Dhaka-KL MoU unaffected, claims Malaysian minister
Malaysian human resources minister Richard Riot has said the decision to freeze all recruitment of foreign workers does not affect the validity of the memorandum of understanding…
Archive for February 20th, 2016
Policeman shot dead by colleague in Rangamati
A policeman was shot dead by his colleague at Shukhineelganj police checkpoint in Rangamati town on Saturday noon…
Ex-BCL men again lock up IU main entrance for job
A group of former activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Saturday locked up the main entrance of Islamic University in Kushtia for two hours demanding jobs in the university…
Bombs, explosives recovered from Mohammadpur
Detectives recovered several bombs and a huge amount of bomb making materials from a house in the city’s Mohammadpur area early Saturday…
BNP wants CJ’s order to arrest ex-judge Shamsuddin Chy
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday urged the chief justice to issue an order for the arrest of former Supreme Court judge AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury for concealing his dual citizenship while discharging his responsibility as a judge…
PM distributes Ekushey Padak-2016
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday handed over Ekushey Padak-2016 to 16 eminent personalities in recognition of their outstanding contributions to their respective fields…
‘Tree-man’ undergoes successful surgery
Initial surgeries on Abul Bajandar, the man infected with rare tree-man disease, are successfully carried out at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday…
Another held over Habiganj 4-child murder
Police arrested another person for his suspected link to the killing of four schoolboys, who had gone missing from Sundrateki in Bahubal of Habiganj on February 12, from the same village on Saturday morning…
Increased train fare comes into effect
The newly raised fare for passengers and freight trains became effective from Saturday, following the second hike in 20 years…
McCullum smashes fastest test century
Brendon McCullum struck the fastest ever test century in a blistering counter-attack that dragged his side back into the second test against Australia, with New Zealand 273 for six at tea on the first day on Saturday…
Trump calls for boycotting Apple to force unlocking iphone
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a boycott of Apple until the tech giant helps unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers. Apple has clashed with the Justice Department over a court order forcing the company to help break the encryption on one of its phones…
Cameron hails EU deal to give Britain ‘special status’
David Cameron hailed a landmark deal on Friday he said gave Britain ‘special status’ in the European Union…
Author Umberto Eco passes away
The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84…
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, dies
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
Malaysia stalls hiring foreign workers
The fates of several lakh aspirant migrant workers became uncertain as the Malaysian government decided to suspend recruitment of all foreign workers, including those from Bangladesh…
All set to observe Amar Ekushey
The nation will pay homage to the martyrs of the language movement of 1952 a minute after midnight past today by placing wreaths at Shaheed Minars across the country amid beefed up security…
Fin min asks BPC to deposit its profits, repay debt
The ministry of finance, apparently being unhappy with the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation’s stance for not slashing the oil prices, asked the state-owned corporation to deposit the profits it had made last year to the public exchequer…
Yet another missing boy found dead
Another minor boy was found dead at Syedpur in Narayanganj on Friday a few hours after he went missing.
The body of six-year-old Pranab Basu, bearing several injury marks in the face, was found in a bush near land registration office in Narayanganj on Friday afternoon, police said….
UP POLLS : AL, BNP start distributing nominations
The Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have started distributing nomination papers among its chairman candidates for the union parishads going for the first time for partisan elections beginning on March 22…
Newly fixed increased train fare comes into effect today
The newly fixed increased train fare comes into effect today (Saturday) as critics raised their voice against widespread corruption, misuse of public money and wrong policy that made the state-run railway a losing concern…
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