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News Desk: Police detained 18 people from an abandoned house in Lama upazila of Bandarban early today as they gathered there with an intention to go to Malaysia illegally. An alleged human trafficker, Abul Hossain, was arrested from the house at Kumari village. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police raided an abandoned house at a rubber garden at the village around 12:30am and captured the 18 fortune seekers. The victims are from different parts of Sylhet, Noakhali, Feni, Comilla and Barisal districts. The law enforcers also took Abul Hossain, caretaker of the garden, into custody on charges of his involvement with trafficking. Quoting the victims, police said a gang of human traffickers had brought them there a few days ago promising to send them to Malaysia. A case was filed with L...

‘JMB trying to contact Islamic State’ DB detains acting ameer, 6 others of the militant outfit Detectives produce the seven activists of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) including its acting ameer before the media today after arresting them in Turag area on the outskirt of Dhaka yesterday afternoon. Photos: TV grab Detectives in Bangladesh allege that the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is trying to establish a connection with the Islamic State (IS). “And as far as we know, they already attained some success,” Monirul Islam, joint commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told reporters at a press conference in Dhaka today. The presser was arranged to make public the details of seven JMB militants’ arrest, including its...

Jamaat calls hartal for tomorrow, Sunday News Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide hartal from 6:00am Thursday to 6:00am Friday and 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Monday protesting the Supreme Court verdict that awarded war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee jail till death. The announcement came as a part of Jamaat’s four-day protest programme following the verdict on Sayedee, said a press release signed by Jamaat acting ameer Moqbul Ahmed and acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman. The others programmes include offering doa for Sayedee on Friday and countrywide demonstration on Saturday. In the release, Jamaat demands immediate release of Sayedee. They also protested the SC verdict awarding him imprisonment till death in the “stage-managed and farcical case”. The SC today commut...

Sayedee's death sentence commuted Sentenced to imprisonment till death News Desk: In this Star photo taken on September 21, 2010, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Amir Delawar Hossain Sayedee is leaving a war crimes tribunal after a session amid strict security. The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment till death for his crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. A five-member bench of the apex court, headed by the Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, pronounced the verdict at 10:06am by majority view amid tight security. However, the chief justice did not disclose names of the judges who gave different opinions over the judgement of the 74-year-old Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer. Attorney General (AG...

Members of Bangladesh Navy seized the “biggest ever” consignment of Yaba tablets near Patenga in Anwara upazila of Chittagong early today. An anti-smuggling team of the navy cracked down on a smuggling operation and seized a fishing trawler, FV Saleha, along with 2,20,000 Yaba tablets early today, claimed team commander Jasimuzzaman. This is the largest ever haul of Yaba in the country, the commander claimed. However, none was detained over the incident that took place 14 kilometres off from the port city, our Chittagong correspondent reports. Navy received intelligence that a big shipment of Yaba will be smuggled into the country from Myanmar, the commander said. We followed a trawler coming in from Myanmar around 5:00am,” he said. “Soon, we chased the trawler and managed to intercept...

Shirshobindu Desk: This Star file photo taken on May 17 shows Easy bikes plying Chittagong city roads rampantly. The High Court today directed the government to stop the plying of illegal three-wheelers on the highways of five southern districts within 72 hours. Deputy commissioners and superintendents of police of Barisal, Khulna, Madaripur, Faridpur and Rajbari have been asked to comply with the order and submit a report before it by two weeks. The bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Md Khasruzzaman issued the order in response to a writ petition filed by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh. The order will be effective on Nosimon, Kariman, Bhutbhuti, Mahindra and easy bikes. The rights group recently submitted the writ petition to the HC saying that these vehicles...

Reuters, Baghdad: A video purportedly showing threats being made to a man Islamic State (IS) named as David Haines by a masked IS fighter in an unknown location in this still image from video released by Islamic State September 2, 2014. Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday which purported to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage. However, the images were consistent with that of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month. Haines, a 44-year-old father of two from Perth in Scotland, was kidnapped last year while working for the French agency ACTED. The video entitled, "A Message to the Allies of America," opened with UK P...

  News Desk: The government today cancelled freedom fighters’ certificates of five top bureaucrats after probe found they had obtained the certificates without fulfilling conditions properly. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haq revealed this before journalists after a meeting with Jatiya Muktijoddha Council in Moghbazar area of Dhaka this afternoon. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found that the top bureaucrats obtained the certificates "illegally" to extend their service period last year. Three of the five bureaucrats are secretaries, one a joint secretary and the other is chairman of the privatisation commission. They are: Health Secretary Niaz Uddin Mia, Public Service Commission Secretary AKM Amir Hossain, former Liberation War Affairs secretary KH Ma...

Larger Apple iPhone shipments delayed amid record orders Reuters: Customers may have to wait three to four weeks to get their hands on Apple Inc's iPhone 6 Plus, after a record number of orders for the company's latest smartphones strained available supply. The new iPhone 6 goes on sale on Sept 19 in the United States but the company began taking online orders on Thursday. While the larger 5.5-inch "Plus" models now display a wait time of up to a month, the 4.7-inch version remains available for delivery on Sept. 19, Apple's website showed.Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Corp, also showed shipment delays of up to six weeks on their respective websites. Apple said the pace of orders has so far outstripped any of its previous iPhones. “Response to iPhone 6 and ...

15 expert tips for a healthy PC Prevention is better than cure: keep your laptop or desktop in top condition In some ways, computer problems are inevitable: like the car that you use to get from A to B, there's always the chance that a tyre will blow out or a bit of the engine will give up the ghost no matter how carefully you drive. Desktop and laptop computers are mechanical machines after all, and those machines can occasionally break down. However, just like a car, there are ways in which you can minimise the chance of running into problems. Regular services and some care and attention will most likely keep your motor running smoothly, and we're here to explain how to do the same for your PC: follow these tips to keep your computer fit and h...