More than one lakh foreigners are now working in Bangladesh illegally and the number is on the rise with the government taking no initiative to check the illegal practice causing serious concern about the national security and aggravating unemployment, experts said. Most of these foreigners enter Bangladesh on tourist visa and overstay here taking jobs violating the laws and without […]
People wishing to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with families in their country homes find it tough to get advance bus and train tickets as most of the tickets are sold out in a few hours after the counters open every day. The Bangladesh Railway, which began selling advance tickets on Friday, said all tickets for August 4 had been sold out on […]
A Myanmar navy frigate that has been stationed in the River Naaf along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border will stay there for about a month, a Border Guard Bangladesh official said. The Myanmar warship is there to supervise a smooth changeover from Nasaka, the Myanmar border force that has recently been abolished, to the National Police Battalion, the official told New Age. […]
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday came up with an explanation of the comments made by the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and said Joy had actually wanted to mean that the Awami League would return to power if the party activists could be more active before the next polls. ‘Joy wanted to mean that […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia to perform umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government. She along with her entourage flew by a flight of Emirates Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport about 7:10pm. Leaders and activists of BNP and its front and associate organisations saw her off at the airport. […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the country would have no elections in the next 10 years if an unconstitutional intervention interrupted the continuation of the current democratic journey. She warned all concerned that no one should play any dirty game with elections. ‘If any unconstitutional force takes over, there will be no elections in the next […]
The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, is apparently returning home ‘empty-handed’ from Delhi ahead of the crucial Bangladesh election, revealed the Kolkata-based Bangla daily Anandabazar Patrika. Worried over her futile Delhi tour, the foreign minister Dipu Moni has admitted that it will surely be frustrating if two pressing issues – Teesta and land boundary deals — are not signed with India. […]
The acting Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman was on Saturday remanded in police custody for three days for interrogation in one of the cases filed against him in February. ‘We have taken him in our custody for three days for interrogation beginning today,’ the Ramna police officer-in-charge, Moshiur Rahman, told New Age on Saturday. Mahmudur would be interrogated in the […]
Bureaucratic bottleneck has delayed the deposition in a special court in India of the father and the uncle of Felani Khatun, a 25-year-old girl who was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force when she was crossing the border in Bangladesh on the Phulbari frontiers in Dinajpur on January 7, 2011. Felani’s father Nur Islam and her uncle Hanif Ali […]
A Birangana of Chittagong, Roma Chowdhury called on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at the latter’s Ganobhaban residence in Dhaka Saturday morning. After seeing Roma Chowdhury in the meeting room of Ganobhaban, the prime minister embraced her and requested her to sit beside her. ‘You are younger to me. So, I extend my heartfelt blessings to you so that you […]
The European Union would attach the improvement of human rights in Bangladesh with its aid programme from the next year, officials said. The EU a leading trade partner and source of development aid for the country would also attach importance to the food security of households led by vulnerable women, they said. Officials said it was not surprising for the […]
Nine Bangladeshis, arrested in Mexico on Wednesday, will land in the North American country’s jail for 15 days for illegal entry. Bangladesh’s foreign ministry confirmed the figure on Friday in an official release and said the Mexican immigration authorities would allow Bangladesh Embassy ‘consular access’ to verify the nationality of the detained persons. Once verified, according to the media release, […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the gazette notification on the 8th wage board award for journalists and workers of the press would be issued soon. She also said that efforts were on to implement the new wage structures for newsmen and employees in the newspaper industry. ‘We will have one cabinet meeting before Eid-ul-Fitr. The cabinet […]
The Singapore flag ship that was forced to return to the Chittagong port because of high sea after being caught in a storm two days ago left for its destination on Saturday afternoon, port officials said. The MV Express Karnaphuli laden with more than 800 containers left the Chittagong port about 1:00pm for Singapore, they added. The ship was caught […]
Local government experts, upazila chairmen and media personalities at a roundtable on Saturday termed the present upazila parishads ‘powerless’ and called for a concerted campaign for making the local government bodies ‘truly functional’. They said real democracy could not be established unless the local governments were strengthened. Local governments could not be made functional unless intervention by lawmakers in all […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday sought people’s blessings for her son Sajib Wajed Joy’s 43rd birthday. She also narrated the horrifying days of the Liberation War in 1971 when she had been carrying Joy and detained in a single-story damp building at Dhanmondi Residential Area, while talking to the editors, senior journalists and elected representatives of Bangladesh Federal […]
The communications minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said there could be no confusion about the next general election as it will be held in time as per the constitution. ‘The government has no scope to be there in power after October 25. So, why will not we go to the polls? There is no alternative to election, and it will […]
AKM Fazlul Haque and Wadud Ali were elected president and general secretary of the 13-member executive committee of the Rangpur Press Club. Senior journalist AKM Fazlul Haque is editor of The Dainik Poribesh being published from Rangpur and Wadud Ali is Rangpur office chief of the daily Ittefaq and Rangpur district correspondent of Gazi Television. Earlier, chairman of the election […]
Two feuding factory owners filed two cases against each other with Sripur police station in Gazipur for Friday’s clash between the workers of the factories over land dispute that killed a worker. NR Group managing director Shahajada Pradhan Babul filed a case on behalf of Arif Spinning Mills against 10 workers of Gulshan Spinning Mills and 500 unnamed people for […]
Kolkata, Guwahati and Shillong have of late emerged as India’s new smuggling hub, due to a spurt in trans-border smuggling through Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. According to the custom department statistics, the three eastern Indian cities are more preferred as routes for narcotics, arms smuggling and transfusion of contraband notes than even Mumbai, the den of underworld bigwigs. The country […]
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