PSA calls strike at DU for Monday
Progressive Students Alliance, a combine of left leaning student organisations, has called daylong strike at Dhaka University for Monday protesting at the killing of…
Archive for February 27th, 2015
Britain to do what it can to track down ‘Jihadi John’
British prime minister David Cameron said on Friday Britain would do everything it could to track down those who committed appalling crimes against British citizens, but declined to comment on the…
Iran test fires new weapon in naval drill
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Friday announced it has test fired a ‘new strategic weapon’ in the final day of a large-scale naval and air defense drill, saying the system …
BNP announces more 72-hour hartal
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance once again announced a 72-hour spell of nationwide general strike from 6:00am Sunday to…
De Villiers carnage drives South Africa to record win
AB de Villiers confirmed his status as the most destructive batsman in cricket with a magnificent unbeaten 162 from just 66 balls to lead South Africa to a record 257-run victory over…
I don’t care, says Kamal Hossain
Pointing at the remark of the prime minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy, that he be tried for ‘treason’, Gana Forum president Kamal Hossain on Friday said he does not care about…
Two Bangladeshi buried alive in Malaysia
Two Bangladeshi construction workers were buried alive in an accident at a factory construction site in Kampung Banir, Temoh in Malaysia, according to report of The Star…
Protesters demand Avijit killers’ immediate arrest
Several hundred protersers, including students, teachers, writers and bloggers went out on demonstrations in at Raju memorial monument of Dhaka University on Friday morning protesting the brutal killing of blogger…
6 killed in Narayanganj, Bogra road accidents
At least six people including a child were killed in two separate accidents in Narayanganj and Bogra on Friday…
Case filed over blogger Avijit killing
A case was filed with Shahbagh police station over the gruesome killing of blogger Avijit Roy on Friday morning…
Youth shot dead by BSF on Kurigram border
A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force on Khalishakotal border in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram early Friday…
Another arson victim dies at DMCH
Yet another arson victim succumbed to his burn injuries after 35 days’ fight for his life at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital early Friday…
Blogger Avijit hacked to death
Avijit Roy, a free-thinking blogger, was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday night…
Fresh changes on cards to favour developers
Further changes in the private land development rules, under process to suit the interests of developers, would turn the capital into concrete slums…
SL rout sloppy Tigers
Anamul Haque made 29 off 43 balls, which is much quicker of an inning than the standard that he set for himself in the recent past. On any other day, he would have been fairly satisfied for the innings that staked his claim for the next match…
Life goes on as blockade, hartal languish
Life was almost as usual despite bomb scare and fear of arson attacks on Thursday, the 52nd day of the opposition alliance’s countrywide blockade and the last day of a five-day hartal which apparently aimed to reinforce an already languishing blockade…
Khaleda’s warrant not served yet
The warrant issued by the Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 on Wednesday for arresting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia has not been served yet either to the deputy commissioner (prosecution) or the police station concerned, by the court, till Thursday evening…
Surveillance at fuel oil establishments intensified
The government has intensified surveillance at all oil depots and filling stations in the wake of firebomb attacks on transports during the ongoing political violence touched off by the nationwide blockade and frequent general strikes called by the BNP-led political alliance…
Dhaka set to sign jute goods export deal with Cairo
The ministry of textile and jute expects to sign a jute goods export agreement with Egypt under government-to-government arrangements, said officials…
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