Day: June 20, 2015
Poor allocations for climate issues protested
Green activists In Dhaka on Saturday expressed their disappointment that the climate change issues got poor attention in the proposed national budget for FY 2015-16 and the 7th Five-Year Plan. They came up with the observation at a press conference…
Dhoni-Mustifiz tension ends in fining both
Indian team management was apparently ready to demonstrate its power once again if Bangladeshi pace star Mustafizur Rahman had not been fined at collision hearing. An analysis of the influential Indian daily Hindustan Times indicated that Mustafizur Rahman was fined…
Drug trader held with 200 bottles of phensidyl
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug trader with 200 bottles of contraband Indian phensidyl syrup from Sundarpur Bagdanga area under sadar upazila of the district on Friday.
3 jailed for felling trees illegally in Joypurhat
A mobile court here on Friday sentenced three men to different jail terms for cutting government trees illegally in Panchbibi upazila.The convicts are Abdul Kader, 36, of Sararpara village, Abdul Gaffar, 35, of Baropukuria village and Azizur Rahman, 42, of…
Arms trader held with pistol, ammo in C’nawabganj
Police arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of one foreign made pistol, two magazines and five rounds of bullet from Tarapur Bazar area in Shibganj upazila on Friday night.The arrestee was identified as Mahbub Alam,29, son of Emran Alam,…
8 gamblers sent to jail in Sirajganj
A mobile court here on Friday convicted eight people and sentenced them to three months’ jail on charge of gambling in Ullapara upazila.
Mojaheed to file review petition before SC
Condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed has decided to file a petition seeking the review of the Supreme Court verdict thatupheld his death sentence for killing intellectuals during the Liberation War in 1971. “Mojaheed has told us…
4 of an indigenous family stabbed dead
A woman of an indigenous community and three more members of her family were killed and another was injured allegedly by her son-in-law over a family feud at Bhimpur in Panchbibi upazila early Saturday.
Fake stamps worth 18 crore seized, one held in city
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) recovered huge quantity of fake stamps, included Judicial, non-judicial and revenue stamps, worth about Tk 18 crore and arrested one person from Lalkuthi Darus salam thana area on in the city on Friday. Acting on a…
20 hurt in clash over land in Savar
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over taking possession of a piece of land at Shyampur village in the upazila on Friday night.Quoting locals, police said there had been a longstanding rivalry…
Three motorcycle lifters held in Laxmipur
Police in a drive arrested three alleged members of an inter-district motorcycle lifters’ syndicate from a house at Borhanuddin Bhuiya Road in the town early Saturday.
Train collision injures 100 in Lalmonirhat
At least 100 people were injured when two trains collided head-on while crossing a level crossing at Kakina Rail Station in Kaliganj upazila on Saturday morning.Railway sources said the accident took place in the area around 8:52 am when a…
College girl raped in Mirpur, police rounds up 3 youths
A college girl became victim of rape in the city’s Mirpur on Saturday. Police arrested three youths in connection the rape incident. However, the rapist remained absconding soon after the incident. Quoting the victim, a first year (Hons) student of…
1 killed as truck, human hauler collide
A man was killed and five others were injured in a collision between a truck and a human hauler (Mahindra) at Ashkarpur on the Satkhira-Kaliganj road in Debhata upazila on Saturday morning.
Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness
As the young white man charged with murdering nine people inside an historic black church in South Carolina stood silently and expressionless at a court hearing on Friday, relatives of the slain worshippers faced him one by one, offering tearful…
Britain’s double Olympic champion Farah denies doping, says missed tests ‘simple mistakes’
Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah has denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs and said rumours and speculation over his career after the revelation that he missed two drugs tests “are completely false”. The 32-year-old has been under the spotlight since…
That’s right, kangaroos are left-handed
Research on wild kangaroos in Australia is challenging the notion that having a strong hand preference is a trait that developed primarily in people and other primates.Scientists said on Thursday that these Australian marsupials displayed a natural preference for using…
Justin Bieber, Usher ordered to face copyright lawsuit
Justin Bieber and Usher were ordered by a US appeals court on Thursday to face a $10 million lawsuit claiming the singers illegally copied parts of a song composed by two Virginia songwriters.By a 3-0 vote, the 4th US Circuit…
Prices of food items double on first Ramadan to upset household budgets
The price of food commodities used to make Iftar at the kitchen markets of Dhaka has doubled at the beginning of Ramadan, upsetting household budgets.The markets at Karwan Bazar, New Market, Hatirpool, Fakirerpool, Gopibagh and Mugdaparha charged Tk 5 to…
‘True cost’ documentary exposes hidden price of fast fashion
Sonia Waraich, India West San Leandro, Calif. — An exploration of how the new world of fast fashion is leading to human rights abuses and the destruction of the environment in many parts of India, Bangladesh and developing countries across…
4 of Joypurhat indigenous family Killed on hurt in family feud
A woman of an indigenous community and three more members of her family were killed and another was injured allegedly by her son-in-law over a family feud at Bhimpur in Panchbibi upazila early Saturday.
Pope Francis calls for climate action!
Recently in an encyclical, Pope Francis called upon the world leaders to act with a strong climate agreement in Paris at the U.N. Climate Summit in December. He said in his message-“This is one of the defining moral and ethical…
No RSVP from Bangladesh Universities!
According to the recent press reports, not a single university from Bangladesh had sent data for the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education Asia University Ranking 2015 despite being invited. Unfortunate indeed! But I wonder how the invitation…
Indian raid into Mynmar raises regional tensions
A cross-border raid last week by Indian soldiers into Myanmar has raised regional tensions. The unusual operation targeted insurgents after the biggest rebel attack on Indian soldiers in two decades. The BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder travelled to the north-eastern state of…
Most kangaroos are ‘left-handed’
Wild kangaroos tend to favour their left hands during common tasks like grooming and feeding, a study suggests. The researchers say this is the first demonstration of population-level “handedness” in a species other than humans, who are mostly right-handed. The…
Millions of dollars may have gone to Afghan ‘ghost schools’
By Aliya Iftikhar The United States has often touted the education sector as one of the major success stories of post-war rebuilding in Afghanistan, but it now appears that the numbers used to bolster that claim may have been inflated…
US: Drug deportations tearing families apart
Los Angeles – Thousands of families in the United States have been torn apart in recent years by detention and deportation for drug offenses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Disproportionately harsh laws and policies relating to…
DU lab asstt 3 more held for alleged help to ‘militants’
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan police in separate drives arrested a Lab assistant of Dhaka University and three other people involved in chemicals business from different parts of the city on Thursday for their alleged involvement in supplying chemicals…