Staff Correspondent

A Dhaka court has deferred the trial in the Bashundhara bribery case against senior BNP joint secretary general Tarique Rahman and others until Wednesday.

AFP, BAQUBA, Iraq  - A suicide bomber thwarted a security check at a police recruiting centre in Iraq on Tuesday and blew himself up, killing at least 25 young people, the local police chief said.

News on Tarique injury in prison

Desk Report

The Dhaka University on Monday was quiet hours after violence erupted on the news that ailing BNP leader Tarique Rahman slipped and injured himself in the bathroom in prison.

Staff Correspondent

A writ petition filed on Monday urged the High Court to repeal the Truth and Accountability Commission Ordinance, which it claimed was unconstitutional.

Coalmine Graft Case

Staff Correspondent

The High Court Monday granted former ministers M Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar anticipatory bail in the Baropukuria coalmine graft case.

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The Election Commission starts photographing Urdu-speaking voters living in Dhaka camps on Monday, in the final leg of voter registration for Dhaka City Corporation, an official said.

Our Correspondent

Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College was closed for an indefinite period Monday as violent clashes erupted between students and locals after a youth was beaten to death within the college campus on suspicion of being a thief.

Sexual harassment

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Dhaka University authorities have sent a psychology department teacher on a year's forced leave after charges were proved against him involving sexual harassment of a female student, a university official said Sunday.

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Dhaka University teachers belonging to the Awami League-backed 'Blue Panel' have demanded removal of present pro-vice chancellor and treasurer and appointment of "neutral persons" to the two posts.

Oil prices edged up to nearly $115 a barrel Monday as the U.S. dollar lost some ground against the euro and the Japanese yen, making commodities more attractive to investors, reports AP.

AP, LONDON -- The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in early European trading Monday.

The euro traded at $1.4753, down from $1.4775 late Friday in New York.

BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain Monday said if party chief Khaleda Zia and son Tarique Rahman were not released the four-party alliance would be compelled to call for a series of programmes, reports bdnews24.com.

Desk Report

Buying led stocks to close upbeat Monday, maintaining gains from last week's closing day, though the market witnessed a bearish trend over the previous nine weeks.

Bdnews24.com

Awami League presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said on Monday it was not possible for the party to meet the conditions for registering by Oct 15, the deadline announced earlier in the day by the Election Commission.

REUTERS, KOLKATA, India- Thousands of protesters surrounded a factory building what is billed as the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in the biggest demonstration yet against seizure of farmland for industry in West Bengal.

REUTERS, BEIJING- The tattoo on Lloy Ball's arm says "Anger is a gift", but on Sunday the 36-year-old U.S. volleyball veteran was feeling pure joy when he ended his fourth Olympic Games with a gold medal.

REUTERS, BAGHDAD- Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only US politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way.

REUTERS, COLOMBO- Sri Lanka's ruling party won weekend provincial polls and said the victory was an electoral endorsement of its eight-month campaign to militarily crush Tamil Tiger separatists.

Jubilation quickly gives way to anxiety over the sinking economy and growing militancy, and the bickering govt.

La Times

"How can I feed my family? How can I give my children a future?" he said, falling into step with other worshipers heading to afternoon prayers at a run-down neighborhood mosque in the capital. "That's what I am asking God every day. Every single day."

REUTERS, KABUL- A NATO-chartered helicopter crashed on Sunday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar near the border with Pakistan, causing one death, a spokesman for the alliance said.