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Dhaka and Washington are set to sign two memorandums of understandings (MoU) on cooperation on counterterrorism and counter-narcotics during Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir’s upcoming visit to the United States on July 11-12. According to the programme schedule, on the day of his arrival, the Home Minister will visit a training centre of the

The BNP on Tuesday accused Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, Speaker of the parliament, of pursuing a partisan role and said opposition lawmakers are being deprived of their due rights’ to raise voice in the house against the government’s “misdeeds.” At the end of parliament session, several opposition lawmakers made the allegation at a press conference held

7-yr jail for food adulteration The cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft law for regulating production and marketing of breast-milk substitutes with a provision for a complete ban on advertisements of such products. The health and family welfare ministry placed the draft bill at the weekly cabinet meeting, proposing maximum three years of imprisonment and ... Read more

‘I am innocent,’ Limon tells court The trial of one of the two cases against Limon Hossain, a college student who was shot and maimed by Rapid Action Battalion in 2011, began on Monday after a special tribunal in Jhalakathi framed charges against him. Additional speedy tribunal judge Kiron Sankar Halder

Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman on Monday said that no major changes were needed in the existing operational structure of Grameen Bank. Amid criticism over the government move to split the Nobel prize winning bank, Atiur said, ‘Bangladesh Bank is obliged to carry out annual inspections

The cabinet on Monday decided to form a committee to revise the already-finalised draft Labour Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 in a bid to get back the GSP facilities suspended by the US government last week. Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister

Actress Mita Noor was found dead, hanging from a ceiling fan in her flat at the capital’s posh Gulshan on Monday The police recovered Related report on P 7 the body of the 42-year-old TV star early in the morning. Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Forensic

WAR CRIMES TRIAL SQC says he flew to Karachi in March 1971 The detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on Monday told the International Crimes Tribunal 1 that he had flown from Dhaka to Karachi on March 29, 1971. In his deposition for the eighth day as the first

GAZIPUR CITY POLLS Ajmat, Mannan trade accusations before CEC The two major mayoral candidates —Ajmat Ullah Khan, backed by the ruling Awami League-led alliance, MA Mannan, backed by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, —  on Monday traded accusations against each other in front of the chief election commissioner, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad.

Islami Chhatra Shibir on Monday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike for Wednesday pressing for immediate release of its central president Delwar Hossain and whereabouts of its disappeared leaders and activists. Shibir secretary general Abdul Jabbar, in a statement,

GB employees to hold demo today Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League chief Abdul Kader Siddiqui and Liberal Democratic Party president Oli Ahmed on Monday met Muhammad Yunus at Grameen Bank Bhaban in the capital’s Mirpur. Both the leaders, also the leading freedom fighters,

The government has planned to ensure uninterrupted power supply to consumers of Dhaka city and its adjacent areas during the month of Ramadan. Power division secretary Monwar Islam on Monday asked the utilities to ensure uninterrupted power supply in Dhaka during Ramadan, officials said.

The last budget session of the ninth parliament prorogues tomorrow after 24 working days. The leader of the house, Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, will deliver her winding up speech before the speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury reads out

The war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-amir AKM Yusuf has been transferred to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 from the ICT-1 on Monday. The ICT-1 transferred the case responding to a petition filed by the prosecution on June 23. Arguing on the petition, prosecutor Syed Haider

The Parliament, on Sunday, passed the Tk. 222,490 crore budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2013, amid opposition boycott over the Speaker’s decision of not allowing them to discuss their cut-motions against the demand for grants, by two ministries.  The process of the passage of the budget, the final one from the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the education in the country will be made fully free for all in the future if the economy gets better. “No one will be excluded from educational facilities as it’s the duty of the state to ensure education for all …the resource constraint is the only problem,” she ... Read more

The European Union (EU) said on Sunday a decision to withdraw the EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility for Bangladeshi products must be avoided. In a statement it said, “the EU wishes to remain engaged with Bangladesh, so that it can preserve the preferential access to the EU market which has greatly helped socio-economic ... Read more

Azmatullah Khan, the mayoral candidate backed by 14-party alliance, in the forthcoming Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) poll, announced his election manifesto at a press conference held at the Trust Community Centre, in Gazipur town, on Sunday. He declared a 10-point plan to turn Gazipur into

Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said if the demand for holding the next general election under a caretaker government (CG) is ignored the BNP will launch a movement to compel the government to accept it. Urging party activists to get ready for both election and movement, she made it ... Read more

The development partners (DPs) of Bangladesh have demanded of the government to share the final drafts of the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Law 2013, Foreign Donation (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Bill 2012, and the Audit Bill, with them before enacting them into law. The DPs raised the demand at the Local Consultative Group (LCG) plenary