50 hurt in cop-RMG worker clash
At least 50 people were injured, five of them bullet-hit, as the apparel workers clashed with law enforcers in Ashulia and Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, demanding Tk 8,114 as minimum wage. Of...
View ArticleArson triggers tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway
A 40-kilometre tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway after unidentified miscreants torched two buses in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong this morning. The miscreants set fire to the...
View Article15kg gold seized at Ctg airport
Customs officials recovered 128 gold bars weighing 15 kilograms from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Shah Amanat Airport in Chittagong this morning. The officials arrested one Khairul Bashar...
View ArticleJP quits grand alliance
Jatiya Party today quit the Awami League-led grand alliance but said it would join the polls-time cabinet “to oversee the next parliamentary election”. After weeks of repeated statements on quitting...
View ArticleHC upholds penalty of 1 of 5 condemned convicts
In a major change to a trial court verdict, the High Court today acquitted one of the five condemned convicts and gave life term to three others in Saudi Embassy official Khalaf Al Ali murder case. The...
View ArticleCID official’s house besieged after domestic help found dead
Local people for five hours besieged the residence of a CID official at East Shaorapara in the capital today bringing allegation that his wife pushed a domestic help off the rooftop in the morning....
View ArticleBNP ignores Ershad’s dialogue call
A senior BNP leader today said his party has no reaction to Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s offer to join dialogue to resolve the prevailing political crisis. “Ershad has no patriotism (for...
View ArticlePolls-time govt to continue until next one comes: Anisul
Newly inducted minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said the tenure of the polls-time government is not bound by any timeframe and that it will continue until the next one comes to power. “The government...
View Article8 new ministers take oath
Six ministers and two state ministers took oath to join an election time cabinet this afternoon amid boycott by the main opposition party, BNP. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath at the Darbar...
View ArticleIt’s all-party govt: Amu
Newly sworn-in minister Amir Hossain Amu today said when a government is formed with more than one political parties, it is called an all-party government. Amu, an advisory council member of Awami...
View ArticleKhaleda worried, to meet president tomorrow
Worried at the formation of a polls-time cabinet, leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia will meet President Abdul Hamid tomorrow to request him to take steps for formation of a non-party govt to oversee...
View ArticleHold dialogue now, Biswal urges AL, BNP
US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal today urged the two main political parties to sit for a dialogue immediately to resolve the differences between them to ensure a free, fair and...
View ArticlePrimary terminal exams begin Nov 20
The primary terminal examinations 2013 for Class-V students of general and madrasa education will begin on November 20. A total of 26, 35,406 examinees will sit for primary school certificate...
View ArticleBNF gets registration
The Election Commission (EC) has finally given registration to the much-talked-about Bangladesh Nationalists Front (BNF) as a political party. EC Secretary Muhammed Sadique today handed over the...
View ArticleUN warns Somalia over rights abuse
The United Nations in Somalia yesterday called for a “proper investigation” after police again arrested an alleged rape victim and the journalists who reported her story. Rape, and reporting on sexual...
View ArticleAustralia police, central bank websites hacked
Australian police and central bank websites fell victim to cyber attacks yesterday with an Indonesian hacker claiming responsibility, reportedly demanding that Canberra apologise in an intensifying row...
View ArticleGermany 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...
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