Month: August 2013

Referring to the recent announcement of Khaleda Zia that her party would introduce a new type of government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday, said the opposition leader would indulge in corruption on this pretext. “The opposition leader will, in fact, find out a new way for corruption and run the country by opening a ... Read more

No cluster system test this year About 16,200 students, who scored the highest grade point average of 5 in this year’s higher secondary certificate and equivalent examinations, will not get seats in reputed public universities and medical and dental colleges. The government has failed to introduce a cluster system test for admission to universities in ... Read more

Apparently irked by the move of the election commission (EC) to amend the Representation of People Order (RPO)  at the fag end of the government’s tenure, the major political parties, except the ruling Awami League, now feel that the present EC has lost its acceptability and election under this EC would not be free and

A countrywide general strike called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for August 12-13 has forced many people to return their advance bus and train tickets dropping the plan to celebrate the Eid festival in the outlying areas. On Sunday it was found that many people, mostly parents of schoolchildren, were returning advance tickets at the Kamalapur railway ... Read more

Firing a broadside at the government for putting up billboards in the city projecting its successes, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said this move will not help the regime change people’s minds. “While coming from Uttara, I’ve seen so many billboards hung around describing the government’s development activities. No campaign ... Read more

Security Alert US, Canadian missions shut in Dhaka The US kept dozens of its embassies in Muslim countries, including Bangladesh, closed yesterday following Washington’s worldwide travel alert in tandem with an Interpol global security warning. Canada also kept its Bangladesh mission closed. The US embassy in Dhaka and 21 US embassies and consulates in 16 ... Read more

Trial Of Mueen, Ashraf Dr Alim’s daughter wants highest punishment Fugitive Al-Badr bosses Ashrafuzzaman Khan and Chowdhury Mueenuddin  abducted and killed Dr Abdul Alim Chowdhury towards the end of the Liberation War, his daughter Farjana Chowdhury Nipa testified on Sunday. She testified as the ninth prosecution witness against the two prime accused in the elimination ... Read more

Sajeeb Wajed Joy, the only son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a Facebook post on Sunday evening claimed to have got a death threat through a tweet message by a local human rights activist. According to his Facebook page, he wrote: ”Self-proclaimed human rights activist threatens PM’s family with death.” After posting a picture ... Read more

Hallmark-Sonali Scam Jesmin granted conditional bail Asked to pay Tk 100cr to Sonali Bank every month A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to Hallmark Group chairman Jesmin Islam on condition that she would repay Tk 100 crore every month to the state- owned Sonali Bank until the amount the group had embezzled from the ... Read more

The researcher suggested ultrasound treatments could be used to prevent a common kidney complication than can arise after major surgery, BBC reported. The work, published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, was carried out on mice. But the researchers said there could be a ‘rapid translation’ to human studies because

Fahima Islam Lopa, wife of Milky murder suspect Maruf Reza Sagar, on Sunday confessed before a magistrate that she and her husband were involved in the killing of the Juba League leader. Riazul Haque Khan Milky, the organising secretary of Juba League’s Dhaka City Unit (South), youth wing of ruling Awami League, was gunned down ... Read more

Miscreants killed two siblings and injured another Saturday night at Fenchuganj in Sylhet over previous enmity. The deceased were identified as Shahin Ahmed, 19, and Shamim Ahmed, 23, sons of Chhanu Miah of village Kachuabahar under Fenchuganj upazila. Shahin passed the HSC examination from Fenchuganj Degree College this year. The

A 67-year-old Indian visitor to Dubai was stopped from getting on the Dubai metro, apparently for wearing dhoti, India’s traditional dress, Hindustan Times reported. According to the victim’s daughter Madhumati, a policeman stopped them near the punching gates of the Etisalat metro station last Saturday and told her

The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld for eight weeks a government decision that pilgrims in 2013 can only fly Saudi Arabian Airlines or Biman Bangladesh for Hajj purposes. The chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury also stayed for eight weeks a High Court (HC) order that allowed Hajj pilgrims to fly ... Read more

Muggers reportedly snatched Tk 30 lakh from two officials of a garment factory in the city’s Paribagh area on Sunday afternoon. Quoting the victims, police said Moazzem, 50, director of TH Fashion located in Hatirpul drew Tk 30 lakh from Motijheel branch of Exim Bank to pay the salaries of the factory workers in the ... Read more

Thousands of passengers on Dhaka-Chittagong highway had to bear untold sufferings for some six hours on Sunday due to a 40-kilometer tailback near Comilla. The gridlock was created from Chandina to Daudkandi bridge area as a Covered Van collided head-on with a Pagaro jeep at Zinlatoli area in Daudkandi

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday evening in a drive arrested school teacher Helal Uddin Orofa Panna Master from the capital’s Mohammadpur area on charges of raping school girls. Dhaka Metropolitan DB office Crime Analysis Cell Assistant Commissioner (AC) Rayhanul confirmed The Independent about the arrest. Panna was arrested from