First Day of Spring of Bangla Calendar Celebrated

Renowned actor Humayun Faridee died at his Dhanmondi residence in the capital Monday morning. He was 60.

Sagar Sarwar, News Editor of private television channel Maasranga and his wife Meherun Runi, also a senior reporter of another private TV channel, ATN Bangla, were stabbed to death by unknown assailants in their fourth floor apartment bed room at West Rajabazar before dawn Saturday.
National daily ‘The Independent’ on Monday, 13 February 2012 reports

India, Bangladesh hackers wage cyber war

They play havoc with govt websites

Several postings in the social media including Facebook and LinkedIn have reported an ongoing cyber war between some hackers based in India and Bangladesh. The postings also confirm that the hackers from both the countries have mostly targeted government websites. The incidence of hacking has increased mainly due to some recent developments, including brutal killings by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at the Bangladesh-India border and India going ahead with the Tipaimukh dam construction against public opinion in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers, Expire Cyber Army and Bangladesh Cyber Army have locked horns with Indian Cyber Army and Indishel. In last two days, groups from both the countries hacked hundreds of government websites of their rival countries, the social media reported.
In Facebook, the pages of those groups have also mentioned the names of the sites they have had hacked. So far, the Indian groups have accused that the Bangladeshi hackers have hacked over 6,000 of Indian websites while Bangladeshi hackers say the number of sites hacked by the Indian hackers is over 3,000.