• Bangladesh Bank needs to clear the air about PSO
  • A self-explanatory picture
  • The value of American – and Afghan – lives
  • Murdering trees!
  • Myanmar violence must stop
  • Discussion in JS on caretaker issue will be futile
  • The lure of international schools
  • Chhayanaut pays tribute to Sufia Kamal
  • AFD celebrates World Music Day
  • Businesses demand cut in export tax in budget
  • Industrial raw material, machinery imports drop in 10 months
  • Tigers end losing streak
  • Germany plan to outrun Greeks
  • Syria fighter pilot defects in new blow to Assad
  • Asylum-seeker boat carrying 200 capsizes off Australia
  • AL MP questions provision of legalising undisclosed money
  • Meeting between BGB, Nasaka postponed
  • Partial drive begins in city
  • CU approves Tk 122.5cr budget
  • HC upholds SEC authority
  • Mojaheed indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity
  • Intruders change tactics to sneak into Bangladesh
  • RMG factories re-open

Artistes of Chhayanaut perform at the programme on Wednesdaty.— Snigdha Zaman

Artistes of Chhayanaut perform at the programme on Wednesdaty.— Snigdha Zaman

Finance minister AMA Muhith holds a meeting with leaders of chamber bodies, led by FBCCI president AK Azad at the minister’s secretariat office in Dhaka on Thursday. — New Age photo

Finance minister AMA Muhith holds a meeting with leaders of chamber bodies, led by FBCCI president AK Azad at the minister’s secretariat office in Dhaka on Thursday. — New Age photo

Bangladesh batsman Nasir Hossain (L) and Mahmudullah (R) celebrate after winning their Twenty20 triangular series match against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club Ground on Thursday. — AFP photo

Bangladesh batsman Nasir Hossain (L) and Mahmudullah (R) celebrate after winning their Twenty20 triangular series match against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club Ground on Thursday. — AFP photo

Otter ‘Ferret’ predicts a victory of Germany in their Euro 2012 quarter-final match against Greece at the zoo in Aue, eastern Germany on Thursday. The otter was given to choose between two bowls with fish and eggs as well as the German and Greek flags. — AFP photo

Otter ‘Ferret’ predicts a victory of Germany in their Euro 2012 quarter-final match against Greece at the zoo in Aue, eastern Germany on Thursday. The otter was given to choose between two bowls with fish and eggs as well as the German and Greek flags. — AFP photo

Bangladesh Sangeet Sanghatan Sammanay Parisad members present the National Anthem in chorus at the opening ceremony of the two day World Music Day celebration programme at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. — Snigdha Zaman

Bangladesh Sangeet Sanghatan Sammanay Parisad members present the National Anthem in chorus at the opening ceremony of the two day World Music Day celebration programme at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. — Snigdha Zaman

A boy writes on a board in a makeshift learning centre at Kutupalang Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. The photograph was snapped on Wednesday. — Indrajit Ghosh

A boy writes on a board in a makeshift learning centre at Kutupalang Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. The photograph was snapped on Wednesday. — Indrajit Ghosh

An investor breaks down in tears as he shows his share-portfolio at a demonstration, which was organised in protest at the unabated fall in share prices, in front of the DSE building at Motijheel in the capital on Thursday. — New Age photo

An investor breaks down in tears as he shows his share-portfolio at a demonstration, which was organised in protest at the unabated fall in share prices, in front of the DSE building at Motijheel in the capital on Thursday. — New Age photo

Workers are at work in an apparel factory at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital city on Thursday as the factories reopened in the industrial belt after four days’ closure in the wake of a week-long unrest. — Sony Ramany

Workers are at work in an apparel factory at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital city on Thursday as the factories reopened in the industrial belt after four days’ closure in the wake of a week-long unrest. — Sony Ramany

Britain’s Prince Charles, Centre, laughs flanked by Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and Camilla, right, after a tree planting ceremony in the garden at Clarence House in London, on Thursday. — AFP photo

Britain’s Prince Charles, Centre, laughs flanked by Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and Camilla, right, after a tree planting ceremony in the garden at Clarence House in London, on Thursday. — AFP photo

