ATMs empty
The ongoing blockade has prevented banks from loading cash into automated teller machines (ATMs), making cardholders unable to withdraw money from them. Banks and ATM operators said insecurity in...
View ArticlePregnant worker burnt
An expecting mother sustained severe burns in an arson attack on a minibus in the capital’s Demra area yesterday, the third day of the opposition’s 131-hour countrywide blockade. The victim, Shirina, a...
View ArticleOutraged business leaders demand foolproof security
Garment exporters yesterday, in a rare move, brought out an impromptu procession on the capital’s busy roads in a desperate attempt to secure robust security for the apparel industry increasingly being...
View ArticleChildren suffer in silence
If doing psychological damage to children is the goal of the ongoing violent politics, then the politicians seem to have succeeded. Take the case of Dhrubo, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Goran....
View ArticleBlockaders torch AL leader’s house
A youth was killed in a clash as blockaders set fire to the house of Kansat movement leader Golam Rabbani in Chapainawabganj yesterday, while a gunfight left a Chhatra Dal leader dead in Natore. The...
View ArticleJP picks war crimes suspect for JS polls
Jatiya Party has picked a war crime suspect to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls in Jessore-6 (Keshabpur) constituency. The nomination paper of Mawlana Sakhawat Hossain, who has allegedly been...
View ArticleAL criminals responsible
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night called on the Election Commission to suspend the polls schedule. Pointing to the EC in a two-page statement issued yesterday, she said, “Save the country by...
View ArticleJapan for talks to end violence
Japan has urged all political parties to engage in constructive dialogue to find a mutually acceptable solution for holding a free, fair and inclusive parliamentary election in the interest of...
View ArticleTrain rides get risky
Train passengers across the country have been put to great trouble as the railway has become the prime target for arson attacks by opposition activists in the recent blockades. “Though I love...
View ArticleiPad-reliant kids can’t hold pencil!
Toddlers these days are barely out of nappies before they are playing with touch-screen toys and fiddling with iPads. And now, it seems, they are paying the price — because when they arrive at nursery...
View ArticleYusuf accused of Rampal genocide
Another prosecution witness yesterday testified that Razakars, at Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf’s directives, had killed 500-600 Hindus in a single act of genocide at Rampal of Bagerhat during the...
View ArticleRajuk to scrap deal with failed firm
Rajuk is set to cancel this week a contract with a company of a former Awami League lawmaker, as the firm has failed to complete its share of work in the Uttara apartment project. In February, 2012,...
View ArticleUN team meets EC
A three-member delegation of the United Nations (UN) called on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed at the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat yesterday, but declined to brief the...
View ArticleDoor shut yet open for BNP
The door for the opposition to join the January 5 polls apparently closed yesterday with the expiry of time to submit nomination papers before the Election Commission. However, Chief Election...
View ArticleTruckers take to the street
Police yesterday foiled a bid by transport workers to stage demonstrations in front of the BNP chairperson’s residence. They were protesting the attack on drivers and their vehicles during the...
View ArticlePolice kill three militants in Indian Kashmir
Indian government forces killed three suspected rebels in Kashmir overnight following a lengthy gunbattle near the de facto border with Pakistan, police said yesterday. The three were killed after...
View ArticleCharity accuses Sri Lanka over ‘heinous’ aid workers massacre
France’s Action Against Hunger yesterday accused Sri Lankan security forces of killing 17 aid workers in cold blood and then organising a cover-up of what it termed a “heinous” war crime. In a report...
View ArticleDamascus blast kills four as rebels take Christian town
Four people were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing in central Damascus, Syrian state television reported, after rebels seized a historic Christian town north of the capital. State television said...
View ArticleChina puts anti-corruption activists on trial: lawyers
Three Chinese anti-corruption activists who unfurled banners calling for government officials to declare their assets stood trial yesterday for “illegal assembly”, a lawyer said, despite an official...
View ArticleIran criticises mooted US-Afghan security pact
Iran voiced criticism yesterday of a proposed pact that would pave the way for a US troop presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014, saying it would not serve its neighbour’s interests. “Iran does not see...
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