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After fighting for life for five days, a teenage girl yesterday died of burn injuries inflicted on her by three youths for refusing to accept love proposal of one of the youths. Aneza Akhter, 17, succumbed to her injuries at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burn unit around 3:00pm. Seventy ... Read more

The CNG filling station owners’ association on Saturday announced to shut all filling stations and conversion workshops across the country for an indefinite period from November 1 if the government did not change its decision to keep the stations closed for six hours a day. ‘We cannot afford to continue with the six-hour suspension of ... Read more

At least 600 vehicles stranded at terminal as half of ferries go out of order Thousands of passengers remained stranded at Mawa and Kawrakandi ferry terminals for the last few days as six out of twelve ferries went out of order. At least 600 vehicles of different kinds were stuck at the terminals yesterday, said ... Read more

Police yet to find reason Three young girls of the same family suffered burns in their sleep, as miscreants poured acid on them at city’s Joynagar early yesterday. The victims Muntahar Tarin, 20, her sister Salsarin Tasnim, 16, and their cousin Sharmin Farzana, 18, sustained burn injuries to their faces and other parts of their

Extra-judicial Killing 1 every 3 days in last 9 months Says Odhikar Law enforces killed one person extra-judicially on an average in every three days during the last nine months, revealed Odhikar, a human rights organisation. A report of the body published on Friday said at least 90 people allegedly faced extra-judicial deaths across the ... Read more

Farmers these days need to use more fertiliser to produce crops as the land is losing fertilely because of deficiency in organic elements. About 40 per cent of the country’s land area has become deficient in organic elements and other soil nutrients over a decade, according to experts at the Soil Research and Development Institute

Plans to resume flight despite fear of losses Biman is likely to resume its New York flight apparently to meet the government pledge despite fears of losses again due to tough competition on the transatlantic routes, insiders say. Though the airliner carried a relatively good number of passengers last time, it counted between Tk 35-40 ... Read more

Neither Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha nor Dhaka City Corporation could make any headway in identifying or pulling down the risky structures in capital city, as the two organisations had promised to do after a number of residential and other buildings collapsed in June claiming many lives. Officials attributed the failures to absence of needed expertise and ... Read more

A devastating fire that broke out in the sixth floor of a 14-storey market at Sadarghat in the Old Town of the city on Friday night, quickly spread to several shops and gutted large stocks of clothes. Another fire gutted a mini restaurant at sector-7 at Uttara, on the other end of the city. The ... Read more

A businessman, his wife and mother of an influential family in Jatrabari were brutally murdered on Thursday morning. Police said the unknown assailants had entered the house at about 7:30 in the morning and slit the throats of the victims, Mizanur Rahman Milton, 55, his wife Bithi Rahman, 44, and mother Sufia Khatun,

Relocation deadline expires on Thursday The industries minister, Dilip Barua, has said the government would take stern action against the people who failed to relocate chemical factories and warehouses from Old Town of Dhaka as the deadline for the job expired on the Thursday. The industries minister on Thursday told New Age the ministry would ... Read more

Suggests rights commission The National Human Rights Commission yesterday sought a separate investigation cell to look into human rights violations in Bangladesh. NHRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman suggested this while revealing its draft five-year plan to prevent human rights violations

Prothom Alo roundtable told The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord has not been implemented even 13 years after it was signed due mainly to lack of commitment in successive governments, indigenous leaders and civil society members said yesterday. The hill people, both indigenous and Bangalee settlers, have now been split in many groups

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday extended the deadline for submission of income tax returns to October 7 on ‘special consideration’ following strong demand from leading business chambers. NBR Chairman Nasiruddin Ahmed told The Daily Star last night that the deadline, which expired yesterday, has been extended for a

The gateman of Sayedabad Railway crossing, the site of Wednesday’s train-bus collision, was among the six killed and a case was filed yesterday with Government Railway Police (GRP) station at Kamalapur accusing the two bus drivers. The body of the gateman Aminul Islam Jewel, 32, a resident of nearby Karatitola area, was

The government on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to reclaim at least five canals in the capital from grabbers, who include political leaders, by October, 2010 to save the city from water-logging. The Water Supply and Sewerage Authority and the district administration of Dhaka have been asked to remove all the structures that have encroached ... Read more

An airhostess of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was arrested from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday while trying to smuggle out foreign currency worth Tk 2.5 crore. Airport officials said Kamrun Nahar Tutul, 32, a cabin crew of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was scheduled to board a London-bound plane of the national flag career. The aircraft was scheduled ... Read more

Allegation of acid attack HC judge’s son remanded in custody High Court judge Salma Masud Chowdhury’s son Shafayat Ahmed was on Wednesday remanded in police custody for a day for interrogation in a case filed against him on charges of acid attack on one of his friends on August 5. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Nazrul Islam ... Read more

Cylinder Blast Woman dies from toxic gas A woman died and three fell ill inhaling poisonous gas after a cylinder exploded at an ice mill in Bagerhat town yesterday. The explosion at Price Ice Mill at a kitchen market in the town at around 10:15am left Majeda Begum, 65, wife of late Hasan Mollah, Nirapada, ... Read more

One of the major challenges in implementing the Right to Information Act 2009 is the mindset of bureaucrats who are not yet open to the idea of providing information, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday. They pointed out that the RTI act overrides some outdated legislations, such as the Official Secrets Act 1923, Evidence Act ... Read more