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Aug 21 Grenade Attack
Judicial probe hints at foreign enemy link
Justice declines to share finds with press, but says perpetrators 'identified'
The judicial inquiry commission on the August 21 terror attack yesterday claimed in its report to have identified perpetrators of the carnage, but its head declined to disclose their identities, hinting
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Quality of life indexed miserably low
Bangladesh ranks 164th among 173 countries, 5th in South Asia
Bangladesh ranks 164th among 173 countries and fifth in South Asia in the Quality of Life Index (QLI), according to a report of Social Watch, an international network of citizens from different countries
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New law on cards to protect water bodies from encroachers
Erecting permanent structures within 50m of riverbank to be prohibited
The government is formulating a new law with strict provisions to protect rivers, canals and other water bodies and flood-flow zones from encroachers and remove unauthorised structures built in the prohibited
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Grenade Attack
One more suspect held, remanded for 5 days
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court, Dhaka put Mohammad Waliullah alias Walin on a five-day remand after his arrest from the Fulbaria Railway Colony on suspicion of his involvement with thegrenade
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Outlaw killed in gunbattle with police
An operative of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) died reportedly in a shootout with police in the early hours yesterday in Labonchora under Khulna Police Station.
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Deadlock at DU rolls to 20th day
An indefinite strike enforced by six opposition-backed student organisations at Dhaka University (DU) to press home their seven-point demand, and the DU authorities' apparent reluctance to meet the demands
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Blasts, attacks kill 46 in India
A series of bomb blasts and attacks in India's northeast yesterday killed 46 people in one of the bloodiest days in the troubled region.
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Saarc trade experts meet tomorrow to settle Safta issues
Tariff, rules of origin on agenda
Trade experts from seven South Asian nations meet in Dhaka tomorrow in a bid to narrow the gap in some crucial trade issues like tariff and rules of origin that they need to settle for establishing afree
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Hartal has lost its charm
Mannan Bhuiyan at Jubo Dal rally
BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday said hartal is an obsolete political weapon in the current perspective of Bangladesh as it has lost all appeal to people, and asked all to refrainfrom
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Emergency declared in Palestine
Israelis kill 7 more as Arafat urges world to stop killing
The Palestinian cabinet declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian territories as Israeli troops killed another seven Palestinians in the early hours of yesterday.
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Ctg criminals go into hiding
Death of notorious criminal Jan-e-Alam and his nine aides in Thursday's Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raid has sent other listed criminals of Raozan and Fatikchhari underground to evade arrest or meetthe
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Low over Bay
A low formed over southeast and adjoining southwest Bay yesterday morning and has intensified into a well-marked low.
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UK under-secy arrives tomorrow
Sir Michael Jay, permanent under-secretary and head of the diplomatic service at the foreign office of the United Kingdom, arrives in Dhaka tomorrow on a two-day official visit.
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CPA rebuffs TIB report on graft
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) yesterday rejected the study report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on unbridled corruption and irregularities at the country's premier seaport as 'untrue',
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BSF pushes back five Indians
Border Security Force (BSF) of India pushed five Indian Muslims into Bangladesh through Phulbari border on Friday morning but Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel pushed them back within hours.
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Cop hurt in accidental shot
A constable of Badda Police Station was injured in an accidental fire from his shotgun yesterday.Mohammad Sumon, 25, was going to Satarkul with an on duty police team in a pick-up van at around12:45pm.
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Sylhet JCD leader shot
A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader of Sylhet city unit and a pedestrian sustained bullet injuries as armed young men fired on them yesterday afternoon at the city's Shahjalal Upashahar area.
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Concern over atrocities by religious fanatics
South Asian People's Union against Fundamentalism and Communalism and Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in a joint statement yesterday expressed concern over what they said were growing atrocities
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Nunu Miah alleges BNP MP's hand in 'false case'
Expatriate and Awami League leader Nunu Miah has reiterated that ruling BNP lawmaker M Ilyas Ali falsely implicated him in a case of a blast at Gulshan Centre here that killed an AL leader and hurt 30
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Azam Reza's bail move turned down
The High Court (HC) yesterday rejected bail petition of Azam Reza, who is now in custody for allegedly murdering his wife Joyontee Reza, a teacher of Scholastica School.
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