Ruling Awami League leaders levelled ‘allegations of corruption’ against BNP-backed mayoral candidate MA Mannan as a campaign tool during electioneering on Wednesday while BNP leaders highlighted the ‘failures and corruption of the incumbent government’ during the campaign of the Gazipur City Corporation elections. Two frontrunners — AL-backed Ajmat Ullah Khan and BNP-backed Mannan and party stalwart who are campaigning for […]
Leaders of Gazipur district and city units of the Jaitya Party are confused as to who they would support in the Gazipur City Corporation elections, scheduled for July 6, because of frequent changes in stand and the conflicting statements the party chairman, Hussein Muhammad Ershad and other leaders were making. While some local Jatiya Party leaders are campaigning for the […]
The ruling Awami League’s candidate Rejwan Ahammad Toufique is set to win the Kishoreganj 4 by-election that was held on Wednesday amid allegations of ballot stuffing and agents of opposition candidate being chased out. The Election Commission has set up a committee, led by Kishoreganj joint district judge Ashraful Alam, to investigate the allegations. Toufique, the eldest son of the […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party has apparently fallen into an embarrassing situation over the article reportedly written by party chairperson Khaleda Zia published in the Washington Times on January 30 this year. The party’s senior leaders previously defended the article. But Khaleda Zia, the leader of the opposition, while delivering her statement on national budget in parliament on June 29 categorically denied […]
The 9 division general officer commanding, Major General Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, on Wednesday sounded a warning that nobody should ‘play foul with the army’ over Reshma being rescued from the rubble 17 days after the Rana Plaza had collapsed. Suhrawardy, who led the rescue operation of the Rana Plaza collapse, said this at a press conference at the secretariat as […]
Female students in Dhaka University continue to face sexual harassment by fellows and teachers and an acute accommodation crisis, suffer because of poor sanitation and games facilities in their academic life. Girl students alleged that they often fell victim to sexual harassment by their fellows and male teachers. They hardly lodge complains with the authorities as offenders fearing social harassment […]
Dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Islami Chhatra Shibir ended on Wednesday amid stray incidents of vandalism and explosion of crackers across the country. Demonstrations and blasting of cocktails took place in Chittagong, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal, Narayanganj, Joypurhat, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Baguna, Comilla, Feni, Chandpur and Sirajgonj. Three police personnel suffered injuries y during the shut down. Police detained 18 Jamaat and Shibir […]
Petrobangla has decided to keep the CNG filling stations shut for six hours every day from the first to the 26th day of Ramadan to increase gas supply for power generation by over 1,000 million cubic feet per day. Under the new arrangements, the filling stations would remain closed from 3 PM to 9 PM during the first 26 days […]
The National Board of Revenue chairman Ghulam Hussain on Wednesday said that bank accounts of MA Mannan, BNP-backed mayoral candidate in Gazipur City, were frozen not because of political reasons but for non-payment of overdue taxes. ‘We did not choose the election time to freeze his accounts but it happened on completion of a long drawn legal battle for collecting […]
The government on Wednesday alerted law enforcement agencies against possible acts of ‘sabotage by political opponents’ in power sector during the month of Ramadan. An inter-ministerial meeting at the home ministry ordered the agencies including police and Rapid Action Battalion for actions against power department officials if they were found responsible for load-shedding, particularly at the time of Iftar, Tarabi […]
A pilot became injured and another escaped unhurt after a military helicopter had a forced landing because of a technical glitch at Chowhail near Savar in Dhaka on Wednesday morning, officials said. Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Bari, who became injured, was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka after being given primary treatment in nearby Enam Medical College Hospital at Savar. […]
Bangladesh is ranked 28th among 35 countries of Asia and the Pacific Region in the Social Protection Index of the Asian Development Bank, meaning that a large number of poor and vulnerable people of the country are exposed to risks like unemployment, ill health and natural disasters. An ADB study report, released on Wednesday, ranked Bangladesh poorly because of its […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, will leave Dhaka for London today on a weeklong official visit to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Belarus. On the first leg, she will visit the United Kingdom from July 4 to 8. From there, she will visit Belarus on July 8-10, foreign ministry sources said. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines […]
Transport owners and workers started their indefinite strike in Khagrachhari on Wednesday to press home eight-point charter of demands including action against extortionists, occupational safety and road maintenance. Other demands are compensation for recently vandalised and robbed vehicles, ban on illegal and unregistered vehicles and steps against free bus ride for students. Representatives of owners and workers also handed over […]
An Indo-Bangladesh roundtable on Blue Peace in the Eastern Himalayas concluded on Tuesday in Mumbai stressing early settlement of the unresolved issues including trans-boundary water resources. The Strategic Foresight Group, a think-tank engaged in crafting new policy concepts that enable decision makers to prepare for a future in uncertain times, organised the roundtable attended by 25 senior diplomats, parliament members, […]
The anti-militancy committee has asked the authorities concerned to ensure the hoisting of the national flag in all aliya madrasas, home and education ministry officials told New Age. The committee against militancy at a meeting held at the home ministry in June came to know that the national flag was not hoisted in madrassahs although it was made mandatory in […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said her government is pledged bound to materialise all election commitments for country’s peace and progress and bring smile in the faces of common people. ‘We launched our journey with a ‘charter of change’. Since taking office, our government has been facing impending challenges of price hike of essentials, corruption, militancy and power […]
British high commissioner to Bangladesh, Robert W Gibson, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the president, Abdul Hamid, at Bangabhaban Wednesday afternoon. During the meeting, they discussed various issues on bilateral issues and matters of mutual interest. The president expressed satisfaction at the existing cordial relations between Bangladesh and the United Kingdom. Bangladesh values her relations with the UK […]
The food minister, Abdur Razzaque, on Wednesday said Bangladesh is now referred across the world as a country of success for its food security and its ability to address the climate change impacts. ‘Once Bangladesh was known as country of famine, drought and flood, but now it is referred across the world as a country of success for its food […]
Armed Police Battalion arrested five people with forged visas from the departure lounge of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday. The arrested, Jamal, 34, Liton, 34, Jasim Uddin, 35, Abdul Kader Saikat, 22, and Bashir Uddin, 40, were from Comilla. Senior assistant commissioner of Airport Armed Police Alamgir Hossain said a team of police arrested them while conducting a drive […]
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