force shot dead two Bangladeshi cattle traders in the Khanpur frontier at Motihar in Rajshahi on Saturday night, sources in the Border Guards Bangladesh said. The deceased were Sirajul Islam, 40, and Jaheduddin, residents of Bhugolbari at Shibganj in Chapainawabganj. The Indian guards took away the bodies, the sources

Many Internet users yesterday faced difficulties accessing the Bangladeshi Google site following problems in Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL). An official of an Internet service provider said when some Internet users tried to log on to google.com.bd or Gmail, they saw a phishing site, a site designed to exploit private and

Unknown assailants killed an eight-year-old boy drowning him in a water tank and slit his father’s throat in an attempt to kill him at Gendaria in the capital on Saturday. The victims were identified as Dipto Das Shuvo, 8, and his father Bivuti Ranjan Das, 45, residents of 34 KB Road at Faridabad

A woman received burn injuries as her husband and his first wife allegedly threw acid on her early yesterday at the city’s Mirpur. Victim Shahnaz, 38, who received acid burns on her right leg was taken to the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital

Parents allege; docs say vaccine not the cause of death A three-year-old boy yesterday died allegedly after taking polio vaccine at Toilokup village under Kaliganj upazila in the district. Deceased Sami Hossain, son of Shawkat Ali of the village, was in sound health before taking the vaccine, claimed the parents

ABM Giashuddin Azam Khan, second engineer of the MT Marida Marguerite, a German chemical tanker hijacked by Somali pirates eight months back, returned home on Saturday afternoon. Two Bangladesh crewmen — Giash and chief officer of the oil tanker Mohammad Jafar Iqbal — were released along with 20 other crew on December 28 last. However, ... Read more

Stock Slump 6 protesters held for vandalism Police yesterday detained at least six people in front of Dhaka bourse and adjacent areas on charge of street vandalism during a demonstration by the retail investors protesting the continuous slump in stock prices. However, another two people were released immediately after the police detained them. “We have ... Read more

Security guard shot A trader was found stabbed to death in the city’s Bangshal area and a security guard of a factory was shot injured allegedly by an extortionist gang at Gandaria yesterday. The deceased, Bangshal resident Sajid Anam Masud, 32, son of Arju Miah, was a mineral water trader. No clue to the killer’s ... Read more

A man was killed on Monday in Naogaon by a group of young people after he had allegedly refused to marry off her sister to one of the group members. The deceased was Babul Akter, 50, a brick-kiln worker and resident of Jagannathpur at Badalgachi in Noagaon. The family members said a youth, Ripon, son ... Read more

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday submitted to the Supreme Court (SC) the questionnaire of its household survey and replies of the respondents a day after it was asked to do so. A printed copy of the questionnaire was submitted to the court. All other documents containing the litigants’ perception of the judiciary were given in ... Read more

Yet another victim of stalking, 20-year-old Mita Dev, was stabbed in the face by her frenzied stalker yesterday afternoon in city’s Gendaria while she was going home from work with her father. Mita, a second year honours student of Government Kabi Nazrul Islam College, is also employed at the National Medical College Hospital (NMCH) in ... Read more

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines has got clearance of the US authorities concerned to resume Dhaka–New York–Dhaka flights that have remained suspended since July 2006. ‘We have completed all formalities to resume flights on the Dhaka-New York route,’ the civil aviation and tourism secretary in-charge Shafique Alam Mehdi told New Age on

SC asks for more The Supreme Court yesterday sent a letter to the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) saying the corruption watchdog’s survey report involving the judiciary is “unclear” and “incomplete.” The apex court asked the organisation to turn in to the SC the survey questionnaire and responses from households, said court officials

A group of youths allegedly beat a man to death for protesting against their stalking of his daughter-in-law at Raipura in Narsingdi on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ratan Bhuiyan, 48, a grocer of village Hasnabad under Raipura upazila. Police and locals said Ratan’s daughter-in-law Sonia along with her friends Shanta and Mitu was

Mild cold wave triggered by fog likely to continue for 2 days The sub-continental ridge (region of high barometric pressure), usually formed in the center of the Indian subcontinent during winter, moved eastward and caused a drop in the overall temperature across the country, disrupting ferry communications on Monday. Land, air and water communications were ... Read more

Cable removal stopped for now Internet service providers have called off today’s one-hour strike on government assurance that no more overhead cables would be removed in the city until sufficient logistic support to lay cables underground is arranged. The decision came after the Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) held