Monday, February 8th, 2010 Extortion and threat to high profile people using cell phones is going unabated as law enforcers could hardly trace the criminals who manage their SIM cards without following proper registration procedure.Sources observe that the menace has reached an intolerable level as even Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her nephew lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh could not escape such threats issued recently by the criminals.However, following threats issued from a newly registered cell phone number, Rab and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission in a joint drive arrested three cell phone distributors--Lokman Hossain, Rafiqul Islam alias Miraj, Shafiqul Islam alias Ranju on Thursday.The ...
(read more) Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Rescuers pulled dazed survivors from the ruins of Haiti's flattened capital as thousands of US troops headed in to shore up the beleaguered international relief effort yesterday.Six days after the magnitude 7.0 quake, aid workers are still struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of homeless, injured and traumatised people desperate for food, water and medicine.Violence has erupted as survivors fight for whatever they can find, while all around the stench of burning bodies clings to the air as tens of thousands of rotting corpses are hurriedly disposed of.Officials fear the eventual death toll may top 200,000, and by Sunday some ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 India recorded its first death from influenza A (H1N1) virus in the western Indian city of Pune Monday while two fresh cases of swine flu were detected in Bangladesh yesterday.A 14-year-old girl, student of class IX, died in Pune Monday night after she was admitted to a private hospital and got the proper treatment "too late", Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told a television news channel.Referring to the death, Azad said she had fever and was taken to a doctor who treated her for normal flu. When her condition started deteriorating, she was taken to a private hospital and was ...
(read more) Monday, June 1st, 2009 Detectives suspect that more than 150 highly paid agents have been working in the country for international mafia don Daud Ibrahim and that his second-in-command "Chhota" Shakil has been dealing with their payments.The Daily Star had an exclusive interview of Chhota Shakil's close aide, detained Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, in the custody of Detective Branch of police. During the interview he said he managed a Bangladeshi passport with fake documents for Tk 50,000 through a broker.Daud Merchant said Chhota Shakil, who is now staying in Dubai, sent him to Bangladesh and that Shakil sends money to all his Bangladesh agents ...
(read more) Friday, May 15th, 2009 The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a set of guidelines defining sexual misdemeanours to prevent any kind of physical, mental or sexual harassment of women, girls and children at their workplaces, educational institutions and other public places including roads across the country.The HC directed the government to make a law on the basis of the guidelines, and ruled that the guidelines will be treated as a law until the law is made.An HC bench comprised of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui came up with the guidelines, directive and ruling in its verdict upon a writ petition ...
(read more) Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Swine flu continued its global march as South Korea confirmed its first case and Hong Kong and China scrambled to track down anybody who had been in contact with an infected Mexican man.But amid the spread of the virus, health authorities said the world appeared better prepared to fight an epidemic than a few years ago, and vowed that a vaccine was only months away.Hong Kong was placed on its highest health alert after the 25-year-old Mexican tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus on Friday, the first confirmed case of swine flu in Asia.Officials in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan ...
(read more) Thursday, March 5th, 2009 The process of 2004 botched attempt to transport 10-truck load of arms and ammunition to the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) started in late 2001, involving some big time political honchos of the last four-party government, according to confessional statements of two persons accused in the Chittagong arms haul case.The two accused -- Md Hafizur Rahman and Din Mohammad -- also said on Monday afternoon that the huge cache of weapons was being smuggled under the direct supervision of Ulfa leader Paresh Barua, who was residing in Dhaka back then.Ministries for home and industries under the 4-party government, ...
(read more) Sunday, October 26th, 2008 Although the law-enforcement agencies have listed 29 Islamic organisations for suspected involvement in militancy, they have trained their focus only on outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji).Sources in the law-enforcement agencies say they are not in a position to take a tough line on the suspected outfits unless they get hard evidence of terror activities against them.“A crackdown on the suspected organisations requires a government policy in this regard as the issue is linked to sensitive religious matters," says a top law enforcer.He however argues they are closely tracking these outfits since the official drive ...
(read more) Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 As if it was the way things ought to be. The eight-month-old baby girl fell from the clutch of her kidnappers and lost her right leg under the wheels of a running freight train, only to be saved later by a warm-hearted couple.The couple, residents of Atlanta, USA, will be leaving the country next week with their adopted daughter whom they call Ashima.This is how Ashima's amazing life story goes. On May 11 of 2006, two heroin addicts -- Billal and Rahima -- kidnapped her from Mymensingh and hopped on a Chittagong-bound freight train.With the baby in one of ...
(read more) Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 An enthusiastic Amjad Hossain headed out to cast his vote at the Sabitri Girls' High School polling centre at Ghoramara of Rajshahi city with his shiny new digitised national identity card (NID).No sooner had he reached the centre at around 11:00am, than his bubble burst. He was told by the polling officer that the voter registration number, not the NID number, is required to cast vote.It took an hour and a half for this elderly person to go home and get back to the polling centre with the voter registration number. He had to spend the next half hour in ...
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