3 Number 479 Tue. The city dwellers welcomed the year 2001 amid jubilation and merry-making.
Speculation is rife in the diplomatic circle over the appointment of the next foreign secretary.
Three boys were burnt alive in a fire at a waste paper warehouse at R K Mission Road in the city in the early hours of yesterday. The last decade, which died with the millennium, was neither a period of righteousness, nor of just governments. At the ending of the millennium the Sharaf Sharif era of our country has drawn to its close. Siraj Zinnat died of cardiac arrest at his Baridhara residence yesterday afternoon. The Daily Star Internet Edition , is jointly published by the Daily Star with the technical assistance provided by Onirban .