Local people in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur are continuing their railway blockade programme for the second consecutive day on Thursday, protesting the government’s plan for open pit mining in Barapukuria Coal Mine. Local administration was holding a meeting the committee members till filing of this report at the rest house of Roads and Highway Department at about ... Read more
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Deep depression over Bay
The three maritime ports of the country have been advised to hoist cautionary signal No 3 as deep convection is taking place over north Bay. Squally weather may continue over north Bay and adjoining coastal areas, said a special bulletin of met office on Thursday
Victim back to hospital again
Shot into Disability by Rab Victim back to hospital again HR chief questions the way he was sent to jail Limon Hossain, left maimed in a Rab firing, was shifted to a Barisal hospital from Jhalakathi jail for treatment yesterday. The latest development followed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman questioning the court ... Read more
99pc adults exposed to lifestyle diseases
Risks of cancer, diabetes, heart ailments absent only in 1.3pc, finds medical survey Almost 99 percent Bangladesh people aged above 25 years has been exposed to at least one of three chronic diseases — cancer, diabetes and heart ailments — due to ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle. A most recent medical survey reveals the alarming situation, saying that ... Read more
Mob sets police station on fire
Forces OC, cops to take off uniforms, 30 injured in clashes over robbery At least 30 people were injured as several thousand villagers besieged two police stations and set a police station and a vehicle on fire in Birganj and Kaharol upazilas of Dinajpur on Tuesday. Four police personnel were injured in a mass beating ... Read more
CNG likely to cost more in a day or two
The government is likely to raise the price of compressed natural gas in a day or two, officials said. The decision would be taken by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on a proposal sent by Petrobangla to raise the CNG price. Petrobangla, the state run oil, gas and mineral resources corporation, sent the proposal to
Yunus’s lawyers call HC order ‘perverse’, ‘biased’
Lawyers acting for Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, argued on Monday before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that the High Court order, which had ‘summarily dismissed’ their application challenging the legality of Bangladesh Bank’s attempt to remove their client from his post of managing director, was ‘perverse’,
Cabinet approves porn control law
The government on Monday approved in principle the draft Pornography Control Bill 2011 with provisions for imprisonment and fine to check production and marketing of all kinds of pornography. The home affairs ministry placed the draft bill at the weekly meeting of the cabinet against the backdrop of widespread production and exhibition of the pornography ... Read more
Detective work on courier led to Laden
Most Intense Manhunt Detective work on courier led to Laden After years of dead ends and promising leads gone cold, the big break came last August. A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden, whom American spies had been hunting for years, was finally located in a compound 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, close ... Read more
Zawahiri ‘to fill in Laden shoes’
South Asia at risk of al-Qaeda attacks Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian surgeon considered the real mastermind of the global terror franchise, is now set to succeed Osama bin Laden as the world’s most wanted man. Like his Saudi-born co-conspirator, Zawahiri has been hiding ever since the United States declared its war on ... Read more
Laden as I know
Hamid Mir “I was the son of a rich father. I could have spent my life luxuriously in Europe and America, like many other wealthy Saudis. Instead I took up arms and headed for the mountains of Afghanistan. Was it personal interest that drove me to spend each moment of my life in the shadow ... Read more
Operation wrapped in secrecy
Helicopters descended out of darkness on the most important counterterrorism mission in US history. It was an operation so secret, only a select few US officials knew what was about to happen. The location was a fortified compound in an affluent Pakistani town two hours outside Islamabad. The target was Osama bin Laden
Osama’s body buried at sea
Washington: The body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea after he was killed by US forces in Pakistan, a media report said. Xinhua cited CNN as reporting that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea after being killed in Pakistan’s Abbotabad city, about 50 km from
Bin Laden killed: How it happened
Details are emerging of how al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was found and killed at a fortified compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. It is just 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which correspondents say is Pakistan’s equivalent to Britain’s Sandhurst military training academy
Osama bin Laden killed
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said. Bin Laden was killed in a ground operation outside Islamabad based on US intelligence, the first lead for which emerged last
Further probe needed before action: Muhith
He gives no timeline for fresh probe into share scam The government on Saturday made public the investigation report on January’s stock market debacle suggesting further investigation before bringing charges against any individuals or organisations but gave no timeline for a fresh probe. The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, at a briefing on Saturday ... Read more
Expressway work gets underway
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the construction work of the much-awaited Dhaka Elevated Expressway, which would reduce the acute and annoying traffic congestions in the capital. “The long-cherished dream of the city people will be fulfilled with the construction of the expressway that would be expanded from Gazipur to Narayanganj in future to ... Read more
May Day today
The International Labour Day, widely known as May Day, will be observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere around the world today amid demands from working class people for wage increase to cope with continued inflation and price spiral. The day is observed marking the uprising of the working class people who fought for their
Biotech holds the key
Experts tell The Daily Star roundtable it can revolutionise farm, health sectors Biotechnology holds an immense prospect for Bangladesh in the fields of agriculture and healthcare to meet the future challenges of food production and climate change. However, lack of investment, research, and collaborative efforts among the entrepreneurs, scientists and policymakers stand in the way, ... Read more
One death, many questions
A guarded regret from India followed the brutal killing of Bangladeshi girl Felani on January 7 by its border force. A “promise” of no more deaths on the border came from Delhi in March. A meeting of the two border forces also agreed on use of non-lethal weapons. But the Indian force remains trigger-happy and ... Read more