Mir Quasem wants time to decide on seeking presidential clemency
The Kashimpur jail authorities read out the verdict of his review petition to death row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali on Wednesday morning. The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who…
Archive for August, 2016
Jamaat’s hartal gets no response
The dawn-to-dusk general strike enforced by the Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its leader Mir Quasem Ali’s death penalty is…
Nine dead as typhoon hits northern Japan
At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan after Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains on the area…
SWIFT discloses more cyber thefts
SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks…
Myanmar holds historic peace talks with ethnic groups
Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic tribes gathered Wednesday in the country’s capital for historic peace talks with the government aimed at…
North Korea executes vice premier
North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday…
IS chief strategist al-Adnani killed in Syria
Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group…
Death for war crimes: Quasem loses legal battle
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Mir Quasem Ali’s petition seeking review of its verdict upholding his death sentence for war crimes….
Jamaat calls hartal
The Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike protesting at what they called ‘the government’s conspiracy to kill Jamaat-e-Islami’scentral executive member, Islami economist, social worker and media personality Mir Quasen Ali.’…
Govt procurement: Ministries to get more power
The ministries’ power would be enhanced to approve purchases for development projects under the annual development progamme up to Tk 100 crore, finance division officials told New Age…
Frequent power cuts continue
People are reeling under sweltering heat coupled with frequent power cuts across the country in the recent days.
The government’s much-trumpeted success in increasing electricity generation capacity is felt little to ease the sufferings of power consumers passing days and nights under unbearable temperatures…
Terrorist financing: S’pore jails two Bangladeshis
Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers accused of planning to join the Islamic State group were jailed Tuesday in Singapore for raising money to fund attacks in their homeland…
Half of Class VIII students lag behind in govt competence test
Fifty one per cent class VIII students failed to achieve the expected level of competence in English and 46 per cent students lack necessary competence in mathematics, according to a government study on the state of learning in the country….
Zia, Khaleda need to be tried in public: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia should be tried in public for inducting convicted war criminals into their cabinets…
RISHA KILLING: Willes’ students continue to protest
Students of Willes Little Flower School and College on Tuesday continued to protest on the school premises and its adjacent road for the third consecutive day, demanding that the suspected killer of the school’s Class VIII student, Surayia Akhter Risha, be brought to justice…
What will Joy Bangla now refer to: ToI
While many across the border have welcomed the West Bengal assembly’s resolution to change the name of the state to ‘Bangla’ in Bengali, ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bangal’ in Hindi, a section of people are worried about the problems that might surface with Bangladesh’s National Anthem with this name-change, reports The Times of India…
Fresh Padma flooding: Standing crop in 10,000 hectares washed away
Standing crop in about 10,000 hectares in Rajshahi, Kushtia, Norail and Chapainawabganj have been inundated and washed away by the new spate of Padma water increase, according to Department of Agricultural Extension…
Khaleda sued, summoned over ‘fake’ birthday
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday issued a summon to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for celebrating her ‘fake’ birthday on August 15…
Ban tells Myanmar world concerned about Rohingya
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar on Tuesday that the world is very concerned about the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been living for more than four years in camps in northern Rakhine state after fleeing violence from the Buddhist majority…
Pak foreign secretary’s visit postponed
The visit of the foreign secretary of Pakistan, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, to Dhaka was postponed on Tuesday evening, diplomats said…
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