A Dhaka court on Sunday granted interim bail to national cricketer Rubel Hossain in a rape case filed by his fiancé. Responding to a fresh bail plea filed by the detained accused, acting Metropolitan Session’s Judge KM Imrul Kayes granted…
Day: January 11, 2015
Lack of river protection blamed on IWTA corruption
Rights and environmental activists at a discussion in Dhaka on Sunday described the pervasive corruption and irregularities at the state-owned Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) as the main obstacle to the protection of rivers and development of the shipping…
Continue peaceful movement, Khaleda tells party workers
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon her party leaders and activists to go ahead with peaceful movement until the realisation of demand for an inclusive election under non-partisan government. This was communicated by BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul…
Maize cultivation continues in northern region
Cultivation of maize continues in full swing in the northern region where a target of producing over 13.49 lakh tonne of the cereal crop has been fixed from over 1.90 lakh hectares land for this Rabi season.
Winter clothes distributed at Mehendiganj
Winter clothes were distributed among freedom fighters at Mehendiganj upazila health complex in the district yesterday.
Char land brought under crops cultivation in Gaibandha
Thousands hectares of char land lying on the river bed of the Brahmaputra and Teesta have been brought under different crops and vegetables cultivation during the current Robi season with an expectation of desired production.
Wastes pollute rivers, water bodies in Rajshahi
Existing surface water resources especially the Baranai River flowing through the northern part of the city is being heavily polluted and contaminated with disposal of wastes and toxic chemicals, scientists and researchers here said.
Professional skill of drivers can reduce road accidents: Speakers
Speakers at a post-rally training workshop have stressed for ensuring safer use of roads, building adequate awareness and professional skill of the drivers to reduce road accidents for saving thousands of lives annually.
Lifestyle changing by virtue of solar power in char areas
The lifestyle and socioeconomic condition of the isolated people living in the remote and hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin has been changing fast by virtue of solar power.
AL prepares for rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday
The ruling Awami League is scheduled to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday to observe the Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from captivity in Pakistan. The ruling party is going to hold the rally desperate police…
ETV Chairman placed on 5-day remand
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday placed ETV Chairman Abdus Salam on a five-day remand in a sedition case filed for airing an alleged false, fabricated and instigating speech of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on…
Confinement protest: 20-party, JCD call hartal in 15 districts
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP will enforce hartal in 14 districts in Dhaka Division excluding the capital protesting the confinement of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding the release of top opposition leaders including acting secretary general…
Khaleda office barricaded again. Press for polls: Bnp
As movement to and from Khaleda’s Gulshan party office has virtually been stopped on Sunday putting up fresh truck barricades, Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked business leaders to press for inclusive polls to restore peace in the…
Dhaka should raise ‘river, issue of life and death’, at UN
Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday called for concerted efforts to unite the people against threats to the country’s physical and environmental security posed by diversion of rivers that have treated and sustained Bangladesh for ages. This land…
Dhaka experts decry resistance to environmental plans, laws
Speakers at a day-long conference on environment in Dhaka on Saturday underlined the need for concerted efforts to ensure the implementation of laws for safeguarding the environment keeping in view the fact that those violating law become more powerful and…
2 women police constables killed in city road crash
Two policewomen were killed and at least 20 others injured as a truck crushed into a bus carrying them in Fakirapul intersection in the capital on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as constables Manira,20, and Aklima,22. Police said a…
World leaders gather for mass Paris rally
World leaders are gathering in Paris ahead of a march in the French capital to show unity after three days of terror that left 17 people dead. Some 40 leaders are to go to the rally, expected to dwarf Saturday…
Chashi Nazrul Islam passes away
Eminent film director and producer Chashi Nazrul Islam died at a city hospital on Sunday morning. An Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner Chashi Nazrul Islam was 74. Shahadat Setu, assistant of the noted film maker, said Nazrul, who…
IBBL business development conference being held in Dhaka
A 2-day Business Development Conference of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited which began at a city hotel on Saturday is now is progress. Engr. Mustafa Anwar, acting chairman of the bank, was present as the chief guest in the inaugural ceremony…
Teixobactin with great hope!
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have discovered an unusual method for producing antibiotics from bacteria that live in dirt. According to the researchers’ report published in the journal Nature said the new powerful antibiotic-the Teixobactin as they named is…
Jalebi uncoiled: Not to question is the ‘question’
Sudhirendar Sharma Let us start 2015 with a question about ‘question’, and an assurance that it will fit into the flavor of this page. Haven’t we been digging ‘questions’ where there have been ‘none’ from rather mundane happenings in life…
Charlie Hebdo hunt: Bloody end to sieges
Two sieges in France have been brought to a bloody end, with three gunmen and four hostages killed. Two brothers who killed 12 in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday were shot dead as they fled a warehouse…
Tele talk of Bnp, Bip chiefs 100pc correct: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday reiterated that the information about the telephonic conversations between BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah was cent percent correct. BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan in statement issued…