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Juba League men building market on city footpath
Some Juba League leaders with the connivance of businessmen at Bangabazar are constructing a ‘market’ on the footpath at Gulishtan and selling ‘possessions’ for Tk 10 lakh each. The syndicate, however, claimed that they have ‘approval’ from the Dhaka South City Corporation for the market construction and they would provide businessmen with required documents... Full story
Motorbike registration suspended
The government on Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to suspend registration of motorbikes for one month in Dhaka with effect from today in a move to restore discipline in the city traffic system. ‘The number of unregistered motorbikes is double or may be triple the number of... Full story
WB sees no reason to drop Abul from FIR
The World Bank in its final report on the investigation of the ‘conspiracy of corruption’ in the Padma Bridge project said that there was ‘no legal reason to exclude former communications minister’ Syed Abul Hossain from the Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation list. Full story
No immediate respite from hot spell
The excessive hot weather accompanied by high humidity is likely sweep across the capital and rest of Bangladesh until the next week, forecasters said on Tuesday. Bangladesh has been grappling with the hot weather for last few days. Normal life was hampered across the country due... Full story
Campaigns gain momentum as symbols allotted
Electioneering got momentum on Tuesday with the allocation of symbols to the candidates in the elections to Gazipur City Corporation slated for July 6. Returning officer Md Motiar Rahman allocated the symbols to six mayoral candidates... Full story
METRO
Challenges ahead for SCC mayor-elect to overcome
The Sylhet City Corporation mayor-elect, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, has to deal with big challenges to meet the expectation of the city dwellers. Experts have observed that the Sylhet city dwellers have chosen 18-party alliance-backed candidate Arif as... Full story
BUSINESS
Units making US army clothes must ensure workplace safety
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that will enforce Bangladeshi factories that produce military-branded garments for the US army to ensure fire and building safety. The bill, authored by Reps Jan Schakowsky and George Miller, says that military-branded garments... Full story
INTERNATIONAL
G8 challenges Russia to sign up to Syria peace plan
World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8 summit Tuesday, after challenging Russian president Vladimir Putin to get on board or be left out in the cold. The meeting of world leaders in Northern Ireland was... Full story
SPORTS
BCB least bothered by boycott threat
The Bangladesh Cricket Board paid very little attention to the players’ threat of boycotting the Dhaka Premier League as it has enough reasons to feel that this is nothing but a call of meow. The cricketers in a meeting on Monday decided to boycott the league unless the BCB meets their certain demands including the scrapping of a proposed gradation system. Full story
EDITORIAL
Indicative of disregard for human dignity of Rana Plaza victims
IT IS disquieting that DNA profiling for identification of 249 unnamed... Full story
OP-ED
Why Russia won’t deal on NATO missile defence
Many in the policy community — even those who favour arms control — are advocating for Russia-NATO missile defence cooperation. But why should we expect Moscow to play nice and cooperate on an expensive and dysfunctional system? Yousaf Butt... Full story
TIMEOUT
Death of a mentor
It is not just the death of a great teleplay writer and producer, but the demise of a mentor and promoter of artistes. Death of Atiqul Haque Chowdhury on Monday night is, indeed, a great shock to actors, directors and playwrights and... Full story
LETTERS
Endless BSF brutality
BRUTALITY of the Indian Border Security Force on Bangladeshi people has crossed all limits. The BSF recently killed two Bangladeshi people and apologised. I am really not very confident that this apology would make any... Full story
