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Shibir kills BCL man
Cuts tendons of 4 others in RU

Islami Chhatra Shibir hacked to death a Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League activist and wounded 40 others, including policemen, early Tuesday, forcing the authorities to suspend classes for Thursday and to defer all examinations till February 17...[ + ]

Curtain drops on
SA Games

The 11th SA Games, the biggest sports carnival in South Asia, ended in a spectacular fashion with a grand closing ceremony at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. General Abdul Mubeen, the Chief of Army Staff and president of the Bangladesh Olympic Association, formally declared the Games, participated by eight countries, closed after a brief speech.....[ + ]

Three murdered in city

Assailants shot dead a BNP ward commissioner at Bangshal and a rice trader at Babubazar while criminals killed an elderly woman during a robbery at Purba Goran at Khilgaon in Dhaka on Tuesday. The deceased were ward commissioner Haji Ahmed Hossain, also the Dhaka city unit (south) Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal president, rice trader Afil Uddin Miah, a resident of Gopinath Datta Road at Babubazar, and Rezia Begum, a resident of Goran. Afil was from Ailchara of in the Kushtia district headquarters...[ + ]

PM urges Kuwait
to lift restrictions
on Bangladeshi
manpower

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on has requested the Kuwaiti prime minister to intervene in lifting the October 2006 restrictions imposed by his country on the recruitment of Bangladeshi manpower in the Arab state........[ + ]

Other Headlines
» Shibir men penetrate into BCL: Ashraf
» Sahara says campus situation under control
» Fonseka faces court martial
» CID moves to bring back two Harkat operatives from India
» 6 policemen killed in road mishap
» 4 RU teachers acquitted of charges
» Dhaka signs 4 treaties with Kuwait
» HC rules on govt to set up museum at Shahid Minar
» Taliban claim to debut new bomb ‘Omar’


Petrobangla, PDB oppose power and
energy cos share offloading

Petrobangla and Power Development Board on Tuesday recommended to the government not to offload shares of state-run power and energy companies claiming that such divestment would not bring overall improvement in the crisis-stricken power and energy sectors...[ + ]

DSE keeps record-breaking run despite
regulator’s interventions

Dhaka Stock Exchange maintained a bullish trend to make a new record despite the regulators’ repeated interventions. The benchmark index of the stock exchange crossed 5600-point mark at Tuesday’s close, dodging effectively the impact of the recent regulatory steps to ease the extraordinary demand on the market......[ + ]

Other Headlines
» Lentil prices fall with good local harvest prospect
» Toyota announces mass Prius recall
» GP’s revenue, subscription increase
» GP, Banglalink to share infrastructure
» BASIS SoftExpo begins today
» Int’l tourism fair in Dhaka from Mar 11
» Euro climbs against dollar
» Oil below $72 in Asian trade
» Corporate Disclosures
» German exports down most in 60 years
» India’s software exports face protectionism
» Strong overseas sales put fizz in Coca-Cola’s Q4
» Doha deal still possible in 2010: WTO chief
» UK retail sales rise by 1.2pc
» Quartel Infotech launches 4 new Maximus sets
» StanChart supports Kidney Foundation
» Motorola launches 3 new mobile handsets


Weekend


TRENDS


VICTORY DAY SPECIAL


Burglary again in 10 stalls at Ekushey Book Fair

Burglars stole books from ten stalls at the Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka on Tuesday. This is third time that books were stolen from some stalls at the fair which began at February 1, when the fair authorities claimed they had taken adequate security measures for the fair...[ + ]

CCC to set up 500MW plant, 12km elevated expressway

The Chittagong City Corporation has embarked upon setting up 500 Megawatt power plant and building a 12-kilometre elevated expressway in the port city at a cost of Tk 5000 crore...[ + ]



Womanpower drives hosts

Bangla-desh’s female athletes may have been outperformed by their male team-mates in the end, but their success has contributed to a large extent to the hosts’ outstanding results in the just-concluded SA Games. Bangladesh claimed as many as 18 gold medals that took them to third place in the medals table, a position that they enjoyed only once in the past and that too 24 years ago...
[ + ]

Marathon marred by controversy

The last day of the 11th edition of the SA Games was marred by controversy over the shorter distance of the marathon race on Tuesday. Nepal’s Rajendra Parsad Bhandari completed the race in 1 hour 59 minutes, seven minutes less than the existing world record...[ + ]


Editorial
» Ruling party needs to reciprocate opposition leader’s gesture
» Connecting Dhaka with its parts and on making
Dhaka liveable


Oped
» Emergence of environmental proletariat
» High Court on the
side of Hamim


National
» Govt to re-activate TCB to keep essential goods prices stable
» SSC, Dakhil exams begin tomorrow
Home
» Bangladesh to be middle-income state within 4 yrs: BB governor
» Leaf colour charts may save 1.5 lakh tonnes of urea this season
International
» NATO remains serious threat to Russia: official
» Russia gets Vietnam’s first N-power deal: sources
Timeout
» Travelling Film South Asia begins
» Programmes commemorate language martyrs

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