Six people, including a DB officer, have been arrested on the charge of snatching gold worth Tk 3 crore from a jewellery businessman. Twenty-three of the looted 60 gold bars were recovered from their possession. The victim businessman and his…
Day: January 3, 2015
Archbishop Paulinus Costa dies
Spiritual leader of the Catholics in Bangladesh Archbishop Paulinus Costa died of cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 78. Paulinus Costa, who was Archbishop of the archdiocese of Dhaka from 2005 to October 22, 2011, breathed his last around 3…
Two Sylhet JCD men held for bomb ‘attack on Kamran’s car’
Police on Saturday arrested two activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in connection with a crude bomb attack on the vehicle of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and city Awami League president Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at Pathantula here on…
7 Jamaat-Shibir men held in Sylhet
Police in a drive arrested seven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ in court area of the city on Friday.
Sylhet JCD vice-president held
Police arrested the city unit vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from Khashdabir area in the city early Saturaday.
Robber injured, arrested after ‘gunfight’ in Satkhira
An alleged robber was injured in a gunfight between his cohorts and police in Palashpol area of the town early Saturday.
BCL faction’s indefinite strike begins at CU
A faction of the Chittagong University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) enforced an indefinite strike on the campus today (Saturday) to press for its six-point demand.
Youth killed in Rangamati road crash
A youth was killed and three others were injured in a road accident in Kalabagan area on the Rangamati-Chittagong highway here on Friday.
Puffed rice mill in Satkhira catches fire
A fire broke out at a puffed rice mill at Dhopadanga Bazar in Debhata upazila on Friday night.
Shramik Dal leader held in Bagerhat
Police arrested Jatiyatabadi Shramik Dal’s district unit president Sardar Liakat Ali from in front of his house in VIP Mor of the town on Friday night.
Youth ‘takes own life’ in Sylhet
A young man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room in Sayedpur area of Majortila in the city on Friday morning.
2 JCD men held over bomb attack on Kamran’s vehicle
Police on Saturday arrested two activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in connection with a crude bomb attack on the vehicle of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and city Awami League president Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at Pathantula here on…
525 char dwellers get vegetable seed from Friendship
Some 525 dwellers of 21 chars of Kurigram and Gaibandha districts got free different varieties of vegetable seed to make homestead gardening from a national NGO Friendship last few days.
Concerted effort needed to combat desertification, land degradation in Barind Tract
Adopting time-befitting measures for combating desertification and land degradation process has become an urgent task in the Barind tract to boost agricultural production for ensuring food security amid adverse impacts of climate changes, speakers at a workshop here said today.
Successful implementation of CLP improves char livelihoods
Successful implementation of the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) has improved livelihoods of the extremely poor and landless people living in the hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin.
AL leaders ask the BNP-led alliance to drop Jan 5 rallies
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance has told the BNP to drop plans of hitting the streets on Jan 5. After a meeting on Saturday at the Awami League’s central office, Food Minister Qamrul Islam asked the BNP not to be…
BNP, allies may call hartal if rally obstructed
The BNP-led 20-party allaince is likely to announce 48-hour to 72-hour non-stop hartal if they are obstructed from hold its planned rally for which it did not get permission till last night, according to a highly placed source. The hartal…
AL plans rallies at 16 venues in capital on Jan 5
The ruling Awami League will organise public rallies at 16 venues including the Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital city January 5. This decision was taken at a joint meeting of Awami League (AL) held at the political office of party…
Tofail rules out dialogue, mod-term polls
Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Saturday ruled out the possibility of any midterm election and dialogue with BNP saying Bangladesh is marching ahead with development on all fronts. “I don’t see any possibility of dialogue…there’ll be dialogue only…
BNP reiterates resolve to hold Jan 5 rally
The BNP has vowed to hold its rally in Dhaka on January 5 even it is not given permission by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. “We will hold our planned grand rally in the city on January 5 to mark the…
JU officer’s assoc elects new committee
A Correspondent A new executive committee of the Jahangirnagar university (JU) officer association has has been elected with Eng. Abdus salam as the president and Md. A.Rahaman as the general secretary for the next year.
The Nanjing genocide and the future of Asia
Chandra Muzaffar For the first time in its history, China commemorated the Nanjing genocide on the 13th of December as a National Memorial Day. The mass killings and systematic rapes perpetrated by some Japanese soldiers against civilians and disarmed combatants…
Bono bike accident: ‘I may never play guitar again’
U2 frontman Bono says he fears that he may never play guitar again following a bike accident last November. He made the comment in his A to Z of 2014, published on the band’s website. Bono broke his arm in…
Record cold weather for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The lowest temperatures of 2014 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland were recorded overnight. Katesbridge, County Down, hit -8.8C (16.2F). Benson, Oxon, fell to -7.6C with -6.7C at Pembrey Sands, Dyfed. Latest figures show the UK’s coldest temperature of the…
Durham’s Ben Stokes joins Melbourne Renegades in Big Bash
England all-rounder Ben Stokes will play for Melbourne Renegades in the Australian Big Bash League, replacing the injured Jesse Ryder. Stokes, 26, who plays his county cricket for Durham, is one of eight England-qualified players signed up for the Twenty20…