• PM should act to fend off conspiracies, if any
  • Time to streamline Rajuk
  • Universal education key to industrialisation
  • The age of the siege: Nazi military tactics revisited
  • Visions of hell
  • Chhayanaut remembers Sohrab Hossain
  • Sayeed Ahmed recalled staging Kalbela
  • Income tax collection falls short of NBR target in H1
  • DSE worst performing market in 2012
  • Angry Pak Shias refuse to bury dead
  • US to speed up Afghan troop transition: Obama
  • Crisis: thirty and unemployed
  • Color of life!
  • Dutch duo sign finally
  • BCB hopeful Pakistanis will play in BPL
  • Health Tech students stage demo
  • Biochemistry, molecular biology confce begins
  • Private power producers bag Tk 20,000cr subsidy in 6yrs
  • 10 Bangladesh workers killed in Bahrain fire
  • EC plans RPO changes assuming polls after JS dissolution
  • Enclave swap in limbo
  • 2.2pc Bangladeshis suffering from glaucoma
  • Upazila chairmen, VCs announce 2-day agitation

Khairul Anam Shakil presents a song at a programme commemorating Sohrab Hasan at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Friday. — Snigdha Zaman.

Khairul Anam Shakil presents a song at a programme commemorating Sohrab Hasan at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Friday. — Snigdha Zaman.

Pakistani Shiite Muslims demonstrate as they sit between the coffins of bombing victims in Quetta on Saturday. — AFP photo

Pakistani Shiite Muslims demonstrate as they sit between the coffins of bombing victims in Quetta on Saturday. — AFP photo

New Bangladesh football team coach Lodewijk de Kruif (L) and his assistant Rene Koster of the Netherlands pose with the national team jersey after signing a contract with the BFF on Saturday. — New Age photo

New Bangladesh football team coach Lodewijk de Kruif (L) and his assistant Rene Koster of the Netherlands pose with the national team jersey after signing a contract with the BFF on Saturday. — New Age photo

Students of BSc in health technology (dental) write posters with blood in a demonstration in the capital on Saturday, demanding that their subject should be mainstreamed. — New Age photo

Students of BSc in health technology (dental) write posters with blood in a demonstration in the capital on Saturday, demanding that their subject should be mainstreamed. — New Age photo

Sayeed-A scene from the play Kalbela. — Snigdha Zaman

Sayeed-A scene from the play Kalbela. — Snigdha Zaman

The US president, Barack Obama, right, and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai leave after a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday. — AFP photo

The US president, Barack Obama, right, and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai leave after a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday. — AFP photo

A file photo shows garment workers sewing clothes in a city factory. — New Age photo

A file photo shows garment workers sewing clothes in a city factory. — New Age photo

Chhatra League activists holding sticks prowl the Islamic University campus in Kushtia on Saturday during an attack on teachers rallying against the treasurer in which at least 50 teachers were injured. — New Age photo

Chhatra League activists holding sticks prowl the Islamic University campus in Kushtia on Saturday during an attack on teachers rallying against the treasurer in which at least 50 teachers were injured. — New Age photo

A copy of France’s labour laws sits on a table during a meeting of union representatives at the headquarters of Medef, a French employers association, in Paris on Friday. French president Francois Hollande led a chorus of approval after unions and employers reached a deal on reforms to the country’s complex labour laws after more than three months of talks. — AFP photo

A copy of France’s labour laws sits on a table during a meeting of union representatives at the headquarters of Medef, a French employers association, in Paris on Friday. French president Francois Hollande led a chorus of approval after unions and employers reached a deal on reforms to the country’s complex labour laws after more than three months of talks. — AFP photo

The bank of the River Turag swarms with devotees on the second day of Bishwa Ijtema on Saturday. — Sanaul Haque

The bank of the River Turag swarms with devotees on the second day of Bishwa Ijtema on Saturday. — Sanaul Haque



MAIN NEWS

Private power producers bag Tk 20,000cr subsidy in 6yrs


The amount of government subsidy given to private power producers since financial year 2007-08 would stand at around Tk 20,000 crore by the end of FY2012-13, said a Power Development Board official. The government provided a total of Tk 15,702 crore... Full story

10 Bangladesh workers killed in Bahrain fire


At least 10 Bangladeshi workers were burned to death and two of their compatriots sustained injuries in a deadly fire that broke out at a labour camp in Bahrain’s capital Manama on Friday. Full story

EC plans RPO changes assuming polls after JS dissolution


The Election Commission has drafted proposals for amending the Representation of the People Order 1972 on the presumption that ‘the authorities’ would dissolve parliament before the next parliamentary polls. Full story

Enclave swap in limbo


Exchange of enclaves between Bangladesh and India seems to have become uncertain with the ratification of land boundary deal still pending for approval by Indian parliament even 38 years after signing of the bilateral treaty. Full story

NATIONAL

2.2pc Bangladeshis suffering from glaucoma


Between 1.8 to 2.2 per cent Bangladeshis is suffering from glaucoma, the silent killer of sight, ophthalmologists said on Saturday. They described glaucoma as the second major cause of blindness in the... Full story

METRO

Health Tech students stage demo


Several hundred students of BSc in health technology (dental) on Saturday staged demonstrations in front of the National Press Club, demanding that the name of their discipline should be changed to create job opportunity for them. Full story

BUSINESS

Income tax collection falls short of NBR target in H1


The National Board of Revenue has failed to achieve its revenue collection target from income tax for the first half of the current fiscal year. The income tax revenue collection fell mainly due to drop of tax at source from different sectors, officials... Full story

INTERNATIONAL

Angry Pak Shias refuse to bury dead


Shia families refusing to bury their dead after twin bombings in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern city of Quetta vowed to continue their sit-in protest Saturday until the army takes over security. Hundreds of protesters have gathered on the main road... Full story

SPORTS

Dutch duo sign finally


Dutchman Lodewijk de Kruif agreed to join as the new head coach of the Bangladesh national football team after a gruelling six-hour negotiation with the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday. Kruif and his assistant Rene Koster have... Full story

EDITORIAL

PM should act to fend off conspiracies, if any


The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, once again warned the people on... Full story

OP-ED

The age of the siege: Nazi military tactics revisited


‘Disengage, avoid, and withhold support from whatever abuses, degrades and humiliates humanity.’ (Alice Walker, b: 1944.). ‘[former Danish PM and Secretary General of NATO] Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Du har blod på dine hænder’ (‘You have... Full story

TIMEOUT

Chhayanaut remembers Sohrab Hossain


Chhayanaut organised a commemoration programme on recently demised iconic Nazrul singer Sohrab Hossain, who was also a teacher of the organisation. Popular Nazrul singers performed at the programme held at its auditorium on Friday. Full story

LETTERS

Universal education key to industrialisation


Education is one of the basic needs of human being and also indispensable to build up the foundation of development of a country. As a developing country, we have to focus on education exclusively. Full story

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