The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said that the students who had staged rowdy protests and engaged in vandalism during the agitations for cancellation of the quota system would not qualify for government jobs. Hasina, also president of Awami League, in her introductory speech at the Awami League Central Working Committee meeting at Gana Bhaban said that the government […]
The countrywide shutdown enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday passed off rather peacefully barring stray incidents of vandalism, torching of vehicles and clashes between pickets and law enforcers. Jamaat enforced the 10-hour shutdown in protest at the government’s ‘conspiracy’ toWari ‘judicially kill’ its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. The hartal, which was largely ignored by the people, was the fourth […]
The government on Thursday promoted 345 deputy secretaries to the rank of joint secretary in excess of the positions approved in the organogram, a move said to have taken to please a section of public servants before the general elections. The ‘record number’ of deputy secretaries have been made joint secretaries at one go with the Awami League-led alliance government […]
International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Thursday issued the warrant for the arrest of Nagarkanda municipal mayor Zahid Hossain Khokan, also the Nagarkanda upazila unit BNP’s vice-president, after taking cognisance of war crimes charges pressed against him. The tribunal issued the warrant in response to a prosecution plea of June 23 seeking the warrant for Khokan’s arrest as he went into […]
Bangladesh Railway’s losses continued since it raised fares on October 1, 2012. BR also lost many passengers since the fare hike, officials said. BR’s annual loss of Tk 963 crore was minimised by only Tk 280 crore after the fare hike, they said. From November 2012 to April 2013 three crore four lakh passenger travelled by BR down from three […]
A judicial magistrate in Dhaka on Thursday asked the Ashulia police to submit investigate and submit a report on September 9 in a case the brother of an apparel worker filed in May against the Tazreen Fashions owner and 30 other executives. Senior judicial magistrate Toyebul Hasan, on May 29 when the brother of the worker, who went missing in […]
The war crimes prosecution on Thursday submitted the formal charge against Jamaat-e-Islami’s assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam on six counts of crimes against humanity he is reported to have committed in Rangpur in the independence war in 1971. The prosecution submitted the charge to the tribunal through the registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal in the morning. Prosecutor Nurjahan […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday said that it had no authority to bring the BNP’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman back home. ‘We are just going ahead with the case. The court will made the decision on his [Tarique’s] arrest,’ the commission’s secretary M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury told reporters at a regular press briefing at the commission. A court in Dhaka […]
The chief election commissioner, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, on Thursday said the Election Commission had proposed amendments to electoral laws to bar persons convicted by the war crimes tribunals from contesting any elections. The commission is also bringing changes to the Electoral Rolls’ Act 2009 so that no convicted war criminals or persons convicted by war crimes tribunals could be enrolled […]
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has issued notices to principals of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, Motijheel Ideal School and College, and Manipur High School for not refunding or adjusting the additional amount of money they charged during student admission to Class I in the 2012 session. ‘On Wednesday morning I approved the notices served to the Viqarunnisa […]
A Jamaat-e-Islami man was beaten to death in Santhia upazila of Pabna early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Md Abu Sayeed, 42, son of Wahed Ali of village Tethulia Bazar of Santhia upazila. He was a trader of drum and an activist of upazila unit Jamaat. Jamaat blamed ruling party men for the killing while police said he might […]
The members of Indian Border Security Force picked up three Bangladeshi nationals from Medenipur and Benipur border points in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga on Wednesday. The victims were identified as Ariful Islam Arif, 30, Kawsar Ali, 42, and Hashem Ali, 30, of the upazila. The BGB sources said the BSF men from Putkhali BSF camp picked up Arif and Kawsar […]
Police recovered a decomposed body on Thursday morning from the River Balu of Rupganj in Narayanganj. The deceased was identified as Anwarul Alam Liton, 42, son of the late Habibul Alam of village Baniasani under Rupganj upazila. Subinspector Abu Bakkar said as the body was decomposed it was difficult to find out the reason behind the killing.
A local Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal activist was hacked to death by unknown miscreants at Bhababhadri village in Begumganj upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Abdul Matin, 25, activist of Alaiarpur union unit Swechchhasebak Dal and son of Nurul Islam of Ekabarpur village of the uapzila. Witnesses said a group of masked miscreants attacked Abdul Matin and hacked […]
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on Thursday fixed the date for issuing order on contempt charge against The Economist, a London-based news magazine, on August 27. The date was fixed by a three-member tribunal-1 here headed by Justice ATM Fajle Kabir. Barrister Mostafijur Rahman Khan pleaded for The Economist while Sultan Mahmud Simon appeared for the prosecution and conducted hearing […]
The government has not, as promised, any compensation to the transport owners who incurred losses in country-wide agitations by Jamaat and Hefajat since February 28 in which hundreds of buses and trucks were damaged or burnt. Transport owners suffered losses worth Tk 17 crore from February 28 to March 5, Bangladesh Road Transport Owners’ Association secretary general K Enayet Ullah […]
Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office has taken a special measure to install information service centres at 11 city corporations and 318 municipalities across the country. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed between A2I Programme and the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction to reach all kinds of service of the city corporations and […]
Speakers at a discussion said the adolescents needed decent behaviors from their surroundings especially parents and other near and dear ones for their sound grooming. They viewed adolescent time is very important for every male and female. So, every one of us should feel about giving the adolescents right directions or lessons for their proper development. To this end, there […]
The information minister Hasanul Haq Inu urged on Thursday all to follow ideology of Nelson Mandela to remove disparity from all spheres of society. Mandela struggled in his whole life to establish equal rights of people through removing all kinds of deprivation, he said in a function at the Liberation War Museum on the occasion of 95th birth day of […]
Students of Islamic University in Kushtia formed a human chain on Thursday, demanding the continuation of exams instead of closure. Earlier the authorities decided to vacate the halls by July 20 instead of August 1 in order to avoid factional clashes of political rivals. The departments have postponed at least 40 year final exams following the closure decision, said sources […]
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