Undocumented workers in trouble
Several thousand Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia without any “entry documents” are in hot water, as they are not allowed either to return home or to legalise their status under the ongoing amnesty...
View ArticleMany bad elements secure position
A good number of former BCL leaders with alleged criminal records and those who stayed from party politics for a decade or so have been made assistant secretaries in ruling Awami League’s central...
View ArticlePoor quality clips cost state Tk 12cr
The clips that clamp the rail lines on to concrete sleepers on Bangabandhu Bridge are breaking, forcing the government to undertake a Tk 12 crore project to replace the substandard clips. Railway...
View ArticleSuspect arrested in Barguna
Mufti Jasim Uddin, a suspect for blogger Rajib murder, was arrested in Barguna yesterday, police said. Police detained Mufti Jasim along with 30 of his “followers” at his house at Khajurtola around...
View ArticleNorwegian PM in disguise
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo, he has revealed. Stoltenberg said he had wanted to hear from real Norwegian voters and that...
View ArticleDhaka clarifies to Washington about deaths
Dhaka has claimed that Odhikar’s report on “61 deaths” during the Dhaka blockade by Hefajat-e Islam is false and fabricated and has been projecting a biased and false impression on the country’s...
View ArticleCost doubles in revised proposal
The government is set to approve the second revised proposal for relocating the hazardous tanneries from the capital’s Hazaribagh to Savar, increasing the original project cost by 98 percent. But the...
View ArticleJamaat warms up with violence
Jamaat-Shibir activists yesterday hurled handmade bombs at police and carried out arson and vandalism at different places in the country on the eve of their two-day countrywide hartal beginning today....
View ArticleRights activists demand release of Adilur
Prominent civil society members, mainly rights activists, yesterday condemned the arrest of Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and demanded his immediate release. In a statement, 34 rights activists...
View ArticleHC stays remand for Odhikar secy
The High Court yesterday stayed the five-day remand granted by a lower court on Sunday for interrogation of Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan. The HC also asked the authorities concerned to send him...
View ArticleEC asked to stop polls
The LGRD ministry has asked the Election Commission not to hold the overdue elections to eight municipalities, raising questions if the Awami League wants to avoid elections after its shocking defeat...
View ArticleGovt ads taken off from many
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday rejected some ministers’ requests for retaining until the next election the possession of the grabbed billboards in the capital advertising government’s success...
View ArticleGovt appeals for death penalty
The government has appealed to the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam and a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, of which he was the chief. The appeal was filed yesterday...
View ArticleEU presses political, religious freedom in Sri Lanka
The European Union yesterday expressed concern at the state of political and religious freedom in Sri Lanka after a deadly army crackdown on a protest and the vandalising of a mosque. The EU urged Sri...
View ArticleBicycle bomb kills two in SW Pakistan: officials
A bomb planted on a bicycle killed at least two people and wounded another in the restive province of Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “At least two people were killed and a...
View ArticleCameroon former health minister gets 20 years for graft
A Cameroonian court has sentenced a former health minister to 20 years in prison for corruption over a fake contract to deliver mosquito nets to hospitals, legal sources said yesterday. The country’s...
View ArticleTwo dead, several injured in Norway bus crash
Two people were killed and several seriously injured on Monday when two buses, one Norwegian and one Swedish with foreign tourists aboard, collided in western Norway, local authorities said. The NTB...
View ArticleOpposition proposes Syria transition roadmap
Syrian opposition activists, including National Coalition members, have drawn up a roadmap to achieve national reconciliation and justice for “all of Syria’s victims,” a statement said yesterday. The...
View ArticleNigerian mosque attack kills 44
Suspected Islamic militants have killed 44 people praying at a mosque in north-east Nigeria, the latest in a spate of violence blamed on religious extremists in the country. The killings occurred on...
View ArticlePalestine-Israel peace talks face collapse
Israel is moving forward with a plan to build nearly 900 new settlement housing units in east Jerusalem, an official said yesterday, in a move that angered Palestinians a day before the sides were to...
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