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Kolkata witnessed a repeat of history when thousands of people including  a section of Kolkata’s cream of intelligentsia and residents of Kamduni village  brought out a remonstration march today afternoon on the street of the metropolis in protest against rising crime among Bengal women in recent times. Today’s march was almost a reminiscent of what ... Read more

The quantity of dissolved oxygen (DO), a vital component of water, has gone down to zero per cent in the Buriganga. This was found by a group of experts on Thursday when they conducted water quality tests in the river. According to Environment Protection Rules 2007, the river water should have above 6 per cent ... Read more

Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty from 2000 to 2010 as poverty has declined by 1.7 percentage points per year. The country witnessed steady and continuous decline in the number of underprivileged over the decade-from nearly 63 million in 2000 to 47 million in 2010.Despite a growing population, the number of poor people ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday that in the present context there is no need for a caretaker government to oversee the next general election, as each and every poll has been held in a free and fair manner under the present government. “It is true that we too launched a movement for a ... Read more

The supporters and workers of Jahangir Alam, the rebel Awami League candidate for the Gazipur City Corporation election scheduled to be held on July 6, are upset over the withdrawal of his candidacy. Since his whereabouts are not currently known, his family is also worried. Jahangir Alam had withdrawn his candidature in favour of the ... Read more

Alhaj M Manjur Alam Manju, mayor of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC), has said that the government can improve the country’s economy by making Chittagong the commercial capital of Bangladesh. He said the port city can also be developed as a tourist hub. Starting tomorrow, the CCC is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. On ... Read more

A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced 10 activists of the outlawed Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the involvement in the suicide bombing at Gazipur Bar Association office in 2005, leaving eight people killed. Judge Mohammad Motahar Hossain of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 announced the verdict in presence of the convicts

The government may fix an ambitious export target of USD 30.457 billion for the next fiscal (2013-14) year, despite the global economic slowdown that has pulled down the country’s export growth below the expected level in the outgoing fiscal year. The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the government agency that is responsible for promoting the country’s ... Read more

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the government to restore a non-party caretaker provision to the constitution so that all political parties could have a level playing field in the election race. “There is no alternative to restore the non-party caretaker government (CG) provision to the constitution. Please, realise the demand ... Read more

Bangladesh does not fully comply with the minimum standard required for elimination of human trafficking, but it is making significant efforts to do so, according to the Trafficking in Persons Report 2013, released by the US State Department on Wednesday. Although the government drafted rules to implement the 2012 Human Trafficking Deterrence

Petrobangla, the state-owned oil and gas company, is set to take action against the consumers who are yet to legalise their gas connections. The deadline set by the government for lagalising connection expires today. “We have given them chance to legalise their connection twice. But we will not give any fresh date or extension the ... Read more

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami collaborated with the Pakistani army to carry out mass killing in Pabna during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, prosecution witness-11 Shamsul Haque Nannu said on Thursday. Pakistani occupation army killed more than 450 people in three villages of the district during the War of Liberation with

Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, on Thursday, accused the government of trying to forcefully grab Grameen Bank. “Intruding the bank forcefully, and demanding a 51 per cent share of the bank, is nothing but snatching it,” he added. “If the people of the country do not raise their voice, the bank would be snatched. It ... Read more

Information minister Hasanul Haque Inu, on Thursday, said that his ministry will take initiatives to include electronic media under the wage board. “Inclusion of electronic media under the wage board is a time-befitting demand and realistic demand. So, my ministry will implement the demand,” he added.

The popularity of the ruling Awami League (AL) has appeared to be receded to the bottom in the last four and a half years, observed leading Indian Bengali daily the Anandabazar. The setback of the ruling AL in the recently ended mayoral polls raised questions among many whether a change is in offing in the ... Read more

Appeal against ICT verdict The total 60-day time-frame mentioned in the law on disposal of appeals at the Appellate Division, against the verdicts of International Crimes Tribunals, should not be interpreted as mandatory, but, as a directive, said law minister barrister Shafique Ahmed, on Wednesday. He said this while talking to reporters, after attending the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday emphatically said that the present government has no intention to ban rallies or meetings of individuals or organizations. The intending persons or individuals would be able to stage rallies in designated areas provided they promise to hold their programmes in a peaceful manner, she told the Parliament in response ... Read more

BAEC and ATOMSTROYEXPORT to sign pact within a week Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) will sign an agreement with ATOMSTROYEXPORT in Moscow, to start pre-construction work for setting up the much hyped Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project at Rooppur in Pabna, by this month. Before signing of this agreement, the ministry of science and technology ... Read more

The BNP’s acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has come down heavily on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for expressing doubts about holding of the next general election. “In a democratic set-up, if anyone says that there may not be any general election, the comment can be construed as being seditious in nature,” Alamgir, also ... Read more

Anti-corruption Commission’s (ACC) outgoing chairman Ghulam Rahman on Wednesday emphasized on the need for amending the ACC act and said that the anti-graft body would remain a toothless tiger. He said people have huge expectations from the ACC, but it can conduct inquiries only into scheduled offences because of limitations in the Anti-corruption