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School Stormed to Free Russian Hostages
Over 150 killed,646 hurt in bloody battle
Commandos stormed a school yesterday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire.
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Aziz Supermarket blast injures two
Police say they were making bomb
Two people, including an arrest-evading crime suspect, were injured when a bomb they were apparently building went off at an NGO office at Aziz Supermarket in Shahbagh yesterday.
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Bush accepts nomination, pledges a 'safer world'
President Bush pledged "a safer world and a more hopeful America" as he accepted his party's nomination for a second term in office and plunged into the final two months of his re-election campaign.
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Probable Fallout of Aug 21 Grenade Attack
Myanmar shuts transit point, W Bengal puts border on alert
Myanmar has kept its transit point with Bangladesh on Teknaf-Mongdu borderline off-limits to businesspeople and other frontier travellers for 12 days apparently amid political tempers here triggered by
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Foreign aid dips, FDI on the rise
Foreign aid to Bangladesh dipped as much as 50 percent in the last fiscal year although foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 2.39 percent at the same time.
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Interpol preparing list of suspects
'Grenades were hurled both from above and ground'
Interpol experts are likely to list suspects next week of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed 19 people, investigators said yesterday.
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Foreign aid dips, FDI on the rise
Foreign aid to Bangladesh dipped as much as 50 percent in the last fiscal year although foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 2.39 percent at the same time.
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Mugger killed in shootout with cops
A mugger died while another one was critically injured in an encounter with police in Tejgaon early yesterday and gunmen shot an employee of a ward commissioner in Mohammadpur yesterday noon.
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Threat to blow up DU Arts Building
An anonymous letter to the Mass Communication and Journalism Department of Dhaka University yesterday threatened to blow up the Arts Building on the campus in five days.
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Riverbank lease chokes up Shitalakkhya
Influential people, including lawmakers, have been taking the Shitalakkhya bank on a 99-year lease from the government and filling up the river to put up their businesses changing the river's course at
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Indiscriminate sand extraction to repeat Basila-like erosion
Locals at Kamrangirchar and Kholamora fear
Indiscriminate and unplanned extraction of millions of tonnes of sand from the riverbed of the Buriganga near Kamrangirchar and Kholamora is raising fears of a change in the river channel, turbulencein
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Bay Oil Spillage
Probe report today, faulty vessel liable
A two-member committee formed by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to probe the oil spillage from the state-owned oil tanker MT Banglar Sourav and fish epidemic in the bay is likely to submit its report
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Move to streamline pvt universities
Changes in '98 act soon
The Private University Act, 1998 is going to be amended providing for stringent measures to force the private universities to go by rules and streamline their operation.
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JCD leader killing in Sylhet
2 Shibir activists remanded
Two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, arrested in connection with the killing of a JCD leader at Sylhet Government Veterinary College on Tuesday night,were placed on a five-day remand on Thursday.
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Grenade Attack
Nizami hints at anti-Islam plot
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and Industries Minister Motiur Rahman Nizami yesterday said the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally was part of a 'sinister conspiracy' against Islam and the sovereignty
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Rab nabs top Ctg criminal
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a top-notch criminal of the city and recovered a German-made pistol with bullets from his possession on Thursday night.
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JCD barricades highway
The Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) yesterday blockaded the Dhaka-Aricha highway for three hours to protest a lawmaker's assault on JCD president of Jahangirnagar University (JU).
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Onslaught of diarrhoea Pneumonia continues
2 more die, about 4000 attacked
The spread of diarrhoea and pneumonia lingers, as two died and 3,876 others, including 618 children, fell ill with the diseases in the last 24 hours.
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