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Communi-cations minister Obaidul Quader  called upon the Jamaat-e-Islami to withdraw its hartal considering the suffering of the people who left Dhaka to celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones in their villages. Jamaat called two-day strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday in protest against a High Court verdict that cancelled its registration as a ... Read more

Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid, secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, moved appeal petition against the verdict of International crimes Tribunal (ICT) with the appellate division of Supreme Court on Sunday. Advocate on Record Joynul Abedin put forward the petition on behalf of Mujahid, defence counsel Advocate Tajul Islam said. Defence filed the appeal

A case was filed with  Patuakhali judges court  on Sunday against Golam Moula Rony, MP of Patuakhali -3 and 13 others, including his brother and members of his ‘Bhaiya Bahini’ on charges of  misappropriating    Taka 79 crore. The case was filed by A Jamal Hossain of Dasmina village of  Patuakhali  with the district judges court. ... Read more

Unidentified miscreants attempted to rob the Nobabganj Branch of Agrani Bank at the old part of the capital during the three-day vacation of Eid-ul-Fitr. According to Md Shahjalal, Officer-in-Charge of Lalbagh Police Station, the robbers tried to commit the robbery at Agrani Bank at any times during

3 passengers fall from train roof, die At least three passengers fell from the roof of a running train and died as thousands of holidaymakers left Dhaka on Wednesday, the last working day before the Eid-ul- Fitr on overcrowded busses, trains and ferries risking their lives. The capital experienced severe traffic congestions all day as ... Read more

Education Act Draft seeks regn of all edn institutions The draft of the first-ever education act provisions for penalty for all types of educational institutions — Bangla and English mediums, kindergartens, and madrassahs — offering nursery, primary and secondary course if the do not have government approval and registration with relevant authorities. The draft that ... Read more

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said a policy for electing Directors to the Grameen Bank board will be worked out soon. He said, “We’ve to formulate a rule on how to elect the Board of Directors as there’s no rule to this end at the moment.” Muhith also said the government did not want ... Read more

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has made the most of the month of Ramadan for a campaign of sort in the form of iftar parties and religious events for the next polls rather than preparing for the post-Eid movement for an election-time ‘non-party’ government. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia had earlier declared Ramadan as the month of its ... Read more

Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated in Bangladesh tomorrow subject to sighting of Shawal moon after a month of fasting. The national moon sighting committee meets at 7:10pm today at the Bangladesh Islamic Foundation to review reports on the sighting of the Shawal

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Pabna in October, formally kicking off its construction work. The decision for laying the foundation was taken at the third meeting of the national committee on nuclear power plant project with Hasina in the

Dhaka wants to make the best use of the singing ceremony of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement with Washington to bolster the country’s ties with the USA, officials said. The foreign ministry officials are trying to complete the signing of the much-talked-about deal next month in Washington coinciding with prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ... Read more

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members recovered a pair of blood-stained pants from the office of the son of influential MP Nasim Osman in the city on Wednesday. In a raid on ‘Winner Fashion’, known as torture cell of Azmeri Osman, at Allama Iqbal Road, the elite force members also seized a sofa ... Read more

Aged between 10 and 18, they work in Keraniganj garment factories, but get no pay While apparel stores in the capital are doing a roaring trade before Eid, the workload for thousands of unpaid children in tailoring factories on the outskirts of the city has multiplied. Eleven-year-old Jewel works 14 to 18 hours every day ... Read more

Newly established educational institutions will no longer be given salary from the state exchequer in the form of monthly pay order, government officials said. According to the latest statistics, the government needs to spend more than Tk 5,000 crore every year on the salary and other benefits of about 4.7 lakh teachers

Three suspected robbers were killed in an attack by a mob during a robbery incident in Kapasia upazila early Wednesday. One of the deceased was identified as Masum, resident of Haridebpur village in Kaliganj upazila. The police and residents said a gang of robbers, numbering 10/12, broke into the house of one Niranjan at Palashpur ... Read more

Young people looking for government jobs are frustrated at the government being firm on not revising the age limit and not cancelling the quota in public service recruitment. Job seekers were rallying for an increase the age limit for jobs with government offices, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies and corporations

Non-Govt Schools, Colleges Guardian pay exorbitant fees as teachers get double benefits The teachers and staff of reputed non-government schools and colleges who are on monthly pay order are enjoying double benefit causing the guardians to pay exorbitant fees on different heads, including tuition fee, coaching fee, and model test fee. Since August 2006, the ... Read more

Many who have passed HSC examswill not get admission to their desired institutions A large number of successful HSC examinees will be denied admission to their desired institutions of higher studies, as the students who have passed vastly outnumber the seats available. Though the number of GPA-5 scorers dropped this year, landing a seat at ... Read more

Abuse of Projects Vehicles Govt likely to ask ministries for vehicle list The government is likely to select 10 ministries and divisions and ask them to give details about the vehicles of the concluded development projects to check abuse of vehicles, officials said. The ministries includes LGRD, ministries of communication, education, heath, agriculture, water resources ... Read more

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday warned the government saying that it would be facing one-point movement aimed at overthrowing the government after Eid if it did not concede to their demand for an election-time, non-party government. The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir