The government on Tuesday asked the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police in all districts, including Dhaka, to take action against river grabbers in a month and free the waterways from encroachments. The task force responsible for ensuring navigability and natural flow of the rivers Buriganga, Shitalakkhya, Balu, Turag and other rivers across the country gave the directive at its […]

A Juba League leader of the Dhaka city unit was shot dead at Gulshan Circle 1 in the capital early Tuesday. The deceased, Reazul Haque Khan Milky, 42, was organising secretary of the Awami Juba League’s of Dhaka metropolitan (south) unit. Milky was shot in front of the Shoppers World on Road 123 at Gulshan about 1:07am, the Rapid Action […]

Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti president Jyotirindra Badhipriya Larma on Tuesday said the ethnic minority communities were tired of verbal assurances and now they wanted a clear road map for implementation of the 1997 CHT accord. He said the government had done nothing in past four years and a half to implement the deal and accused it of ignoring the […]

The Anti-Corruption Commission gave around Tk 1.3 crore to Ferdous Ahmed Khan, special assistant to the prime minister, from the commission account in ‘reward’ as he had helped in the recovery of Tk 13.15 crore in 2012 that Arafat Rahman, the youngest son of the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, is alleged to have siphoned off to Singapore. The commission chairman, […]

Poet Belal Mohammad, also a pioneer of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, died of old-age complications in Apollo Hospitals in the capital early Tuesday. Belal’s long-time close aide Ayub Hossain said that the poet had died about 5:00am. He was taken to the hospital on Monday evening when he complained of uneasiness, Ayub said. The president, Abdul Hamid, and the prime […]

Thirty-five supporters of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, who were abducted by their rivals from Kattali area of Langadu on February 16 and held hostage for 163 days, returned to their homes on Monday after being freed by the kidnappers. They were abducted while returning from Rangamati town after attending the party’s founding anniversary programme. The abductors had taken away […]

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education on Tuesday cancelled the monthly pay of order of 273 non-government teachers after corruption had been spotted in the enlistment process, officials told New Age Tuesday. Officials said that all these teachers with the connivance of some officers and employees at the DSHE managed to get the MPO enlistment from June although no […]

The families of the garment workers who went missing following the Rana Plaza collapse blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway at Savar for two hours on Tuesday demanding compensation before Eid-ul-Fitr. Several hundred people from the families of the workers missing and injured blocked the highway for two hours from 9:45am, formed a human chain beside the collapsed Rana Plaza site and laid […]

Two suspected carjackers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion in South Keraniganj early on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sabuj Miah, son of Abdur Rashid of Bhola and Sagar Ahmed, son of Mobinur Rahman of Barisal. RAB also recovered a foreign-made revolver, two rounds of bullet, four bullet shells, two machetes and four mobile […]

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said that ‘selfishness’ was a big flaw in modern economy and it should be converted to ‘selflessness.’ The concept of modern economy be change if selflessness earns its place in business, Yunus said hours after he had returned to the capital from a 21-day tour abroad. The Nobel peace prize winner Yunus, who delivered […]