Month: November 2013

A metropolitan magistrate’s court on Tuesday remanded BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah for two days in police custody for interrogation in a case filed by the police for setting a vehicle on fire on October 26. Metropolitan magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiyan passed the order in his chamber after hearing two petitions — one filed ... Read more

Two vehicles torched Angry readymade garments worker protested and ransacked the factories at Kashimpur and Nayapara area in Gazipur and set fire to two vehicles of a factory on Tuesday. Inspector Nasrul Islam of Gazipur industrial police, said the workers of Multifabs Limited in the area started demonstration demanding uniformity

Teachers continue demo The much-awaited election to the Jahangirnagar University Central Student Union slated for January 2 has been postponed due to ‘insufficient security’. Chief election commissioner professor AKM Shahnawaj in a written statement on Tuesday said that the authorities took decision to postpone

Admission Row Zafar Iqbal, Yasmeen Haque resign Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and his wife Professor Yasmeen Haque resigned yesterday soon after the university authority postponed the combined admission test for the SUST and Jessore Science & Technology University (JSTU). In a statement jointly issued by the academician

CEC says army to be deployed, no showdown during nomination filing The Election Commission (EC) on Monday announced the schedule for the next general election, setting the voting date on January 5, 2014. In a televised address to the nation, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed said the last date for the filing of nomination ... Read more

Hannan Shah arrested BNP-led 18-party alliance on Monday called a countrywide 48-hour road, rail and waterway blockade from 6 am on Tuesday in reaction to the announcement of holding national election on January 7. It termed the poll schedule announced by Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed a farce. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ... Read more

Dhaka and Washington have signed the much talked-about Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA), establishing a platform to identify and overcome the obstacles to increasing bilateral trade and investment between Bangladesh and the United States. Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed and Deputy US Trade Representative Wendy Cutler

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday requested her Cabinet colleagues to take steps to ensure the highest possible attendance by voters at polling centres in their respective constituencies during the upcoming general elections, a senior minister said, quoting the PM. She made this request at a special meeting

United States Ambassador Dan Mozena and Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran have separately met with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discussed the country’s political situation, especially the national election scheduled to be held in January. Ambassador Mozena said the declaration of polls schedule has made it even more imperative for

Compensation For Rana Plaza Victims Owners can’t pay Tk 19.51 lakh to each: BGMEA Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association opposed Tk 19.51 lakh compensation package for each dead or disabled Rana Plaza worker saying the garments owners are not lawfully responsible to compensate at such high amount. The trade body recently submitted a written opinion ... Read more

Law enforcers put on high alert At least two people were killed, about 100 injured and over 50 vehicles damaged as opposition activists went on the rampage and clashed with police across the country to protest the announcement of election schedule. Of the deaths, one each was reported from the capital and from Manoharpur of ... Read more

Bangabir Kader Siddiqui BU, president of the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League (BKSJL), has described the all-party election-time government as “illegal” because there is no provision for it in the Constitution. “Ministers have no right to fly the national flag on their cars after submitting their resignations. It is a criminal offence. They will be ... Read more

Contrary to BNP claims, the ruling Awami League (AL) on Monday asserted that there has been progress in holding a dialogue with the Opposition BNP after a reported meeting between two senior functionaries of the rival parties here. AL leaders said party general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam ... Read more

13 more channels to join existing 27 The government “two to three days ago” had approved licence for 13 television channels, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told The Daily Star last night. He said the approval had been given in line with a past decision and as a routine work. This comes just a few ... Read more

Ctg-Dhaka, Ctg-Sylhet Derailment cuts rail links for 10 hours  The railway communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet, which remained snapped for around 10 hours following the derailment of a freight train in Akhaura of Brahmanbaria, were restored around 6:30pm yesterday. With the yesterday’s incident of derailment, railway communications on the route remained suspended for more ... Read more

The High Court has issued a rule asking the government to explain within 4 weeks why a clause in the amended Anti Corruption Act, that curtailed the ACC authority to file graft cases against government officials, would not be declared unconstitutional. The HC bench of Justices Quazi Reza-Ul Haque and ABM Altaf Hossain issued the ... Read more

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Monday directed the RAJUK authorities to maintain status quo on the construction work of Purbachal housing project at Barokau and Parabarthha moujas in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur. The apex court also ordered the High Court to dispose of a rule pending before it in this regard within three ... Read more

The National Board of Revenue on Monday reduced customs duty to 5 per cent from the existing 10 per cent on import of newsprint for newspaper industry, officials said. They said that the new duty structure came into effect on Monday as the statutory regulatory order was issued on the day. The SRO will be made

A schoolgirl was badly injured in an acid attack on Sunday night allegedly by her cousin in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj as the girl refused to enter into a relationship with him. The girl, Hasina Khatun, 13, of Laxmipur village, is now undergoing treatment at Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) in the capital. Abdul Hamid,