Non-MPO teachers threaten 72hr rail, road blockade
Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions on Wednesday threatened to launch a 72-hour road, rail and waterway blockade programme from August 12 unless their institutions are brought...
View ArticleOrder on Yusuf indictment Aug 1
This May 12 photo shows Rapid Action Battalion men taking Jamaat leader AKM Yusuf to Rab-2 office after arresting him at his house. A tribunal in Dhaka will decide on August 1 whether it will indict...
View ArticleWar criminals, collaborators off voters list
The Election Commission (EC) decided on Wednesday to exclude convicts sentenced by the International Crimes tribunal (ICT) as well as those convicted under Bangladesh Collaborators Order, 1972 from the...
View ArticleRun regular administrative functions, HC asks JU
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Jahangirnagar University authorities to take necessary steps so that the regular administrative functions of the university are not hampered in any manner. In...
View ArticleUS to review GSP in December
The US will review the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facilities for Bangladesh in December, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said Wednesday. The foreign secretary was talking to newsmen after...
View ArticleJCD factions clash in city
Two cocktails were blasted as factions of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) engaged in a chase and counter-chase before the BNP headquarters at Nayapaltan in the capital on Wednesday. The incident took...
View ArticleAttacks on cops kill 9 in Iraq
Militants attacked a police station in north Iraq yesterday with mortar rounds and automatic weapons, killing nine police, while six people died in other violence, security officers and doctors said....
View ArticleAttacks on cops kill 22 in Mexico
Heavily-armed men assaulted Mexican federal police units in a carefully planned attack in which 22 people were killed, most of them assailants, in six towns, the government announced Tuesday. The...
View ArticleOne killed in Somalia car blast
At least one person was killed and several others were wounded yesterday when a car bomb exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the latest in a string of attacks, police said. The blast targeted a...
View ArticleFresh Bulgaria turmoil as violence flares
Calls grew for fresh elections in the EU’s poorest country Bulgaria yesterday after a 40th straight dlay of anti-government protests turned violent, leaving at least 20 people injured. The clashes...
View ArticlePutin to visit Iran for nuclear talks: Report
President Vladimir Putin is to visit Iran in August to try and restart talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme, Russia’s Kommersant daily reported yesterday. Putin’s visit is planned for...
View ArticleSavar poura mayor held
The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday arrested Savar municipality mayor Refayet Ullah from the capital’s Malibagh area in connection with the Rana Plaza collapse on April 24, said a CID...
View ArticleProf Anwar testifies at war tribunal
Alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan had led the abduction of several intellectuals from the Dhaka University campus on December 14, 1971, another prosecution witness...
View ArticleGovt plans reform in city polls
The government has initiated to annul direct election to the mayor and chairman posts in the local government levels. According to the move, elected councillors and members will elect a mayor or...
View ArticleDCs asked to reduce public sufferings
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday sought cooperation from the DCs to minimise public sufferings on roads and highways across the country ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. “We hope that the DCs...
View ArticleIndictment decision on Aug 1
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed August 1 to decide about framing charge(s) against Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf for his alleged involvement in genocide and crimes against...
View ArticleGSP review in December
Washington may give Dhaka another opportunity in December when it will have a hearing on the reinstatement of tariff-free access of Bangladeshi products to the US market. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary...
View ArticleJS body warns against arrest on false charges
Plain-clothes policemen of different police stations in the capital and its outskirts are engaged in various illegal activities including extortion, and the arrest of innocent people on false charges....
View ArticleSQ Chy’s trial at closing stage
Exercising its inherent power, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday allowed war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to produce an unlisted witness even though there was no provision to...
View ArticleBiggest-ever gold haul
Customs officials at Shahjalal International Airport seized 1,064 gold bars weighing around 124 kilograms from the luggage chamber of a Biman flight yesterday. “This is the biggest ever haul at the...
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