Dr Kamal demands protection of Langalbandh

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday demanded a national committee to protect Langalbandh, a place on the bank of the
31 March 2015

Rajshahi college students protest exam fee hike

Students of Rajshahi Government College demonstrated on the campus yesterday protesting fee hike in the final examination of honours
31 March 2015

Blogger Oyasiqur's killing protested in Barisal

The activists of Barisal Gonojagoron Mancha yesterday formed a human chain in front of Aswani Kumar Hall of Barisal city demanding
31 March 2015

Somoy TV’s backpack seized

Police this evening seized a portable video transmission backpack of Somoy Television near the Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka.
31 March 2015

Power cut hits Bangabhaban

A grid failure at Haripur in Narayanganj resulted in shut down of a number of power plants in the country leaving many areas in the capital including parliament and Bangabhaban without power for up to an hour.
31 March 2015

Muhith faces MPs’ wrath over development project fund allocation

Finance Minister AMA Muhith today faced wrath from lawmakers in parliament repeatedly for his claim that projects below Tk 25 crore from block allocation are being implemented in various parts of the country.
31 March 2015

Attacks on journos, intellectuals worry UN

United Nations expresses deep concern over attacks on journalists and intellectuals in Bangladesh in the recent days.
31 March 2015

France condemns blogger Oyasiqur killing

France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.
31 March 2015

7,500kg jatka seized at Karwan Bazar

Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.
31 March 2015

Int'l CHTC slams 'alarming trend'

International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) yesterday strongly condemned the “alarming trend” of attacks on indigenous
30 March 2015

‘Burst tyre caused accident, I was at wheel,’ says Salman’s driver

Salman Khan's driver today appeared in court for the first time and said that he - not the actor - was driving the SUV that crushed people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002.
30 March 2015

Schoolboy’s death sparks protest in Bogra

Traffic movement on Dhaka-Rangpur highway remains suspended for one and a half hours as locals put up barricade protesting death of school student in Bogra road crash
30 March 2015

1.21cr new electricity connections by 2015, state minister for power tells parliament

The government will provide new electricity connections to 1.21 crore people within this year by setting up 3.23 lakh kilometres of transmission line and 650 sub-stations, says State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu.
29 March 2015

WB to construct 330 new disaster shelters by 2017

The World Bank will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone-prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017.
28 March 2015

Abducted Comilla boy rescued in Ctg

Police rescued a 13-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Comilla last week for ransom, and arrested a man with whom he was found in
28 March 2015

Militants spreading wings

Amid a slack monitoring in recent months, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a few other militant outfits have become active
27 March 2015

Salahuddin not under arrest: IGP

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife yesterday again sought the prime minister's intervention in tracing him while Inspector General of
27 March 2015

Rejoinder, our reply

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) yesterday issued a rejoinder against a news headlined “Consultant set to become builder” published in The Daily Star Tuesday.
27 March 2015

Why women freedom fighters are missing from Bangladesh's Liberation War films

The overall theoretical framework of covering war in mass media gives evidence that to justify war the political leadership uses fragile
27 March 2015

Blame game lets illegal parking thrive in Dhaka

While illegal parking continues causing traffic chaos in the capital, the two city corporations and Dhaka Metropolitan Police are
26 March 2015