Apparel workers rampaged through the industrial belts in Gazipur setting factories on fire, vandalising vehicles, blocking highways and fighting pitched battles with the police for the second straight day on Sunday to press their demand for wage increase. About 200 people, including workers and police men, were injured in the clashes as the unrest also spread to Uttara in the […]

Home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir on Sunday said that the government was worried, but not panicked, by the recent incidents of ‘political killing’ across the country. He, however, termed the killings of political leaders and activists as stray incidents with the tenure of the Awami League-led government nearing end. ‘There were stray incidents of such killings in recent time… We […]

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 after hearing both the sides in Abdul Alim’s war crimes case on Sunday reserved the verdict saying it would hand down the sentence at a later date. It also cancelled Alim’s bail responding to prosecution plea to reject a defence prayer to continue his bail until the verdict was delivered in the case. The tribunal directed […]

Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Sunday said Grameen Bank will be brought under the ‘jurisdiction’ of the Bangladesh Bank. He, however, said other matters of the bank including 25 per cent stakes of the government and three directors appointed to the GB board of directors will remain same. At present, there is no specific regulator for the GB […]

Bangladesh nationals in Kenya are safe following Saturday’s terror attack on an upscale mall that killed at least 59 people and injured 175 injured. ‘Our high commission in Nairobi has informed that no Bangladesh national has been affected by the terrorists attack at the Westgate Shopping Centre,’ director general, external publicity wing of the foreign ministry M Shameem Ahsan said […]

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, left Dhaka Sunday night for New York on an eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister will address the 68th session of the UNGA on September 27. On the sidelines of the UNGA, she will attend a number of high-level events […]

Three students, two of whom are Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders, were injured as Shibir clashed with Chhatra League in Rajshahi University on Sunday. The injured were Abu Sufian, Motihar Hall unit Shibir president, and Imran Hossain, Science Faculty unit Shibir president, who both are students of statistics, and Firoz Hossain, a fourth-year student of language department. Abu Sufian was sent […]

The US ambassador at large, heading the office of global criminal justice in the state department, urged Bangladesh to subject the death sentence imposed on Abdul Quader Molla to a ‘genuine process’ of review ‘which considers the appropriateness of the death sentence.’ Speaking on Sunday morning from Washington by phone to New Age and two other newspapers, Stephen J Rapp […]

Dhaka has rejected Washington’s proposal for the signing of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement during the visit of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to the Untied States to attend the UN General Assembly. Hasina left Dhaka for New York on Sunday to attend the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York beginning September 24. She […]

People started feeling the pinch of frequent power outages in mid-autumn as the authorities concerned failed to meet the power demand, officials said. Five power distribution companies now receive between 20 and 40 per cent less power than what they need, they said. The difference between the demand and the supply of power forces the distribution companies to cause power […]