Germany to initiate nat’l minimum wage
Germany is set to introduce a national minimum wage, conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, relenting on a key demand of her likely future centre-left governing partners. “The Social...
View ArticleAfghan delegation in Pakistan for peace talks
A high-ranking peace delegation from Kabul is in Pakistan to hold talks on kick-starting Afghanistan’s peace process, an official said Wednesday, but he was unable to confirm whether they would meet...
View ArticleJapan landslide engulfs five road workers
Five Japanese road construction workers were buried in a landslide yesterday with one confirmed dead, authorities said. The crew was repairing a cracked road on a mountainous slope in Yurihonjo city in...
View ArticleGrenade for self-defence!
A Libyan MP, stopped by officials at Tripoli’s city hall Wednesday when her handbag set off a security alarm, said a hand grenade inside was for her own defence. Souad Soltan, a member of the General...
View ArticleShopkeeper shot for not paying toll
A shopkeeper was shot by an alleged extortionist in the capital’s Boro Maghbazar area yesterday as he refused to pay him Tk 5 lakh. Injured Masum Billah Joy, 40, owner of Chitrangon Confectionary of...
View Article8,529 get govt job
The Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday published the final results of the 33rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations, recommending 8,529 successful candidates for recruitment in different...
View ArticleSQ Chy’s lawyer sent to jail
A Dhaka court yesterday sent Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s lawyer Barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam to jail, and fixed November 24 for hearing on remand and bail prayers in a criminal case under the...
View ArticleAL never used army in political interests
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the unprecedented development and modernisation of Bangladesh Armed Forces had been accomplished during the tenure of the Awami League-led government. The...
View Article3 shot dead in Rangamati
Three people, including two leaders of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS – Shantu Larma), were shot dead at Baghaichhari in Rangamati yesterday. The deceased are PCJSS Baghaichhari...
View ArticleMarauding drug addict
A drug addict stabbed to death three of his family members and a relative at Golapganj upazila in Sylhet yesterday afternoon. The killer is Abdus Salam, 35. The deceased are his mother Shamsun Begum,...
View ArticleSurvivor testifies on killing attempt
A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 how he had cheated death when war crimes accused fugitive BNP leader Zahid Hossain Khokon shot him in early June during the...
View ArticleAgainst all odds, Kadar triumphs
He was detained and tortured by police two years ago. Yet he was determined to overcome the odds and become a first-class government officer. It was yesterday that his hard work finally paid off. Abdul...
View ArticleDaylong sufferings
Thousands of commuters in and outside the capital suffered a lot as a 24-hour transport strike was partially observed across the country yesterday. Hundreds of office-goers, students and people of...
View ArticleNepal polls in a shambles
Nepal’s Maoist leader, who swapped arms for politics when his “people’s war” ended in 2006, threw the country’s elections into doubt yesterday by claiming the poll was rigged following big losses for...
View Article18-party mulls longer hartal
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance last night discussed enforcing a week-long or even longer nationwide hartal if the election schedule is announced before the government agrees to their demand...
View ArticleUS fears further instability, rise of extremism
Expressing concern over the political crisis in Bangladesh, the US Congress at a hearing yesterday said further instability might lead to the expansion of extremist groups threatening regional...
View ArticleACC law to spark mass protests
The countrymen would wage a movement against the amended Anti-Corruption Commission law, as it made the graft watchdog subservient, acting ACC chairman Mohammad Shahabuddin said yesterday. He said the...
View ArticleToo big for ‘routine job’
The tasks the caretaker governments accomplished with ease not once but thrice, the newly reconstituted Hasina-government would do with four times manpower. Though it was a public presumption that the...
View ArticlePM picks 28 to run polls-time govt
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday formed a 29-member polls-time cabinet, keeping some poor performing ministers while dropping several outstanding achievers. The ruling Awami League has kept all...
View ArticleNew hope for talks
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday talked to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in person and urged him to sit for a dialogue between the Awami League and BNP to end the...
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