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Day: February 19, 2014
Rasel held for al Qaeda message circulation on 10-day remand
A Tangail Court has sent Md Rasel bin Sattar, arrested for circulating al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message in Bangladesh, to 10-day police custody for interrogation. Judicial Magistrate Court judge Shahadat Hossain on Wednesday granted police the remand in one…
2 youths commit suicide in Rajshahi
Two young men allegedly committed suicide in two separate incidents in Godagari and Durgapur upazilas on Tuesday.
HYV vegetables lift up Barguna farmers
Once sharecroppers, a few now own lands A good number of farmers in Amtali upazila of the district have learnt to turn around economically by cultivating different high-yielding varieties (HYV) of vegetables.
One held with 3 stolen transformers in Munshiganj
Police arrested an alleged member of an organised gang of thieves in possession of three power transformers while fleeing after stealing those from Tajpur village in Sirajdikhan upazila early Tuesday.
RAB nabs one with revolver in Pabna
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man along with a Pakistan-made revolver and 30 rounds of bullet from a house in Shalgaria area of the district town on Tuesday afternoon.
Housewife ‘commits suicide’ in Moulvibazar
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking pesticide at Chhatakchhara village in Kamalganj upazila on Tuesday.
2 Jamaat leaders held in Sirajganj
Police in two separate drives arrested two leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of attacking police and obstructing them from performing duties and vandalising vehicles on Tuesday night.
Huge quantity of drugs seized in Jessore
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives seized huge quantity of various types of drugs from Putkhali and Shikerpur frontier area under Sharsha upazila of the district in the early hours today.
Why do we fear the truth?
Robert J. Burrowes If we want to take appropriate action to fix something that is not working properly, then it is necessary to understand, precisely, the nature of the problem. Obviously, if our diagnosis is inaccurate, then the solution applied…
Oman giving over 100,000 jobs from expatriates to its own nationals
Muscat: More than 100,000 jobs are to be stripped from expatriates and given to Omanis as the government works to redress the imbalance in the Sultanate’s employment market. Minister of Manpower Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri on Monday affirmed…
3 Regency Hotel executives held on cheating charges
Dhaka –Police arrested two directors and a manager of Dhaka Regency Hotel and Resort from the capital’s Khilkhet area on Tuesday evening following a case filed over cheating, murder attempt and money embezzlement.
CHT Commission for protecting hill people’s basic rights
Dhaka – Voicing deep concern over the continued ‘impunity’ to perpetrators of violence against indigenous women in the CHT region, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission has urged the government to take effective measures to put an end to the…
Outlaw leader killed in Madaripur ‘gunfight’
Madaripur –A leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Shibchar upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kiron Bepari, 29, son of Abu Bepari of Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district.
Rise against repression, Khaleda says welcoming JP-men
Khaleda Zia has welcomed new members into the BNP before calling on them to stand up together against ‘abduction, murder and torture’ by the government. Lakshmipur Jatiya Party Secretary General Mahmudur Rahman along with some 50 members joined the BNP…
Voting in 97 upazilas begins: BNP lodges complaints with EC
A delegation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has visited the Election Commission to lodge the complaint that it is not playing its appropriate role in the Upazila elections. Although the election is being held on a non-party basis, BNP-backed…
Farmland butterflies bounce back
By Ella Davies Farmland butterflies have flourished thanks to last year’s hot summer, the charity Butterfly Conservation says. The annual Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) recorded almost double the number of insects compared with the previous year. Long, sunny periods…
Master monkey’s brain controls sedated ‘avatar’
By James Gallagher The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, “avatar”, monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey’s mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar’s spinal cord, resulting…
Rajiv Gandhi murder plotters to be freed
The government in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to free three men and a woman convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of…
Ballroom dancers break up Vietnam war protest
Ballroom dancers and aerobics classes have popped up in the midst of an anti-China protest in Hanoi, Vietnam, in an apparent ploy by the government to break up the event. Protesters say the dancers, who showed up with a loud…
Gas, power price hike on cards
Dhaka – The government is planning to increase the gas and power prices, said State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid here on Tuesday. Nasrul Hamid came up with the government plan while addressing a conference of diploma engineers of the…
Agri officials for reintroducing Aus paddy in northern districts
Dhaka – Rain-fed Aus should be reintroduced in the country’s northern region, where great stretches of land have turned fallow due to the depletion in levels of groundwater, observed officials on Tuesday. They also noted that the related research institutes…
Khaleda visits ailing B Chowdhury
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia visited ailing Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday night. BDB secretary general Major (retd) Abdul Mannan and joint secretary general Mahi B Chowdhury received Khaleda as she reached B…
Law minister hints at political dialogue after upazila polls
Law Minister Anisul Haq on Tuesday said the government favours dialogue with the political parties to boost the democratic process . The possibility of a dialogue will increase after the on-going upazila polls, the minister told the Canadian High Commissioner…
Elder brother testifies in JU student Zubair murder case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded the depositions of an elder brother of slain Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed in the case filed in connection with the murder. Abdullah Al Mamun brother of the victim testified before the Fourth Speedy…
Bangladeshi boss of TV in UK jailed
The founder of a television station for Britain’s Bangladeshi community has been jailed for three years over a crash-for-cash insurance scam. Mohammed Ferdhaus, 40, admitted to laundering half a million pounds from a scam operated by his brother, Mohammed Samsul…
Court takes cognizance of charges in blogger Rajib murder case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday accepted charge sheets against eight persons and took cognizance of the charges against the accused, including Mufit M Jasimuddin Rahmani, Chief of Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, in the blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case.
ACC interrogates ex-minister Shahjahan Mia’s APS
The Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday quizzed Soumendra Lal Chandra Shoilen, former assistant personal secretary of ex-state minister for religious affairs Advocate M Shahjahan Miah on charge of accumulation of illegal wealth and laundering money to India, says an ACC…
SC withdraws stay on defamation case against Gen Moeen
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has withdrawn a stay on a defamation case against former army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed.A full bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain issued the order on Tuesday after hearing an…
BNP-Jamaat out for anarchy joining hands with al-Qaeda: Hasan
Dhaka – Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance is trying to create anarchy in the country by joining hands with al-Qaeda. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance has long been enforcing militant programmes. We…