The Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) sits on Tuesday evening to select the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the 10th Parliament. Addressing a press briefing at the media center of Parliament, ruling party chief whip ASM Feroz said the…
Year: 2014
‘Don’t use schoolchildren on streets in welcoming leaders’
The government has asked the authorities concerned to refrain from using the students of primary schools in queuing up on streets under hot sun for welcoming political leaders. The Primary and Mass Education Ministry issued a circulation in this regard…
Bhutanese king, Kenyan President greet PM
Dhaka – Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Wangchuck has congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her reelection as Prime Minister of Bangladesh in the 10th parliamentary elections.
EC to send 6 politicians’ affidavits to ACC Tuesday
Dhaka – In response to the anti-graft body’s request, the Election Commission will send the affidavits of six powerful politicians, including ex-ministers, to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday. “The affidavits of the six politicians they submitted to the…
Hectic lobbying for women MPs election tickets
Awami League tickets have turned out to be hotcakes as hectic lobbying is afoot for the ruling party blessing to become Members of Parliament against the seats kept aside for women. A total of 822 candidates from across the country collected nomination…
ACC questions driver, gunman of judge motahar
Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday quizzed the gunman and the driver of the retired special judge Motahar Hossain, who had acquitted the BNP’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman of charges in a money laundering case. ACC deputy director Harun-ur-Rashid questioned driver Shohrab…
ACC allowed to interrogate Moudud at jail gate
Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) on Monday allowed the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed at the jail gate in a case filed with Gulshan Police Station in the capital for purportedly grabbing a government house…
Arrest warrant issued for Mohiuddin
A court in Chittagong on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation and city Awami League president, in a corruption case.
Turning to ancient diets to alleviate modern ills
Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting health experts and indigenous activists to highlight a need to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients.
Africa’s great Green Wall seeks new partners
More partnerships and investments are needed to support the pan-African Great Green Wall Initiative, which has become Africa’s flagship enterprise in tackling the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts of land degradation, desertification, drought and climate change, experts say.
Japan reports record annual trade deficit
Japan has reported a record annual trade deficit after the weak yen pushed up the cost of energy imports.
Hunter-gatherer European had blue eyes and dark skin
Scientists have shed light on what ancient Europeans looked like.
Nigella Lawson to face no action over cocaine admission
TV presenter Nigella Lawson will face no further action by police over her admission that she used drugs.
Dame Helen Mirren to receive Bafta fellowship
Dame Helen Mirren is to be awarded the British Academy fellowship at next month’s Bafta Film Awards.
Sri Lanka bundle Bangladesh out for 232
Mushfiqur Rahim’s dismissal in the sixth over after tea hastened Bangldesh’s end in the first innings, as they slumped to 232 all out by the 64th over in Mirpur.
Juan Mata surprised Chelsea sold him to Manchester United
Manchester United’s club-record signing Juan Mata has acknowledged his surprise that Chelsea allowed him to move to Old Trafford.
South Korea expands poultry cull on bird flu fears
Seoul – South Korea is expanding a poultry cull in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu that has been found on an increasing number of farms around the country and in migratory birds.
Bangladesh Bank unveils ‘cautious’ policy January-June 2014
Bangladesh Bank has announced the monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal, which the governor has described as cautious and investment-friendly. Going by economic indicators, the policy for the second half of the 2013-14 fiscal does not…
Extra-judicial killing of opposition workers rise alarmingly: BNP
Extrajudicial killings are on an alarming rise after the Awami League assumed power through the ‘one-sided’ election, the BNP has alleged. The party urged the human-rights organisations at home and abroad to speak out against such killings. “Law enforcers, along…
BNP student leader killed in ‘gunfight’: Joint forces
Satkhira – A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of the joint forces in Magura Kheyaghat area of Tala upazila early Monday.
181 held ‘with firearms drugs’ in Bogra, Rajbari
Dhaka – Police in separate drives arrested three people along with two pistols, some bullets and one knife from different places of Bogra and Rajbari districts on Sunday.
Taking reception by using students
A news report titled “Leaders take golden boat and students stay on the road hungry” published in a daily has drawn my attention. Many many thanks to the media.
Gene mechanics 46: No black holes?
Dr. M. S. Haq A black hole is believed to be a region of spacetime. The hole is surrounded by event horizons where gravity is very strong. As a result, all light that hits the horizon is absorbed and is…
Promoting better deals for migrant workers in Arab countries
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector Fernandez recently told their government that detention of 2400 undocumented migrants, mostly Bangladeshis, at 15 immigration depots must be followed up by a thorough investigation on the journey from their country of…
Teaching is indeed a courageous profession
Masum Billah Teaching itself is a courageous profession in many respects. The people belonging to other professions can do corruption, earn colossal amount of money by fair means or foul, can do indecent activities which will not upset people around…
AL man chopped dead in Jessore, 4 missing in Buriganga boat capsize
A local Awami League activist was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Pacha Magura village in Abhaynagar upazila on Sunday night.
Khhoka’s bail rejected
Court Correspondent Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Vice-Chairman and Convener of Dhaka City BNP Sadeque Hossain Khoka in cases filed in connection with hartal (shutdown) and blockade violence. Judge Md Jahurul Haque…
Upazila Polls: EC not to interfere in joint forces’ drive
The Election Commission will not interfere in the ongoing joint forces’ drive against violence at different parts of the country unless it does not hamper the works of the countrywide staggered upazila polls, beginning on February 19.
3 power sector projects among 13 get Ecnec nod
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Sunday approved 13 development projects involving TK 9,110 crore along with three big projects in the Power Sector, including a 275MW coal-based power plant at Barapukuria.
BD to regain GSP facility by April, hopes Tofail
Expressing the hope that Bangladesh will regain the GSP facility to the US market by next April, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the government is working sincerely to fulfill the conditions tagged for regaining it.