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Chittagong Correspondent The administrative big shots of Chittagong University (CU) have apparently failed to find a way out from the deadlock arising out of the siege laid by the-Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student front of Awami League and

PM issues warning; BCL central body to be dissolved Hasan Jahid Tusher and Najmul Alam Nobin The Awami League (AL) high command might soon dissolve the central committee of its associate body Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the wake of recent series of violence at several educational institutions across the country. The party high-ups are ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the United States to invest in Bangladesh in larger volume and emphasized on more US cooperation in energy and power sectors of the country. The request came when US Ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty called on the Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s

Conspirators killed Zia, now want to destroy BNP   Staff Correspondent BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Sunday said as part of implementing a blue print to destroy BNP, the conspirators in a planned way murdered the founder of the party, President Ziaur Rahman. “The conspirators are still active to destroy BNP. In phases at ... Read more

AFP, Port Blair India said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed to be part of a wave of boat people allegedly dragged out to the middle of the ocean by Thailand and left to die. Thailand has denied the accusations, but accounts of survivors and the latest reports from the Indian ... Read more

Julfikar Ali Manik BNP standing committee member and former minister Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain brought back 76,282.07 pounds (equivalent to about Tk 1.04 crore) from the UK at the initiative of now-defunct taskforces. The military-backed caretaker government cracked down on high-profile graft-suspects in February 2007 and Mosharraf was arrested within a few months. Sources say ... Read more

President advises foreign service officials Unb, Dhaka President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday termed foreign service officials mirror of the county and hoped they would uphold Bangladesh’s image abroad. Iajuddin made the remark when a 10-member delegation of the Foreign Service Academy led by its Principal Ambassador Shahed Akhtar called on him at Banga-bhaban. The delegation comprised ... Read more

Sylhet Medical Hostels BCL erases Khaleda, Saifur’s names Staff Correspondent, Sylhet Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) changed the names of two female dormitories of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Saturday night, erasing the names of Khaleda Zia and Saifur Rahman. Khaleda Zia female interns’ hostel was renamed as Bibi Ayesha (RA) intern hostel while ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Expatriates’ Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Moshar-raf Hossain on Sunday gave intimation that the government fixed rate for sending workers abroad through recruiting agencies may be increased. After holding a meeting with leaders of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) at his ministry, he said “BAIRA leaders said current rate was ... Read more

Sports Reporter Bangladesh will meet Zimbabwe today in the first match of the three-match Grameenphone ODI Series at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. The match starts at 9.00 AM. Bangladesh Television will telecast the match live from the stadium. Before today’s encounter, Bangladesh faced Zimbabwe in 34 ODI matches. Of them, Zimbabwe registered 19 wins ... Read more

Staff Reporter A four-day long education exposition- “3rd Education Worldwide Expo 2009” will begin on January 22 aiming to provide up-to-date and comprehensive educational and career opportunities and guidance. The fair will be opened for all from 10am to 8 pm at level-7, Basundhara Expo Centre, Bashundhara City. The entry fee is fixed at Tk ... Read more

PARTY REORGANISATION AL plans top-down approach,BNP for bottom-up Shahidul Islam Chowdhury and Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee Major political parties, including the ruling Awami League and the opposition in parliament Bangladesh Nationalist Party, are planning to democratically revitalise respective parties and hold national council sessions after the January 22 upazila elections. The Awami League is planning to ... Read more

Israel shells 50 targets ahead of truce vote Afp, Ap, Gaza City Israel pummelled Gaza with new strikes yesterday destroying 50 targets, including a UN-run school sheltering hundreds of refuges in the north, hours before an expected unilateral halt to a 22-day war on Hamas. The Israeli security

VC confined in CU, 40 hurt in Jagannath Univ Staff Correspondent Violence on Saturday spilled over to two more public universities after Jahangirnagar University centring on political enmity and in-fighting of the Chhatra League over stranglehold on campuses. At least 40 students were injured in the clashes in Jagannath University. Students in Chittagong University had ... Read more

Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee The ruling Awami League has asked top leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League, its associate body, to go tough on activists involved in recent campus violence that forced closure of a few educational institutions, a leader of BCL told New Age. The government has also asked the law enforcers to take action against ... Read more

Mirza Shakil and Pinaki Roy Ammonia mixed toxic gas and urea dust emitted from Jamuna Fertiliser Factory (JFF) in Jamalpur have allegedly been wreaking havoc on the local environment and causing debilitating illnesses among the locals. The toxic gas of the largest urea producing factory, at Tarandani of Sarishabari upazila in Tangail, has also been ... Read more

Says Abdus Shahid Staff Correspondent Abdus Shahid, who was picked to be chief whip by prime minister, said the nation would not accept any war criminal as the deputy speaker of the parliament if the opposition party proposes such name. “The nation will not accept any war criminal as the deputy speaker as the nation ... Read more

Agency Thailand will investigate reports that the Thai navy abandoned migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar on a barge in the ocean where hundreds of them may have drowned, according to an AP report. Quoting the Thai Foreign Ministry, the AP report from Bangkok also said it will reassess the overall situation of

JOINT TASK FORCE AGAINST TERRORISM Hasina to talk to South Asian countries United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said she would talk to South Asian countries to form an anti-terrorism task force as her government wants to build Bangladesh as a peaceful country. ‘I will talk to other countries to ... Read more

BNP to convene national council soon Countrywide committees to be revamped after UZ polls: Delwar Staff Correspondent BNP, the main opposition political party in the parliament, will revamp its all committees and associate bodies after January 22 upazila election in order to strengthen the party’s organizational activities BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Vice-Chairman ... Read more