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Pti, London A top al-Qaeda commander, who was reported killed in a US drone strike last year, has appeared in a video warning India of more Mumbai-style terror attacks if it tried to attack Pakistan. “India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it attacks Pakistan,” Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, believed ... Read more

BSS, Cox’s Bazar The seventh South Asian Free Media Conference (SAFMA) under the theme of ‘Democracy and Authoritarianism’ began here yesterday with a call to enable democratic values flourish and benefit people living in abject poverty from the fruits of democracy by breaking local power nexus and empowering them at the grassroots. The speakers, participating ... Read more

Staff Correspondent A rickshaw puller hacked to death his wife and an 11-month daughter over a family feud at a slum near the Nabodoy Housing at Adabar in the capital city Tuesday morning. After the brutal killing, he immediately surrendered to the Rapid Action Battalion members at the Shia Mosque camp at Mohammadpur. Witnesses said ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Manzurul Alam resigned on Tuesday as the Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commi-ssion chairman. The immediate-past military-controlled interim government appointed Manzurul, a retired major general, to the commission as chairman in April 2007. Manzurul told New Age, ‘I submitted my resignation as it is a common practice that a new government will want to appoint ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka The government has suggested the United States make a written proposal on how it wants to assist Bangladesh in curbing militancy and terrorism, the home minister said on Tuesday. “We have asked the US to give a written proposal on how they will help us to curb militancy and terrorism,” Sahara Khatun told ... Read more

5,58,444 male & 5,05,040 female candidates to sit for Staff Correspondent Examinations of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent 2009 under education boards will begin on February 15 with 10,63,484 SSC examinees. At a press conference yesterday, Education Minister Nurul Islam Naheed said the government has taken all necessary steps to hold the examinations fairly ... Read more

Bangladesh, India sign two pacts on trade, investment; Promoting bilateral trade, investment UNB, Dhaka Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Jamuna, when

JS might not ratify ordinances that made them PLCs; LGC ordinance also not among 53 picked to be made law Shakhawat Liton The fate of three public limited companies (PLC) hangs in the balance, as the ordinances promulgated by the immediate past caretaker government that transformed those into companies from government agencies, might not be ... Read more

JS SEAT ROW Opposition, speaker take hardline stances Staff correspondent The crisis over seat arrangement in parliament deepened with both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led main opposition and the speaker, Abdul Hamid, seemingly taking hardline stances on Monday. The opposition lawmakers, who already abstained from eight out of 10 sittings, decided to keep pending a decision ... Read more

Freed on assurance of bringing money from parents Rakib Ahammed Nurul Alam was so happy when his only son Nazrul Islam made it to Dhaka University as Nazrul was on the path to becoming a magistrate, his father’s dream. The dream of this farmer of Cox’s Bazar was shattered and he became almost speechless when ... Read more

M Moneruzzaman The Anti-Corruption Commission has cleared 340 people, including 75 politicians, of corruption charges pressed against them in December 2008 and January 2009, ACC spokesman Hanif Iqbal told reporters at a news briefing on Monday. Hanif, also ACC director general (admin), said the commission had lodged 208 cases against the 340 accused persons on ... Read more

A Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar Hundreds of dead turtles are found being washed ashore along the coastal lines from Cox’s Bazar to St Martin’s island with bruises all over their bodies. Over 400 female dead turtles have floated ashore over the last two weeks alone, locals claim. Experts say that these turtles meet their death as ... Read more

Staff Reporter The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) personnel do not torture anybody to extract information rather emphasised on collecting hard evidence during inquiry and investigation. The Commission spokesman Col Hanif Iqbal said yesterday. “The ACC has neither scope nor infrastructure to torture anybody,” Hanif Iqbal, also the ACC Director General (admin), told at ACC’s regular briefing ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Dinajpur A minor boy was killed and three other children were wounded in gunshot as a bird hunter accidentally pulled the trigger in a beel in Parbatipur upazila yesterday. The dead was identified as Tanizul Islam, 8, son of Lal Chand Mia of Kalikapur village of the upazila. Police said Saidur Rahman, the ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka Popular film-star Kabori of the ruling party brought life and laughter in the otherwise dull and drab proceedings of parliament in the absence of the opposition. Her name appeared as ‘Begum Sarah Begum Kabori’ in today’s question-answer paper. This caught the eyes of humorous Speaker Abdul Hamid. “You are loaded with double Begums. ... Read more