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Crooks to face criminal cases
The government has finally decided to file criminal cases against the officials of the Hallmark Group involved in embezzlement of Tk 3,600 crore from the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch of the state-owned... Full story
ACC to quiz Sonali’s suspected Hallmark beneficiaries
Officers of some departments of Sonali Bank, suspected to have taken financial and other benefits from Hallmark Group, were trying to hide some vital information required for investigation against... Full story
Land ministry moves against land-grabbing by Hallmark
The land ministry on Monday initiated a move to look into how much government land was grabbed by the Hallmark Group in Savar and whether or not all the plots shown as the company’s own... Full story
BCL stops JCD from entering DU campus
Activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League on Monday stopped members of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal from entering the Dhaka University campus. At least 10 activists of the JCD were injured in several attacks by the pro-government BCL on the campus. The police, who had been... Full story
Non-govt teachers continue strike
About five lakh teachers and employees of 28,000 non-government schools, colleges and madrassahs across the country continued their strike for the third consecutive day on Monday demanding equal pay... Full story
METRO
Viral fever spreads fast in Rajshahi
Viral fever and other seasonal diseases have taken a pandemic turn in the Rajshahi city. Public as well as private hospitals in Rajshahi city reported a sudden rise in the number of patients suffering from viral fever. Full story
BUSINESS
Arrest Hallmark scamsters: FBCCI
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Monday demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of Hallmark Group owner and Sonali Bank officials involved in the recent loan scam. ‘We demand immediate arrest and... Full story
INTERNATIONAL
US transfers Bagram prison to Afghans
The United States handed control of the controversial giant Bagram jail and its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to Afghan authorities on Monday, amid concerns the transfer could leave prisoners vulnerable to further rights abuses. Hundreds of Afghan soldiers... Full story
SPORTS
Hosts take on upbeat SA in first T20
Bangladesh women’s cricket team coach Oshadee Werrasinghe found it hard to predict the outcome of their three-match Twenty20 series against South Africa which begins today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium as he thinks both team are in good touch. The first match is scheduled for... Full story
EDITORIAL
Treating children badly is spoiling the country’s future
That today’s children are tomorrow’s grown up citizens is a truism for... Full story
OP-ED
Violence in Assam: resource wars, illegal migration or governance deficit?
Much more than migration, which has been continuing from before the partition of the sub-continent in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 and has in a way been accepted as a fait accompli in Assam, it is the pressure over depleting resources that... Full story
TIMEOUT
Reading people through faces
Human faces give impressions of human psyche and the individuals’ position in the society. Giving details of human faces, noted artist Ranjit Das has unveiled the inner emotion of the individuals through his experimental paintings those ultimately give an... Full story
LETTERS
Ultimatum to arrest criminals
A New Age report from Sylhet published on September 9 discloses a very unpleasant scenario of the Sylhet police. It seemed that despite being aware of who the criminals were, the police authorities had failed... Full story
