ONE wonders what power is behind the Malaysian firm IRIS that has allowed it to get away with all sorts of failings in meeting its part of the contract in issuing machine readable passports to our expatriate workers.

FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith underlined an issue of considerable import at a pre-budget discussion with the Economic Reporters' Forum (ERF) on Saturday.

Mass graves and suspected human-trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country's home minister said yesterday.

Carnival Of Destruction

Disaster In Waiting

THERE are no words to describe our outrage at the horrific news that a 21-year-old indigenous woman has been gang-raped on the

AFTER a hiatus of nine years, the government has formed a panel to review ways certain state-owned power companies may off-load

Shillong police is likely to produce Salahuddin Ahmed before a court tomorrow, as doctors at the Indira Gandhi health institute might discharge BNP leader on that day, police and hospital sources said.

AMIDST the grisly reports of human trafficking through the seas comes another shocker : Bangladeshis, posing as government officials, entering foreign countries with fake passports.

THE aftershocks of the massive quakes epicentered in Nepal have resulted in damages to some 61 primary schools in nine upazilas of Pabna district.

George W Bush has gone down in history as one of the world's most evil people, just behind Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

Today is the first death anniversary of Mominul Haq, an organiser of the 1971 Liberation War and a cousin of Bangabandhu Sheikh

A three-member team from St Joseph School and College became the national level champion of Stockholm Junior Water Prize

THE serial killing of bloggers in Bangladesh, with little development as far as catching and punishing the assassins are concerned, has compelled the Human Rights Forum (Bangladesh) to call upon the government to provide protection to online writers/activists, many of them still on the hit-list of religious extremists.

WE are heartened to note that the government is taking active steps to integrate the marginalised transgender community into mainstream society.

The meeting of Chittagong University Senate, scheduled to be held tomorrow to form a three-member panel for electing CU vice-

The third convocation of Asian University for Women (AUW) was held at the university in Chittagong city yesterday. AUW Trustee Young

Siraj Uddin Bulbul; father of Mazhar Uddin Omi, sports reporter of Dhaka Tribune, died due to brain haemorrhage at the National Heart

Today is the ninth death anniversary of Golam Rasul Mallik, a freedom fighter and founding editor of Eastern News Agency.

Zahurul Haque Mamun, publicity secretary of district AL in Lalmonirhat Sadar, died of heart attack in Rangpur Medical College Hospital on