The ongoing teachers’ movement at a number of public universities across the country is badly affecting the academic activities, raising concerns among many, including students. Teachers have waged movement accusing the incumbent vice-chancellors of being engaged in corruption, irregularities and nepotism at Jahangirnagar University, Comilla University, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and Khulna University, causing disruption of academic activities. […]

The High Court on Wednesday directed the Jahangirnagar University authorities to take immediate steps to ensure that daily administrative functions of the university are not hindered in any manner. The court also asked the government, the University Grant Commission, the university administration, the inspector general of police and the Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association to explain in four weeks why they […]

Ruling Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony was arrested by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at Badda in the city on Wednesday few hours after a metropolitan magistrate ordered his arrest for assaulting journalists. Metropolitan magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan issued the warrant for the arrest of Rony at about 2:00, cancelling the bail he obtained from another metropolitan […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Wednesday again told the government that time had not run out for dialogue on the issue of a non-party government to hold the next general elections. Addressing a pre-iftar discussion, she said when BNP was in power, it had accepted the then opposition Awami League’s demand for a caretaker government. ‘Now you […]

The parliamentary standing committee on the home ministry on Wednesday unanimously observed that the police were filing cases against thousands of unnamed people on charge of violence, mainly by political parties, to extort money from innocent people. The committee at its meeting held at the national assembly complex also said that teams of plain-clothes police were out to extort money […]

LGRD and cooperatives minister Syed Ashraful Islam said on Wednesday that the next general elections would be held in a free and fair manner without deployment of army troops and hoped that all the political parties would contest the polls. On the second day of the three-day annual conference of deputy commissioners, he called upon the district administrators to work […]

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday set August 1 to give its decision whether Jamaat leader and the alleged founder of the infamous Razakar force in 1971 AKM Yusuf would be indicted on charges of crimes against humanity. The tribunal fixed the date after hearing charges against Yusuf placed by the prosecution and the discharge petition from the defence. Yusuf […]

The speaker, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, on Wednesday rejected treasury bench member Golam Maula Rony’s claim that she had said ‘parliament was not embarrassed by his activities’. She made the clarification when newsmen sought her opinion about Rony’s statements at a news conference on Tuesday after meeting her following his announcement to resign his membership of parliament. ‘What Golam Maula said […]

The Election Commission on Wednesday finalised the proposed amendment to the Electoral Rolls Act 2009 to drop from the voters’ list the convicts of any offence under the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973. A meeting of the commission approved the proposed amendment to the act, election commissioner Shah Nawaz told waiting reporters after the meeting. He said that the commission […]