Archive for April 5th, 2016

Iceland PM calls for dissolution of parliament after tax scandal

Prime minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has asked for parliament to be dissolved after the opposition called a vote of no confidence in the government, Iceland’s president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson said on Tuesday…

16 Premier University students expelled, 7 suspended

Premier University authorities in Chittagong on Tuesday expelled 16 of its students and suspended seven others for their alleged involvement in the killing of a fellow student…

April 5, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
Devastating fire at Kunipara

Devastating fire at Kunipara

A devastating fire broke out at corrugated-sheet roofed colony at Kunipara in the city’s Tajgaon area on Tuesday evening…

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DU buildings no smoking zone

DU buildings no smoking zone

The Dhaka University authorities banned smoking inside all the university establishments including administrative building, faculties, institutes, offices, classrooms, laboratories and other buildings…

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ACC arrests BASIC Bank GM Zainul Abedin

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday arrested BASIC Bank general manager Zainul Abedin Choudhury at the city’s Motijheel area in connection with the loan scam…

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Charges pressed against 9 over Habiganj 4 children murder

Charges pressed against 9 over Habiganj 4 children murder

Detectives on Tuesday pressed charges against nine people in the case filed in connection with the killing of four schoolboys at Sundrateki in Bahubal of Habiganj. Abdul Muktadir, officer-in-charge of district Detective Branch of police, submitted a charge sheet before the court, United News of Bangladesh reports. Those named in the charge sheet are Bachchu Miah, Abdul Ali Baghal, Jewel, […]

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Khaleda demands judicial probe into Banshkhali killing

Khaleda demands judicial probe into Banshkhali killing

Demanding a judicial probe into the killing of four people in police firing in Chittagong’s Banshkhali area, Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on…

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Revised ADP at Tk 91,000cr, GDP growth 7.05pc

Revised ADP at Tk 91,000cr, GDP growth 7.05pc

The planning minister, AHM Mustafa Kamal, on Tuesday said the country was going to achieve seven per cent growth for the first time in the country’s history…

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Panama Papers: Cameron under pressure over tax havens

Panama Papers: Cameron under pressure over tax havens

David Cameron is coming under pressure to stop British overseas territories and Crown dependencies being used by the wealthy to reduce their tax bills…

Mild quake shakes country

Mild quake shakes country

An earthquake with magnitude of 5.0 occurred in India’s Lakhipur on Tuesday afternoon while it mildly jolted the capital and other parts of the country…

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday morning reaches at the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judges’ Court in a arson case filed against her at Jatrabari in the city in 2015.-Indrajit Ghosh

Khaleda gets bail in sedition, four other cases

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia secured bails in five cases including a sedition case after appearing before three separate courts on Tuesday…

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Ctg firing: 3 cases filed against over 3000 people

Three cases were filed on Tuesday in connection with Monday’s clash at Gandamara village in Banshkhali upazila during a demonstration…

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Khulna jute mill workers continue strike, block roads, railways

The indefinite strike, enforced by seven state-owned jute mills in Khulna to press home their five-point demand, entered the second day on Tuesday…

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Suspected robber killed in Faridpur gunfight

A suspected robber was killed in a gunfight between two groups of ‘robbers’ at Kongabati village in Faridpur early Tuesday…

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A man walks through the dried-up bed of a reservoir in Sanyuan county, Shaanxi province July 30, 2014.--Reuters photo

Climate change threatens hearts, lungs but also brains

Climate change can be expected to boost the number of annual premature US deaths from heat waves in coming decades and to increase mental health…

Law firm Mossack Fonseca is based in Panama City--AFP photo

Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca ‘helped firms subject to sanctions’

The Panama legal firm at the heart of a massive data leak kept clients who were subject to international sanctions, documents show…

Fellows carry an injured man to hospital on Monday after a fierce clash between villagers and law enforcers over setting up a coal-fired power plant at Bashkhali in Chittagong. 
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PROTEST AT COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT IN BANSHKHALI : 4 villagers killed in firing

At least four villagers were shot dead and 20 others, including 11 policemen, injured on Monday in a clash between the lawmen and villagers who were demonstrating against a move to construct a coal-fired power plant at Banskhali in Chittagong, police and witnesses said…

April 5, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

Bogra blast kills two

Police recovered 20 handmade grenades, four foreign-made pistols, 40 bullets, six magazines and a huge amount of bomb-making materials from a house at Sherpur in Bogra on Monday morning, hours after the death of two people in an explosion while making bombs…

April 5, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

CITY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS : Businesses given 6 months for relocation

The cabinet on Monday asked all concerned to relocate their business establishments from the residential buildings in the capital and other cities in six months…

April 5, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

Fuel oil prices to be slashed in a week

The government has finally decided to reduce fuel oil prices in the face of severe criticism that the consumers in Bangladesh were paying much higher prices for last two years compared to the rest of the world…

April 5, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

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