Journalism without fear or favour http://www.thedailystar.net/ All Copyright Reserved to Safayet Ullah Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh and Bhutan could work together in tackling the climate change challenges, expanding bilateral trade and enhancing regional cooperation in the greater interest of the two peoples. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=15 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 11:55:50 Bangladesh Time A Dhaka court on Saturday sent to jail two sons of Bangabandhu murder convict Lt Col (retd) Mohiuddin Ahmed and Freedom Party leader Abdur Rahim, who were arrested in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=18 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 20:34:56 Bangladesh Time Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) observed the National Revolution and Solidarity Day on Saturday marking the civil-military "uprising" that led to release of then army chief Ziaur Rahman on this very day in 1975. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=21 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 14:59:03 Bangladesh Time A supporter of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) was kidnapped allegedly by armed cadres of anti-peace treaty United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) from his house at Uluchhari in the town Friday night. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=24 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 15:31:45 Bangladesh Time Bangladesh Chemists and Druggists Association (BCDA) on Saturday enforced a five-hour strike in two wholesale markets of medicines in the capital and Chittagong in protest against seizure of huge medicines from a drug house in the port city. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=26 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 10:04:43 Bangladesh Time Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Matiur Rahman Nizami on Saturday said the majority people will not accept secularism as the state principle embodied in the 1972 constitution which the government wants to revive. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=27 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 20:20:13 Bangladesh Time Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain on Saturday said the government plans to connect Dhaka city with the adjacent districts through introducing commuter railway service to reduce the irritating traffic jam in the capital. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=30 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 11:26:55 Bangladesh Time Muggers sprayed bullets on a sales representative of Banglalink and took away some Tk 2 lakh from him in the capital’s Sutrapur area Saturday afternoon. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=32 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 19:27:43 Bangladesh Time An outlaw was arrested along with a pipe gun and ammunition at Hazidanga village in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila on Friday night. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=33 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 12:18:30 Bangladesh Time Police arrested a top cadre of outlawed Lal Pataka, one of the factions of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), after shooting and injuring him at Laxmipur in Damurhuda upazila, Chuadanga early Saturday. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=34 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 11:10:54 Bangladesh Time Export-import activities through Benapole land port remained suspended from Saturday morning due to by-polls of Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) in West Bengal. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=35 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 12:29:56 Bangladesh Time Saudi Arabia began vaccinating its population against swine flu on Saturday, with priority going to government employees working on the annual hajj pilgrimage that takes place later this month. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=48 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 16:30:38 Bangladesh Time Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a Nato air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=49 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 17:16:03 Bangladesh Time Pakistani soldiers killed at least 11 militants during overnight gunbattles in three Taliban strongholds, intelligence officials said Saturday. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=50 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 13:23:31 Bangladesh Time At least 25 Nato and Afghan soldiers were wounded Friday as they hunted for two US paratroopers missing in remote northwest Afghanistan, Nato said. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=53 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 12:08:22 Bangladesh Time At least 13 people have been killed in a landslide in central Vietnam following storms and flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead, officials said Saturday. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=54 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 13:29:20 Bangladesh Time By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=55 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 11:34:47 Bangladesh Time The UN Security Council is urging Afghanistan's new government to improve security, promote national unity and fight corruption and the narcotics trade. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=63 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 10:18:24 Bangladesh Time All 10 crew on board a Russian military plane that crashed during a training exercise were believed to have died in the accident, a source close to the inquiry said Saturday. http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=65 Sat, 07 Nov 2009, 09:40:12 Bangladesh Time