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BCL, cops attack RU students
More than 100 hurt as students protest fee hike, demand cancellation of evening shift; university closed for indefinite periodAround 100 students of Rajshahi University and eight journalists were wounded yesterday, as armed Chhatra League men backed by police attacked the students protesting fee hikes and evening shift master's courses. The authorities last night closed the university for an indefinite period and ordered...
Jamalpur Jubo Dal leader dies
A union-level leader of Jubo Dal, youth wing of BNP,...
Grassroots ignore party directives
Disregarding Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's directive on having one...
Nation headed in wrong direction
Sixty-nine percent of the respondents to a recent public opinion...
7 docs lose jobs for not staying in rural areas
Seven doctors were suspended from service yesterday...
Lakhs of devotees sought world peace, forgiveness and blessings for
mankind and the Muslim Ummah at Akheri Munajat of the second phase of
Biswa Ijtema yesterday.
Noted Islamic scholar Maulana Jubayerul Hassan from Delhi led the
13-minute munajat of the Ijtema starting from 9:58am.
Meanwhile, the Ijtema authorities declared the schedule for next Biswa
Ijtema after the concluding prayers.
According to the schedule, the...
The new government looks to complete by June the tender process and
award contracts for three key components of the Padma bridge project --
construction of the bridge, river training and appointment of
supervisory consultant.
“We hope the contracts for the three components will be awarded by
June,” Padma Bridge Project Director Shafiqul Islam told The Daily Star
yesterday.
The government move comes as its contract with the project's consultant,
Maunsell Ltd AECOM, approaches expiry on June 24.
Because of a three-year...
Dhirendranath Dutta was unambiguous in his expression of views. And they
were views certainly not appreciated by the West Pakistan-based
political leadership of the country. They waited to pounce on him,...
Opposition
protesters blocked voting at thousands of polling stations in Thailand
yesterday, triggering angry scenes in the capital over an election that
plunged the strife-racked kingdom into political limbo.
Despite weeks of mass street demonstrations aimed at forcing her from
office, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was widely expected to extend
her billionaire family's decade-long winning streak...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday indicted Syed Mohammad
Qaisar, a former state minister of the Ershad regime, on 16 charges of
crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Habiganj and
Brahmanbaria...
The
High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar
and Rafiqul Islam Mia for three months in a case filed on charge of
blasting bombs and holding unlawful assembly.
The case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on May 6 last year
following the incident of blasting bombs during the rally of
Hefajat-e-Islam...
Business
Garment exports to non-traditional markets advanced more than four times
over the last six years following the government's incentive package in
2008 to offset the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector.
The financial crisis started off in the US and then spread to the
European Union—both of which happen to be the chief destinations of the
country's garment exports.
In a bid to offset any significant drop in garment export figures, the
government in 2009 introduced a financial package to encourage garment
manufacturers to explore new...
Sports
Almost every aspect of Bangladesh's training yesterday, at the Zahur
Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, represented the hosts' desperate
effort for a turnaround in the series.
From Mushfiqur Rahim grasping on to the induced-edges during catching
practice and the likes of Imrul Kayes and Shamsur Rahman getting to bat
ahead of Marshall Ayub at the nets, to breaking into a team huddle after
every session, the hosts' did everything they...
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