Month: September 2013

Workers attack ansar camp, battle with police in Gazipur, Savar, Dhaka, 135 injured The police battled with violent apparel workers who vandalised factories and vehicles and attacked an ansar camp as labour unrest over wages flared in Gazipur, Savar and in the capital on Monday. Garment factory workers, demanding a minimum monthly wage of Tk ... Read more

The High Court on Monday stayed the recruitment process of more than 5,000 different posts of third and fourth class under the Health Ministry for three months. After brief hearing on two separate writ petitions, the HC bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and AKM Zahirul Haque came up with the order.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that the United Nations’ (UN) initiative for a dialogue between the country’s two major political parties to overcome the crisis of poll-time administration had failed due to the government’s unwillingness. The BNP leader said that the government would

The Election Commission (EC) has finally broken its silence regarding Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) elections, saying that the DCC polls would not be held before the Parliamentary elections due to boundary disputes. “DCC polls are unlikely to be held before the next general elections,” election commissioner Md Shah Nawaz said on Monday. Shah Nawaz said that the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived at New York’s John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in the morning head of a 140-members delegation, to attend the 68th session of the UNGA. As the Prime Minister arrived the JFD airport, local Awami League leaders and activists accorded hearty welcome while local BNP activists staged demonstration. Foreign Minister Dr ... Read more

A court in Egypt has banned “all activities” by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Cairo administrative court said its ruling applied to the Islamist group, its non-governmental organisation and “any organisation derived from it”. It also ordered the interim government to seize the Brotherhood’s funds and form a panel to administer its frozen assets until any appeal ... Read more

The High Court on Monday directed the police to arrange collection of DNA samples from members of families who claim that at least one of their relatives died in the Tazreen Fashion fire but their bodies have so far not been identified. The names of 24 workers, not included in the official list of 111 workers confirmed ... Read more

HC rejects petitions against its release The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the government to release a genetically modified (GM) crop, Bt Brinjal, in Bangladesh. The court rejected two separate writ petitions that challenged the legality of a government move to release the crop for the first time in the country. A division bench ... Read more

The government has decided to temporarily stop issuing immigration clearance for people who want to work in the Maldives in order to observe the experience of those Bangladeshi workers who are already in the island nation, officials from the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training said on Monday. In nine months since January, around 8,000 ... Read more

A large number of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are set to get Bangladeshi nationality by listing their names in fresh voters’ lists, according to a government agency report. The government agency has informed the Election Commission that millions of Rohingyas living in greater Chittagong districts applied to local and

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Monday expressed its grave concern over the unrest and vandalism in garment sector. The country’s apex trade body voiced its concern as the apparel workers were staging demonstrations to realise their demand for an increase in monthly wage.

Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested eight people in an allegation of theft at the city’s Lalmatia Sonali Bank branch early Monday. The arrested persons were identified as Harun-ur-Rashid, 45, Badal, 42, Emdadul Haque alias Chanchal, 48, Raju alias Mostofa, 45, Mohammad Laton, 30,

The five-day long Dhaka-Sundarbans long march, demanding cancellation of the proposed thermal power plant project in Rampal near the Sundarbans, will start on Tuesday. The long march will start around 10 am from in front of the Jatiya Press club in the capital. The National committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral resources,

A child, aged two and a half years, was put in the dock in Comapnyganj, Sylhet, on Sunday because of sloppy investigation by an inspector. He was even charged with selling adulterated oil. It all began as Sanitary Inspector Shamsuddin raided “Aftab Store” in Shah Arefin Bazaar of Noakut village on February 27 and found low-grade ... Read more

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned former State Minister for Housing and Public Works Alamgir Kabir for an interrogation into his alleged involvement with the misappropriation of around Tk 40 crore. The commission on Monday sent a notice to Alamgir Kabir, also a leader of opposition BNP, asking him to appear before it on September ... Read more