Candidates contesting four city polls were in the thick of campaigns on Wednesday using all their means to win voters as the electioneering ends this midnight. Elections to the city corporations of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet will be held simultaneously on June 15, with polling beginning at 8:00am. As the polling draws near, some candidates, especially backed by the […]
Khulna City goes to polls on Saturday to elect a new mayor with three contestants in the race amid growing fears that violence and the use of black money would influence the outcome. This time 4.4 lakh registered voters, 2.24 lakh males and 2.16 lakh females, are expected to cast their votes in the civic polls in Khluna. The previous […]
An election campaigner of 18-party alliance-backed mayoral candidate Ahsan Habib Kamal was injured as police opened fire on campaigners at Boiddyapara in the city Wednesday night. The critically injured, Harunur Rashid, 40, was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after his condition deteriorated in Barisal. The incident took place at about 8:00pm while the opposition alliance was busy in campaign […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders have warned that oust-government movement will be launched if the government manipulates the results of the elections of four city corporations to defeat the opposition-backed mayor candidates. They cautioned that the whole country would burst into flame if the elections are rigged in favour of the mayor candidates of the ruling-party. The BNP leaders issued […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said a section of media taking advantage of freedom of the press is disseminating false news and information to misguide people. She said the government didn’t impose any censorship on publication of any news as it fully believes in free flow of information and freedom of thought. However, the existing laws of the country […]
Secretaries on Wednesday sought an expansion of car loan facilities for civil bureaucrats and more spaces for their offices in the secretariat. They put forth the proposal at a meeting of top bureaucrats at the secretariat as the ruling Awami League is set to serve out its tenure in the government in January. The cabinet secretary, Mohammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, […]
Human rights organisation Odhikar till now found names of 61 people who were killed during the operation by the police and other law enforcement agencies to remove the Hefajat-e-Islam protesters from Shapla Square on May 6. The rights group in its fact finding report on joint operation of police, Rapid Action Battation and paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh, however, said that […]
India on Wednesday frankly admitted that there had been delay on its part to ratify the protocol on the 1974 land boundary agreement as well as in signing the pact on sharing the Teesta water but assured that it would implement those commitments made to Bangladesh by resolving its internal political compulsions. ‘We had no malevolent intention’ of not to […]
The World Bank investigation named four people, including former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain and former bridges division secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, to have been involved in the corruption conspiracy in the the Padma Bridge project. The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, on Wednesday said that the World Bank had blamed Syed Abul Hossain and Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan for […]
The government has withdrawn an order transferring a Hindu teacher to the Government Muslim High School in Dhaka in the face of opposition by some teachers and guardians. Mukta Ojha, an assistant teacher of biology at Gimadanga Tungipara Government High School, was transferred to the Muslim High School in Old Town of Dhaka on May 29. But the Directorate of […]
The Border Security Force of India shot dead two Bangladeshi youths and injured four others, including a woman, in Jessore, Thakurgaon and Lalmonirhat on Wednesday. The incidents took place a few hours before the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Pankaj Saran, claimed in a press meet that ‘there has been no killing at the border in last six months’. According […]
Four readymade garment units employing about 1,250 workers on New Eskaton Road in the capital were closed for indefinite period on Wednesday amid demonstration while six factories were shut in Savar and Ashulia. In the capital, Envoy Group closed their four units of three apparel factories– Regal, Astras and Nadia garments — on New Eskaton Road for indefinite period following […]
A metropolitan magistrate’s court on Wednesday allowed the acting Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman to be remanded in police custody for interrogation for three days the case of instigating fanaticism by publishing reports in his newspaper. The magistrate, Harun-or-Rashid, passed the order after Ramna police subinspector Mir Rezaul Islam, also the investigation officer, produced Mahmudur in court seeking him to […]
Authorities shut the Jessore Science and Technology University indefinitely following clashes between students and locals. Students have been asked to vacate the halls within 4:00pm, Proctor Professor Nur-e-Alam said. The decision was taken in an emergency meeting of the university on Wednesday afternoon. The police said the clashes began after an altercation with a security staff, Badal, a local man, […]
The prime minister and leader of the house, Sheikh Hasina, has said the government has taken a plan in principle to set up the ‘Rabindra University’ at Shahjadpur in Sirajganj for conducting research on Nobel laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore and keep his immortal creation unfaded in memory. ‘The government has a plan to establish outer campuses at Shilaidah in Kushtia […]
Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League—the student front of ruling Awami League—on Wednesday allegedly attacked a mobile court team led by Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) magistrate during a billboard eviction drive at the city’s GEC crossing and vandalised three vehicles of the corporation, police and witnesses said. The trouble erupted at around 1pm when CCC magistrate Najia Sharmin aided by police […]
The factional groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Dhaka College on Wednesday night traded gunshots over establishing supremacy on the campus. The supporters of BCL’s collage unit president Fuad Hassan and its general secretary Sakib Hasan also chased each other with lethal weapons. At least five were injured during the clash but it could not be confirmed immediately whether any […]
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University students rampaged through Agargaon in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night after a fellow of theirs died in the afternoon from injuries she sustained in a traffic accident earlier. Roshna Afroz, a PhD student of the university who became seriously injured after a microbus had hit her near the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Tuesday, died in […]
The High Court on Wednesday announced that it would deliver its verdict any day on two writ petitions challenging the legality of the Election Commission registering Jamaat as a political party. After hearing both the sides in the matter a three-judge special bench of Justice M Moazzam Husain, Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque reserved pronouncement of […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has urged the opposition leader to stay in the democratic course, saying that she (Khaleda) herself would benefit from it. ‘I would like to tell the opposition leader to stay on the right track for maintaining smooth democratic trend in the country and don’t deviate from it as you would benefit from it,’ she said. […]
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