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Doctors remove pouch with 1,500 tablets Doctors of a private clinic in the port city removed a pouch of Yaba tablets from the abdomen of a middle-aged male patient last Tuesday. Bulu Miah, the 44-year-old patient, wanted to make some quick money, Tk 2,000. In exchange, all he had to do was to transport around ... Read more

Pilot strike continues, old fliers called for emergency duty, hundreds of passengers stranded at airports Hundreds of passengers of international and domestic routes have been stranded at the Shahjalal International Airport for the last couple of days as the authorities were forced to cancel or reschedule flights of the national flag carrier Biman following strike ... Read more

Girl’s harassment Stalker kills mother Stalkers in killed a mother at Madhukhali in Faridpur and severely injured two brothers in Chandpur for their protest at harassment of girls on Tuesday. In Faridpur, Champa Rani Biswas, 52, wife of Swapan Biswas, was killed in the evening when a stalker riding a motorcycle ran into her after ... Read more

Stalking has led many impressionable schoolgirls to commit suicide, and these social crimes are going on unabatedly in spite of the government’s repeated declarations that they will not be tolerated. Such debasement of females has become one the most serious social problems although the government has launched several awareness programmes, and the police have been ... Read more

Prosperity Score Bangladesh slips to 96th position Bangladesh has slipped nine places to 96th on a list of the world’s most successful countries, mainly due to lower performances in education, personal freedom, health, and safety and security. The country stood 87th in the 2009 ranking of Prosperity Index, a survey of the Legatum Institute, a ... Read more

Nat’l Medical College Interns go on strike Protest assault by patient’s relatives, demand security Following an intern doctor’s assault by a patient’s relatives, the Interns of Dhaka National Medical College Hospital go on an indefinite strike protesting the assault and demanding their security in the hospital premises at Sutrapur in Old Dhaka yesterday. The emergency ... Read more

Successive governments have been shelving the initiative to establish an oceanographic institute which is essential for doing research on marine and seabed resources, experts told New Age. ‘For several years successive governments have been talking about establishing an Institute of Oceanography under the Ministry of Science and Technology, but there has been no

Pilots swing into strike after 4 ‘suspended’; hajj flights to continue Biman Bangladesh Airlines last night “suspended” four pilots, prompting a pilots’ strike from 9:00pm that might see most of its aircraft grounded for an indefinite period. Hajj flights will, however, remain out of the purview of the strike, Bangladesh Airline Pilots’ Association (Bapa) sources ... Read more

Experts see making ACC toothless, withdrawal of many cases as reasons Bangladesh has attained 12th position among the most corrupt countries across the globe scoring 2.4 in Transparency International (TI) index. In the previous year, country’s ranking was 13th while position 139th among 180 countries, according to the watchdog’s corruption-measuring barometer. This year, it has

Normalcy is yet to return to the many villages in Roopganj and Kaitpara where most of the males fled home fearing arrest in the cases filed by the Rapid Action Battalion and the police after Saturday’s clashes between the locals and the army over land purchase. One person had died and two people remained missing ... Read more

Selim Mallik, who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of killing his mother, son and nephew in Keraniganj on Monday, confessed to the crime. Assistant Superintendent of Police Faruk Hossain of Keraniganj said Selim killed his mother as she refused to give him Tk 60,000 that he demanded, and the two kids as they started to

A Dhaka University student was killed in a road accident at the Hazrat Shahjalal Airport roundabout on Tuesday afternoon. The student was Billal Hossain, 25, a master’s student of sociology and resident of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall. One of his relatives, Mizanur Rahman, was also seriously

The Daily Star in partnership with Nokia, world’s leading mobile handset manufacturer, today launches country’s first mobile news application, The Daily Star Widget. The mobile application has been published on Nokia’s online mobile application store — Ovi Store and can be downloaded for free on all Nokia

HC asks authorities as more than 100 below-18 are in jails under ‘safe custody’ The High Court in a verdict yesterday directed the authorities concerned to immediately release all the children from jails across the country. An HC bench of Justice Md Imman Ali and Justice Obaidul Hasan declared keeping children in jail in any ... Read more

After a long journey of research, Regional Station of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has developed two drought tolerant rice varieties for the farmers of the region’s drought-prone area for the first time in the county. This variety will give satisfactory yield with scanty rainfall without any irrigation during

Today is the 137th birth anniversary of legendary national leader Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque. Different political and socio-cultural organisations will pay tribute by placing wreaths at his grave while they will also organise several programmes in his memorial. On the occasion, a special doa and milad mahfil will be held today at the residence of ... Read more

Wild Animal Attack Victims to get govt cash help The government will pay compensation for people killed or crippled in attacks by tigers, elephants or other wild animals. And any one found guilty of deliberate killing of wildlife will be jailed for up to 12 years. The cabinet at its weekly meeting yesterday approved the ... Read more

Unidentified criminals hacked a woman and her five-year-old grandson to death and another grandson critically injured at the city’s Keraniganj yesterday. The deceased were Sahida Begum Moyna, 45, wife of Ismail Hossain who is a Dhaka City Corporation employee, and Ahad

The government on Monday decided to defer the eviction of hawkers from footpaths in the busy areas of Dhaka city in response to fervent appeals by the hawkers’ leaders to stop the drives that were planned to be launched from 1 November, 2010. The decision was taken at a meeting with officials of concerned ministries ... Read more

Jamaluddin, one of the bullet wound victims from Rupganj succumbed to injuries at Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital yesterday afternoon. Jamaluddin (26), was among 14 who sustained bullet wounds during the fierce clashes between villagers and law-enforcers in Rupganj .upzila under Naryanganj on