Bangladesh recognises the Republic of South Sudan, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. South Sudan became independent on July 9 and earned the United Nations membership on July 14. Bangladesh pledges full commitment to support South Sudan in its journey towards consolidation of democracy, sustainable development and equitable social justice, according
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Birthday in tears
His sister bought two new T-shirts and was planning to order a cake for his 19th birthday. The family made all the preparations to give him a big surprise. But the home that was supposed to have a birthday party turned into a home of mourning yesterday. Tipu Sultan, one of the six students beaten ... Read more
Lone survivor gets bail in ‘robbery’ case
Al Amin, the lone survivor of the mob attack that left six students dead in Bardeshi village of Aminbazar early Monday, was sent to jail yesterday in connection with a robbery case and was later released on bail. Earlier on the day, police produced him before a court, showing him arrested in the case filed ... Read more
Mob beat hijacker to death
Locals beat to death a man and injured another at Kachuai under Patiya upazila of Chittagong on Monday night suspecting them to be hijackers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. The deceased was identified as Mofizur Rahman, 23. The injured Omar Faruque, 22, is undergoing treatment at Neurosurgery Ward at Chittagong Medical College Hospital
Extra-judicial killings led to mob violence
Says HR commission chief The recent rise in mob-violence including the one that killed six students on Monday is the direct social impact of continuous extrajudicial killings, said National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman. “That is why we have been saying that you cannot continue extra-judicial killing,” Rahman said
Govt asked to run mobile courts to check prices
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to run adequate number of mobile courts in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas to contain soaring prices in Ramadan, likely to begin on August 2. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also asked the secretaries to the commerce and food ministries ... Read more
Girl kills herself
She was videoed by force before making it public; culprit arrested A college girl of Barisal Government Braja Mohan College committed suicide late on Monday after her male classmate circulated her obscene video clips via mobile phone. The victim, 22-year-old Suparna Bachhar, was an honours third year student of mathematics department at Govt Brojo Mohon ... Read more
Power fund unutilised as PDB fails to draft guideline
The state-run Power Development Board, even six months after it was asked to do so, has still not drafted any guidelines on how the new Power Maintenance and Development Fund should be used for increasing power generation in the old plants. On February 8 this year, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission asked the PDB to ... Read more
Sugar prices hit new high
Sugar prices hit all time high on the domestic market this week, putting additional strain on the wallets of consumers who are already battered by rising prices of essentials. Retailers have been demanding as high as Tk 75 a kilogram for the sweetener in some residential areas in the capital for the past two-three days ... Read more
BNP, allies to stage demo on July 23
Main opposition BNP and allies announced Tuesday that they would hold countrywide demonstrations on July 23 to press the demand for the repeal of the 15th amendment to the Constitution which abolished the election time non party caretaker government and to push other issues. BNP said that it would also protest against Awami League led ... Read more
Govt sets Ramadan office timing
The government on Tuesday set office hours from 9:00am to 3:30pm for government, semi0government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations for Ramadan with a 15-minute break from 1:15pm. Ramadan begins in the first week of August
BNP won’t get further chance if it fails to join talks today: CEC
The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, on Tuesday said that main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party would get no further chance to sit with the commission if the party failed to attend the dialogue scheduled for today. The dialogue between the ruling Awami League and the Election Commission was not held on
Risky construction goes unwatched
Police, Rajuk say no arrangement in place for monitoring There are visibly no authorities in the construction sector to enforce rules preventing occupational hazards, although several hundred people die in and around building sites every year. Had the authorities concerned compelled the owner of 15-storey under-construction Sagupta De Khan to take safety measures, HSC examinee ... Read more
Sirajganj town threatened as embankment breaches
The Sirajganj town stands threatened by the River Jamuna after the town protection embankment collapsed on Monday night. A stretch of at least 70 metres of the embankment on the eastern bank of the river breached. This is the fourth time the embankment breaded in two years, which created panic among the
DMP to seize mobile from motorists while driving
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police will seize mobiles from drivers talking on the phone while they are driving, officials said. The police will, in addition to seizing the mobiles, also fine such drivers under the existing laws as it noticed that such use of mobiles caused traffic accident, a DMP release
6 beaten to death
Villagers in Aminbazar, police claim them to be robbers; they found to be fun-loving students; families barricade roads Six students were killed after hundreds of villagers in Amin Bazar on the city’s outskirts swooped on them with sticks and sharp weapons early yesterday on the night of Shab-e-Barat. The reason behind the attack, which also ... Read more
Students they were
They all were students, “not robbers”. Shams Rahim Shamam, 17, an A-level student of Maple Leaf International School, was one of the six students who were beaten to death by a mob in Amin Bazar early yesterday. The other five victims are Ibrahim Khalil, 20, Towhidur Rahman Palash, 22, and Kamruzzaman
If population 14cr, food in surplus
Agriculture minister terms latest census find unrealistic The preliminary findings of the latest census that put the country’s population at 142.3 million do not correspond with the current figures of domestic demand for food, its production and import. “Had the population been 142.3 million, we should have been sitting on sacks full of food grains ... Read more
Granting of transit to India a political decision: Dipu Moni
Protocols providing transit facility to India are likely to be signed during the visit of the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, scheduled for September 6-7, foreign minister Dipu Moni has said. “Several protocols are expected to be signed during the visit of Dr Singh. Hopefully, we will be able to finalise them before his ... Read more
Metro rail project hits a snag because of clearance problem
JICA wants all procedure to be completed by next month The communications ministry is facing an uphill task to make progress in the proposed metro rail as the air force again refused to give clearance for the mega transport project worth US$ 1.7 billion. Officials of the ministry said the air force under the ministry ... Read more