• Govt should now initiate dialogue and opposition respond positively
  • No let-up in ticket woes
  • Jahangirnagar University repeats its game
  • When the teacher misbehaves
  • Al Jazeera and US Foreign Policy
  • The emerging ‘Drone’ culture
  • Rudro Rabi O Jalliwanwala Bagh premiered
  • Chitrangada staged
  • 215 out of 244 projects remain incomplete
  • Govt to offer 5 new licences for life insurance business
  • China tells US to ‘shut up’ over S China Sea tensions
  • Mars rover Curiosity lands on surface of Red Planet
  • Bolt dispel doubts in breathtaking display
  • The greatest sprinter ever!
  • People swarm Kamalapur for train tickets
  • Greens demand demolition of illegal structures of Hallmark Group
  • Spread of fake currencies worries traders, shoppers
  • Proceedings stayed
  • Ordinance to extend timeframe of appeals to 300 days
  • Petrobangla to float tenders by late Oct
  • NBR asked to probe Yunus’s forex earnings, tax exemption
  • 5 top Destiny bosses get bail
  • NBR chairman stripped of all powers

A scene from Rudro Rabi O Jallianwala Bagh. — Snigdha Zaman

A scene from Rudro Rabi O Jallianwala Bagh. — Snigdha Zaman

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt crosses the finish line ahead of countryman Yohan Blake (R) and Ryan Bailey (2nd-L) and Justin Gatlin of the USA (2nd-R) to win the men’s 100m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in London on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt crosses the finish line ahead of countryman Yohan Blake (R) and Ryan Bailey (2nd-L) and Justin Gatlin of the USA (2nd-R) to win the men’s 100m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in London on Sunday. — Reuters photo

From left, Rapid Action Battalion arrests two persons for selling train tickets in black market while women, some sitting and most of them standing in queue, try to buy advance train tickets at Kamalapur railway station on Monday. — New Age photo

From left, Rapid Action Battalion arrests two persons for selling train tickets in black market while women, some sitting and most of them standing in queue, try to buy advance train tickets at Kamalapur railway station on Monday. — New Age photo

Five top bosses of the Destiny Group, including its president and managing director, come out of a Dhaka court on Monday after the court granted them bail in two cases. — New Age photo

Five top bosses of the Destiny Group, including its president and managing director, come out of a Dhaka court on Monday after the court granted them bail in two cases. — New Age photo

Actors in Mohajoner Nao. — Snigdha Zaman

Actors in Mohajoner Nao. — Snigdha Zaman

A file photo shows investors monitoring share price movement at a brokerage house in Dhaka. Dhaka stocks rose on Monday breaking a five-day losing streak on bargain hunting. — New Age photo

A file photo shows investors monitoring share price movement at a brokerage house in Dhaka. Dhaka stocks rose on Monday breaking a five-day losing streak on bargain hunting. — New Age photo

Activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal protest near the US embassy in New Delhi on Monday after a gunman in the US shot worshippers at a suburban Sikh temple in Wisconsin. — AFP photo

Activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal protest near the US embassy in New Delhi on Monday after a gunman in the US shot worshippers at a suburban Sikh temple in Wisconsin. — AFP photo

Paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, centre back in Hiroshima on Monday. Tens of thousands of people marked the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan. — AFP photo

Paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, centre back in Hiroshima on Monday. Tens of thousands of people marked the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan. — AFP photo

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, exchanges greetings with the guests, including the political leaders, at an iftar mahfil hosted by the Bangladesh Armed Forces Division in her honour at Senakunja in the Dhaka Cantonment on Monday. — New Age photo

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, exchanges greetings with the guests, including the political leaders, at an iftar mahfil hosted by the Bangladesh Armed Forces Division in her honour at Senakunja in the Dhaka Cantonment on Monday. — New Age photo

A policeman walks inside the premises of Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana recently. — Reuters photo

A policeman walks inside the premises of Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana recently. — Reuters photo

Sanya Richards-Ross of the US celebrates with the US national flag after winning the women’s 400m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in London on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Sanya Richards-Ross of the US celebrates with the US national flag after winning the women’s 400m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in London on Sunday. — Reuters photo

The police charge batons to disperse workers of Pearl Prince Apparels as they block the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Tongi on Monday, to press home their demands. — Focusbangla photo

The police charge batons to disperse workers of Pearl Prince Apparels as they block the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Tongi on Monday, to press home their demands. — Focusbangla photo



MAIN NEWS

Spread of fake currencies worries traders, shoppers


Organised gangs are spreading counterfeit local currency notes in the market taking advantage of the buying spree ahead of the Eid, causing worries among economists, businessmen and shoppers as well. Full story

Proceedings stayed


The High Court on Monday stayed for eight weeks the proceedings in the arson case, which is now pending with the Dhaka Speedy Trial Court-5, against 46 top BNP-led opposition alliance leaders. Full story

NBR chairman stripped of all powers


Finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday stripped the chairman of the National Board of Revenue, Nasiruddin Ahmed, of all powers to take major decisions for violating his directives. Full story

NBR asked to probe Yunus’s forex earnings, tax exemption


The Cabinet Division on Monday asked the National Board of Revenue to ascertain whether or not Grameen Bank’s founder and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus had brought any foreign... Full story

NATIONAL

Ordinance to extend timeframe of appeals to 300 days


The Cabinet on Monday approved a draft of the Vested Property Restoration (Second Amendment) Bill 2012 for extending the timeframe for appeals for return of vested properties to 300 days from 180 days... Full story

METRO

People swarm Kamalapur for train tickets


Many people, who failed to buy advance train tickets the previous day, swarmed the Kamalapur railway station in the capital on Monday to manage tickets for their journey before and after the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. Many of them, however, blamed... Full story

BUSINESS

215 out of 244 projects remain incomplete


About 215 development projects, out of the total of 244 that were scheduled to be completed under the Annual Development Programme in fiscal year 2011-2012, remained incomplete at the end of the year. Full story

INTERNATIONAL

China tells US to ‘shut up’ over S China Sea tensions


China’s state-run media ramped up condemnation of the United States on Monday over tensions in the South China Sea, with the Communist Party’s top newspaper telling Washington to ‘Shut up’ and charging it... Full story

SPORTS

Bolt dispel doubts in breathtaking display


It had everything in the race – the grace, the grit – but the one that led Usain Bolt to sprint glory on Sunday was his desire, the strong will power to prove doubters wrong. A sore hamstring, a stiff back, a car crash, defeats to training partner Yohan Blake had raised thousand questions... Full story

EDITORIAL

Govt should now initiate dialogue and opposition respond positively


The two recent political developments – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s... Full story

OP-ED

Al Jazeera and US Foreign Policy


Imported Journalism: High Quality Always Comes from Away (Say the Colonized) Driven to go global, Al Jazeera established an international advisory body, "consisting of respected international journalism figures to assess and advise on Al Jazeera operations... Full story

TIMEOUT

Rudro Rabi O Jalliwanwala Bagh premiered


Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s National Theatre Reparatory premiered its second production Rudro Rabi O Jalliwanwala Bagh on Sunday, a day before observation of Tagore’s 71st death anniversary, at the National Theatre Hall of the academy. Full story

LETTERS

When the teacher misbehaves


We see teaching as a noble profession and a teacher as a noble person because they are supposed to be builders of a nation. As students are raw materials which are to be shaped by the techers, the... Full story

THE YOUTH

    Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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