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Controversy follows as he denies stalking charges A mobile court yesterday convicted a young man for stalking a 13-year old girl and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment in the capital, but the trial gave rise to a controversy among local residents. The victim’s father Faruque Hossain filed a general diary with Ramna Police Station on Sunday ... Read more

Police yesterday appealed to the deputy commissioner of Dhaka to cancel four firearms licenses of film actor also Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Ward Councillor Monwar Hossain Dipjol, who has been on the run to avoid arrest. Officer-in-charge of Darus Salam Police Station Abdul Malek told The Daily Star last night that

8-yr-old boy murdered An 8-year-old boy was murdered for a mobile phone in Sujanagar upazila of the district. The boy, Md Rahat Pramanik, son of Md Hafiz Uddin of village Hassampur of Nazirganj union, was a student of class two at the local primary school. Rahat was missing since Sunday. Later, the police recovered his ... Read more

Regeneration of Rema-Kalinga forest threatened as saplings being felled by villagers In the first light of day, they stream out of the forest, one by one. They push their bicycles hard over muddy tracks, the tyres flatten under illegal loads. Each bicycle carries firewood tied to the handlebar and on the carrier at the back. ... Read more

At least 10 people were killed and about 40 injured in a head-on-collision between two 52-seat buses on the Dhaka–Tangail Highway at Kabirpur of Ashulia in Dhaka on Sunday evening. The police said the death figure could rise. A bus of Meem-Ovi Paribahan headed for Pabna collided with a bus of Borak Paribahan headed

Canada may hire agricultural workers first time from Bangladesh Malaysia has started regularising three lakh undocumented Bangladeshi workers and will hire more on completion of their regularisation, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said. The workers remained undocumented since they were employed through “underhand dealings”

At least 15 people were killed and 15 injured in road accidents in eight districts on Sunday and Saturday night. The accidents took place in Dhaka Gazipur, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Munshiganj, Rajbari, Brammanbaria and Bogra. Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation employee Abul Kashem, 52, of Sirajgaj, was run over by a

Increasing Road Accidents Unskilled drivers, faulty road design major reasons Human errors mostly by unskilled drivers and faulty designs of roads are the two big reasons for growing number of road accidents, transport and communications experts say. Poor maintenance of overused vehicles, inadequate road safety measures and lack of awareness among drivers and pedestrians are ... Read more

The number of patients suffering from cold-related diseases has increased in the country due to the change in the weather, health experts said on Sunday. People catch these diseases at this time of the year as the temperature varies a lot between day and night, they said, adding that common

Authorities say they have cleared view of university Shaheed Minar When the government is pursuing a tougher forest law to punish the tree plunderers, the Jahangirnagar University authorities have felled some 40 trees during the Eid vacation. Earlier in June, the JU administration could not cut down those trees for fierce protests by teachers and ... Read more

Primary Education Terminal Examination, 2010 of both general and madrasa students will begin tomorrow with around 25 lakh participants. The largest public examination in terms of number of examinees will start at 11:00am at 5,993 centres across the country and another

At least eight stalkers were sentenced to different terms in prison yesterday in separate incidents of stalking in Dinajpur, Pabna, Kurigram and Noakhali districts. A schoolteacher was sentenced one-year imprisonment for stalking a 13-year old female student of his school at Hakimpur upazila of

Teachers and guardians blamed poor preparations, lack of awareness and tight examination schedule for the large number of dropouts in the first ever Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations. This year, the education ministry introduced JSC and JDC examinations abolishing the junior scholarship examinations or term final examinations for class VIII

No trace of 3 youths missing during Rupganj violence a month ago It has been a month since Shamsher Mollah went missing during the clashes between villagers and law enforcers in Rupganj over purchase of land for an army housing project. Most of Shamsher’s family members now seem certain that he will never return. Considering ... Read more

A schoolgirl reportedly committed suicide in Dinajpur on Saturday after being harassed by a neighbour. The family said Shabnoor, 15, daughter of Aminul Islam, a resident of Farakkabad at Birol, had committed suicide after being harassed by Rabiul Islam, a resident of the village. She was a Class V student of the Farakkabad BRAC Primary ... Read more

Chaotic vehicular movement, reckless driving causing frequent accidents A highway policeman with almost no logistics has to keep vigil on average over a 12-kilometre highway, meaning major parts of the 11,806-kilometre roads always remain out of law enforcers’ watch. Lack of proper vigil by highway police allows drivers to disobey traffic rules at will that ... Read more

Four of a family died in a fire caused by the explosion of the gas cylinder of a CNG-run microbus on the Dhaka–Chittagong Highway at Gazaria in Munshiganj on Saturday. The police and witnesses said the cylinder of the microbus carrying eight people exploded after the vehicle had hit the road divider when it was ... Read more

Dhaka-Chittagong Highway Four-lane scheme delayed by a year New consultancy firm awaits govt nod Launching of the construction works to upgrade Dhaka-Chittagong highway would take more time although 11 months since the signing of the job contract have already been passed over consultancy glitch. Arifur Rahman Zinnah, director of the Tk 1,655 crore project, claimed ... Read more

A speeding bus from the opposite direction overtook a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and whizzed past the bus these correspondents were travelling by, missing a collision by a whisker. For a second it looked like there would be a head-on crash and those who watched it began to scream. This was one of six such close shaves ... Read more

A 23-year-old businessman was beaten to death by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane in the Dhaka city’s Sutrapur area Friday night, the hospital sources said. The victim, businessman Mahbubur Rahman Robin, was running a video-game shop at the area. He was beaten up by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane on Friday ... Read more