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STAR Day At A Glance | Sunday, December 24, 2017

The Dumni canal being filled up by real estate developers and land claimants reducing the canal to one-twelfth of its official width. Photo: Palash Khan/ STAR

Dear readers, here are the headlines of the day on Sunday, December 24, 2017. 

National 

Govt seeks review on 16th amendment verdict

One held over infant’s death during mugging

PM vows to turn Bangladesh Navy into 'Builder Navy'

2 ‘militants’ held in Dhaka

Polls time alliance: Have to wait to hear from Ershad, says Quader

Pry teachers’ hunger strike enters day 2 

‘Coordination among law enforcers to fight smuggling’ 

Lafarge okays plan to buy Holcim for Tk 5b 

PM visits late Mohiuddin Chowdhury's residence 

Another woman with massive leg calls out for help 

AG receives grenade attack threat 

ACC seeks docs of Bacchu’s banking transactions 

Prepare to move for polls under neutral govt: Khaleda 

Cars parked on a pavement on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Karwan Bazar obstructing pedestrians in one of the busiest thoroughfares of the capital. The photo was taken around 3:00pm on December 23, 2017. Parking of vehicles like that on the street is a regular phenomenon. Police fine and tow vehicles but the situation does not change. Photo: Anisur Rahman/ STAR

World 

Fire in Philippine shopping mall kills 37 

Smartphones that shook up the market in 2017 

Myanmar, accused of crackdown, invited to US-Thai military exercise 

NKorea says new UN sanctions an act of war 

Jerusalem tensions cast shadow over Holy Land Christmas 

Singaporean president’s car escapes summons

Turkey dismisses more than 2,700 with emergency rule decree 

Erroneous ‘Mary Christmas’ wish from Malaysia Airports goes viral

US drops charges that UN economist underpaid Bangladeshi worker

World's largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in China  

Philippine storm death toll rises to 200 

London Zoo reopens after fire that killed aardvark, meerkats 

A look back at the top fitness trackers of the year 

Sports 

BD clinch SAFF U-15 Women's Championship 

Messi has benefited from Neymar’s absence? 

Mourinho lashes 'childish' Man United 

Mourinho’s son celebrates Barca’sClasico win 

Ashes gone, pride at stake for wounded England 

[Watch] Messi assists Vidal without a boot on his right foot 

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