The acting BNP secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, addresses a press conference in the Dhaka Reporter’s Unity auditorium on Thursday. — New Age photo

The acting BNP secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, addresses a press conference in the Dhaka Reporter’s Unity auditorium on Thursday. — New Age photo

German players warm-up during a training session near the Dwor Oliwski hotel in Gdansk on Wednesday. — AFP photo

German players warm-up during a training session near the Dwor Oliwski hotel in Gdansk on Wednesday. — AFP photo

Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrate in Cairo’s Tahrir square, on Thusday.— AFP photo

Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrate in Cairo’s Tahrir square, on Thusday.— AFP photo

The Hindus bring out a procession in the capital on Thursday, marking their Ratha Yatra festival. — New Age photo

The Hindus bring out a procession in the capital on Thursday, marking their Ratha Yatra festival. — New Age photo

German forward Thomas Muller cooks a risotto with star chief Holger Stromberg (not in picture), the national team’s chef, after a press conference at media centre near the Dwor Oliwski hotel in Gdansk on Wednesday. — AFP photo

German forward Thomas Muller cooks a risotto with star chief Holger Stromberg (not in picture), the national team’s chef, after a press conference at media centre near the Dwor Oliwski hotel in Gdansk on Wednesday. — AFP photo



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HC upholds SEC authority


The High Court on Thursday rejected five writ petitions that challenged the constitutionality of a securities and exchange law which empowers the market regulators to impose conditions on directors... Full story

Mojaheed indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity


The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday indicted the detained secretary general of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, on seven counts of... Full story

Intruders change tactics to sneak into Bangladesh


Intruders from Myanmar fleeing sectarian violence in the Rakhaine state have changed their tactics of sneaking into Bangladesh by avoiding large groups and the points that have already been used much. Intensified vigilance by the Border Guard Bangladesh and... Full story

RMG factories re-open


Garment factory workers on Thursday morning rejoined work amidst heavy security in Ashulia industrial zone as the owners re-opened their readymade garment units after a four-day closure in the wake of a weeklong labour unrest. Full story

NATIONAL

AL MP questions provision of legalising undisclosed money


Ruling Awami League lawmaker Mujibul Haque on Thursday demanded an amendment to the constitution to ensure lawmakers’ participation in preparing the national budget, lamenting that they had... Full story

METRO

Partial drive begins in city


A part of the government agencies on Thursday launched mobile courts to enforce the High Court directives not to allow privately-owned CNG-run auto-rickshaws on the Dhaka city roads. Full story

BUSINESS

Businesses demand cut in export tax in budget


Businessmen on Thursday urged the government to review the proposed 1.2 per cent income tax at source on export receipts in the new fiscal year amid falling demand of the readymade garments in the Western countries. They made the request when... Full story

INTERNATIONAL

Syria fighter pilot defects in new blow to Assad


A Syrian pilot sought political asylum after landing his MiG fighter jet in neighbouring Jordan on Thursday, in the first such defection of a revolt a watchdog says has killed more than 15,000 people. Full story

SPORTS

Tigers end losing streak


Bangladesh ended their losing streak and kept their hopes alive of reaching the final of the Triangular Twenty20 tournament when they handed Zimbabwe a six-wicket defeat in Harare on Thursday. Full story

EDITORIAL

Bangladesh Bank needs to clear the air about PSO


THE advent of newer and faster technology has indeed made banking... Full story

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Discussion in JS on caretaker issue will be futile


THE main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party would prefer a dialogue with the Awami League-led government on election-time non-party caretaker government outside parliament, says the acting BNP secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Full story

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Chhayanaut pays tribute to Sufia Kamal


Chhayanaut celebrated 101st birth centenary of the organisation’s founder president poet Sufia Kamal (June 20, 1911-November 20, 1999) through musical programme on Wednesday at its auditorium. Considering the relevance of the season the... Full story

LETTERS

Murdering trees!


SHaHIDUL Alam’s opinion piece, published along with five explicit photographs in New Age on June 19, provides a classic example of the saying ‘an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ With nothing better to do... Full story

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