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At least eight people were killed and 18 others injured in separate road accidents Mymensingh, Sunamganj and Bagerhat districts on Thursday, reports UNB. In Mymensingh, at least five people were killed and nine others injured as a bus plunged into a ditch at Beltali on Mymensingh-Netrakona highway in Gouripur upazila on Thursday afternoon. Identities of ... Read more

Clinical trials show that a combination of pills, one still in the experimental phase and one that was just approved for the US market, are effective at curing hepatitis C, researchers said Wednesday, reports AFP. However, the cost of the treatment is expected to be at least $80,000 per year, making it out of reach to ... Read more

Countrywide rallies Jan 20, black flag processions Jan 29 The BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Wednesday said that she was determined to carry forward the movement it is waging to restore democracy and people’s franchise by overthrowing the incumbent ‘dangerous,’ ‘non-representative’ government. She urged the government to immediately take initiatives for a dialogue towards the holding ... Read more

Describing Khaleda Zia’s remarks on the January 5 general election as “full of lies”, Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said on Wednesday that the BNP chairperson was spreading false information in a bid to mislead the nation. Hanif, also a lawmaker, was addressing a press conference at TCB Bhaban in the city. He was ... Read more

A section of the civil society yesterday welcomed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s strategy to extend the olive branch to the government while renewing the call for dialogue to hold inclusive polls under a non-partisan caretaker regime. They also called for facilitating an understanding by permitting the 18-party alliance to hold peaceful programmes without

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to take effective steps towards ensuring security of the minority people who came under attacks across the country after the January 5 general election. The High Court in the rule asked the government to explain why repression on the minorities should not be stopped and why it should ... Read more

Russia, Myanmar, Nepal, Belarus greet Hasina The United States will continue working with the new government of Bangladesh although it is disappointed over the January 5 polls, the State Department said on Monday. Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson of the State Department, divulged the information at a regular press briefing when asked if Washington recognised

The European Parliament (EP) is scheduled to see a debate on recent Bangladesh elections at its debate chamber in Strasbourg, France on Thursday, reports UNB. The debate will focus on fundamental freedoms, human rights and democracy in general in Bangla-desh, according to the EP. The EP included debate on Bangladesh in its agenda following a ... Read more

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to collect samples of five kinds of spices marketed by the Pran Agro Limited from the open market and conduct a laboratory test to find out whether those items contain any ingredients harmful to public health. The HC also asked the chairman and the chief of the ... Read more

Severe cold and fog for the past two weeks have damaged about 35 to 40 per cent of Boro seedlings across the country. Most farmers apprehend they would not be able to cultivate Boro in the current season due to shortages of seedlings and agricultural inputs. Many farmers told The Independent that

Most of the trains of the Bangladesh Railway are still running behind the schedules after railways came under attacks during recent political programmes including strikes and rail-road-waterways blockades. The officials said they did not know when the situation would become normal as some damage would take long to be repaired. Since February 28 last year,

Unidentified assailants slaughtered four members of a family at their house near Indian frontier in Kurigram on early Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Sultan Ahmed, 55, the owner of the house at Deadanga village under Bhurungamari upazila, his wife Hazera Begum, 45, and granddaughters Romana Begum, 14, and Anika, 7. The only other member of

At least three people, including a couple and a woman, were killed in a collision between a battery-run easy-bike and a passenger bus at Shanir Akhra area in the city on Tuesday. However, a four-year-old physically challenged girl, Meem, survived the crash. She suffered minor injuries. The victims were identified as Ajmeri Begum Merry, 35, ... Read more

Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said there was no evidence so far that British Special Forces played a role in India’s 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault, reprots AFP Cameron ordered an inquiry after previously secret documents showed that former premier Margaret Thatcher approved sending an officer from the elite

Court stays voting in Kurigram-4 The Election Commission (EC) is all set to conduct polls in seven constituencies, where polling was put off following violence during the January 5 general election. The constituencies that will cast their votes on Thursday are Jessore-5, Laxmipur-1, Dinajpuir-4, Gaibandha-1, 3 and 4 and Bagura-7. According to the EC, voting was ... Read more

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is likely to file a case against five officials of a MLM company on charge of swindling nearly Tk 33 crore of the investors’ money, reports UNB. The Commission has already given clearance to file a case against five officials of Aimway Corporation, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, for swindling ... Read more

cientists have built what they say is the first flying machine that hovers in a stable manner by flapping its wings. Previous designs for so-called flapping wing aircraft have mimicked the wing motions of insects, but the new design is based on the way jellyfish swim. The prototype built by scientists at

Govt expresses intention to start dialogue with BNP Apart from absorbing the pressure from the international community for holding early elections, one of the government’s key priorities is to ensure good governance and law and order in a bid to have better electoral performance in the next election whenever it is held. Though the new ... Read more

The rank and file of the Jatiya Party (JP), especially grassroots activists of the party, are still not clear whether party chief HM Ershad has willingly joined the government or has been forced to do so. Though a section of JP leaders, including Rawshan Ershad, wife of the JP chief, claimed that Ershad was in ... Read more

BNP briefs foreign diplomats The BNP-led 18-party alliance is planning a fresh spell of anti-government campaigns for the sake of its political existence and to mount a pressure on the government for immediate negotiations that will lead to a free, fair, inclusive, and peaceful election, party insiders said. To put an uninterrupted pressure on the ... Read more