A 15-year-old girl, unable to bear constant harassment by a local hoodlum, attempted to take her own life by drinking caustic acid in Sujanagar of Pabna on Friday night. The victim, Rusia Khatun, daughter of late Tajuddin of village Kuripara, is now fighting a grim battle for life in hospital
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BSF kills Bangladeshi cattle trader
A 20-year old unarmed Bangladeshi cattle trader, Selim Hossain Milon, was chopped to death by Indian Border Security Force at Gobarda in India Sunday morning, the police said. Gobarda in Uttar Chabbish Pargana district borders Baikari in the district town of
Rape case witness comes under acid attack
Miscreants threw acid on a woman in the Chapainawabganj town Sunday morning while she was going to the court to testify as a witness in a rape case. The victim, Anjana Karma-ker, 35, daughter of Bibhutib-husan Karmakar, came from village Mushribhuja under Bholahat upazila in the
CNG price hike sparks chaos in transport sector, kitchen market
The latest price hike of compressed natural gas has created a chaotic situation in the country’s transport sector and kitchen markets. In a litany of reactions, CNG-driven buses, pick-ups, and auto-rickshaws have increased fares, rickshaw-pullers used that as an excuse for doubling their asking rate, rickshaw vans followed the
Trinamool triumphs over Communists
Wave for change ends 34-year CPI-M era; Mamata to become chief minister Riding the crest of a wave for paribartan (change), Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress stormed to power in West Bengal defeating the Communist government that had been in power since 1977. With the historic election victory, she is set to become the state’s first ... Read more
Gap between urban, rural students widens
SSC Results 2011 Gap between urban, rural students widens This year’s record-breaking SSC results demonstrate the gap between education standards in urban and rural areas with most SSC Results 2011 dominating the top of the list in every education board. Though the authorities say the schools in rural areas are doing well in terms of ... Read more
Mamata Banerjee: India’s street fighter ‘Didi’
From fiery politician from an ordinary middle class to the chief minister-designate of West Bengal–it has been a long and arduous journey for Mamata Banerjee, the stormy petrel of state politics who has single handedly demolished the Marxist bastion. The feisty 56-year-old Banerjee, who is the founder and chairperson of the Trinamool Congress
Khaleda leaves for UK, US today
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, is scheduled to leave Dhaka today for a two-week visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. Khaleda will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:15am by an Emirates flight, BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told
Behind the fall of Left Front
The fall of the Left Front from power in West Bengal has been on the cards for the last three years, ever since the alliance did badly in panchayat elections. Thereafter, the Front badly lost the civic body elections and parliamentary elections in 2009. The main reason behind the success of Mamata Banerjee, who quit ... Read more
Continued help assured for Grameen’s independence
Friends of Grameen, an international platform promoting Grameen Bank and its activities, yesterday insisted that it will continue its fight to help the microfinance institution retain its independence. The statement from the global platform came a day after Grameen Bank founder Prof Muhammad Yunus stepped down as the bank’s managing director — much to the ... Read more
Ethnic minority girl killed after rape
Miscreants killed an adolescent ethnic minority girl after raping her and dumped the body in a jungle at Kamakyachhara of Boalkhali area in Dighinala under Khagrachari. The body of 12-year-old girl was found near the Noakhali tila in the area. The police recovered the body on Friday morning and sent it to the Khagrachari
Prof Yunus resigns
Prof Muhammad Yunus has stepped down as the managing director of Grameen Bank in order to prevent undue disruption in the activities of the microfinance bank, the Nobel laureate confirmed yesterday. “I am today [yesterday] relinquishing the post of managing director of Grameen Bank on the basis that the Deputy Managing Director Nurjahan Begum would ... Read more
SSC pass rate increases this year
Combined pass rate 82.31 The pass rate of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations has this year increased than the figure of the previous year. According to the results published on Thursday, 2.91 per cent more students have passed the exams this year, marking an increase by 2.33 percentage
Stipend stopped for not being maid
The headmistress of Parul Government Primary School in Pirgachha upazila has stopped giving stipend money to a very needy schoolgirl after she refused to continue as a domestic help in her house. Ironically, this very headmistress persuaded the girl’s family to get her admitted to the school promising government stipend, family members
Yet another shocking arbitration
Village arbitrators shaved the head of a woman accusing her of adultery at Binahali of Adamdighi upazila here yesterday. Garment worker Lovely Begum, 26, has been married to Abdul Kader for the last 14 years. Lovely said they went to Dhaka five years ago looking for work. They secured jobs at a garment
Carjackers on the prowl
Make city too risky for drivers, bikers Shamsur Rahman was coming home from a party on a Friday night with his wife. It was around midnight when he made a turn to his Gulshan road but he noticed a car behind him. It was moving slowly and it felt like it was shadowing him. Shamsur ... Read more
They kill drivers, snatch vehicles
On January 2, criminals stopped a rice-laden truck by putting barricade with another truck in Uttara. They then killed the driver and the helper, dumped their bodies in a roadside ditch at Banani and sped away with the truck. A week later, police recovered their decomposed bodies. They also arrested two of the gang
Let Grameen Bank flourish further
Appeals Prof Yunus Grameen Bank’s future is connected with 40 million borrowers, and it should be ensured that its achievements in the last four decades are not undone, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus said in a statement yesterday. “Now our challenge is to create the opportunity so that the second generation of Grameen Bank
150th birth anniversary of Tagore today
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped the Bangla literature in the late 19th and the early 20th century, will be observed in Bangladesh and some other places today. Tagore, who became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel prize in literature, was a poet, playwright, novelist, educationist, ... Read more
Torture marks on GB staffer’s body
Cops record case; Grameen Bank concerned Police yesterday recorded a case in connection with abduction of a Grameen Bank official from the capital’s Mirpur Friday evening and his release after four hours of torture allegedly by intelligence personnel. Victim Sagirur Rashid Chowdhury, an accounts officer of the bank, alleged, “Some personnel of the intelligence aided ... Read more