MAIN NEWS
BNP yet to get formal permission
The police on Saturday barred the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from setting up stages and PA systems in front of the party office at Naya Paltan saying that the BNP-led alliance was yet to get permission to hold a rally at the place on Monday. Full story
JU teachers confine VC
A large number of Jahangirnagar University teachers teamed up as Shikkhak Samaj on Saturday confined the vice-chancellor, Shariff Enamul Kabir, to his residence on the campus in protest at illegal appointment of additional teachers. Full story
Asia Cup starts today
The four Asian cricketing giants begin their rivalry for continental glory from today with Pakistan facing hosts Bangladesh in the opening match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Full story
No cell opened in SC in 11 years
No initiative has yet been taken to set up a cell in the Supreme Court to monitor the implementation of the verdicts and orders issued by the court on public interest litigations even 11 years after the delivery of a High Court verdict... Full story
Dhaka’s street children risk being stunted, wasted
The difficulties families living on the streets face to buy appropriate food for their children could create a generation suffering from mental and physical development, health experts feared. Full story
METRO
New city graveyard in progress
Work to build a new graveyard at Rayerbazar in the capital is in progress, said Dhaka North City Corporation officials that are tasked with the project. ‘The graveyard will contain 80,500 graves with 8-feet by 4-feet size each,’ said... Full story
BUSINESS
No FTA with Malaysia if manpower issue set aside
The finance ministry has advised the commerce ministry not to sign a free trade agreement with Malaysia if the issue of manpower export from Bangladesh is set aside. ‘Bangladesh should not sign an FTA with Malaysia at the... Full story
INTERNATIONAL
Syria’s Assad rebuffs Annan, troops attack Idlib
The president, Bashar al-Assad, told UN/Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday that no political solution was possible in Syria while ‘terrorist’ groups were destabilising the country.‘Syria is ready to make a success of any honest effort to... Full story
SPORTS
Testing time for Tigers
Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan believes that the forthcoming Asia Cup will be good a testing place for the home team to see where they stand among the other Asian giants who are dominating the world cricket. Full story
EDITORIAL
Incumbents’ belligerence vis-à-vis opposition programme
THE Awami League-led government, through its belligerent words and deeds in respect of the March 12 ‘March towards Dhaka’ programme of the opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, seems to be paving the path for confrontation and thus stoking... Full story
OP-ED
Divorcing populism from public management
ALMOST always an outcast, a reject, a loser, an add-on and a troublesome guest, populism never found a respectable place in the high table of public sector management. This is hardly jolting, given that management... Full story
TIMEOUT
Asha mesmerises Dhaka audience
It was like the show of the century where a legend delivered a galore of her vast experience of over six decades in music. The prima-donna did not just sing and dance onstage, but moved the thousands of music lovers, who... Full story
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