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The arrested Indian national, Mohammad Emdadullah, who is suspected to be an operative of the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, was remanded in police custody for four days on Friday

In two incidents in the city, a young man was ‘tortured to death’ at Bamoil under the Demra police station yesterday while a tenant was beaten to death allegedly by the landlord at Rupnagar under the Pallabi

BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain has blasted the government for its move to rewind the constitution to 1972 branding it ‘ominous and conspiratorial.’ ‘They are out to amend the constitution

Two persons including a housewife were allegedly beaten to death at Pallabi and Demra in Dhaka city on Thursday night and yesterday. The deceased were identified as Fatema Rahman, 55, wife of Sheikh Fazlur Rahman

The Bangladesh Bank is no longer printing the special security feature on Tk 10 notes in order to reduce the cost and the time of printing, said officials. ‘As part of the BB’s effort to ensure smooth supply of

The adjourned third session of 9th parliament resumes at 4 pm Sunday after 18 days of recess for Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja vacations. The third session, which began on September 7, was adjourned on

Speakers at an investment seminar on Bangladesh in New York said that the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already created an environment favorable for foreign investors to help accelerate

Indonesia appealed for foreign aid Friday as the stench of decomposing bodies hung over wrecked buildings where overwhelmed rescuers were searching for survivors. In the city of Padang, which was devastated

An effective anti-littering campaign needs to be launched to address the growing littering problem in capital Dhaka, a mega city of over 12 million people. “Littering is a big problem in many cities, but this is a

The registration for the DV-2011 (Diversity Visa) lottery for permanent resident card in the United States began yesterday. Entries for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery must be submitted electronically

City dwellers are struggling to cope with the soaring prices of essential commodities including rice, vegetables and some spices. Market operators said, price of vegetables marked a sharp rise due to insufficient

More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers. Increasing numbers of very old people could

Over 50 banned Maoist extremists struck at a village of Khagaria district in Bihar, about 200-km north of capital – Patna, at dead of Thursday night, and indiscriminately fired upon a group of sleeping villagers, killing

Chevron, a US-based international oil company (IOC), has planned to start its gas exploration drilling in Block-7 located in the country’s southern region. Petrobangla officials said they were working closely with

The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country’s agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels,

The long-awaited first vaccination against swine flu – the squirt-in-the-nose kind – begin early next week in parts of the country, and states are urging people to be patient until more arrives. Just a trickle of vaccine,

Obscenity spread out by mobile phone users more or less hampers study of nearly 90 per cent of its users, who are also students of Dhaka University (DU), a research revealed recently. Over 50 per cent users of mobile

Police yesterday filed two murder cases over the deaths of two BDR members in mysterious circumstances after the February 25-26 mutiny by the border guards. Officer in-charge of New Market Police Station

The banking sector and the capital market have offered to chip in to mobilise resources for the proposed Power and Gas Development Fund worth up to $ 10 billion to help the country tide over the nagging

A district court yesterday granted bail to one of the five warranted accused in a case filed against Rid Pharmaceutical Ltd. The court reissued arrest warrants against the other four absconding accused and fixed October