A report has been published in a renowned daily that no classes are held for 8 months in a year in schools and colleges. That’s to say on 75 percent days of the year classes are not held due to…
Year: 2014
Maiden Ticfa meeting in April-end
The first meeting under the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) between Dhaka and Washington will be held in the last week of April next, said an official on Monday. “The meeting will be held in the last week…
UAE to resume hiring Bangladeshi manpower
The United Arab Emirates is likely to resume importing manpower from Bangladesh, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said on Monday. The minister said the UAE will sign an agreement with Bangladesh end this month to reopen…
Bangabandhu’s 94th birth anniversary observed
The 94th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed across the country on Monday as the National Children’s Day. The day was a public holiday. On March 17, 1920, the architect of the nation was born at Tungipara…
Joy for local body elections under political banners
Echoing Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Monday said elections to all the local bodies should be held on partisan basis like that of parliament. “No non-partisan election is held in the…
Hasina still not safe: Asaduzzaman Noor
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Monday observed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is not still safe. “Sheikh Hasina is always gripped by fear of death. The anti-liberation forces have always been engaged in a plot to kill Sheikh Hasina…
Prisoner dies in Kashimpur jail
An inmate of the Kashimpur High Security Jail died of cardiac arrest, authorities have claimed. Doctors pronounced Md Jamal Uddin Mridha, 33, dead after he was rushed to a Gazipur hospital on Monday. Jail Superintendent Abdur Razzak said Mridha was…
5 arrested, 30 kg hemp recovered in Jhenaidah
Shahneawz Khan Sumon Jhenaidah: At least 5 people including a hemp peddler was arrested from various areas in Jhenidah on Monday. Shailkupa thana officer in charge Md. Moniruzzaman said a hemp peddler identified as Saidul Islam, 21, son of Dulal…
Sr BNP leaders in jail: B Chowdhury criticises govt
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Monday criticised the government for sending senior BNP leaders including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail describing it out of political courtesy. “People like Mirza Fakhrul…
JSD Rob calls to resist autocratic activities
President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) ASM Abdur Rob on Monday called upon the people to build resistance against the autocratic activities of the government. “The government is turning the state undemocratic one by utilizing its institutions for gaining political…
Shibir calls hartal in Sylhet division Thursday, Friday
Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on Monday called hartal in Sylhet division for Thursday and Friday in protest against the expulsion of its 14 leaders and activists form Shahjalal University of Science and Technology(SUST). Shibir’s city unit press…
Tiger Sakib, Afghan Dawlat fined
Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and Afghanistan’s pacer Dawlat Zadran have been fined for breach of the ICC’s Code of Conduct in the World Twenty20 opener. Both will lose fifty percent of their match fees. The ICC in a press release…
Tigers meet Nepal Tuesday in T20 World Cup
Hosts Bangladesh will take on ICC associate member Nepal on Tuesday in their second Group-A match of the ICC World Twenty20 at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. The match will begin at 7:30pm. Earlier, in the opening day of…
3 die in microbus gas cylinder explosion
Three women were killed and five others injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a microbus at Chittagong’s Fatikchharhi on Monday. Police and fire fighters had initially reported four casualties. Bhujpur Police OC Md Kabir Hossain later told journalists there…
BNP protests jailing of 3 senior leaders
BNP staged demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting the sending of its three senior leaders to jail by a Dhaka court. The party leaders and activists brought out processions in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout…
PM seeks coop to free country from militancy
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from all and sundry to rid Bangladesh free of militancy and terrorism. She made the call at an event marking the National Children Day at Tungiparha in Gopalganj on Monday. The day is…
Jubo Dal calls countywide demo Tuesday
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, will stage demonstrations across the country on Tuesday protesting the hike in power tariffs and jailing of top BNP leaders. The programme is also meant for mounting pressure on the government to…
2 corpses recovered from river Meghna
Police said they have recovered two dead bodies from the river Meghna after locals sighted them at Hatia, Noakhali’s island Upazila. But they could not yet be identified. One dead body was salvaged from Bogula Khal at Charking Union at…
Jubo Dal man shot dead in Laxmipur
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a local Jubo Dal activist in Sadar upazila on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Babar Hossain, an activist of the BNP’s youth wing and son of Tofail Ahmed of Sonapur village in the upazila.
Proper enforcement of CRP Law stressed
Speakers at a seminar have emphasized the need for proper enforcement of the Consumers’ Rights Protection (CRP) Law for protecting the consumers’ rights together with freeing the human body from any food poisoning and other contamination.
11 pirates held in Barguna
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive arrested 11 alleged pirates along with a trawler, four machetes, three choppers and two knives from Laldighi Char in Patharghata upazila on Monday morning.
Arms trader held with pistols in Benapole
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of five foreign-made pistols, 10 magazines and nine rounds of bullet from a house in Baropota border point here on Monday morning.
3 cloth stores gutted in Satkhira
Three cloth stores burnt down in a fire incident that took place in New Market area of the district town early Monday.
Man, son killed in Shariatpur road crash
A man and his son were killed in a road accident in Bala Bazar area on the Chandpur-Shariatpur Highway in Sadar upazila on Monday morning.
6 cattle killed as Hindu house torched in Sirajganj
At least six cattle were burnt alive as miscreants set fire to a house belonging to a Hindu family in Dhaljan Chakpara of Raiganj upazila early Sunday.
Wayne Rooney: Man Utd loss to Liverpool a ‘nightmare’
By Phil McNulty Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney says his side’s 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool ranks as one of the lowest moments of his career. Steven Gerrard scored two penalties and missed a third before Luis Suarez sealed victory…
Section 144 imposed for indefinite period in Sonaimuri
The local administration has imposed section 144 prohibiting mass gathering at Mouriganj in Sonaimuri upazila following a clash between two groups of villagers on Monday morning.
JCD activist’s tendons severed in Rajshahi
Miscreants stabbed a local activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and cut off the tendons of his two legs and one hand in Charghat upazila on Sunday night.
2 bullet-hit bodies recovered in Noakhali
Police on recovered bullet-hit bodies of two young men from separate places in west Deliai area in Chatkhil upazila on Monday morning.
15 shops, 5 houses gutted in Kishoreganj
At least 15 shops and five houses were gutted by a fire that broke out in Borobazar area of the district town on Sunday night.