Death for man who stabbed 22 children in China
A knife-wielding attacker who stabbed 22 students at a primary school in China was sentenced to death yesterday, a court said. The Xinyang City Intermediate People’s Court said Min Yongjun, 37, was...
View ArticleCanada joins global effort
Canada’s federal government has kicked in funding for an international effort to boost worker safety in Bangladesh clothing factories, which manufacture products for many Canadian retailers. Canada’s...
View ArticleMourners flood in to say goodbye
Tens of thousands of mourners, some breaking through police barriers, flocked to South Africa’s central government buildings yesterday to say a personal goodbye to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on...
View ArticleMollah buried amid tight security
The executed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was buried amid tight security at his village home in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early yesterday. Escorted by a motorcade of law enforcers, an...
View ArticleIt’s people of Bangladesh to decide future
India has said its relation with Bangladesh is based on principles of mutual respect, benefit, non-interference and respect for each other’s sovereignty. New Delhi came up with the statement following...
View Article10 killed in less than a month
Ten people were killed in Satkhira in last 27 days as Jamaat-Shibir men unleashed violence on political rivals. The southern district has seen waves of violence since November 21 during hartals and...
View ArticleTurkey slams execution
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ criticised the hanging of war criminal Quader Mollah by saying, “It is nothing but a murder.” Meanwhile, Amnesty International has warned that Mollah’s...
View ArticleSocial sites explode, global media abuzz
“Finally, with one Rajakar less, a happy start of the day.” This is one of the comments flooding the social media after Thursday night’s hanging of war criminal Quader Mollah. Facebook user Senjuti...
View ArticleNo blockade, but highway blocked
For those, who thought Friday would be safe for travelling by road since it is weekly holiday and there had been no hartal or blockade announced, it was a nightmare all the way to the destination. The...
View ArticleUN chief also ‘spoke to president’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday, also spoke with President Abdul Hamid expressing his deep concern over widespread violence in Bangladesh. During...
View Article18-party mulls fresh blockade from Tuesday
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance last night decided to enforce another bout of blockade or hartal from Tuesday to press home its demand for a non-party polls-time government. The duration of...
View ArticleAL, BNP leaders sit for 3rd time
Leaders of ruling Awami League and main opposition BNP yesterday exchanged some proposals to end the ongoing political crisis over the 10th parliamentary polls. BNP proposals include postponement of...
View ArticleErshad not ill
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was apparently not allowed to quit the January 5 electoral race as three returning officers yesterday rejected his applications for withdrawal of candidature. Yesterday...
View Article128 elected uncontested
Amid lowest-ever participation of candidates, at least 128 of them are set to be elected unopposed at the January 5 parliamentary election, breaking the record of the farcical polls on February 15,...
View ArticleWitnesses still vulnerable
This Martyred Intellectuals Day is more special as only on Thursday night a war criminal was executed in Bangladesh for the first time. And on November 3, a tribunal sentenced two Al-Badr leaders —...
View ArticleBoy critically hurt in firing
Yet another child fell victim to the persisting political turmoil as violence escalated in the capital yesterday following the execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Shanto Islam, 11, turned up...
View ArticleWe will redeem the old promise
In the cold, sad winter of 1971, the collaborators of the Pakistan occupation army picked up and then picked off scores of our illustrious citizens in the naïve belief that the sorry end of these...
View ArticleJamaat, Shibir strike terror
In a spree of countrywide violence, Jamaat-Shibir men yesterday rampaged through the capital and 23 other districts, protesting Thursday’s execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, a top Jamaat...
View ArticleNation observes new-dimension Martyred Intellectuals’ Day
The nation is observing Martyred Intellectuals Day with a different dimension this year as a war criminal was hanged just only two days ago. Jamaat assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah,...
View ArticleMandela goodbye for ANC members
Nelson Mandela’s coffin is due to set off for his ancestral home in Qunu, where his state funeral will be held on Sunday ending a week of commemorations. After leaving the mortuary, the coffin will be...
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