Month: August 2013

The cabinet on Monday approved the crucial ‘Overseas Employment and Migrant Workers Bill, 2013′ incorporating the highest 10 years rigorous imprisonment and fine of TK 500,000 for violation of immigration law. The draft law also proposed seven years rigorous imprisonment and fine of Tk 300,000 for any forgery of the demand letter, visa and work ... Read more

The High Court on Monday stayed for six weeks the five-day police remand of Adilur Rahman Khan, detained secretary of human rights watchdog Odhikar, and ordered the authorities to send him to jail immediately in connection with a case under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The court, however, permitted the law enforcers to ... Read more

Five existing mobile phone companies of the country on Monday submitted applications for participating in the auction for three licences for 3G services, scheduled for September 8, after the government had met almost all of their demands bowing down to pressure. No foreign company, however, submitted the application

Violence peaks on hartal eve Clashes erupted between police and Jamaat-Shibir activists in several places in the country on Monday, on the eve of a 48-hour hartal called by the outfit. The hartal was called in protest against a High Court verdict that declared the outfit’s registration with the Election Commission as illegal. Sources said ... Read more

Khaleda shares her governance vision with US envoy BNP Chairperson and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia has apprised US Ambassador Dan Mozena of her vision for the country if she forms the government in future. “She shared with me in details her vision for Bangladesh should she form the government. She went through different aspects of ... Read more

The government is going to extend the tenure of Ashrayan-II Project till June 30, 2017, and enhance its cost to Tk. 2,204 crore, ahead of the next general election. The project aims to rehabilitate more than 34,000 landless families. The revised project (Ashrayan-II) will be placed before the meeting of the Executive Committee of the ... Read more

After more than two and a half years into the incident, the trial of the murder of Bangladeshi girl Felani will begin on Tuesday at a special court constituted by Border Security Force (BSF) in Cooch Behar of India. Felani, a 15-year-old girl, was shot dead by the BSF men while she was entering Bangladesh ... Read more

The BNP on Monday warned that the ruling Awami League would be held responsible if an “unconstitutional force” captures state power. “We don’t know anything about Premier Sheikh Hasina’s apprehension over unconstitutional forces seizing state power. But we’re telling frankly that she would be held responsible if such an incident takes place in the future,”

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Monday accused the human rights organization Odhikar of working with political motives. “Odhikar secretary Adilur Rahman Khan was a Deputy Attorney General during the erstwhile four-party alliance government. He also has close ties with the Jamaat-e-Islami,

A huge number of people on Monday returned to the capital by bus, train and launch after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr. Officials of Bangladesh Railway, bus and launch companies said most of the people who went out of the capital came back on Monday because ofthe two-day countrywide strike that begins today.Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called the general strike.

Two more criminal cases were filed on Sunday night with Galachipa police station by local Awami League (AL) leaders against Golam Maula Rony, MP. Rony is the lawmaker of the ruling party for Patuakhali-3 (Galachipa-Dashmina) constituency. Rony and 28 of his associates, belonging to the notorious ‘Bhaiya Bahini’ gang, were accused in connection with cases

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo, he has revealed. Stoltenberg said he had wanted to hear from real Norwegian voters and that taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views.

Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Navy Hospital Ship named Peace Ark is scheduled to visit Bangladesh from August 19-25 to provide free medical services to local people and conduct academic exchanges with Bangladesh military hospitals. Senior Colonel Zhang Wei, military attaché at the Chinese Embassy,revealed this

Three research centres of the University of Dhaka University have to do any research for 25 to 33 years, officials said. The centres are Dev Centre for Philosophical Studies, the Centre for Advanced Research in Humanities and Nazrul Research Centre.

A Dhaka court on Sunday granted the police a five-day remand for grilling the secretary of the human rights organisation Odhikar, Adilur Rahman Khan. Khan was arrested under the Information and Communications Technology Act from his Gulshan residence in the capital on Saturday night, the police said.

Patients were passing days unattended in hospitals in the capital as most of the physicians and nurses were on leave on the occasion of Eid. Patients both in public and private hospitals all over the country were referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital because of shortage of physicians.

Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated throughout the country on Friday with traditional fervour and festivity ending a month of fasting. In the capital, the main Eid congregation was held at the National Eidgah under tight security. The Khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque 

A judge in New York City sentenced a Bangladeshi national to 30 years in prison Friday for attempting to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in the Wall Street financial district last year. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 22, had earlier pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction-a 1,000-pound

All the government and private offices and courts in Dhaka opened on Sunday after the three-day long vacation of Eid-ul-Fitr. The attendance of the officials and employees was low at different organisations. Hundreds of thousands of people, who had left the capital for celebrating the Eid at home with relations, have started coming back. The ... Read more

Seeking people’s support for her party’s reelection, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged all to judiciously cast their votes in favour of honest, patriot and pro-development candidates in the next general election. “I hope people will judiciously cast their votes in favour of those candidates who are honest, pro-development and patriots,” she said. She ... Read more