Students demanding cancellation of quota in government jobs fought pitched battles with the police on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday as their movement spread to major universities across the country. Pro-government Chhatra League activists attacked protesters on the Dhaka University campus and beat them up with sticks and iron rods, the protesters alleged. Witnesses said the police had fired […]
The Supreme Court has directed Metro Makers which has developed Madhumati Model Town housing project in a flood-flow zone at Aminbazar on the outskirts of Dhaka to refund the plot purchasers double the amount they had paid the company, including the cost of registration of the deeds of sales, in six months. The court also directed Metro Makers Developers Limited […]
A top Awami League politician along with his family established a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, a country known as a secretive tax-free haven, New Age can reveal. In July 2006, Kazi Zafarullah, a member of the party’s 12-member presidium, along with his wife Nilufer Zafar, the current member of parliament for the constituency which her […]
The legal foundation for the rules relating to how Bangladesh residents can remove money from the country for personal or business use is set out in the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947. Section 5 of the Act sets out a blanket restriction on residents from making payments to people resident outside Bangladesh – though the same section allows Bangladesh Bank […]
Martyred intellectual Dr Abdul Alim Chowdhury’s widow, Shyamoli Nasrin Chowdhury, on Thursday recalled that in her interviews with the TV channels she always mentioned that her husband was picked up by Al-Badr men or orders from Nizami. During cross examination for the second and the last day she said in her interviews with TV channels she always mentioned the names […]
The government said on Thursday that it was taking preparations to administer the oath of office to the newly elected mayors of four cities but they have to wait to take their responsibilities until October when the tenures of the incumbents end. The local government division on Thursday sent a ‘summary’ on administering the oath of office to the newly […]
The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, on Thursday dismissed a $2.4 billion investment proposal a Chinese company earlier had made for the Padma bridge project saying that it was ‘not acceptable.’ ‘I have seen the proposal of the Chinese company. It is not acceptable,’ he told reporters after a meeting with Bangladesh Civil Service (education) officials at the secretariat. […]
Supreme Court lawyer Muhammad Zahir died in a Bangkok hospital Thursday morning at the age of 74. He was suffering from bone marrow cancer. He was admitted to the Bangkok General Hospital on June 27, his junior Tamzida Mila told New Age. His body would be flown to Dhaka Friday noon. His first namaj-e-janaza will be held on the Supreme […]
Petrobangla and the Power Development Board are in a tussle over gas supply to three new power plants over the lack of coordination between the state-run authorities for gas and power in project implementation, officials said. The Petrobangla chairman, Hossain Monsur, at a meeting on Thursday refused to accept a power board proposal for the supply of about 129 million […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said the present grand alliance government, showing full respect to the people’s mandate in five city polls and rectifying the lapses and errors, would work in future for a sustainable democracy, political stability and country’s economic progress to fulfill aspiration of the masses. In a statement, Awami League president Sheikh Hasina urged the […]
The police have dismissed as ‘unreal’ a report by Transparency International Bangladesh. The recent report by TIB had identified the police as one of three main fountainheads of corruption – political parties and judiciary being the other two. ‘The results of its survey are unclear, unrealistic and not based on information,’ a police press release said. ‘A report such as […]
A legal notice was on Thursday served to the election commission asking for holding the much-delayed elections to the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations. In the legal notice, advocates Gholam Nabi and M Alamgir Hossain asked the EC to reply to it within 48 hours after receiving it, or else, a writ petition will be filed with the High Court for […]
Jhalakati college student Limon Hossain, maimed by the Rapid Action Battalion two years back, was cleared of charges brought by the elite force as the government issued a gazette notification on Thursday withdrawing both the cases filed against him. The notification issued by the law ministry says: ‘As per the section 494 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the government […]
Floods triggered by onrush of water from upstream left thousands of villagers marooned and damaged crops in the northern districts of Kurigram, Lalmanirhat and Jamalpur. About one lakh villagers in 35 unions of seven upazilas in Kurigram district, affected by the flooding, were facing scarcity of food and drinking water. Our Kurigram correspondent said that the rain-fed Dharala, Teesta, Dudhkumar […]
An official has said that former president Hussein Muhammad Ershad took financial benefits from a US company to buy one high-powered and two low-looking radars during his rule. Anti-corruption commission deputy director Manjur Ahmed said this in his deposition in a case against the Jatiya Party chairman at the Dhaka divisional special judge court on Thursday related to corruption in […]
At least 30 students were injured when a Jagannath University bus collided with a freight truck in Narayanganj on Thursday afternoon. Angry students blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narayanganj’s Khajun and clashed with police and transport workers. At least 10 more people were injured in the conflict. Mobarak Hossain, a student of the university, told the news agency that the […]
Survivor of Rana Plaza collapse staged demonstration on Thursday in front of the capital’s BGMEA building, demanding payment of their wages in arrears and compensation. The protest was organised by the Rana Plaza Garments Sramik Union. Addressing the rally, Sramik Union president Emdadul Haque said the authorities had promised to pay their wages for four months but they paid that […]
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all nations. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva on Wednesday, each year tobacco kills an approximately 60 lakh people and causes more than half a trillion […]
Bangladesh celebrated World Population Day on Thursday stressing the need for raising awareness about ‘Adolescent Pregnancy’ and population growth. According to the United Nations, about 16 million under 18 mothers give birth to babies each year. Another 3.2 million adolescent mothers undergo unsafe abortions across the world, show UN figures. The health experts said that the main reason of Bangladesh’s […]
Three people died from electrocution in different incidents in Kushtia and Chuadanga on Wednesday. Two brothers were electrocuted at Nandia village under the sadar upazila of the district on Wednesday, reports Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. The deceased were identified as Mokim Uddin, 40, son of Kafil Uddin and his brother Hakim Uddin of the same village. The police said Mokim came […]
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