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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again rejected the opposition demand for holding the next general election under a neutral, non-partisan government. She called upon the opposition to keep faith...
View ArticleMoney whitening scope widens
The government has provided scope for legalisation of undisclosed money through investment in productive sectors, but withdrawn its proposal for allowing money whitening through purchase of land....
View ArticleEU alarm over US bugging claim
The head of the European Parliament has demanded “full clarification” from the US over a report that key EU premises in America have been bugged. Martin Schulz said that if this was true, it would have...
View ArticleEgypt protests set for showdown, violence feared
Mass demonstrations across Egypt on Sunday may determine its future, two and half years after people power toppled a dictator they called Pharaoh and ushered in a democracy crippled by bitter...
View ArticleChina’s Xinjiang hit by more violence
More than a hundred people, riding motorbikes and wielding knives, attacked a police station in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said on Saturday, in the latest unrest...
View ArticleStocks down
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse dipped during the first one-and-half hour of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock...
View ArticleFire at CEPZ footwear factory
A devastating fire raged through a footwear manufacturing factory in Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) area Sunday morning, gutting almost the entire unit. No body sustained injuries in the...
View ArticleCourt asks for formal charges by July 15
A tribunal in Dhaka on Sunday asked the prosecution to submit formal charges against war crimes suspect Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam by July 15. Jamaat acting secretary general Azhar...
View ArticleTribunal irked by SQC deposition
International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday did not allow war crimes accused Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury to give deposition against the prosecution witnesses as it went against the law. The tribunal...
View ArticleAL leader shot dead in Pabna
A Swechhashebak League leader was killed and another Jubo League man injured as a group of armed criminals opened fire on them in Pabna yesterday. The deceased Md Mamunur Rashid Mamun, 38, son of Torab...
View ArticleBB for action against officials
The central bank has directed BASIC Bank to penalise the officials involved in the swindling of Tk 1,500 crore from the state-owned bank’s Gulshan branch. “Your statement is out of the ordinary and...
View ArticleErshad, Fakhrul meet at party
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad last night got together with BNP acting secretary general Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some other senior politicians on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of a...
View ArticleMorsi given 48 hrs to quit
Egypt’s armed forces yesterday warned that if President Mohamed Morsi failed to meet, within 48 hours, the people’s demand to step down, the army would intervene with a roadmap of its own. The...
View ArticleWaterbus service resumes Thursday
Even though a previous attempt failed miserably, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation is going to launch a revamped waterbus service around the capital Dhaka from Thursday with six craft....
View ArticleGazipur BNP agent files complaints
Advocate Siddiqur Rahman, an electoral agent of BNP-backed mayoral candidate for the upcoming Gazipur city poll MA Mannan, lodged two separate complaints with the Returning Officer yesterday. In the...
View ArticleTV actress Mita Noor found dead
Television actress Sabina Yasmin Mita Noor allegedly committed suicide yesterday at her Gulshan home in the capital. Police recovered the body of the 42-year-old in the morning after her husband...
View ArticleWorkers in fear of crackdown
Around 2.42 million irregular foreign workers, including Bangladeshis, in Saudi Arabia are in fear of missing the deadline for an amnesty that will allow them to get their status legalised by tomorrow....
View ArticleAmar Desh admits it was Gilaf photo
Six months after publishing a report with a misleading photo, the Bangla daily Amar Desh has finally admitted it was an image of changing the Gilaf (cover) of Holy Kaaba, not of a human chain to...
View ArticleShibir calls hartal for tomorrow
Islami Chhatra Shibir has called a countrywide daylong hartal for tomorrow, demanding the release of its leaders and activists including central president Delwar Hossain. Shibir, the student wing of...
View ArticleGovt moves for quick passage of labour law
The government yesterday decided to quickly review the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2013 and pass it in the current parliament session. The move comes as a last-ditch effort to regain the GSP...
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