• Incumbents need to make course correction, immediately
  • UGC should take steps against aberrant universities, instead
  • Bold declarations without resource commitment
  • Please make the call, prime minister
  • Off the mark: This is how you run the economy
  • Proper leadership needed to overcome Dambulla incident in Sri Lanka
  • Babita recalls Satyajit Ray on his birth day
  • Aranyak observes May Day
  • Taliban hit Kabul, 7 dead after Obama visit
  • China activist leaves US embassy after deal with Beijing
  • Most of banks not maintaining ratio set by BB
  • Undisclosed money investment in stocks may continue in next budget
  • BNS among World T20 venues
  • No solution to Dhaka league crisis yet
  • Lack of democratic practices destroying education
  • RU crop science students want campus shifted
  • May Day observed
  • FBCCI plans united move against political impasse
  • PM assures Ilias’s wife of ‘all-out’ steps to rescue him
  • Labour Welfare Foundation remains dysfunctional
  • Judge feels embarrassed to hear BNP leaders’ bail pleas
  • Migrant workers remain neglected in host countries
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Taliban hit Kabul, 7 dead after Obama visit

Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, announcing the start of their annual ‘spring offensive’ in defiance of calls from visiting US president Barack Obama that the war was... Full story

China activist leaves US embassy after deal with Beijing

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng on Wednesday left the US embassy, where he had sought protection after fleeing house arrest, following a deal with Beijing on his safety, US officials said. Beijing pledged that the legal campaigner and... Full story

Occupy protesters held in May Day rallies

Occupy Wall Street participants stage a march down Broadway as part of May Day celebrations in New York on Tuesday. — AFP photo
Thousands of Occupy protesters marched on Wall Street in New York on Tuesday in the highlight of a May Day ‘general strike,’ while police used tear gas to quell clashes on the US West Coast. More than 20 people were arrested in various cities, including 10 at Los Angeles... Full story

Elections will not alter Syrian politics: experts

Next week’s parliamentary elections in Syria are ‘cosmetic’ and will not lead to any change in the political balance of power due to sweeping violence and a boycott by the core opposition, experts say. Full story

Japan urges Israel ‘patience’ on Iran sanctions

Japan’s foreign minister Koichiro Gemba has urged Israel to exercise ‘patience’ on Iran’s nuclear programme and give sanctions a chance to work, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Gemba, who arrived in... Full story

North Korea ready for third nuclear test: expert

North Korea has apparently finished preparations for a third nuclear test and is awaiting a political decision to go ahead, a South Korean nuclear expert said Wednesday. The expert also said the communist... Full story

Syria troops, rebels killed in clashes

At least 20 Syrian soldiers and two rebel fighters were killed in violent clashes overnight in the provinces of Aleppo and Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. Full story

Pakistan on alert for bin Laden anniversary

Pakistan went on high alert Wednesday over fears militants would launch revenge attacks on the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing by American Navy SEALs. The anniversary of the single most... Full story

Over 25pc of Japanese in twenties mull suicide: survey

More than a quarter of Japanese in their twenties have thought about taking their own life, according to a survey released Wednesday, in a nation with one of the world’s highest suicide rates. Full story

Stray parakeet gives home address to Japanese police

A pet parakeet was returned to its owner Wednesday after the lost bird told police its home address near Tokyo. The male bird had escaped early Sunday morning from its owner’s home in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo... Full story

20 dead after attackers storm Cairo protest

Thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo on Wednesday and 20 people were killed, officials said, in the politically tense run-up to the first post-uprising presidential election. Full story

French presidential rivals in last ditch TV debate

Nicolas Sarkozy faces Francois Hollande in a ‘moment of truth’ television debate on Wednesday that could be the French president’s last chance to avoid defeat at the hands of his socialist challenger in Sunday’s election runoff. Full story


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