The two mayoral frontrunners — ruling Awami League-backed Ajmat Ullah Khan and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party backed MA Mannan–feared violence during and after the maiden Gazipur City Corporation polls as electioneering came to a close midnight Thursday. The Election Commission on Thursday said law and order in the run-up to the polls was satisfactory and did not call for deployment […]
Eleven sailors went missing after a Bangladeshi cargo ship was caught in rough weather in Andaman Sea near Phuket early Thursday, port and shipping officials said. The ship was bound for Chittagong port from Malaysia. The ship, MV Hope, captained by Rajib Chandra Karmakar and carrying ball clay, sailed from the Malaysian port of Lumut July 2, and ran into […]
A leader of the United People’s Democratic Front and another of the reformist group of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity were gunned down by miscreants in bordering Pujgang area in Panchhari upazila of the district on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Samir Chakma, 32, organiser of Panchhari upazila unit UPDF, and Jerman Chakma, 30, leader of Pujgang union unit […]
The Jatiya Party, a key partner in the Awami League-led alliance, on Thursday extended its support for the AL-led alliance-backed Ajmat Ullah Khan in the Gazipur City Corporation elections scheduled for Saturday. The Jatiya Party chairman, HM Ershad, made the announcement at a press conference that was hurriedly organised at the head office of his proposed Union Bank at Gulshan […]
The controversial Hallmark Group has sent a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her interference so that they could restart banking and business activities. Hallmark Group’s legal agent M Mahbub Alam sent the letter to the prime minister on Tuesday, sources said. In the letter the group appealed to the prime minister to take initiatives for release on bail […]
CNG filling station owners will go on strike for an indefinite period beginning this morning in protest at mobile court action against a filling station in Sylhet. The Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Owners’ Association announced the strike on Thursday evening as the association claimed that there was no scope for mobile court inspection of any filling station before […]
The decision to set up a studio for Sangsad Television inside the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban damaging the original design has been halted. The speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Thursday told New Age, ‘‘I have visited the space today. The move has been halted though some amount of money has already been spent.’ American architect Louis I Kahn kept the northern […]
The ruling Awami League-backed Ajmat Ullah Khan running for the mayorship of Gazipur in the city polls on July 6 ended his campaigns on Thursday seeking votes for the continuity of development and levelling ‘allegations of corruption’ against the BNP-backed mayoral candidate MA Mannan as a campaign tool. A number of activists of the ruling party’s student organisation Chhatra League […]
With the electioneering in Gazipur city corporation polls drawn to a close, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance on Thursday accused the ruling Awami League of plotting violence on the polling day on Saturday and warned that any attempts to ‘rig’ the elections would not go ‘unchallenged’. The election conducting committee of Sammilita Nagarik Committee at a news conference at […]
The number of registered vehicles without fitness certificates increased by more than half, though it is not known how many of these ‘unfit’ vehicles are actually being driven across the country. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority statistics show that as of December 31, 2012 there were 2,06,000 motor vehicles without up to date fitness certificates, an increase of 66,286 from June […]
Landslides and floods triggered by several weeks of monsoon rains have killed at least 50 people in mainly remote parts of Nepal, a government official said Thursday. ‘So far, 50 people from across the country have been killed by landslides and floods,’ said Lakshmi Prasad Dhakal, chief of national emergency operation centre, which monitors natural disasters in Nepal. The death […]
West Bengal wants the Indian government to stop all future hydel projects on the Teesta river, the state’s irrigation minister Rajib Bandopadhyay says. Bandopadhyay told the news agency that he has taken up the issue with chief the minister, Mamata Banerjee, who has agreed to move Delhi on the issue. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has already set up three […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, arrived in London on Thursday on a weeklong official visit to the United Kingdom and east European Republic of Belarus. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage reached Heathrow Airport at 2:30pm local time. Bangladesh high commissioner to the UK Mohammed Mijarul Quayes, his wife and […]
The ruling Awami League’s candidate Rejwan Ahammad Toufique won the Kishoreganj 4 by-election that was held on Wednesday amid allegations of ballot stuffing and agents of opposition candidate being chased out from polling centres. Toufique, the eldest son of president Abdul Hamid, contesting with the electoral symbol of boat polled a total of 99,933 votes while his rival Sayed Mahitul […]
Customs officials last night arrested an Indian national along with diamond and gold weighing 500 grammes worth about Tk 3.5 crore from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city. ‘We arrested an Indian national named Rajesh, 40, along with a luggage containing 500 grammes diamond and gold worth about TK 3.5 crore from the airport around 10pm on Wednesday,’ assistant commissioner […]
Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Thursday said he would give a reply in time to the Yunus Centre that had sought an apology from him for his statements on the Grameen Bank and its founding managing director Muhammad Yunus in parliament. ‘I will reply in time,’ said AMA Muhith after emerging from a meeting of the cabinet committee […]
The transport strike that began on Thursday morning in the ten district of Khulna division was postponed in the evening till July 15. Khulna divisional unit of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation general secretary Abdur Rahim Bux Dudu at a briefing at Khulna Press Club at about 7:00pm said that decision was made after the communications minister assured them of […]
The mother of the raped student of Viqarunnisa Girls’ School and College on Thursday testified against the accused, Parimal Joydhar, at the Repression on Women and Children (Prevention) Tribunal-4 in Dhaka. The tribunal judge Arifur Rahman, posted for August 22 the trial in camera of the case. Two lawyers each from both the defence and the prosecution would be allowed […]
Train communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet resumed on Thursday afternoon, after a suspension of four hours following the derailment of a container train in Burichong upazila. Hamidul Haque, senior sub-assistant engineer at Comilla Railway Station, said a bogie of the Dhaka-bound container train veered off the tracks at a place in between Rajapur and Rasulpur railway stations around […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday termed the by-election to the Khishoreganj 4 constituency a dress rehearsal of ‘vote robbery’ in the forthcoming national elections. The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the allegation at a news briefing at the party’s central office at Naya Paltan. He alleged that the by-election to the Kishoreganj 4 constituency held […]
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