Tribunal 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...
View ArticleUS suggests action plan
The US government has recommended a set of action plans to Bangladesh to reclaim the GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) privileges that the Obama Administration suspended on Thursday over poor...
View ArticleNo major changes required for GB
Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman yesterday expressed disagreement with a number of recommendations of Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission, and said the microlender’s existing operational structure...
View ArticleUnified food safety authority on cards
The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of the Food Safety Act, 2013 with a provision of up to 14 years’ imprisonment for food adulterators. The draft law also sought to form a unified...
View ArticleMove on to persuade JP
Awami League-backed mayoral aspirant Ajmat Ullah Khan is yet to get full support from Jatiya Party, a key component of the AL-led 14-party grand alliance, said JP sources. However, JP Chairman HM...
View ArticleAL desperate to retain stronghold
The opposition’s use of national issues like stock market crash, Hall-Mark scam, railway-gate scandal, and the alleged Padma bridge scam, has turned ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Ajmat...
View ArticleLimon indicted
A Jhalakathi court framed charges against Limon Hossain in an arms case yesterday, a week after the country’s human rights chief requested, in odd fashion, the teenager to withdraw his case against Rab...
View ArticleSnowden ‘sends 21 asylum requests’
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has sent asylum requests to 21 countries, according to a statement published by Wikileaks. They include China, France, Ireland and Venezuela. Russia and...
View ArticleMorsi rejects army ultimatum
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has rejected the army’s 48-hour ultimatum to resolve the country’s deadly crisis, saying it will only sow confusion. President Morsi insists he will continue with his...
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