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Hasina raps intelligence
It is not their duty to make or break political parties, she says
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically blasted an intelligence agency saying that a civilized and democratic society cannot let an intelligence agency control everything while
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Wheel trouble forces Biman hovering for 30 minutes
GMG flight also makes emergency landing
A Bangladesh Biman flight from Dubai with 230 passengers and crew on board was forced to hover in the sky for about half an hour due to wheel trouble before landing in Chittagong yesterday afternoon.
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Inflation dips on stable rice
The inflation rate on point-to-point basis decreased by 0.23 percentage point and stood at 8.05 percent in May of the last fiscal year mainly due to stable prices of rice in the local market.
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Dhaka-Kolkata Service
First train arrives on trial run
A passenger train from India reached Dhaka yesterday afternoon on its trial run resuming the long-awaited train service between the two neighbouring countries that remained stopped for 42 years.
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Singer Sabina fighting for life
Sabina Yasmin, one of the most melodious voices of all times in the Indian subcontinent, is struggling for life at the city's Labaid Specialised Hospital.
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VIP Prisoners
Govt looking for houses to set up sub-jails
The government has decided to set up sub-jails outside the prisons for the VIP prisoners as several of them fell ill recently due to the stark living conditions in jails.
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BNP leaders divided over council
The BNP leaders are now divided over the holding of the party council amid the state of emergency as a group wants a 'transparent' council with the presence of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia whilethe
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Ex-BNP MP Munshi's wife sent to jail
Detained ex-BNP lawmaker Manjurul Ahsan Munshi's wife, Mazeda Ahsan Munshi, was sent to jail yesterday in a graft case against Munshi's family when she surrendered to a special court trying high-profile
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Attack on UK Envoy
Cases might be shifted to special tribunal
The government is taking initiatives to hold the trials of cases filed in connection with the grenade attack on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in a special tribunal for their quick disposal.
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Attack on UNO Office
Ministerial body visits Nachole
A high-powered four-member ministerial committee last night went to Chapainawabganj from Dhaka to investigate the July 4 Nachole violence that left 10 persons including four government officials injured
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Housewife killed after rape
A housewife was killed allegedly after being raped by unidentified criminals in her residence at Uttara in the capital yesterday morning.
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ACC chief holds meetings with CJ, law secretary
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman yesterday had separate meetings with the chief justice, the attorney general and the law secretary, and reportedly discussed the constitution of separatebenches
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ACC to quiz ex-minister Salahuddin at jail gate
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate detained former state minister for communications Salahuddin Ahmed at Dhaka Central Jail in connection with a case filed for taking Tk 1 crore inbribe
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Wanted men 'control Red Mosque'
Pakistan's religious affairs minister has said wanted Islamic militants are in control of a besieged mosque in the capital, Islamabad.
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Pak mosque raid looms amid al-Qaeda links
Militants kill commando
Pakistani troops yesterday moved closer to a full-scale raid on Islamabad's Red Mosque, amid fears that al-Qaeda insurgents holed up inside the fortified compound may start killing women and children.
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String of attacks kill 26 in Baghdad
A flurry of bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people yesterday, and officials said the death toll from a giant suicide truck blast that devastated the market of a Shia town north of the capital a day earlier
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Wildfires force hundreds to flee
An 8,000-acre wildfire forced hundreds of people in the town of Winnemucca to leave their homes, one of more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern Nevada.
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