Three-day DC conference begins today
The deputy commissioners need more authority in order to conduct mobile courts effectively, an issue that will top the agenda in a three-day DC conference that begins in the capital today. Prime...
View ArticleAbsence of defence delays war crime trials
Proceedings at both the international crimes tribunals were hampered yesterday due to delay and absence of the defence counsels in Mobarak Hossain and AKM Yusuf’s cases. The International Crimes...
View ArticleNU gives in to protests
In the wake of street agitation, the National University authorities decided to promote first year honours students, each obtaining maximum five “F” grades, to second year on special consideration. In...
View ArticleGovt raises allowances for decorated war heroes
The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to increase monthly allowance for the freedom fighters honoured with different titles for their gallantry during the 1971 Liberation War. According to the...
View ArticleJournos for arrest of MP Rony
Journalists yesterday demanded the arrest of Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony within seven days and cancellation of his parliamentary membership for assaulting two staff of Independent...
View ArticleSC concludes hearing today
The Supreme Court is likely to conclude the hearing on the appeals of war crimes verdict against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah today, as the defence counsel and amici curiae wrapped up their...
View ArticleCouncillors’ debts higher than assets
The debts of at least 16 councillors-elect of Gazipur City Corporation were bigger than the assets shown in their affidavits, says a report of Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan). According to analysts,...
View ArticleSmall venture, huge impact
The Brahmanbaria Rupali Kutir Shilpo, a small cottege industry enterprise, started by Aklima Akter Shiuly in 2005, has slowly become a source of living for dozens of poor, jobless women and girls. Each...
View ArticleRescue 27 expatriates
Some 27 Bangladeshi workers, who have been confined in a labour camp in Iraq for the last four months, are leading a miserable life for want of jobs, money and sufficient amount of food. Families of...
View Article5 children ‘drown’ in Padma
Five schoolgirls are feared drowned as their boat capsized in the Padma near Kolchori ghat in Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday morning. Students of Vaduradangi Govt Primary School in the same upazila,...
View ArticleGovt to step up factory watch
Appointment of 23 factory inspectors is underway as part of the roadmap for regaining the GSP status in the US market. The move followed the Obama administration’s suspension of the trade benefit on...
View ArticleNow BNP goes for ‘changes’
BNP plans to come up with some big promises ahead of the next parliamentary polls to bring qualitative change in the country’s confrontational political culture as well as the system of governance to...
View ArticleI don’t want Modi as PM
Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen yesterday said he does not want him to become India’s prime minister as he does not have secular...
View ArticleGMG not clearing Tk 150cr in dues
An international aircraft leasing firm and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh have filed eight cases against GMG Airlines in connection with around Tk 150 crore the carrier owes them. The Civil...
View ArticleSaline creeping into croplands
As fresh water flow has tapered off on the upper stream of rivers over the last four decades, due to human intervention mainly in neighbouring India, salinity has intruded into 100 rivers and affected...
View ArticleVerdict on Quader Mollah appeal any day
The Supreme Court will deliver a verdict any day on the appeals filed over the sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah for war crimes as its hearing ended on Tuesday. Mollah, assistant...
View ArticleBus crash kills 19 in Thailand
Nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province...
View Article10 hurt as NY plane’s wheel fails
Ten people were left with minor injuries after a plane’s nose wheel collapsed when it landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, officials say. Six of the casualties were taken to hospital after Southwest...
View ArticleRushdie, Amis, McEwan appear in New York
Put Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan on a stage and expect a night of high art and school boy humor, of reading, writing and Christopher Hitchens. The three literary stars, all in their 60s...
View ArticleBrazil crowds greet Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities yesterday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his landmark visit to Rio de Janeiro. The fervor...
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