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Ha-Meem Factory Fire Missing claim stops wheel A few hundred workers of That’s It Sports Wear Ltd of Ha-Meem Group yesterday staged a demonstration at the factory gate claiming that many of their co-workers have gone missing since the fire. Tuesday’s fire at the factory left 26 dead and at least 100 injured. Relatives of ... Read more

Lottery System at Schools 24 kids vie for 1 seat Twenty-four kids will try their luck for one seat in grade-one in government schools in the capital following the newly introduced lottery system for enrolling students in the elementary level. The system has been introduced this year in all 317 state-run secondary schools across the ... Read more

Says environment minister Bangladesh will receive money from Green Climate Fund next year to enhance the country’s adaptation to climate change, Hasan Mahmud, state minister for forest and environment, said yesterday. He was talking to reporters on returning home from the Cancun Climate conference. The minister said all the money from the Green Climate Fund ... Read more

Only 201 non-government organisations out of some 30,000 have employed public information officers as required by the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009, said Chief Information Commissioner Muhammad Zamir yesterday. “I will write to the NGO Affairs Bureau to cancel registration of those NGOs which are yet

100 injured; reason behind blaze at Ha-Meem unit not confirmed At least 22 people died when a fire swept through the sportswear factory of Ha-Meem Group in Ashulia yesterday. Around 100 were also injured at the 11-storey That’s It Sports Wear Ltd factory building in Narsinghapur on the outskirts of

Question in the air as nation mourns martyred intellectuals With the call to speed up the war crimes trial, the nation yesterday mourned for intellectuals and professionals massacred by the Pakistan army and their local collaborators on the eve of the country’s independence. Thousands of people, including teachers, students, freedom fighters, political activists, professionals and family ... Read more

11 Youngone units resume production Production resumed at 11 factories of Korean-owned Youngone Ltd in Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) yesterday after a two-day suspension due to labour unrest over implementation of the new pay scale. Workers of all the 158 factories inside the CEPZ joined work in the morning, said SM Abdur Rashid, CEPZ ... Read more

The High Court asked the government why it should not direct the state to block the use of stolen, unauthorised, and illegal mobile phones by using international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) numbers. It asked the government on Monday to respond to the court’s order for explanation within four weeks. IMEI is unique 15-digit identification number ... Read more

Police yesterday recovered body of an unidentified 10-year-old boy from Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital’s Shahbagh. Nazir Uddin, sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station, said they found the body around 10:00am from a bush in the park. A coloured ribbon was wrapped around his

The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day today (Tuesday) paying homage to the illustrious sons of the soil who were brutally killed a couple of days before the final victory of the Liberation War in 1971. With defeat looming large, the Pakistani occupation army aided by their local collaborators – Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams ... Read more

A cabinet meeting, chaired by prime minister Sheikh Hasina, decided on Monday to honour distinguished foreign nationals and organisations for their ‘outstanding and extraordinary’ contribution to Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971

Hanging Cables Drive on hold for four days The crackdown against overhead cables on city thoroughfares has been suspended for four days, allowing cable TV operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to remove their cables. The energy ministry took the decision yesterday just one day after a drive was launched to remove cables from the ... Read more

Locals set bus on fire A college student was crushed under the wheels of a recklessly driven bus at Bibirhat in the port city yesterday. Witnesses said Jannatul Ferdous Rima, 18, slipped on the road while she was getting down from the bus as its driver did not stop it completely. Rima, a first year ... Read more

Visiting IAEA DG meets foreign minister International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an organisation that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, has pledged full support for the setting up of nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. “IAEA will obviously assist Bangladesh in capacity building, human resources development, strengthening nuclear infrastructure, regulatory bodies and all ... Read more

An alleged criminal was killed in a “shootout” between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion men at Kafrul in the city early yesterday. The deceased, Shaheed, alias Jamai Shaheed, 26, was accused in three cases including two on murder charges, said police

Three were killed and 225 injured as the police clashed with apparel workers, out on demonstrations for the second consecutive day on Sunday in Chittagong, Dhaka and on its outskirts rallying for wages in the new structure, which came into effect on November 1. About 90 vehicles and several factories were also vandalised and ransacked ... Read more

The government has decided not to allow after September 2011 admission of students to private universities which have failed to shift to permanent campuses by the stipulated time of five years. ‘Out of the 51 private universities, 41 have failed to meet the conditions on which they were given temporary permission. It is a matter ... Read more

Tigers lift series 3-1 Tamim Iqbal’s six-hitting spree gave Bangladesh a fine finish to the year, the Tigers clinching the five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe 3-1 through a six-wicket win yesterday at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. It was the fourth successive series win — and seventh overall — against the African opponents

Says Yunus Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus yesterday re-emphasised that there was no wrongdoing in the fund transfer from Grameen Bank to Grameen Kalyan. The Grameen Bank founder described the disagreement with Norad, the Norwegian aid ministry, as honest disagreement and said it was

Hanging Cables Symbolic start to drive The crackdown against overhead Internet and cable TV wires on city thoroughfares began yesterday with cables from a pole at Karwan Bazar removed. Cable operators claimed the removal of wires caused 150 cable operators to become dysfunctional whereas Internet service providers said thousands of Internet users experienced disruption to