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UN calls donors' meet for relief coordination
Wasa struggles to drain out Dhaka's stinking stagnant water, flood recedes by a trickle
The severity of devastation by floods that blighted about 30 million people has stretched the government's response systems, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Malaria strikes capital
Labs find up to 50pc tests positive
Malaria has broken out in the capital and a large number of people are already infected with 'deadly malaria parasites', experts said.
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News analysis
Fair polls possible if government wishes
The Gazipur by-polls have once again proved that if the government is sincere to assist the Election Commission (EC) and the ruling party does not interfere in voting, it is possible to mirror people's
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Banks' operating profit not so real
Provisioning, tax erode as much as 76pc of it
Tax and provisioning of classified loans eat up as much as 76 percent of the operating profits of private commercial banks (PCBs).
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300 killed in Paraguay shopping centre fire
Nearly 300 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a deadly fire raced through a shopping center on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital, police said early yesterday.
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PM reiterates call for int'l help
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the international community to come forward responding to her call for assistance for the flood affected people of Bangladesh.
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Turkish hostage in Iraq executed
Talks resume for release of Indians; Baghdad blames Zarqawi for church bombings
Iraq blamed al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi yesterday for a wave of church bombings that killed at least 11 people, saying militants wanted to spark religious conflict and drive Christians out of the
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Unicef launches appeal for flood victims
Unicef yesterday launched a global appeal for donations to raise US $ 13. 4 million in emergency aid to save lives of children and women in the flood-hit districts of Bangladesh, said a press release.
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Balu Murder Case
Prime suspect held in Dhaka
Police arrested a PBCP cadre and the prime suspect in Janmabhumi editor Humayun Kabir Balu murder case from a tea stall in Motijheel in the capital Saturday midnight.
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Imam rapes 5-yr-old girl
A religious teacher raped a five-year-old girl in a mosque in Kushtia while another girl of the same age was violated in Jhenidah in separate incidents on Sunday.
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Khaleda seeks Dutch help in flood control
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed the hope that the Dutch government would help Bangladesh develop a lasting flood control system and take part in post-flood rehabilitation.
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Floodwaters in city to last longer
Floodwaters are unlikely to subside quickly from the capital as the rivers Shitalakhya, Balu and Meghna might flow above the danger level for another week, experts said.
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Santosh Gupta in coma
Noted journalist and columnist Santosh Gupta is fighting for life at the intensive care unit (ICU) at BIRDEM hospital. He is now in coma.
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Targeted US firms open under heavy security
Financial institutions identified as targets of a terrorist plot in three cities opened for business yesterday under stepped-up security and defiant words from people who said they won't be cowed by the
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Nasa satellite may find ice on hottest planet
A satellite that heads off to Mercury, the hottest planet in the solar system, yesterday has Nasa scientists buzzing because it is expected to journey there and find, of all things, ice.
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Rab and police nab 5 criminals, seize arms
Police and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in separate drives arrested two listed criminals and three alleged operatives of dreaded criminal Kala Jahangir in the last two days.
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Bcl Leader Murder
Dawn-to-dusk hartal passes off peacefully
The 12-hour dawn-to-dusk hartal in Gopalganj to protest the killing of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Rakib Hossain Tushar passed off peacefully yesterday.
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Ex-UP member killed
A former union parishad (UP) member was chopped to death and 10 others were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Moheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar district yesterday.
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Mugger killed in shootout
An alleged mugger was killed in a shootout with police in Rajakhali under Bakaliya thana in the city yesterday morning.
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Commissioner mugged
Muggers yesterday stabbed a ward commissioner of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and snatched away his gold chain and cell phone set in Dhanmondi.
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US in search of new intelligence czar
US President George Bush yesterday endorsed creation of a national intelligence czar and counterterrorism center-- his first steps in revamping the nation's intelligence-gathering system to help prevent
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Woman held for filing false kidnap case
Police yesterday arrested a woman claiming she had filed a 'false' abduction case against a family after hiding her daughter at a relative's house at Shewrapara in the capital.
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20 hurt in Rangamati clash
At least 20 people were injured in clashes between tribal people and settlers in and around Rangamati University College yesterday.
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CD vendor gunned down in city
Unknown assailants gunned down a young man and injured a college student in the city's Jigatola area last night, witnesses and police said.
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