The government has formed three separate enquiry committees following the recent incidents at Birdem General Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. This was stated by Health Minister Mohammad Nasim after a meeting with leaders…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has lodged three cases against the Expatriates Welfare Secretary Khondaker Showkat Hossain for corruption while he was the public works secretary. Deputy Director Jatan Kumar Roy filed the cases filed at Motijheel Police Station at 5pm…
India on Tuesday apparently increased the release of the Teesta water into Bangladesh. The flow of the Teesta water into the Bangladesh territory reached 3,000 cusec as of Tuesday afternoon, said executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board Mahbubur Rahman.…
Terming the present government illegal and subservient one, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said this government would not be able to realize due sharing of water of Teesta river. “India has built 14 dams in…
BNP on Tuesday started its two-day long march towards Teesta Barrage from Azampur in the city’s Uttara area on Tuesday, demanding due share of the river water. Though the long march was scheduled to begin from Airport intersection, it finally…
Strongly condemning Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) senior leader Subramanian Swamy’s remark that Bangladesh should compensate India with land, BNP on Monday termed his comment a serious threat to the country’s independence and sovereignty. In a statement, BNP acting secretary general…
Over 250 workers of a garment factory fell sick after taking food provided by the factory in the city on Monday night. Locals said the workers of sweater factory ‘Best Wool’ situated at Zarun in the city started vomiting…
The interns of Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital went on an indefinite strike on Monday following a case filed the Ekushey Television (ETV) authorities against its director and four interns for alleged assault on some journalists . Moaibul Islam…
Love is said to be behind early Monday’s double murder in Dhaka’s Mirpur. A young man had run away with a teenage girl that led to a clash and the murders. Bodies of two young men with multiple stab wounds were…
Ships from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have reached the Chinese port of Qingdao to take part in rare naval exercise this week. A Bangladesh navy frigate BNS Abu Bakar left Chittagong earlier this month to join the exercise, sources in…
The BNP’s long march to the Teesta Barrage in Lalmonirhat sets off from the Airport roundabout in Dhaka, instead of its Naya Paltan central office planned earlier, at 8am on Tuesday. The two-day march, BNP leaders say, is intended to…
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Monday said BNP is going to organise a long-march programme towards the Teesta Barrage amid the sultry weather of Baishakh only to sow its anti-Indian stance. “It’s not their movement…it’s a bad politics.…
Out of the 350 members of the 10th parliament, 175 MPs are businessmen (50 percent), while 51 MPs lawyers and 21 farmers. Besides, 275 MPs (78.57 percent) are either postgraduates or graduates, while 15 have educational qualification below the SSC,…
Condemning the jailing of two top BNP leaders by a lower court, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said the country has gone under the grip of one person’s ‘whimsical and barbaric’ misrule. “The country is now under one individual’s…
Alleging that India has established its full control over Bangladesh due to the current government’s subservient policy, BNP on Sunday vowed to face the ‘water aggression’ by the neighbouring country together with people. “Our government has given away India our…
A heatwave that has been sweeping across Bangladesh, making life miserable all around, will continue at least for two more days, the Met office says. On Sunday, the mercury shot to 40 degrees Celsius in Rangamati, the highest temperature of…
A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of two cases filed by the BIRDEM General Hospital and relatives of a patient who died there during treatment. Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman ordered judicial investigations into the cases on Sunday. A case was…
A court here on Sunday framed charges against six people, including Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, in two cases filed in connection with the bomb attack on the Awami League office at Chashara on June 16, 2001 that…
The High Court on Sunday directed authorities concerned not to conduct medical tests on any rape victim by male doctors at hospitals across the country. Passing the order, an HC bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza Ul Hoque and Justice ABM…
As a South Korean ferry came to a shuddering halt and rapidly began to sink, some of those on board sent harrowing text messages to their loved ones. With almost 300 people still unaccounted for one day after the accident,…
Likening the current government with Hitler, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said it must step aside forthwith and be made accountable to the people of the country. “Your (govts’) days are numbered, no matter how much efforts you will…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Saturday urged all to free the history of Bangladesh Liberation War and politics from adulteration. “Like food adulteration, many are trying to make efforts through falsehood to adulterate the history of the 1971 Liberation. I…
Environmentalists and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club officials are at loggerheads over the possession of the Dhanmondi Eight playground. The environmentalists are saying the club is trying to take control of the ground and demand that it be made available for…
A faction of the Bangladesh Online Blogger and Activist Network (BOAN) has ‘removed’ Imran H Sarker, from the post of Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson. Animesh Rahman, Charbak, Bangal and Kaniz Aklima Sultana were present when the decision was announced at a…
Two left-leaning parties on Saturday called for movement so India allows Bangladesh its fair share of water from the Teesta River. They alleged that Bangladesh is not getting the fair share of waters of the common rivers, including Teesta, because…
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s bizarre demand that Bangladesh should compensate India with land for the alleged influx of its citizens to Indian state of Assam has evoked sharp reactions in the state. As expected, Congress and minority leaders in the…
The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank this week said he delayed giving evacuation orders because he feared passengers would “drift away”. Lee Joon-seok, 69, was arrested with two crew members on Friday. He has been criticised for…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is going to organise a ‘long-march’ programme towards the Teesta river on Apr 22. The party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a media briefing on Wednesday that they would march to Nilphamari’s Jaldhaka…
Ganajagaran Manch has alleged that the government wants to hang up the process of war crimes trial. Speaking at a rally at Shahbagh on Friday, spokesperson Imran H Sarker said: “The people are concerned about what is happening centring the…
Businessman Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of green activist Syeda Rizwana Hasan, was freed by the abductors 35 hours after his abduction but the abductors could not be traced nor could the motive behind his abduction be debunked till Friday afternoon.…