Bomb explodes near Israel patrol in Golan; no casualties
The Israeli army yesterday said that a blast the previous evening on the Golan Heights was from a bomb detonated as patrolling troops passed by, but that there were no casualties. An investigation of...
View ArticleJapan’s secrecy bill condemned by Nobel academics
Japan’s controversial new state secrets law was condemned Saturday as “the largest ever threat to democracy in postwar Japan” by a group of academics, including two Nobel prize winners, reports said....
View ArticleAfghan security pact will be signed
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday said he had received assurances during a visit to Kabul that a long-delayed deal allowing US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 would be signed “in a...
View ArticleDylan’s iconic guitar sells for $1m
Like Elvis’ no-hips-allowed appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ or the Beatles’ arrival in America, or Woodstock, it is considered one of the milestone moments in rock history: Bob Dylan going...
View ArticleGene therapy’s big wins against blood cancers
In one of the biggest advances against leukaemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into...
View ArticleBNP sticks to polls-time govt without Hasina
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night categorically told UN Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernández-Taranco that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must resign and a non-partisan person has to head the...
View ArticleCall off blockade during nat’l mourning
Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the opposition leader to withdraw the blockade and hartal programmes showing respect to the great South African antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela as a...
View Article2 ‘JCD men’ held over Shahbagh bus torching
Detectives yesterday arrested two people for their alleged involvement in torching a bus in the capital’s Shahbagh 10 days ago, that left three passengers dead and 16 injured. After primary...
View ArticleCall for talks by parties lacks heart
The call for dialogue by the feuding parties to resolve the ongoing c lacks heart, Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman, chief adviser to the 1996 caretaker government, said yesterday. “We as a people have...
View Article48 challenge EC decisions
A total of 48 appeals were filed with the Election Commission yesterday against the cancellation of their candidacies for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for January 5. Aspirants whose...
View ArticleScrap polls fixture
Shushashoner Jannoy Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday urged the Election Commission to cancel the schedule of the polls to stop it from being a one-party election. “Cancel the schedule of a one-party...
View ArticleConvicts wait for copies of verdict
Most of the convicts in BDR carnage case could not file regular appeal with the High Court against their convictions and sentences, since they did not get certified copies of the trial court verdict. A...
View ArticleSix JP ministers, one adviser ‘to quit today’
The six Jatiya Party ministers of the polls-time government and an adviser to the prime minister will submit their resignation letters to the premier today, party sources have claimed. They claimed...
View ArticleSA prepares for historic funeral
South Africa yesterday prepared a sweeping, emotional farewell to Nelson Mandela — a funeral that will draw an unprecedented gathering of world leaders and luminaries, reflecting the anti-apartheid...
View ArticleWTO clinches ‘historic’ deal to smooth trade
The World Trade Organisation’s 159 member countries yesterday agreed to a global trade deal for the first time in the group’s 18-year history, a move that would bring duty-free access for the country’s...
View ArticleHartal added to blockade
With a 72-hour nationwide blockade well in force, the BNP and its associate organisations have called hartal in 11 districts, including Dhaka, for today and in 22 districts for tomorrow. Justifying the...
View ArticleAnother bus helper burnt in sleep
Another bus helper suffered burns as blockaders set fire to the vehicle with him sleeping inside in the early hours yesterday at Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj. By the time local people doused the...
View ArticleTrucks stuck on highways
As thousands of goods-laden vehicles got stranded for several hours on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to a fresh blockade yesterday, police were deployed to escort them through the violence-prone...
View ArticleUN asks if polls can be deferred
Oscar Fernández Taranco, UN assistant secretary general for political affairs, yesterday sought to know from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina if there was any scope for deferring the polls date, to which...
View ArticleBus torched, cocktails blasted in Jatrabari
Blockaders set fire to a bus and blasted crude bombs in Jatrabari of the capital this morning. No injury was reported from the scene. The arson and explosion were reported on the second day of BNP-led...
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