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Bangladesh, 12 other countries meet in Russia today to draw up plan Leaders of a few countries, where tigers are still found in the wild, have gathered for a make or break summit in Russia to save the critically endangered animal and thrash out a global recovery plan to double its numbers by 2022. Premiers ... Read more

Tk 945cr project work starts next month to keep them flowing round-the-year Water in the capital’s river system — the Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Shitalakkhya rivers — will flow unceasingly round the year in three years, said Humayun Kabir, chief engineer (central) of Water Development Board. The inspiring news came with the launching of Tk ... Read more

Highways turn into death traps during Eid holidays At least 44 people were killed and scores of others were injured in road accidents across the country during the Eid holidays. In Pabna, five people were killed and 30 injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Baokola in Atgharia upazila

Attacked after he protested harassment of his granddaughter Stalkers strangled an elderly person for protesting the harassment of his granddaughter on Eid day in Kurigram. The victim, Abdus Sobhan, 74, of Noleya village under Bhurungamari upazila of the district, was killed by two local youths, Mostafa, 20, and Ripon, 24, said Sobhan’s family members and

At least 27 people, most of them cattle traders, landed in hospital after being drugged unconscious by organised gangs since Tuesday morning, the police and hospital sources said. Sources in Dhaka Medical College Hospital said 27 people who had been drugged unconscious received treatment at the hospital from the day before Eid-ul-Azha to

Five persons were killed in separate incidents in the capital and its suburbs during the three-day Eid holiday. A group of unruly youths beat up a 73-year-old retired bank official, Mahfujul Haque Khan, for protesting their gathering in front of his house in the city’s North Bashabo around 10:40pm on Wednesday. Mahfujul, a cardiac patient, became ... Read more

Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two major religious festivals of the Muslims, was celebrated across the country on Wednesday amid religious fervour, spirit of sacrifice and festivity. Affluent Muslims celebrated the day by sacrificing animals in remembrance of the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS), who was instructed by almighty Allah

Burglars stole valuables from four flats of a building while the residents were on Eid vacation and a gang of robbers looted a house at gunpoint in the city’s Sutrapur on Thursday night. Locals and police sources said a gang of thieves stole valuables from flats of Abdur Razzak and Hossain Miah on the ground ... Read more

Asian Games Silver for women cricketers The Bangladesh women’s cricket team made sure that the national anthem would be played in the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou despite their ten-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the final yesterday. The silver medal was confirmed for Bangladesh when they raced to a comfortable nine-wicket win over China to ... Read more

Home goers have started leaving Dhaka as the three-day public holiday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha begins today. People who left Dhaka on Monday to celebrate the Eid festival in the countryside suffered long delays on different routes due to tailbacks,

Cabinet okays draft law to conserve forests The government is going for a tougher law to clamp down on rampant tree-felling in an effort to conserve forests. The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of Forest Act (Amendment) 2010, prescribing longer jail terms and heftier fines for illegal logging and other related

Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, commemorating the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim, will be celebrated on Wednesday. The celebrations will begin with Eid congregations across the country followed by sacrifice of animals in the name of Allah

Government hospitals in the capital city were forced to release many less critical patients ahead of Eid as a large number of doctors and nurses have gone on leave. Meanwhile, the government issued an order on Sunday to keep outdoor patient departments in all the government hospitals open except for on the

Rupa Aktar, 16, succumbed to wounds incurred while being gang-raped in Faridpur Sadar Hospital on Monday morning. When the news of Rupa’s death spread, one Mamun and his henchmen went to the hospital and warned her family members

Eid Cattle Market Sale, price lower than last year’s The sale of sacrificial animal in the capital was yet to gain momentum till yesterday evening even though tomorrow is Eid-ul-Azha. As customer turn up was low in comparison to that of last year, many traders did not sell their cows till afternoon with a hope ... Read more

Police suspect enmity between father, abductors Cousin comes to the rescue of the five-year old Sami who went missing on Sunday when his mother was racing to save her husband from an abduction attempt at Shyamoli in the city. Sami’s cousin Nasima Begum found him alone crying in front of a shop at Kallayanpur and ... Read more

After e-ticket and health service through cellular network, citizens are now offered filing complaints with police by texting on mobile phone and general diaries online. Under a joint initiative by the government’s Access to Information (A2I) programme, mobile phone operators and police department, the arrangement comes

A stalker yesterday was awarded one year’s imprisonment and fined Tk 500, in default he has to suffer another seven days’ imprisonment by a mobile court in Patuakhali town. Md Saiful Islam, executive magistrate, delivered the judgment after hearing both sides. It is the first judgment on a stalking case in the

The government has decided to amend the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2003 to make sure it is enforced vigorously in fighting stalking. The decision came yesterday at an inter-ministerial meeting on framing a law against stalking, said meeting sources

A young housewife in the capital’s Shyamoli yesterday foiled an attempt to kidnap her husband, but by then her five-year-old son was gone. Locals said the child, Sami, went missing when her mother Sumi Begum, 23, had to leave him at the roadside to chase the car in which four youths were taking away her ... Read more