Dhaka – After several days of hot spell, people heaved with sigh of relief as a nor’wester accomompanied with shower swept many parts of the country, including the capital city, on Sunday evening. Officials at the Meteorology Department said the…
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No unplanned industries,Ensure workers’ rights: PM
Stressing the importance of ensuring the basic rights of workers, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all to show proper respect to workers and farmers.
AL siphoned off Tk 30,000cr in seven years: Khaleda
Dhaka – Accusing the government of plundering public money in the name of development, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said the ruling Awami League siphoned off Tk 30,000 crore over the last seven years, unb news agency reported.
Historic May Day being observed across Bangladesh
Dhaka – The historic May Day is being observed in bangladesh and many other countries of the globe on Sunday with a fresh vow to establish the rights of workers. May Day, also known as International Workers’ Solidarity Day, commemorates…
Madrasah teacher held for quizzing over Hindu tailor Nikhil killing
Dhaka – Police has detained a madrasah teacher for quizzing in connection with the killing of Hindu tailor Nikhil Joarder, unb news agency reporter. The detainee was identified as Mawlana Amirul Islam, 42, super of Alamnagar Dakhil Madrasah. Amirul was…
Khaleda wants dialogue with govt, investigation of Joy’s account
Dhaka – Reiterating her call to the ruling party for engaging in talks with opposition parties without delay, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said this regime will not be able to hang on to power for long depending on…
Khaleda wants dialogue with govt, investigation of Joy’s account
Reiterating her call to the ruling party for engaging in talks with opposition parties without delay, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said this regime will not be able to hang on to power for long depending on the power…
Nisha Desai Biswal likely to be in Dhaka May 4
Dhaka – Nisha Desai Biswal, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, is likely to arrive here on May 4 to discuss ways how the counterterrorism cooperation between Bangladesh and the United States can be taken…
Facebook provides 31 BD users’ info as per govt request
Popular social networking site, Facebook, has for the first time responded to requests of Bangladesh government providing users’ information.
Police permits BNP’s May Dah rally at Suhrawardy Uddyan
The BNP has finally got permission from Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities to hold its workers rally at Suhrawardy Udyan to mark the International Labour Day tomorrow. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address the rally to be organised by BNP’s…
Home Minister says, Xulhaz killing progressing the right way
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said that the investigation in the killing of USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Tanoy is being carrying out in right way. Xulhaz Mannan, who is an editor of lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender…
Bangladesh Supreme Court to rehear 168 cases mostly of one retired justice
Dhaka – The Supreme Court will rehear 168 cases the verdicts of which former Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain and former Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury could not write while in service, unb news agency reported. Of the cases, 161 cases…
Special security measures at Sundarbans forests Chandpai Range
Bagerhat – The Forest Department has issued a special ‘alert’ in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans East Zone following the fourth fire incident there in four weeks, unb news agency reported. The Forest Department has put in place a number…
Kerry phones Bangladesh PM, urges her to arrest Xulhaz killers
Dhaka – US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday night phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and requested her to take necessary steps to bring the killers of Kalabagan murder to trial, unb news agency reported. According to the Prime…
2 m ppl die each year from occupational hazards, diseases: UN experts
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, Baskut Tuncak, has urged states and businesses to increase efforts to prevent occupational death and disease from hazardous substances.
Rare ice data collected by early ‘Citizen Scientists’ confirms warming
In 1442, 50 years before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the annual freeze dates of a nearby lake. Along a Finnish river, starting in 1693, local merchants recorded the date the ice…
Killings, disappearances on rise for lack of democracy, says Bnp
The BNP Wednesday alleged that incidents of killing and enforced disappearance are rising in the country in absence of democracy. “The incidents of killing and forced disappearance are occurring one after another as there is no democracy and people’s rights…
Yet another fire in Sundarbans
Yet another fire broke out in Tultala area of the Sundarbans under Chandpai Range in Sharankhola upazila on Wednesday. This was the 4th fire incident in the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site in four weeks.…
AQIS claims responsibility: Killings to put govt in fix – AL
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has reportedly taken responsibility for killing Bangladeshi gay-rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy. SITE, a US-based intelligence site, published a report on Tuesday, a day after the two were hacked…
MPs voting against party to impeach judge is Ok: Justice Khairul Haque
Law Commission Chairman ABM Khairul Haque says there is ‘no constitutional bar’ to MPs voting against their party decisions in Parliament to impeach any Supreme Court judge for misconduct. He said on Tuesday the floor-crossing provision of the Constitution’s Article…
Govt won’t be able to shift responsibility for murders: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed deep concern over the killings of USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, and prison guard of Kashimpur jail Rustom Ali.
BNP-Jamaat nexus behind killings: PM
Dhaka, – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday accused the BNP-Jamaat clique of carrying out killings like Kalabagan double murder saying they are doing this to destabilise the country, unb news agency reported. “Everybody knows who were behind such killing…the…
USAID official and gay rights activist, his friend killed in city
Dhaka – Two days after the murder of a Rajshahi University teacher in the same style, two people, including a USAID staff, were hacked to death at an apartment in the capital’s Kalabagan area on Monday evening, unb news agency…
Cabinet clears draft law to probe allegation against judges
Dhaka – The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Supreme Court Judges (Investigation) Bill, 2016’ having provisions to investigate the allegation of ‘misconduct’ by the judges of the High Court and the Appellate Division of the…
Solar Impulse 2 lands in US after historic Pacific flight
(CNN) An experimental plane flying around the world without a single drop of fuel landed in California after a two-and-a-half day flight across the Pacific. Piloted by Swiss explorer and psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Mountain…
Rana Plaza year 3: EU for more improved working conditions
Brussels – “On Sunday 24 April 2016, it will be exactly three years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a tragic event that claimed more than 1,100 lives. Our thoughts today go first of…
Khaleda to face court in Zia trust graft case Monday
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will not appear before a Dhaka court Monday in a Zia Charitable Trust graft case hearing as her two petitions are now pending before the High Court for disposal. “She will not be able to appear…
BNP unhappy also with 3rd phase UP polls
BNP on Saturday alleged that ruling party men played a vote rigging game in the third phases of Union Parishad elections.
World must protect tropical forests: Researchers
US-based researchers have said the world must conserve its tropical forests and the people who live in them to buy time to switch away from climate-damaging fossil fuels.
Polls violence leaves 1 dead, 63 injured
A BNP activist was killed and 62 people, including four policemen and three journalists, were injured in clashes during the third phase union parishad (UP) elections in seven districts on Saturday.