Passengers’ plight mounts with Eid nearing

Bangladesh Newspaper DHAKA, AUG 28: Sufferings of home bound passengers continued on Sunday as they were facing a series of difficulties on their way to home for celebrating Eid by train, bus and launch. After sweating hard to collect train tickets, a large number of home bound passengers were seen waiting at the platforms of [...]

Vitamin A pills ‘could save thousands of children’

Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim. Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts assessed 43 studies involving 200,000 children, and found deaths were cut by 24% if children were given the vitamin.And they say taking it [...]

Politics of crime in Bangladesh

Eleven days after the grisly grenade blasts at an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004, the then prime minister Khaleda Zia pinned the blame on AL leaders. This week, 82 months into the attack, the Criminal Investigation Department pressed charges against her son Tarique Rahman, nephew Saiful Islam Duke, ex-political secretary Harris Chowdhury, ex-state [...]

Bangladeshi judge delaying hearing in war crimes case

A special tribunal Wednesday delayed a potential war crimes indictment against a leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, which calls the case politically motivated. Delwar Hossain Sayedee and four other leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party are jailed pending investigation of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan. The hearing Wednesday [...]

Bangladesh PM tour to resolve border issues

The government on Wednesday expressed hope that the border issues between India and Bangladesh would be resolved during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to that country next month. Singh will visit Dhaka on September 6 and 7. During Question Hour, Home Minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha, “Issues related to land boundary between India [...]