Pak court orders PM arrest
Deals signed with Russia
18-party human walls slam killings, enforced disappearances
WB concerned about scope for probe
The World Bank’s external panel of experts assessing the Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation of the Padma Bridge project corruption on Tuesday expressed concern about the scope for a fair investigation. Full storyCourt takes cognisance of charges
DSE turnover dips to 5-year low
Turnover of the Dhaka Stock Exchange dipped to a five-year low on Tuesday as most of the investors refrained from trading due to the intense liquidity crisis and inactivity of the institutional investors. Full storyHC asks govt to review execution of law
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to explain in six weeks why it should not be directed to make a comprehensive review of the implementation of the existing laws and legal framework for protection of... Full storyBSF beats up Bangladeshi cattle trader
Indian Border Security Force beat a Bangladeshi cattle trader black and blue at Nagorvita border in Baliadangi upazila of the district on Monday night. The victim, Mahamud, 19, son of Solaiman of Kashidanga village of the upazila... Full storyLeft parties enforce strike today
Nine left-leaning political parties enforce a countrywide half-day general strike today in protest at the latest fuel oil price increase, effected on January 3, and the plan of the Awami League-led government for another round... Full storyFakhrul gets bail in one case
A Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge’s court on Tuesday granted bail to the acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed in connection with an attack on the police during the opposition’s... Full storyPeople view chloropicrin use betrays govt fascism
A cross-section of people on Tuesday said that the use by the police of chloropicrin-enriched pepper spray to contain protests exposed the state’s fascist attitude and that its use as a tool of torture showed that the government... Full storyEden College student fighting for life after acid attack
A student of Eden Government College was fighting for life with terrible bruises in hospital after she came under acid attack allegedly by her spurned lover and his accomplices at Chankharpool in the Old Town of Dhaka on Tuesday. Full story3 killed during highway robbery
AT LEAST three people were killed during robbery on the Sirajganj-Nagorbari-Bogra highway at Shahzadpur upazila in Sirajganj early Tuesday. The dead were identified as Razib Mallik, 22, son of Razzak Mallik of village... Full storyNew rape outrage in India as schoolgirl attacked
Thousands protested in the holiday state of Goa on Tuesday after a seven-year-old girl was raped in a school toilet, sparking fresh outrage in India following a deadly gang-rape on a bus. Full storyBR headed for failure for fifth time
Bangladesh Railway is set to fail in completing the survey of all its land and preparing a future land use plan for the fifth time since 2007. The fifth extension of time for completing the task expires on June 30, 2013 with 81 per... Full storySinha Power wants total penalty waiver
Sinha Power Generation Company has requested the government to ask the Power Development Board not to realise $6.25 million as a penalty for its delay in installing a 50 megawatt power plant at Amnura in Chapainawabganj. Full storyTeachers continue rallying for MPO
