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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

Manpower bureau fails to deliver service, discipline fraudulent agencies The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), the only place for cheated migrant workers to seek redress, is continuously failing to deliver the goods to the victims whose lives are devastated in shoddy immigration process. Taking advantage of weak rules and their loose enforcement by ... Read more

Most males in Rupganj and Kayetpara unions in Narayanganj fled homes last night for fear of arrest with links to Saturday’s violence. Police filed a case against over 3,000 unidentified villagers following the clash between locals and law enforcers over “forced purchase of land” for an army housing project in the

Sourav, the prime accused of Mridhat Sarima Rahman murder case, confessed to the killing before a Chittagong court yesterday. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Azizul Hoque recorded the 15-page confessional statement of Sourav under section 164 in the

Swapan Molla asked everyone he came across about his missing brother. He carried a newspaper with the picture of a bullet-hit man in bloodstained shirt at the Moushuri army camp in Narayanganj. “The injured person in the picture might be my brother. The face of the person is not clear in the picture. Like him, ... Read more

“I was scared and crying as I washed away the blood.” Shanto, aged twelve, was petrified when a Rab official forced him at gunpoint to wash the blood of bullet-hit persons from a bridge during Saturday’s clash at Rupganj in Narayanganj. Thousands of angry villagers had fought with law enforcers a fierce battle over a

Bangladesh Biman yesterday cancelled a Dhaka-Chittagong flight due to shortage of pilots, officials said. Meanwhile, the airline served show-cause notices to its four pilots for holding a press conference last week defying a directive of the authority. A number of scheduled flights of the national carrier were disrupted yesterday on the

Medical Colleges Results of admission test today The results of admission test of 61 public and private medical colleges will be published this afternoon. A total of 43,644 candidates competed for 2509 seats in 18 public colleges and 3550 seats at 43 private colleges this year, said Prof Khandaker Shefayet Ullah, medical education director

The minimum wage board made small increases in the wages of apparel workers of certain grades at the request of the government, labour ministry sources said. An increase in the ranges of Tk 98–Tk 120 was added to the gross minimum wages for workers of Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6. Apparel workers demanded some ... Read more

Delegation returns with no assurance from Malaysia to withdraw ban on recruitment of Bangladeshi workers Malaysia still keeps mum about lifting the ban on Bangladeshi jobseekers imposed early 2009 following widespread allegations of malpractices in recruitment process. “The Malaysian side did not say yes or no to our requests to open the job market for ... Read more

Sarima Murder ‘Killer’ arrested Police arrested the prime accused in Sarima Rahman killing case from a Chittagong-bound bus at Bhatiari under Sitakunda upazila early yesterday. The arrestee was SM Toha alias Sohrab alias Sourav, 26, son of Mohammad Lokman of Kulgaon area under the city’s Bayezid Police Station

Period of trip increased by three to four hours The shortage of ferries at Paturia-Daulatdia Ferry Ghat, which connects the southern districts with the central ones of the country, is leading to long queues of vehicles on each side of the Padma River and lengthening the duration of the trips by three to four hours. ... Read more

News media editors and senior journalists yesterday called for bolstering ethical practices in the field, saying the media has to play its due role in strengthening democracy, although money has started influencing it, and some politicians are attacking it viciously. Condemning some lawmakers’ recent diatribes against the media in the parliament, the