The International Crimes Tribunal-1 is set to deliver today its long-awaited verdict in the case against detained former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam on charges of crime against humanity during 1971 war of liberation. The presiding judge, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, on Sunday set for today to give the verdict in presence of two other judges, Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice […]
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike for today in protest at ‘the government’s conspiracy to kill Jamaat leaders in the name of judgement.’ International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Sunday said that it would deliver its judgement in the case of crimes against humanity against former Jamaat amir Ghulam Azam today. Jamaat, a partner of BNP-led […]
Parliament on Sunday witnessed a heated debate over a controversial sermon of Hefajat-e-Islam chief Shah Ahmad Shafi on women after treasury bench members urged the people to raise their voice against the ‘nasty remarks’. Shah Ahmad Shafi’s sermon provoked outrage from broad section of the people, particularly women’s rights activists, after major television channels had broadcast the its video footage […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, has urged Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal to get prepared to play an ‘important role’ in the post-Eid movement for an election-time non-party government. She made the call at an exchange of opinions behind closed doors with leaders of the JCD, student wing of BNP, at her Gulshan office on Saturday, a party release said […]
The government seems to have retreated from its initial pledge to replace the short-term rental power plants as it has hinted at renewal of contracts with nine furnace oil-fired rental plants. The existing contracts with 18 diesel- and furnace oil-fired rental plants will expire by 2016. Government officials said that they had no options right at the moment but to […]
Students rallying against quota in public service continued with their demonstrations for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday, enforcing a strike in public universities. Two job-seekers, meanwhile, filed a writ petition challenging the legality of the application of quota to civil service. The protesters, mostly examinees who came out unsuccessful in the preliminary test of the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service, […]
The number of students passing the BCS preliminary exam increased almost four times the earlier figure as the Public Service Commission published the results after a review on Sunday. A total of 46,250 candidates become successful in the results of the test reviewed in keeping with the previous system. The commission on July 8 published the results of the 34th […]
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmakers on Sunday came down hard on finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith for mismanagement in the banking sector and the government’s ‘failure’ to implement the Padma Bridge project. They criticised the minister for placing the bank company (amendment) bill in the house after what they said destruction of the banking sector. The BNP lawmakers also […]
The Indian Border Security Force has compensated a Bangladeshi family on Sunday for killing their bread earner in Rajshahi border on November 9, 2010. Border Guard Bangladesh authorities handed over a cheque of five lakh Indian rupees to the family of Shah Alam in a ceremony at the 37 Border Guard Battalion headquarters in Rajshahi. Earlier, the Border Guard received […]
Investigators began questioning Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday over their escape from jail during the 2011 uprising, judicial sources said. The move came just hours after prosecutors received criminal complaints against the deposed president and other senior Islamists, and as the new prime minister planned further talks on forming his cabinet. The […]
The trial of absconding Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueenuddin and Md Ashrafuzzaman Khan alias Nayeb Ali is set to begin today on the charges of killing intellectuals in 1971. On June 24, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 indicted the two offenders in absentia on 11 counts of crimes against humanity for picking up and killing 18 intellectuals in Dhaka between December 11 […]
The High Court on Sunday directed three officers of the Shariatpur jail to submit in 14 days separate reports explaining how a woman prisoner, who has been in jail since March 2007, became pregnant. The court passed the order in the presence of the jail superintendent in-charge SM Rakib Haider, also the upazila nirbahi officer of Shariatpur, the jailer Abu […]
Shahbagh protesters resumed sit-in in the Shahbagh intersection on Sunday evening to press their demands including capital punishment for all war criminals. The protesters gathered in the intersection and started holding cultural programmes on the street in front of National Museum. Shahbagh Ganajagran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar said that the protesters would stay there overnight. The Ganajagaran Mancha resumed […]
Limon Hossain, the victim of RAB shootout, on Sunday once again demanded the trial of the six Rapid Action Battalion members who in a so called drive had shot at his leg that eventually resulted in the amputation of his leg. ‘I want the six RAB men to be prosecuted. I want to be rehabilitated… I want due compensation too,’ […]
The Election Commission has published a gazette notification declaring the official results of Gazipur City Corporation polls held on July 6. A senior assistant secretary of EC told New Age on Sunday that the commission had sent the gazette notification to the BG press to print it on Thursday as the commissioners signed the gazette on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, […]
Garment workers on Sunday demonstrated in front of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association building at Karwan Bazar in the city protesting against the closure of a factory and demanding wages and benefits including festival allowance as per the law. Several hundred workers of Pragati Fashion Wear Ltd, a sister concern of Palmal Group, staged the protests. They alleged […]
Election commissioner Shah Nawaz on Sunday said that the election-time government is not important as the Election Commission was ready to hold the national polls under any type of government. He also said that it were the politicians who would decide the type of election-time government. ‘The election-time government is not important to us. We are ready to hold polls […]
The government on Sunday brought about changes in salary structure for the city mayors decreasing their salaries which would scrap their status of the state-ministers, officials said. The local government division issued a notification on the day lowering the basic pay to Tk 40,000 from existing Tk 47,800, equivalent to the basic pay for state-ministers. The local government division officials […]
Abdul Malek, 67-year-old freedom fighter on Sunday testified that he was picked up from his village home at gun point in November 1971 by detained war crimes accused Mobarak Hossain with support from his Razakar accomplices and the Pakistani occupation army troops. Malek recalled that on November 28 or 29, 1971, his house at village Kharagpur in Brahminbaria was surrounded […]
The local government minister, Syed Ashraful Islam on Sunday dismissed the media reports about his resignation from the post of the ruling Awami League general secretary and termed it ‘false’ and ‘baseless’. ‘The media reports about my resignation are false and baseless…A vested quarter is spreading such propaganda against me only for political gains,’ Ashraf told journalists while entering the […]
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