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Tsunami toll feared at 150,000
Strong quake rocks Sumatra; Floods in Sri Lanka prompt evacuations; Aid tops $1b
A legion of ships and planes has delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors after New Year revellers around the world paused to mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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Child Delivery at Dmch
Meant to be cheap, but not really so
About 80 percent of pregnant women coming to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) expecting childbirth at a fairly low cost find quite the opposite is the reality.
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Ministry 'ignorance' blocks Tk 43 crore farm funds
'Ignorance' on the part of finance ministry bureaucrats has resulted in their failure to release Tk 43 crore to the agriculture ministry that would be used to provide farmers with support and training
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PM asks JCD to rid politics of vices
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday directed the leaders and activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to work towards cleansing student politics of vices and removing chaos from campuses.
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3 die in custody, 'crossfire'
Two persons including a top cadre of an outlawed outfit died in 'crossfire' with police in Dhaka and Chuadanga yesterday while one died in the custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the capital.
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Major reshuffle in admin
The government yesterday brought important changes to the top level of civil administration by transferring seven officials to their equivalent post of acting secretary.
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Giant of the deep falls prey to nets
Tourists last month found a whale's carcass on Kotka beach in the eastern Sundarbans with telltale signs indicating the gentle sea giant had fallen prey to fishing nets.
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Tsunami Relief
2 navy ships off to Lanka, Maldives
Two ships of the Bangladesh navy, accompanied by a C-130 cargo plane and an airforce helicopter, left for Sri Lanka and the Maldives yesterday to take part in post-tsunami rescue operations and relief
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Mahbubul Alam new president of Noab
The election of the office--bearers and members of the executive committee of Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh (Noab) was held at The Daily Star office on December 27, a Noab press release said
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Dhaka-Kolkata Passenger Rail Service
Dhaka to consider Delhi's proposal
Dhaka is actively considering recent proposal from India to implement a long dormant agreement on passenger rail service between Dhaka and Kolkata.
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Minor tremor jolts Ctg
A minor tremor jolted Chittagong yesterday, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, a week after an earthquake-triggered Tsunami devastated several south and southeast Asian countries.
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Seismic Survey in Block 10
French firm fires 1,700 staff without notice
A French contractor conducting seismic survey in Noakhali region under block 10 for British oil company Cairn has fired 1,700 local staff out of the blue, reports our correspondent in Noakhali.
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Oil tankers derail in Comilla
Train service on Dhaka-Chittagong route remained suspended for about seven hours after four empty oil tankers derailed at the rail gate near Comilla station yesterday afternoon.
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Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim dies in Madina
A Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim died in Madina on Tuesday, according to an official message received in Dhaka yesterday.
The pilgrim, Abbas Ali, 80, hailed from Pakundia in Kishoreganj.
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Tanore Rape
Missing docs found, case set in pace
At long last, legal proceedings against the persons responsible for the Tanore gang-rape 17 years ago started yesterday as the missing documents were found at a judge's court in Rajshahi.
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Looting in 2000
Charge sheet against Abul Hasnat, 19 AL men
Police have pressed charges against 20 leaders of district Awami League and its front organisations in a case filed in 2002 for looting and setting fire to a house in 2000.
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Bloodshed greets Iraq in 2005
Allawi vows decisive year
Iraq's insurgency claimed the lives of seven Iraqis and one US marine at the start of 2005, with elections less than a month away and no end in sight to the violence.
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Ahsanullah murder
Witness says 'Kana' Hafiz fleeing with arms
A prosecution witness in the Ahsanullah Master murder case yesterday told the court that he saw 'Kana' Hafiz and 11 others with arms rushing to the house of Mohammad Ali, one of the 30 accused.
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Joy still thinks over joining active politics
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina's son Sajib Wajed Joy has said he is yet to decide whether he will join the active politics.
"I have not yet decided, but I am still thinking about the matter.
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Chief's Killing by Rab
PBCP kills 1 for leaking information
The outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML) has slaughtered its cadre Imran alias Hasan to avenge the killing of party central leader Mofakkhar Chowdhury.
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