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Rohingya genocide case to proceed
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Need 1 week to assess situation
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Wasfia 1st Bangladeshi to conquer K2
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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CU sexual assault: Fingers pointed at BCL men
22 July 2022, 03:00 AM
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Noab hikes newspaper price by Tk 2 from Jul 25
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Yet-to-start mega projects: Consider putting them on hold
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘You cannot remain silent’
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Electricity crisis may worsen
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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EC’s dialogue hits a snag as BNP skips it
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Killing of Bangladeshi Female Worker: In landmark verdict, KSA woman given death
A court in Saudi Arabia has handed down death penalty to a Saudi woman and gave different sentences to her husband and son in the case over the murder of Bangladeshi migrant worker Abiron Begum.
15 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Second dose now after 8 weeks
The government has reverted to its original plan of administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine eight weeks after the first jab instead of the gap of four weeks between the two doses.
15 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Weak Tigers whitewashed by Windies
The failings of Bangladesh’s approach to Test cricket came under the scanner once again as the batsmen displayed a lack of the requisite temperament in a humiliating 17-run defeat to West Indies in the second Test, which sealed a 2-0 series whitewash for the visitors.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Municipality Polls: Irregularities rule the day
Municipal polls in many places were marked by widespread allegations of voter fraud, ballot-box stuffing, flouting of laws and violence that left one man dead and at least 26 injured.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Priority Jabs for Healthcare Staff: Faking professions to avail benefit
Taking advantage of loopholes in online registration process, some people are faking their identities and registering themselves for the Covid-19 vaccine as healthcare professionals.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Truck carrying drugs runs over, kills Rab man
A member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) was killed in Mymensingh early yesterday as a truck run over him while he was chasing the vehicle.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Many countries offered vaccines to Bangladesh
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said many countries have expressed their interest in providing novel coronavirus vaccines to Bangladesh, and the country will receive all those for ensuring vaccination up to rural level.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Appointment of CEC, ECs: No law in 49 long years
The country is yet to have a specific law for appointing chief election commissioner and election commissioners though there is a constitutional provision for enacting a law for their appointment.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
PK Halder: Fake NIDs fetched him Tk 450cr loan
PK Halder used forged national identity cards to borrow Tk 450 crore from three financial institutions (NBFIs) and laundered the money, according to Anti-Corruption Commission findings.
13 February 2021, 18:00 PM
A silent love confined to tears
Farida Yasmin has been confined to a bed since November 16, 2007 -- the day she slipped into a coma following a surgery. The doctors said she has no, or little, chance of ever waking from her deep sleep.
13 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Majority rule giving way to majoritarianism
Celebrated Indian writer, Member of Parliament and former diplomat Shashi Tharoor in a conversation with The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam on the occasion of the newspaper’s 30th anniversary yesterday spoke eloquently on media freedom, regional politics and democracy on a virtual platform.
13 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Over 100 aided PK Halder in scams
PK Halder’s close associate Sukumar Mridha told a Dhaka court that over 100 people, mostly bankers, had helped Halder execute financial scams.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: Govt plans tour for diplomats
The government is planning a foreign diplomats’ visit to Bhasan Char. Over 7,000 Rohingyas have already been relocated to the island from Cox’s Bazar and more will be joining them in the coming days.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Asa founder passes away
Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, founder and president of the Association for Social Advancement (ASA), a leading microfinance institution serving millions of borrowers across the country, breathed his last at a city hospital early yesterday.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Sikder Group Managing Director: Arrested on arrival, gets bail in 5 hours
Ron Haque Sikder, managing director of Sikder Group, got ad interim bail yesterday five hours after his arrest upon arrival at Dhaka airport in a case filed over abducting, torturing and opening fire on two Exim Bank officials over a loan permission.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Mass Vaccination Gets Momentum: First month’s target may be revised
The health authorities are now thinking about vaccinating more than 35 lakh people in the first month of the mass inoculation against Covid-19.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Land lost, so is livelihood
Around 65 Mro families of three villages in Bandarban’s Lama upazila are living in fear of eviction from their ancestral homes with no source of livelihood after land grabbers illegally occupied their jhum land last month.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
PK Halder: Explain officials’ failure to stop graft, swindling
The High Court yesterday released the full text of its order in a suo moto rule seeking explanations from Bangladesh Bank why its officials concerned failed to detect and prevent irregularities, corruption, and money laundering and about steps taken against them.
11 February 2021, 18:00 PM
DSA Case Against Journalist Kajol: Charged with ‘defaming ministers, MPs, leaders’
Investigators have charged photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol with circulating indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information about some ministers, lawmakers and top Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.
11 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Papul’s Wife, Daughter: Probe forgery of BB document placed with bail petition
The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to inquire into forgery of a Bangladesh Bank document submitted with the bail petition of convicted lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul’s wife and daughter in a Tk 148.41 crore laundering case.
11 February 2021, 18:00 PM