The High Court on Sunday directed the inspector general of police to submit a report in 72 hours on steps they had taken to stop extortion by the police from goods transports. A bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain issued the order suo moto taking cognisance of a newspaper report headlined ‘Police extortion adds to […]
Long-route bus operators expressed worries about about highway traffic management and said that the government should improve the situation to make Eid-time travel comfortable for home-goers. They said that home-goers would face problems on their way to outlying areas from the capital during Eid, likely to be fall on August 9 or 10, subject to moon sighting. The bus operators, […]
Ceaseless shower overnight caused by a low in the Bay on Sunday took the lives of a mother and her daughter in landslide in Chittagong, marooned coastal villagers and caused water logging in the capital. Automobiles in Dhaka and Chittagong were stuck in knee-deep to waist-deep water triggering massive traffic jams as vehicles had to negotiate through flooded streets. At […]
Taka 7 lakh was paid as compensation to each successor of 99 identified workers who died in Tazreen Fashions fire, said Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturers and Exporters Association in the compliance report it submitted to the High Court on Sunday. BGMEA president Atiqul Islam submitted the report in the bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain. […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that no elections of blueprint would be allowed in the country. Addressing a gathering, the acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir iterated that general elections could not be held without a non-party government being in place. He said that people would not allow any ‘ill attempt’ regarding the elections. The Dhaka […]
The government has set the import price of a unit electricity from India at Tk 6.34. The cabinet committee on national purchase, headed by the finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, approved the proposal of the power division to pave the way for the first-ever cross-boundary power purchase. Officials said that the proposal was not initially included in the list […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, referring to the anti-government forces, said the ‘conspirators’ now were trying to distort a recent speech of Sajib Wajed Joy. ‘Who will run the country next? Is it pro-liberation force or war criminals? It’s a big question before the nation at present,’ she said while addressing journalists at a function in Dhaka on Sunday. The […]
The government in a draft guideline allowing the operation of foreign universities, their branches and joint ventures with local universities said that they could have the approval if they had floor space of 15,000sq ft. The Private University Act 2010, however, requires local private universities to have floor space of 25,000sq ft and six departments under three faculties for temporary […]
World Tiger Day would be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world underlining the need for protecting the endangered tiger species against total extinction. Some 41 tigers were killed and 11 died normally in last 17 years in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, said forest officials. According to Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division of […]
The Election Commission on Sunday decided to bring further changes to its proposed amendment to the Representation of the People Order 1972 to curtail its own authority to cancel candidatures. Though the commission on Thursday sent the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Order 1972 in a bill format, ostensibly to be placed in parliament, to the law […]
The war crimes prosecution on Sunday began its closing arguments against Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. Prosecutor Zead-Al Malum opened the arguments in the International Crimes Tribunal 1 saying that Salauddin, also BNP standing committee member, was involved in atrocities during the country’s liberation war in 1971 in Chittagong. He argued that Salauddin, in association with the Pakistani […]
The BNP chairperson and opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, reached Saudi Arabia early Sunday to perform Umrah during her a 10-day visit at the invitation of the Saudi government. Sources at the Saudi unit of BNP said the opposition leader and her entourage arrived at the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Medina around 2:00am (Saudi time). Several hundred expatriate BNP […]
Three Bangladeshi were nabbed by Border Security Force of India in separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday. They arrested Bangladeshi national Ullumia, 36, from the Benipur Kushumpur frontier in Jhenaidah. Border Guard Bangladesh sources said Ullumia was arrested while returning home with fourteen cattle. The BGB Chuadanga Commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Asad said a flag meeting was held in the […]
A Chittagong court sent a man to jail on Sunday allegedly for killing his two younger brothers over a land dispute. The Chittagong senior judicial magistrate, Abu Saleh Mohammad Noman, issued the order as the man Abul Kalam Azad, a resident of Sultanpur village under Raozan upazila of the district, surrendered before the court. Court sources said the two younger […]
Seven people were killed in accidents in capital on Sunday and Saturday night. Of them, four were killed in traffic accidents, a cleaner was killed in a lift shaft fall, a minor girl died as she fell on a kitchen knife and a rickshaw puller reportedly committed suicide. A bus ran over a man, Md Nowsad Pramanik, 35, while he […]
A court in Tangail on Sunday sentenced a man and his wife to life term for kidnapping a one and six months baby in 2011 in Tangail. The court also fined them Tk 20,000, in default, another three years’ rigorous imprisonment. After examining records and witnesses, District Women and Child Repression and Sessions Judge Abdul Mazid handed down the verdict in […]
A meeting was held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Sunday with a view to forming a parliamentary caucus on maternity, newborns and child health. Speaker Shirin Sharmin presided over the meeting while state minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroze Chumki, whip Shagufta Yasmin, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on primary and mass education Mamtaz Begum, chairman of […]
Hepatitis-B claims nearly 30,000 lives in Bangladesh though it is preventable and about eight per cent of the country’s population are infected with the virus each year, health experts said on Sunday. The experts also said about 7.8 per cent of people in Bangladesh are carrying hepatitis virus which is the main cause of liver diseases. In this backdrop, World […]
The movement against the proposed India-Bangladesh joint venture coal-based power plant at Rampal near Sundarban is getting stronger day by day drawing wide public support. The former Bagerhat 3 constituency lawmaker Talukdar Abdul Khalek, also immediate past mayor of Khulna City Corporation, played a vigorous role in implementing the much-hyped power plant project but after his defeat in the recent […]
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday protested at the Election Commission’s move to amend the Electoral Rolls Act 2009 to exclude the war crimes convicts from the electoral rolls and termed it ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘uncalled for’. A party delegation led by its Majlish-e-Shura member Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher met the chief election commissioner, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, at his office to lodge […]
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