Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the government will launch a drive to evict hawkers from footpaths and stop the plying of illegal rickshaws on city roads within a month. The decision was taken at the…
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Another Rab member remanded in N’ganj 7-murder case
A court in Narayanganj on Sunday placed another member of Rapid Action Battalion-11 – Asaduzzaman Nur – on a seven-day remand in a case filed in connection with the Narayanganj seven murders. Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order…
Interest rate on agriculture, rural credits lowered
The interest rate on agriculture and rural loans has been lowered to 11 percent from 13 percent, under a Bangladesh Bank directive. A circular issued by the Banking Regulation and Policy Department (BRPD) of the central bank said that the…
Prove me wrong, Tarique asks AL
Claiming that none of his recent remarks on the historical figures in the Liberation War of 1971 was speculative or spurious, BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has thrown a challenge to Awami League leaders to prove him wrong. In…
Mobile court jails 7 for production, sale of fake cosmetics
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday sentenced seven people upto two years simple jail on charge of manufacturing and marketing fake cosmetics in the city’s Chawkbazar area. Members of Rab-10 in a drive at Khan Market…
People want change, their back is on the wall: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturrday said they would launch a movement very soon as the government did not respond to their demand for holding an election contested by all political parties under a non-party administration. “Peoples back are now…
16 new Ganges barrages plan: IFC, NY plans UN demo in Feb
The International Farakka Committee New York Inc would organise a demonstration before the United Nations in February to protest the diversion of water of all common rivers at upstream of Bangladesh and the move to construct 16 new barrages on…
Nature body for impact study, BNP forms its team on Sunderbans
WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact of the oil spill on the Sunderbans which would help assess the ecosystem recovery in the long term.…
51 noted Bangladeshis decry curving freedom using court contempt
Fifty-one noted citiznes, writers and activists from home and abroad have expressed deep concern over the use of contempt of court law in curbing freedom of expression. In a joint statement released globally on Friday, they also expressed concern over…
5 killed in Ctg bus-auto-rickshaw collision
Five people were killed and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Satkania upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased could not be identified immediately.
Human chain protest move for 16 new barrages on Ganges
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) today orgaised a human chain to protest the move to construct another 16 barrages at the upper reaches of the Ganges and unilateral withdrawal of water of the Teesta and all other common rivers, in…
Bangladesh’s Rooppur NPP engineering survey tender floated
Atomenergoproekt, sister concern of Russian state nuclear company- ROSATOM, for general designing of nuclear power plants has announced a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur NPP site. The contract value is estimated…
3 killed 20 hurt as bus fell into Bogra roadside ditch
At least three people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch amid dense fog at Manohorpur in Kuliarchar upazila early Saturday. Two of the deceased were identified as Jasim Uddin,60,…
BNP’s observes half-day hartal in Bogra
The half-day hartal, enforced by the local unit BNP demanding the release of its five leaders whom a court sent to jail in a case for crude bomb blast in front of district Awami League office, is going on peacefully…
Environ minister tones down oil spill impact on Sunderbans
Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju on Friday said the oil-spill impacts on the Sundarbans’ biodiversity are not as adverse as it was feared. “The biodiversity and the aquatic animals have surely been affected by the oil slick caused…
BNP ‘won’t be allowed to take to the street’: Nasim
Awami League presidium member and spokesman of the 14-party alliance Mohammad Nasim on Friay said that BNP-Jamaat would not be allowed to torch properties on the streets in the name of movement. “Begum Zia will not be allowed for a…
Crude bomb hurled at JP MP’s Bogra house
Miscreants threw a crude bomb at the house of opposition whip in parliament Nurul Islam Omar in the district town on Friday evening. Witnesses said a group of unidentified miscreants hurled the crude bomb at the main gate of the…
Pak HC mourn Peshawar deaths including 132 schoolchildren
The Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka on Friday evening mourned the death of its citizens, including 132 schoolchildren, in a deadly terror attack in Peshawar the other day. A candle light vigil and a doa mahfil were held at the…
Lima climate talks and the path to Paris
Jacqueline Fa’amatuainu, University of Auckland The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Lima over the first two weeks of December continued in the wake of Typhoon Hagiput, which barreled through the Philippines. This progress was necessary…
Khaleda, Tarique distort history: Want Hasina’s democracy: Gaffar Chy
Columnist Abdul Gaffar Choudhury on Friday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Khaleda Zia and senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman continued to try to distort the country’s history. “When conspiracy to destroy the country begins, a move also starts to distort its…
Khaleda addresses FF rally Sunday
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address a rally of freedom fighters in the city on Sunday. Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal will organise the discussion on “Present political crises of the country and responsibilities of freedom fighters.
Warrant issued, legal notice served against Tarique
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a case filed for calling Bangabandhu a “great Razakar”. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Yunus Khan issued the arrest warrant after M Mostafizur…
Moosa rejects graft allegation brought against him
DATCO Group chairman Dr Moosa Bin Shamsher on Thursday said the graft allegation raised against him is false, fabricated and baseless and dismissed the allegation of siphoning off money, “The graft allegation raised against me is false, fabricated and baseless.…
Outgoing US envoy happy with the state of partnership
The outgoing US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Thursday said he is proud of the current state of partnership between Bangladesh and the USA saying it has never been deeper, broader and stronger than today. “I reviewed the state of…
Armed forces shall fulfil people’s hopes, aspirations: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has been working to establish a professional and well-trained armed forces and expressed the optimism that the Armed Forces will keep intact its role in future for fulfilling the hopes and…
Court summons Fakhrul for calling AL party of killers
A Dhaka court on Thursday summoned BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed for calling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ‘a killer’ and her party Awami League ‘a partyof killers’. Magistrate Adit Kumar Dey of the…
Khaleda asks Hasina to restrain herself, her men
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina to restrain her tongue and behavior for the sake of development of the country. “I would like to tell Hasina to control her hoodlums of…
Will population growth end in this century?
New Worldwatch Institute analysis explores the debate about our planet’s future population. Washington D.C.-The human population nearly tripled from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to 7.3 billion today and will continue growing through 2070, according to two recent demographic projections.…
2 alleged robbers hurt in ‘gunfight’ with cops
Two alleged robbers, arrested in connection with the robbery attempt in two local jewellery shops, were injured in a gunfight between police and their cohorts in the port city of Chittagong early Wednesday. The injured were identified as M Hasan…
Govt’s fall only matter of time, says Fakhrul
Charging the government with resorting to continued evil efforts to hang onto power, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the fall of this regime is now only a matter of time. In a statement, Fakhrul said the…