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Khadiza still ‘critical’

Khadiza still ‘critical’
Students, right activists and political leaders as well as common people yesterday protested and condemned Monday’s gruesome attack on Sylhet college girl Khadiza Akhter Nargis by a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader. They also demanded capital punishment for the attacker, Badrul Alam, a BCL leader of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who confessed to hacking Khadiza with the intention to kill her. Women and children affairs minister, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman, BNP secretary general and several incumbent and former MPs visited Khadiza at Square Hospital in the capital where she was undergoing treatment amid life support yesterday. In protest against the attack on Khadiza, students of the…

Irregularity in  won’t be tolerated: PM

Irregularity in won’t be tolerated: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned that no irregularity in the newly introduced 'Food Friendly Programme’, meant for poor people, will be tolerated, UNB reports. “Stern action will be taken against dealers, including revoking their dealership if there’s any irregularity.…
Govt to nationalise colleges, schools at upazila level: Nahid

Govt to nationalise colleges, schools at upazila level: Nahid

The government has a plan to nationalise one college and a secondary school in every upazila of the country where such intuitions do not exist, reports BSS. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said this in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday while replying to a question treasury bench member Begum Laila…
Restraint, dialogue can ease Indo-Pak tensions

Restraint, dialogue can ease Indo-Pak tensions

Once more, the South Asian region is faced with the possibility of a full-blown conflict with both India and Pakistan rattling sabres.  The tension between the two nuclear-armed neighbours increased following what we know to be a militant attack at an Indian army base at Uri, for which, India blames…
Social media and its benefits

Social media and its benefits

Lightning killed 30 persons all over Bangladesh on March 29-30 this year; this has not been unexpected for this time of the year. When lighting strikes, people know very little about what to do. At that moment Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) initiated an awareness campaign on Facebook on how…
All slums in city to come under water supply by ’17: Mosharraf

All slums in city to come under water supply by ’17: Mosharraf

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday called upon all concerned to work in a coordinated way to implement the government’s target of bringing all slums in the city under the legitimate water supply coverage, reports BSS. “The present government has fixed a target…
    Bangladesh gets rights on dot bangla domain

    Bangladesh gets rights on dot bangla domain

    Bangladesh has finally got the rights on dot bangle (.bangla) domain, the Internationalized Domain Name (IDM), to express its identity internationally. "Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today made the announcement of allocating the .bangla domain in favour of Bangladesh,"…
    Russia sends missile system 
to Syria port

    Russia sends missile system to Syria port

    AFP, ALEPPO: Russia said Tuesday it has sent an advanced missile system to the Syrian port of Tartus, as tensions escalate between Moscow and Washington over the five-year conflict. The announcement came after Washington said it was suspending talks with Moscow aimed at reviving a ceasefire deal over…
    Fahmida sings Syed Haq’s 
last song

    Fahmida sings Syed Haq’s last song

    Celebrated singer Fahmida Nabi, who has the credit to sing the final song written by Natyacharya Selim Al Deen, has now got the opportunity to lend her vocal to the last song written by recently-demised multifaceted litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq. DhakaLive has news that based on his realisation about…
    Tamim ready to fire English bowlers

    Tamim ready to fire English bowlers

    If any batsman from Bangladesh could give England bowlers a nightmare, it is none other than Tamim Iqbal who indeed shot into the fame by his overwhelming performance against this opponent in 2010. Bangladesh played back to back home and away series in that year what unarguably was the best year for…

    50 hurt as police swoop on Bhabadah protesters

    At least 50 demonstrators, including Bhabadah Movement Committee adviser Iqbal Kabir Jahid, were injured at Swadhinata Chattar in Nawapara industrial town yesterday as police swooped on the agitators demanding immediate solution to Bhabadah water stagnation problem. Witnesses said protesters of Bhabadah…
    Bangladesh firm, Canada, US reluctant

    Bangladesh firm, Canada, US reluctant

    Though most unlikely, Dhaka will continue making efforts to bring back Noor Chowdhury, a self-confessed killer of Bangabandhu who resides in Canada, to execute the verdict of the court, senior foreign ministry officials told The Independent yesterday. The same efforts will be on in case of another convicted…
    Mike Pence to America: Trump never said those things he said

    Mike Pence to America: Trump never said those things he said

    Pence repeatedly tried to skirt around statements Trump actually said — or simply shook his head and ignored the question.  “I’m happy to defend [Trump],” Pence said. But Pence rarely actually defended Trump. Instead, he dodged or outright denied his running mate’s…
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