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A youth stabbed his girlfriend and then tried to commit suicide yesterday after the girl’s parents refused his marriage proposal at Bangshal in the capital. The youth, Saidur Rahman, 19, works at an electric wire factory at Sat Raowza, while the girl, Sharmin Akhter, 15, is a class eight student of Yusuf Sarder High School. ... Read more

The government will formulate a National Steering Committee tomorrow to streamline its efforts for total control of anthrax infection before the Eid-ul-Azha. Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas informed newsmen at his office yesterday about the government’s steps to fight nationwide anthrax

The Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research on Sunday confirmed 63 cases of anthrax infection in last three days across the country. The institute officials said the cases of anthrax infection were reported from Chitagong and Laxmipur districts. They did not have any report of anthrax infection in Gazipur last

Rehana Akhter, a 22-year-old medical technician, who suffered appalling burns to her face and chest after acid was thrown on her allegedly by an army soldier and his accomplices on September 14, is fighting for life in the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Her family demanded the prime minister’s intervention to bring the ... Read more

Muggers shot a policeman at Gulshan-1 in the capital last night. Police constable Asaduzzaman, 28, was rushed to National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital at Mohakhali with bullet injuries to his chest. Constable Mominul told The Daily Star that he along with Asaduzzaman hearing screams

Says CEC The long-awaited polls to Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will be held by December this year, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said yesterday. “The commission will soon finalise the date for the election,” CEC Huda told reporters after a meeting of the EC. However, it might not be possible to hold the ... Read more

Two siblings were killed when a launch hit them as they were trying to get on a boat from another vessel in the middle of the river Buriganga off Sadarghat launch terminal in the city Sunday morning. Sources said Nasima, 12, died on the spot while her brother Al-Amin, 9, died at Dhaka Medical College ... Read more

A covered van driver was on Sunday sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment on charges causing the death of a student by reckless driving at Moghbazar in the capital on October 26, 2007. The metropolitan magistrate, Munshi Abdul Mazid, sentenced to jail Nurul Islam on three charges of reckless driving, hurting and

The government has this year produced only 19 lakh vaccines which could vaccinate about 5 per cent of about 8 crore cattle, the country now has, against anthrax infection that broke out in Sirajganj in mid-August. Forty-three cows and 56 goats have so far died of the infection or have even been slaughtered after being ... Read more

At least 31 more case of human anthrax infection were detected at Charkadira of Kamalnagar in Lakshmipur on Saturday. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research is, however, yet to confirm the cases as anthrax infection. The institute till date also did not confirm two anthrax infection

The spreading of anthrax and the people’s consequent avoidance of beef have reduced the slaughtering of cattle by more than 80 per cent in the past three or four weeks, said traders of hides. The scarcity of cow skins, which make up at least three-fourths of the supply of local rawhides, has hit hard the ... Read more

Buriganga Clean Up Polluters must pay Seminar seeks integrated approach for river drive The government must make the polluters pay for cleaning up the river Buriganga and undertake an integrated and scientific approach to this end, demanded leading environmental activists and experts at a seminar in the city yesterday.

The melting brass glows in the dimly lit workshop where a coal furnace rages at around 900 degrees Celsius. By the fire, a master carefully casts molten brass into an earthen mould. As soon as the molten metal touches the mould, it ignites with a burst of flame burning a layer of soil and burnt ... Read more

Experts warn major earthquake any time Ten earthquakes measuring 2.0 to 4.8 on the Richter scale having epicentres in the Chandpur areas rocked Bangladesh in the past week, giving a warning of a major earthquake any time, according to the Dhaka University Earth Observatory. The earthquakes included the two that took place on the eve ... Read more

Fresh anthrax infection reported; govt says many are panic-driven The country remains on high anthrax alert as reports of fresh infections in different districts continue to swell amid significant fall in consumption of beef and mutton. Three more people have been infected with anthrax in Meherpur and Lalmonirhat yesterday raising the number of confirmed infections ... Read more

Water in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges are in falling trend while the Padma and the Meghna follows a rising trend thus further deteriorating the flood situation of the country, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC). The flood situation in low-lying areas of Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra, Sherpur, Jamalpur,

The thirst for speed claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter on a Dhaka street yesterday. Taking the opportunity of relatively light traffic after the Eid holidays, a speeding bus crushed Jahura Begum, 35 and Asma Akhter, 10, a class-III student of Angel Academy in Jagannathpur, against the central reservation of Progati Sarani ... Read more

Anyone under 18 years considered children in child policy draft The government has drafted the National Child Policy-2010 with provisions for prohibiting use of children in political activities and their employment in hazardous jobs. The draft proposes that anyone under 18 years of age would be treated as a child, updating the child policy of ... Read more

More than 2 lakh people marooned in 11 dists Flooding of low-lying areas in northern and central districts worsened on Tuesday as the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Padma rivers marked a further rise because of heavy rainfall, according to the authorities concerned. More than two lakh people in chars and low-lying areas along the banks of ... Read more

Most of the government and private offices in the capital, including the secretariat, had little activities on Tuesday, the second working day after the Eid holiday ending on Sunday, because of thin attendance. Officials of different ministries housed in the secretariat said about 70 per cent of the officials were present as many were still ... Read more