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Investigators cite phone records; so far 100 people’s involvement found in Pilkhana killing Shariful Islam Citing telephone records of some suspects, investigators yesterday said the February 25 massacre at BDR Pilkhana headquarters might have been planned at least two months back. They said so far they have collected the last

Manufacturing industries count huge loss Sufferings of city dwellers mount due to severe power crises Staff Correspondent In the capital, frequent power disruption and load shedding is seriously affecting the city dwellers, educational institutions, business establishments and hospitals as the supply of electricity fell drastically due to gas

Sale of fake fertiliser across the country Agriculture Ministry suffers officer shortage frustrating agro promotion Staff Correspondent A section of unscrupulous vendors are selling sham fertilisers across the country causing a risk of affecting agricultural production heavily. Although Awami League government is committed to increase agricultural production to control price hike but its plans are ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said Thursday that last week’s troop rebellion at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters was a ‘grave conspiracy’ against the country’s nascent democracy. ‘It [the rebellion] was a big conspiracy against democracy. It is presumed initially that the rebellion was staged to embarrass and put the democratically elected government in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The leader of the opposition in parliament, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday said conspiracies were on to divide the people amid a national crisis by spreading hatred and pitting one side against another. ‘Bangladesh is under attack. The attack is on country’s independence, sovereignty and national security and we must be united to repulse ... Read more

Another army officer’s body identified, BDR soldiers who did not return are now fugitives Staff Correspondent As the Operation Rebel Hunt enters the fourth day, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) started interrogating five BDR mutiny suspects including suspected ringleader Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Syed Towhidul Alam after

Mustafizur Rahman The government has initiated fresh moves to increase the facilities for Bangladesh Rifles personnel, official sources said. The authorities have also started lobbying to send BDR personnel on UN peacekeeping missions, according to the officials. The home ministry on Wednesday sent a letter to the finance ministry proposing an increase in monthly border ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said the people who had spent Taka 20,000 crore in the name of power generation but did not generate a single megawatt of electricity during the regime of the BNP-led government must be tried for plunder of the money. ‘The company owned by the former prime ... Read more

UNB, Bogra RAB held father of a rebel BDR jawan and recovered cash and valuables, looted from BDR headquarters during the mutiny, worth about Tk 10 lakh, from Chalitabari Uttar Para in Sadar upazila Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-12 raided Bidu Para village in Sadar upazila at about 8pm Tuesday in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The government has plans to set up civil and criminal courts at upazila headquarters again, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed said in parliament yesterday. In reply to a call attention notice from former president and Jatiya Party Chief HM Ershad, the law minister said, “There are some difficulties in reintroducing ... Read more

UNB, Chapainawabganj Bomb explosion on the premises of sadar thana in the frontier town left a police inspector’s son dead and two other children injured yesterday noon. Police said three children, two of them sons of two Assistant Sub Inspectors, were injured as a bomb went off inside the boundary of the Police Station in ... Read more

Probe begins; unexploded bombs found at the scene Afp, Lahore Pakistani officials said yesterday around two dozen people were detained over the ambush on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, which has raised new questions about the government’s war on militants. The detainees were being questioned as police widened the hunt for clues in Tuesday’s brazen attack, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The security forces on Tuesday captured the prime suspect of the BDR soldiers’ rebellion and four of his associates as the investigation committees started functioning. The soldiers took up arms against their officers, from the army, in the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in the morning on February

3 others await DNA test; 5 army officers still missing; investigators rummage through BDR HQ for evidence Staff Correspondent Four more bodies of the BDR mutiny victims including an army officer were identified yesterday and the night before, bringing the number of missing officers down to five. Major Kazi Ashraf Hossain was identified by his ... Read more