No consensus yet on NATO role
Air strikes blunt Gaddafi offensive
News Desk
 
Western warplanes silenced Muammar Gaddafi’s artillery and tanks besieging rebel-held Misrata in western Libya on Wednesday after a U.S. admiral warned his armor was the next target.
Breathing defiance, Gaddafi earlier said Western powers who carried out a fourth night of air strikes on Libya to [...]

100 law enforcers fall sick
1 year jail for serving  contaminated  food to  WCC security
Staff Reporter
 
Investigators found that ‘Fixims Bangladesh Limited’ supplied low quality food to the security personnel deployed for World Cup cricketers at Sheraton Hotel and at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday from Rahmania Hotel in the city’s Khilgaon area.
Toffazal Hossain, officer-in-charge of [...]

Elizabeth Taylor dies
BBC Online
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th Century’s biggest movie stars, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
The double Oscar-winning actress had a long history of ill health and was being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure. Dame Elizabeth’s most famous films included National Velvet, Cleopatra and Who’s [...]

Rumours spreading to destabilise RMG sector
Staff Reporter
 
Rumour, simply widespread ‘rumour’ was the prime reason behind most of the incidents of unrest and violence in the garment sector across the country in recent times.
It was rumoured that a pregnant employee of a garment factory gave birth of a pre-matured child due to severe beating by the [...]

BGMEA poll today
‘Forum’ boycotts election
Staff Reporter
The biennial election of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association’s (BGMEA) will be held today (Sunday) amid the boycott of a contesting panel.
Vote casting will start at 8.00am to 4.00pm at the BGMEA’s Dhaka and Chittagong offices simultaneously without break.
The voters will have to elect 27 directors of the association [...]

Speakers at roundtable
Democracy not safe under present govt
 
Staff Reporter
 
Speakers at a roundtable discussion have alleged that the parliamentary democracy is not safe under the present government as Sheikh Hasina wants to ‘ruin the parliamentary democracy’.
BNP central leader and former minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu has called upon all to take part in the street movement [...]

Commentary : Let Human Rights Commission investigate violation of human rights under the guise of FIR
Human rights are to be protected in real term in real life. This must mean at the least that police will not arrest only for the reason that someone has filed an FIR. Because  FIR is just first information about [...]

Nat’l unity, tolerance must to end crisis of democracy

These images show the evacuation of patients from town of Futaba near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) nuclear power station and their treatent for possible radiation exposure. AP
Staff Reporter
The longstanding crisis of the democracy in Bangladesh can be overcome with national unity, practice of tolerance, increase [...]

Lifschultz was invited not to serve anyone’s political interest: HC
Staff Reporter
 
The High Court (HC) maintained that its main duty is to unfold the fact and for this reason American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz was requested to come Bangladesh, ‘not to serve anyone’s political interest’.
Criticising BNP leader MK Anwar’s recent comment, the HC Wednesday said, “A political [...]

Commentary : Japan faces crisis with characteristic orderliness and calm civic sense
The ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded that slammed Japan Friday, killing at least 1300 people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control. Another big disaster looms as a nuclear reactor, [...]