Weather | Dhaka PM for controlled sand extraction
Asks to formulate a policy soon, clean up 4 Dhaka riverbeds
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to formulate a specific policy to control sand extraction from rivers.
Print EditionA group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Dhaka University (DU) beat up a reporter and also its student in presence of police yesterday for taking photo of a beaten Islami Chhatra Shibir leader.
Print EditionA Dhaka court rejected yesterday a bail petition of businessman Giausuddin Al Mamun in connection with a money laundering case.
Print EditionThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has agreed in principle to include Bangla as one of the languages to be used in top-level domain name, said a parliamentary committee yesterday.
Print EditionTwo powerful explosions shook Nalbari town in Assam yesterday, killing seven people and wounding at least 55, officials said. A security alert has been sounded in the state.
Print EditionPakistani troops yesterday repulsed an attack by militants on one of their posts in a lawless tribal region, killing 11 rebels, officials said.
Print EditionThe Palestinian Authority has refused a recent Israeli proposal to restart peace talks without a complete freeze of settlement activity, a Palestinian official told AFP yesterday.
Print EditionFive Afghan border guards were killed when a roadside bomb blast hit their patrol in the troubled southern province of Kandahar yesterday, police said.
Print EditionBetween 2000 and 2008, Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice, which is responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise, says scientists.
Print EditionNothing would satisfy his greed for money, no matter where he earns it from--whether it is the savings of the poor family of a deceased government officer or the pockets of the alive.
Print EditionFour of the five imprisoned condemned convicts in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case, verbally expressed their willingness to seek presidential clemency, said Dhaka Central Jail officials.
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The city dwellers suffered increased traffic mess on the first day of using automated light signals due to people's lack of awareness, their tendency to break it and the system's failure to work in sync.
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A fire left one person dead and around 5,000 homeless after it tore through a slum at Moghbazar Wireless Gate in the capital early yesterday.
Print EditionThe doubt over BNP council in time continues to get stronger, with top leaders going on record with a claim of ruling party threat and grassroots leaders confiding most units just unprepared.
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Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna appeared yesterday to have beaten the odds with their miracle story of survival, both awaking from landmark separation surgery happy and well, reports AFP from Melbourne.
Print EditionThe High Court directed the government yesterday to place before it by December 9 the details of Rab officials involved in detaining Lutfor Rahman Khalasi and Khairul Haque Khalasi who were killed in a 'shootout' in Madaripur on November 16.
Print EditionMany Bangladeshi nationals were recruited, trained and sent to Afghan war, said an Afghan war veteran who was detained Saturday noon in the city's Motijheel area by detective branch of police.
Print EditionPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent an Eid-ul-Azha greetings card to opposition leader Khaleda Zia.
Print EditionTwo Jubo League workers arrested on Friday night in connection with dacoity and gang rape of a teenage girl at Morakia village of the district were taken on a three-day remand yesterday.
Print EditionHome Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday reassured that the government is alert so that 'no hyena' can attack Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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