Amnesty International (AI) has said the ‘failure’ of Bangladesh authorities to take decisive action against violent groups responsible for at least 10 killings over the past two months creating a ‘climate of impunity’. “The brazen announcement by violent groups that…
Accusing the government of not playing its due role in tackling militancy, BNP on Tuesday said it seems that the extremists and militants are gradually taking over the country’s control.In a statement, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed for six weeks the High Court order that asked the authorities concerned to shut the shops of Mouchak Market in the city, terming the building risky.Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme…
The High Court on Tuesday granted an eight-week bail to The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam in 10 defamation cases. A two-member HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan granted the bail after bearing petitions…
The jail authorities read out the death warrant to condemned war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali at Kashimpur Central Jail on Tuesday morning. Prasanta Kumar Banik, jail super of the central jail part-2, entered the condemned cell-50 of…
The High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of senior journalist Shafik Rehman, now in jail, in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the USA.…
In recent experiments, a scientist found that the South American fish go after large, moving, and partially submerged objects, pressing their chins against the target to discharge shocks. (Also see “The Electric Eel’s Superpower Just Got Even Cooler.”) The finding…
When the Nazis captured a heavy water facility in Norway, the chemist who helped design the plant took action. On February 27, 1942, nine saboteurs scaled a cliff in the middle of the night to blow up a Nazi-controlled heavy…
Entertainment Desk Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the 2016 American 3D science fiction action comedy film, is now on screen at the Blockbuster Cinemas in the capital’s Jamuna Future Park. Alongside different foreign films, the premier of…
Lifestyle Desk How wise we are varies dramatically according to the situations and is affected by factors like loneliness and togetherness, a new study has found. The study defines wise reasoning as a combination of such abilities as intellectual humility,…
Health Desk According to a new study in the UK, overweight infants consume larger meals but they do not eat more often than healthy toddlers. Hayley Syrad from University of London in the UK and colleagues used parent-reported intake for…
The state of Minnesota on Tuesday celebrated “Prince Day,” with residents encouraged to wear the music legend’s signature color purple on what would have been his 58th birthday. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, in a proclamation making June 7 this year…
Wildfires have destroyed 437 hectares of firs and pine trees in five areas in Russia’s Far East over the past 24 hours, local forestry department reported Tuesday. Magadan area suffered the most, with 423 hectares of taiga caught in raging…
Entertainment Desk Abu Shahed Emon’s critically acclaimed feature film “Jalaler Golpo” (Jalal’s Story) keeps on bringing the prize, once again bagging two more international awards at the SAARC International Film Festival held in Sri Lanka. Barkat Hossain Palash won the…
Dhaka – Two suspected criminals were killed in a reported gunfight with plainclothes police in Kalshi Lohar Bridge area under Pallabi thana in Dhaka city early Tuesday, Unb news agency reported.
Dhaka – The historic Six-Point Day is being observed on Tuesday commemorating the placing of the demand for autonomy for the erstwhile East Pakistan, Unb news agency reported.
Madinah – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that the culprits behind the killing of the wife of a police officer in Chittagong will not be spared as her government will never tolerate terrorism, Unb news agency reported. “This is…
In another instance of the escalating trend of target killings, A Hindu priest was hacked to death by miscreants in Koratipara village of Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
An explosion in central Istanbul has left several people injured, Turkish media report.The blast, caused by a bomb, targeted a police bus in the district of Vezneciler, the reports say.Several ambulances have been sent to the area.Violence has escalated in…
Dhaka-Police on Monday submitted separate charge sheets against 105 people, including BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, in four cases filed last year with Darussalam Police Station under the Special Powers Act.
Dhaka – Spinners Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa took three wickets each, and David Warner hit a run-a-ball 55, as Australia romped to a six-wicket victory over West Indies on Sunday in the second match of the one-day cricket international…
Manikganj -Two women were killed and three others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike at Tarail and Goaldangi village in Ghior upazila on Monday noon.The deceased were identified as Bilkis Begum, 35, wife of Mosharraf Hossain of Tarail village…
Bagerhat – A court here on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing a young girl in 2012.Condemned convict Azad Khan, 40, son of Dalil Khan of Khalishakhali village in Kachua upazila, was also fined Tk…
Dhaka -Five people, including a woman, were killed in three separate road accidents in Comilla and Rajbari districts on Monday morning.In Comilla, a man and a woman were killed and three others injured as a truck knocked down an auto-rickshaw…
Savar -Four restaurant employees and a schoolboy received injuries as miscreants blasted crude bombs in two separate incidents in Savar upazila on Monday morning.Three of the restaurant employees were identified as Samir, 15, Billal, 16, Saikat 14.In Ashulia, three miscreants…
Benapole – A Bangladeshi national was found dead on the Ichhamati river inside the Indian territory opposite Putkhali border in Benapole on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Guljar Hossain, 55, a resident of the area.Lt Col Arifur Rahman, commanding…
Benapole – Two staff of a filling station were stabbed dead in Charabhita area of Bagharpara upazila of Jessore district on Monday morning.The deceased were identified as Obaidur Rahman, 45, son of Abdur Rahman Molla, and Apu Khan, 40, son…
Benapole – A young man died from electrocution at Basundia village in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore district on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam, 18, son of Rafiqul Islam Mahaldar, a resident of the village.Family sources said…
The death warrant for condemned convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 reached the Dhaka Central Jail on Monday.The Jail Super received a copy of the death warrant in the…
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday hinted at the involvement of Israeli secret service agency Mossad with the recent killings in Bangladesh.He thinks that the serial killings in Bangladesh are part of an international conspiracy, reports the BBC Bangla.“A foreign…