The government on Sunday asked apparel factory owners to pay workers their wages and festival allowances by August 6 as the three-day holiday for Eid-ul-Fitr will begin on August 8. ‘All apparel factory owners have been asked to pay workers wages and other allowances by August 6 so that no one can make an issue out of this in the […]
The High Court on Sunday issued a fresh order asking the labour ministry and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association secretary to submit by July 28 their reports on compensations given to the workers injured and the families of the workers killed in a fire at Tazreen Fashions Limited at Ashulia in Savar. The court also directed the officer-in-charge […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday said her party, if voted to power, would run the country in a ‘new manner’. She made the brief remarks at an iftar she hosted on the premises of the LD hall of Jatiya Sangsad for mayors-elect and councillors of city corporations, chairmen and vice-chairmen of upazila parishads, municipality chairmen and […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday asked the government to open dialogue immediately or amend the constitution to restore the provision for an election-time caretaker government. At a pre-iftar discussion, she iterated that elections would not be allowed without a ‘non-party neutral’ caretaker government. Dhaka city BNP hosted the iftar-party on the premises of LD hall of […]
Different institutions and individuals donated Tk 127.67 crore to the prime minister’s relief and welfare fund between April 29 and July 8 for giving compensation to and rehabilitation of Rana Plaza victims but apparel factory owners owners have yet to contribute to the fund. After the Rana Plaza collapse on April 24, which left more than 1,100 people dead, the […]
War crimes accused Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has said he will not return to Bangladesh to face the International Crimes Tribunal, terming it ‘a farce’. In an interview to Al-Jazeera’s Jonah Hull for the programme ‘Talk to Al-jazeera’, he said the tribunal was a ‘joke’. When asked if he will face the tribunal to clear his name of the charges implicating him […]
Work orders of local government and engineering department at local level are controlled politically as ruling party men, local lawmakers, relatives and close persons of ministers usually control the deals by interfering into the tender process. Besides, political leaders have a clandestine understanding with the engineers to get the work orders of the LGED and most of the time the […]
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted Awami League lawmaker Md Golam Maula Rony bail in a case of ‘attempted murder’ filed by the Independent Television management after he had assaulted their two journalists. Rony, also editor of online news portal Different News, appeared before the court of metropolitan magistrate Md Rezaul Karim, seeking bail in the case filed with the […]
Foreign minister Dipu Moni on Sunday took a swipe at a section of the media for publishing ‘false’ reports that she had made a ‘record number’ of foreign trips and accused them of launching an ‘orchestrated campaign’ against her. In response to a question at a regular press conference at the foreign ministry, Dipu Moni said her foreign trips had […]
Death row convict of war crimes Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was seen smiling on Sunday when he greeted his counsels and others at the makeshift court set for the trial of 21 August grenade attack case near Dhaka Central Jail. The convicted Jamaat leader, also former Al-Badr chief during the liberation war, wore white Panjabi and off-white Pajama during the […]
The International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Sunday allowed detained BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to submit 55 more documents in his defence. The documents include affidavits made by 40 Bangladeshis and three Pakistanis – Mohammed Mian Soomro, Mohammad Osman Siddique and Ishaq Khan Khakwani –, two books – Unfinished Memoirs by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Amar Ekattur by Anisuzzaman –, […]
The 1,000-bed multi disciplinary, super-specialised hospital that will be set up under Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University will not follow the standard system of referral hospital. ‘It is difficult to properly enforce referral system in or health system,’ the university vice-chancellor, Pran Gopal Datta, told New Age. There is no system of general practitioners in Bangladesh, he said. ‘Because of […]
Mirajul Alam, a Class VII student of Kalidah SC High School in Feni, is now lying in a bed in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University after being tortured by his teacher over an altercation with his classmate. Mirajul, 14, has been in the psychiatric department in the university hospital since July 14, when he was brought to Dhaka from his […]
The people of Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka district are not getting gas for last one week because of a burst of a pipeline while piling works of a building. The Titas Gas authorities have not taken any action even though two lakh subscribers are suffering during the fasting month of Ramadan. On July 14, the main gas supply line suffered […]
Rajshahi University masters year student Touhid-al-Tuhin, who was earlier photographed with fire arms, was made general secretary of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student front of ruling Awami League, creating dissatisfaction among the students as well as party men. On 15 of July, 2012 a gunfight had taken place at Rajshahi University campus between two factions of […]
A Bangladeshi man was reportedly shot dead by extortionists in Johannesburg in South Africa early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Tajuddin, a resident of Sirajpur village of Companyganj upazila. The victim’s elder brother Raihan Uddin said Tajuddin went to South Africa about three years back and had a shop of crockery. He said a gang of 5/6 armed extortionists […]
A businessman was shot dead and his son injured allegedly by Juba League activists at Chambol Bazar of Bashkahli upazila in Chittagong on Saturday night. The businessman, Badroj Meher Chowdhury, 55, died on the spot and his son who Faruk Chowdhury, 30, was injured critically. Bashkhali police officer-in-charge Kamrul Hasan said that Badroj Meher had longstanding dispute over land with […]
At least five students were injured in a clash between National University students and law enforcers in Gazipur on Sunday. As part of the protest against grading system, the students blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. A dozen of vehicles were also vandalised during the demonstration. Meanwhile, NU students of Bogra Government Azizul Haque College demanded cancellation of the new grading system under […]
A former officer of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence told a speedy trial tribunal trying the ‘August 21 2004 grenade attack’ cases on Sunday that the intelligence agency does not keep the vouchers of the source money. During the cross examination, the then DGFI’s general staff officer-ll, Lieutenant Commander Mizanur Rahman, told the court that they ‘receive money from accounts […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday gave financial assistance of Tk 12 lakh to the family of Ejaz Uddin Chowdhury Kaikobad. Kaikobad died while taking part in the rescue operation following the tragic Rana Plaza collapse at Savar on last April. The prime minister handed over savings certificates for the amount to the family of the victim at her office. […]
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