Sakib back home for batting tips
Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan made a secret trip back home from Kolkata this week to take some batting tips from his childhood mentor Mohammad Salahuddin…
Archive for May 7th, 2016
Pakistan anguished on dismissal of Nizami’s review petition
Pakistan expressed its ‘deep concern and anguish’ on dismissal of review petition of the war crimes death row inmate Motiur Rahman Nizami by the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court…
EC not reluctant at all: Rakibuddin
Turning down the allegation that the Election Commission is playing a silent spectator’s role in curbing election irregularities and violence, chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad…
Shab-e-Barat on May 22
The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country on May 22 as the Shaban moon was not sighted in Bangladesh sky on Saturday…
AL infighting leaves 2 dead in Rajshahi
At least two people were killed while 30 others injured as police opened fire to disperse Awami League activists, who locked into an hour-long clash over union parishad…
4 killed as voting in 4th phase UP polls end amid violence, stuffing
Four people were killed and scores injured as voting in the 4th phase election to over 700 union parishads in 87 upazilas of the country’s 46 districts began on Saturday…
Follow code of ethics, President urges engineers
Citing the incident of using bamboo sticks instead of iron rod in the construction of a building in Chuadanga recently, president Abdul Hamid on Saturday urged engineers…
BCL leader held with pistol at Ctg polling station
The police arrested nine people, including a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader, from a poling centre at Hathazari in Chittagong during voting in the 4th phase union parishad…
RU professor killing: Protest continues amid vacation
Teachers and students of Rajshahi University on Saturday continued their demonstration programmes on the university campus for the straight fifteenth day of the gruesome murder of Rajshahi University English professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, though a 20-day summer vacation began at the university today. They also declared that they would continue their demonstrations until the perpetrators were brought to book. […]
Salafi-turned-sufi hacked to death in Rajshahi
An Ahle Hadith-turned-spiritual practitioner was hacked to death at Jumarpara of Tanore in Rajshahi on Friday night.
The murder bears the hallmark of previous murders of bloggers and secular activists…
Nisha finds Bangladesh tour ‘productive’
US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs Nisha Desai Biswal found her latest tour of Bangladesh a ‘productive’ one and advanced cooperation on countering terrorism and extremism…
Canadian wildfire disrupts evacuation convoy
The only land convoy evacuating the Canadian city of Fort McMurray has been disrupted due to 200ft (60m) flames flanking the road, officials say…
Aleppo ceasefire extended by three days
A truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for three days to ‘prevent the situation from worsening’, the Russian defence ministry says…
Labour’s Sadiq Khan elected London mayor
Sadiq Khan has been elected the new Mayor of London – boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland’s elections.
Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor, after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 1, 310,143 votes to 994, 614…
4th phase UP polls today
The fourth phase of the first ever partisan election to union parishads is set to be held at 725 unions across the country today with the opposition fearing violence, intimidation and rigging…
RCBC chief quits, cleared by bank probe
The Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation has accepted the resignation of Lorenzo Tan as president and CEO of the Yuchengco-controlled financial institution effective immediately, the bank said in a statement released Friday evening, Philippines’ daily Inquirer reported on Friday…
HSC at govt schools: Govt fails to appoint teachers in 8 years
Nine government schools that introduced higher secondary level education eight years ago are yet to get any teachers to teach at the level…
Non-registered primary schools: Jobs of 2,595 teachers to be nationalised
The government is going to nationalise the jobs of 2,595 teachers of 519 non-registered primary schools across the country.
Of the teachers, 519 are headmasters and the rests are assistant teachers…
Posts of 1,500 Tahsilders, assitt Tahsilders vacant
Posts of 500 Tahsilders and 1,000 assistant Tahsilders have been vacant since May 2013, leaving the land owners to face hassles in getting service and hampering collection of revenues at the field land offices…
Rivalry between IU VC, pro VC: classes become irregular
Holding classes at the Islamic University, Kushtia suffered disruptions over the last two weeks as open rivalries between the vice chancellor and the pro vice chancellor sharply divided the teachers and officers prompting them spend more time on agitations against each other. Rivalries between vice-chancellor Abdul Hakim Sarker and pro vice-chancellor Shahinoor Rahman sharply divided teachers and officers. The rivalries […]
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