Nation

About 13,847 were afflicted by diarrhoea and at least five people died in the country in the past seven days due to lack of pure drinking water and consumption of stale and contaminated food, said sources at the Directorate-General of Health Services’ control room. The floating people, slum-dwellers and destitutes in the city are most ... Read more

Hundreds of handloom factories including Jamdani, Katan and Benarashi in the district are facing set back due to high price of yarn and dye and smuggling of Indian fabrics in the local market. Local entrepreneurs said a group of dishonest yarn and dye traders are making the yarn and dye market unstable with an ulterior ... Read more

The nation in its most colourful festival welcomed Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla year 1416, on Tuesday amid lively pageants leaving behind the gloom of past and pledging to uphold the nation’s cultural heritage. Thousands of people from all walks of the society dressed in traditional costumes poured into the streets, parks ... Read more

Shubha Nababarsha – today is Pahela Baishakha, the first day of Bangla New year 1416. People, across the world who speak Bengali, will celebrate Pahela Baishakh in a festive mood. Besides the Bengalis, people of other ethnic identities also celebrate the day as their New Year in their own ways. Thousands of people from different ... Read more

Cancellation of Khaleda house lease  Home Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday warned the opposition against any attempt to create anarchy over the cancellation of base of Khaleda Zia’s cantonment house. Addressing a discussion, organised by the ‘Independent Homeopathy Doctors Parishad’ at the National Press Club, the minister further said the government would take tough action against ... Read more

Meeting tomorrow to finalise strategy Bangladesh is looking forward to set up joint working groups (JWG) with a number of countries including the UK and US for tackling terrorism, money laundering, and human trafficking through sharing of information and counter-terrorism training. As a part of the move, the government will hold a meeting tomorrow at ... Read more

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Friday said after travelling a long road of struggle, democracy has now reached the doorsteps of all people in the country, reports BSS. “It is now the duty of all of us to appropriately preserve and nurture democracy in the greater national interest,” the Finance Minister said this while ... Read more

Indigenous people hardly mind when they are called in many names, but academicians say it is a big problem for students when they are frequently called in different names in the textbooks of a particular class. But this is what has happened to textbooks from primary to secondary levels. A review shows that words like ... Read more

People of Bangladesh should hold their politicians and government officials accountable and to encourage them to focus on nation-building, speakers observed at a briefing for Congressional staff Bangladesh: The Election and Future of Democratic Governance’ organised by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) on last Tuesday in the US Capitol. ... Read more

Pilkhana Carnage 6 more BDR men confess to involvement Six more members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday confessed to their involvement in the February 25-26 Pilkhana carnage before magistrates. Metropolitan magistrates Rashedul Kabir and Dilara Alo Chandana recorded the confessional statements of the six. Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested 15 more BDR members ... Read more

The 30 cheated workers who had been staging a sit-in at Zia International Airport upon their return from Kuala Lumpur last Sunday ended their demonstration yesterday. They calmed down after Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) promised to help them get compensation for their losses from the fraudulent recruiting agency by April 30. “Baira ... Read more

Brushing aside the ACC decision not to appear before the parliamentary standing committee, eminent lawyer Barrister Rafique-ul Huq yesterday said that ACC was bound to be present before the parliamentary standing according to the law of the land. “ACC is very much a government organ. An effort was made through promulgating the ACC Ordinance, 2007 ... Read more

Senior member of Awami League presidium Abdur Razzak, MP, said yesterday that none would be spared who had committed crime against humanity by indulging in genocide and war crimes during the nine-month-old war of independence of the country in 1971. “Those who carried out and assisted the Pakistani occupation forces to commit genocide in Bangladesh ... Read more

Apr 10: A total of 94 teachers of Rajshahi University(RU) lost their jobs in the university for not returning to it after finishing their research works abroad. The university authority deserves to get a big amount to the tune of Taka five crore from the 94 teachers. The authority of Rajshahi University terminated their jobs ... Read more

State Minister for Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarker promised Commonwealth Games gold medalist Asif Hossain Khan to settle his case filed in 2006 by police following a scuffle between cops and shooters at the National Shooting Complex. Asif and his mother called on the state minister on Thursday at the ministry. “He assured me ... Read more

JANIPOP-Jatiya Nirbachan Parjabekhan Parishad- observed the upazila re-election 2009 on mobile basis under the overall supervision of its Chairman Professor Dr. Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, says a press release. Three observation teams from JANIPOP were involved in observing the re-election in three upazilas namely Belkuchi of Sirajgonj, Barura of Comilla and Brahmanbaria Sadar of Brahmanbaria It ... Read more

Fourteen alleged collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces have been sued for killing four people, including a freedom fighter, in Mymensingh and Satkhira in 1971. In Mymensingh, a case was lodged with Additional Judicial Magistrate’s Court here on Thursday, accusing 10 people of killing freedom fighter Taleb Ali Mondal and his two brothers at village Bhalukia ... Read more

Potato price is galloping in the northern districts as the production faced a setback in the region this year. A kilogram of potato is now selling in the retail markets at a rate double its price two weeks ago. Regional Agriculture Office sources said potato production in Rangpur, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat and ... Read more

Policy research for development alternatives organisation (Ubinig) on Thursday said the promotion of hybrid and high yielding varieties of rice ignoring the traditional and local varieties had left an adverse impact on the environment and caused serious harm to human health. Addressing a press briefing to announce holding of the ‘Local variety rice preservation week ... Read more

Experts, academics, politicians and green activists on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to build a time-befitting rail and water ways network to bring dynamism in the country’s economy. They made the demand at a press briefing at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity where they also launched an organisation ‘Railpath-Noupath Rakkha O Unnayan ... Read more