• Saqlain spins North into final
  • No payment, no NOC-players tell BPL franchisees
  • Manifestation of incumbents’ lack of respect for teachers
  • Alarming, indeed
  • Strengthening rural schools
  • Social movement against crime
  • Accelerating the momentum created by Malala and Nirbhaya
  • New Afghan war over US troop levels
  • Mastercraftspersons Award 2013 announced
  • Violence on women protested through performances
  • Rebels capture largest airbase in north Syria
  • No activity yet at Sylhet Instt of Health Tech
  • Palestinian activists set up ‘outpost’ near Jerusalem
  • Air monitoring station opened
  • BB to relax rules to attract foreign investment
  • Rice prices go up as govt hikes fuel price
  • Minus-two plotters still active: PM
  • ACC spots 3,000 more errant buildings
  • New voters to go to next polls without NID cards
  • Fuel, power price hike irrational, anti-people: oil-gas body
  • SALF deplores state inaction to rapes, killing of women
  • Govt decides to increase non-govt teachers’ house rent to Tk 500

North Zone spinner Saqlain Sajib (C) is congratulated by his team-mates after he grabbed one of his four wickets against South Zone on the final day of their Bangladesh Cricket League match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. — New Age photo

North Zone spinner Saqlain Sajib (C) is congratulated by his team-mates after he grabbed one of his four wickets against South Zone on the final day of their Bangladesh Cricket League match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. — New Age photo

Indian protesters shout slogans during a protest against a gang rape in New Delhi on January 6. — AFP photo

Indian protesters shout slogans during a protest against a gang rape in New Delhi on January 6. — AFP photo

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, addresses the nation on Friday. — PID photo

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, addresses the nation on Friday. — PID photo

The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports exchanges views at Mukti Bhaban at Purana Paltan in Dhaka on the anti-people government move of increasing fuel oil prices. — New Age photo

The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports exchanges views at Mukti Bhaban at Purana Paltan in Dhaka on the anti-people government move of increasing fuel oil prices. — New Age photo

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, holds a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 10. — AFP photo

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, holds a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 10. — AFP photo

A file photo shows sacks of rice at a market in Dhaka. The prices of coarse and fine varieties of rice increased on the both wholesale and retail markets in the city over the week. — New Age photo

A file photo shows sacks of rice at a market in Dhaka. The prices of coarse and fine varieties of rice increased on the both wholesale and retail markets in the city over the week. — New Age photo

An installation on display at the exhibition. — Snigdha Zaman

An installation on display at the exhibition. — Snigdha Zaman

Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attend a rally outside Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Thursday. Chavez remained on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while supporters rally in his honour on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC nation. — Reuters photo

Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attend a rally outside Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Thursday. Chavez remained on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while supporters rally in his honour on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC nation. — Reuters photo

A photo shows visitors crowding the premises of the Dhaka International Trade Fair-2013 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital on Friday. — New Age photo

A photo shows visitors crowding the premises of the Dhaka International Trade Fair-2013 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital on Friday. — New Age photo

A scene from Argo.

A scene from Argo.

Defending Australia Open tennis champions Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) and Novak Djokovic of Serbia (R) arrive with their trophies by boat for the official draw of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday. — AFP photo

Defending Australia Open tennis champions Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) and Novak Djokovic of Serbia (R) arrive with their trophies by boat for the official draw of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday. — AFP photo

Devotees say jumma prayers on a makeshift bridge on the River Turag at Tongi on the first day of the three-day Bishwa Ijtema on the outskirts of the capital on Friday. — Sanaul Haque

Devotees say jumma prayers on a makeshift bridge on the River Turag at Tongi on the first day of the three-day Bishwa Ijtema on the outskirts of the capital on Friday. — Sanaul Haque

Women hold banners urging national talks to end the political paralysis in the south of Mali, in the capital Bamako January on Thursday. Mali’s army clashed with Islamist rebels along the front line in northern Mali on Thursday and said its forces had seized an important town, but the insurgents denied the claim. — Reuters photo

Women hold banners urging national talks to end the political paralysis in the south of Mali, in the capital Bamako January on Thursday. Mali’s army clashed with Islamist rebels along the front line in northern Mali on Thursday and said its forces had seized an important town, but the insurgents denied the claim. — Reuters photo

Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland holds her trophy after defeating Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in the women’s finals of the Sydney International tennis tournament, in Sydney on Friday. — AFP photo

Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland holds her trophy after defeating Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in the women’s finals of the Sydney International tennis tournament, in Sydney on Friday. — AFP photo



MAIN NEWS

Minus-two plotters still active: PM


The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday, warned the people that the quarters who had wanted to execute the ‘minus-two formula’ advanced by the last military-backed caretaker government, were still active and often trying to resurface. ‘I urge the countrymen to stay alert so that no quarters can snatch their constitutional rights… People will vote anyone they want... Full story

ACC spots 3,000 more errant buildings


A special probe team of the Anti-Corruption Commission spotted 3,000 more buildings in the city approved by certain Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha officials in exchange of bribe, an ACC official said. Full story

New voters to go to next polls without NID cards


Around 70 lakh newly enlisted voters in the latest voters’ roll update will not get their national identification cards before the next parliamentary elections to be held on January 24, 2014 at the latest. Full story

Govt decides to increase non-govt teachers’ house rent to Tk 500


The government has decided to increase the house rent of non-government teachers and employees of secondary schools and madrassahs and colleges. The teachers will, according to the decision, get Tk 500 a... Full story

NATIONAL

Fuel, power price hike irrational, anti-people: oil-gas body


Leaders of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Friday said that the government’s increasing power and fuel oil prices was irrational and against people. They said that the government was... Full story

METRO

No activity yet at Sylhet Instt of Health Tech


The compound of the Sylhet Institute of Health Technology, which does not have any visible activities yet after more than a year has passed since its inauguration, has become a haven for criminals and... Full story

BUSINESS

BB to relax rules to attract foreign investment


Bangladesh Bank is going to ease the foreign exchange regulation in a bid to attract foreign investment more to the country, said central bank officials. A BB official told New Age on Thursday that the article of 18 (A) and (B) under... Full story

INTERNATIONAL

Rebels capture largest airbase in north Syria


Rebel fighters on Friday overran Taftanaz airbase, the largest in northern Syria, after several days of fierce combat but immediately came under fire from regime warplanes, a watchdog said. Full story

SPORTS

Saqlain spins North into final


BCB North Zone moved into the Bangladesh Cricket League final with a crushing 170-run win over Prime Bank South Zone in their last league match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. They were joined by Walton Central Zone in the final after playing a drab draw against Islami Bank East Zone in Bogra where the two teams were... Full story

EDITORIAL

Manifestation of incumbents’ lack of respect for teachers


THE Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami... Full story

OP-ED

Accelerating the momentum created by Malala and Nirbhaya


THE resistance against discrimination and violence against women in the Indian subcontinent has finally gained momentum some 150 years after Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar tried to uplift of the status of women by banning the practice of burning widows alive... Full story

TIMEOUT

Mastercraftspersons Award 2013 announced


Four crafts persons from across the country, who have mastered their respective choice of craft, awarded with the Mastercraftspersons Award 2013 at a ceremony at the Bangla Academy in the capital on Friday. Subsequently a three-day crafts fair was... Full story

LETTERS

Strengthening rural schools


A FRONT-page report on December 28 in a local English-language daily explored the causes of inefficiency of rural schools in Bangladesh. Well over seventy percent of our school and college students constitute... Full story

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