![On May 27, 2012, the BBC used a photo taken in Al Mussayyib, Iraq in 2003, but the caption used by the BBC says that the picture was provided by a [Syrian] activist and ‘believed to show the bodies of children in Houla [Syria] awaiting burial’. The BBC changed their original article after the ‘mistake’ was publicly exposed, but did not issue a retraction.
Photo ©Marco Di Lauro; BBC’s propaganda stunt exposed in prisonplanet.com](newspic/fcf1497f9315435289b275c8c496a7df20120617.jpg)
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Workers rally at Ashulia again
Apparel workers went on demonstrations in the Ashulia industrial zone for the sixth day on Sunday, protesting at the closure of factories and demanding pay hike. At least 30 people, including policemen, were injured and 10 vehicles were... Full story
Angry stock investors take to streets
Investors staged a rowdy street protest on Sunday blocking the busy road at the capital’s commercial hub of Motijheel as the general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange hit three-month low to 4,506.04 point. Full story
Mir Kashem arrested
Jamaat executive council member Mir Quasem Ali was arrested on Sunday afternoon and sent to Dhaka Central Jail. The police arrested Quasem Ali within an hour after the International Crimes Tribunal-1issued the warrant for his arrest. Full story
Allies decry PM’s success claim
Key components of the Awami League-led alliance and its ‘natural allies’ differed with the comment of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, that her government did more than what it had pledged before the 2008 general elections. Full story
HC asks police to complete investigation in 4 weeks
The High Court asked police to complete the investigations within 4 weeks of the killings of six college students at Aminbazar on July 18, 2011. The bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the order... Full story
METRO
Greens term proposed budget ‘not environment-sensitive’
Green activists on Sunday said the proposed budget of 2012-2013 fiscal was not environment-sensitive as it neglected environment-friendly development which is more important than sector-wise allocation to save the... Full story
BUSINESS
bKash holds 4 lakh accounts in violation of BB rules
bKash, a subsidiary company of BRAC Bank, is allegedly doing illegal mobile banking and holding around four lakh customer accounts in violation of rules, Bangladesh Bank officials said. The company, a joint venture between BRAC Bank... Full story
INTERNATIONAL
Syria’s Homs battered
Troops pounded besieged districts of the flashpoint city of Homs as 15 people were killed in violence across Syria on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to 84, a watchdog said. Full story
SPORTS
Tigers tamed in tri-series opener
Bangladesh’s Twenty20 inexperience was blatantly exposed on Sunday when they threw a potential winning position to suffer an 11-run defeat to Zimbabwe in the opening match of the T20 tri-series tournament in Harare. Set a target of 155 runs, Tamim Iqbal and Mohammad Ashraful provided the... Full story
EDITORIAL
Closure of readymade garment factories not the solution
THE decision of the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers... Full story
OP-ED
Western journalists in Syria and Indians in Maoists country: a comparison
LAST month, a conversation with journalists in London centred on Marie Colvin, the war correspondent, with a Moshe Dayan eyepatch, working for the Sunday Times, who was killed in Baba Amro, Homs, in Syria. The paper she worked for is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Full story
TIMEOUT
Commemorative book on Tareque Masud launched
A book on the life and works on filmmaker Tareque Masud titled ‘Tareque Masud: Life and Dreams’, was launched by justice Habibur Rahman, former chief adviser of the caretaker government, as chief guest at the British... Full story
LETTERS
Does R&H stand for rogues and hoodlums?
THAT seems to be what the present government has turned it into. The supporters of the party in power seem to consider human blood as the cheapest commodity; thus their use of bullets to meet their needs. Full story
