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Manufacturer held in drive; Rab tells of over 150 such units in Dhaka, outskirts; some doctors said to be linked with unholy trade The package made of glossy paper is very colourful. It reads ‘SIRIO Nutrition OS Gold…15 Softgels…Dietary Supplement’. It says the packet contains capsules of multi-vitamin and minerals for children and pregnant women. ... Read more

CJ says he upheld constitution, SCBA demands his resignation Four new additional High Court judges on Thursday took their oaths of office amid protests from lawyers backed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. The Supreme Court Bar Association dominated by the BNP- and Jamaat-backed lawyers, demanded resignation of the chief justice for administering oath ... Read more

Effective from Jan 1 in Dhaka, Ctg cities The government yesterday increased the CNG-run auto-rickshaw fare, fixing the lowest fare at Tk 25, with effect from next January. As per the revised fare, commuters will have to pay Tk 25 instead of current Tk 14 for the first two kilometres (km). Also, the charge for ... Read more

It makes winning bid also for Bibiyana-2 power project; plans for $1b investment A local power company along with its American partner General Electric yesterday had its third winning bid in a major power project — Bibiyana phase-II — to become the first one in the country going for a total investment of one billion ... Read more

Assaulters include BCL men; SI injured A police officer sustained head injury when activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and local goons attacked the law enforcers for detaining a youth on charge of stalking garment workers in the port city on Wednesday night. A case was filed with Bayezid Police Station early yesterday accusing 18 persons ... Read more

Thirty-five students were expelled for cheating on the first day of the Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations on Thursday, the education ministry control room said. A teacher was also expelled for helping students to cheat in the exams hall, the control room said, adding that 1,01,473 students had not taken the exam ... Read more

Lonely Planet Ranking Bangladesh ‘Best Value Destination’ Bangladesh has been ranked number one in Lonely Planet’s list of the Best-Value Destinations for 2011. The list is included the leading travel guidebook publisher’s Best in Travel 2011 publication, coming out this week, and draws on the “knowledge, passion and miles travelled” by Lonely Planet staff, authors, ... Read more

The High Court on Wednesday asked the government to make a guideline to effectively stop the production and sales of adulterated drugs. The High Court bench of Justice M Imman Ali and Justice Obaidul Hasan asked the health secretary and the director general of drug administration to form a high-powered committee with

The first-ever Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations of 15,05,391 class VIII students from 27,221 educational institutions across the country start today. At the pre-examination briefing at the secretariat yesterday, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said all the necessary preparations are complete for the

A man has surrendered to the police after killing his wife at Gulshan in Dhaka. The police recovered the body of Neela Mehrun, 25, from the Hotel Purnima Wednesday morning. Shahbagh police sub-inspector Mina Begum told the news agency that the husband, Hasan, came to the police and confessed his crime at

First Bangladeshi descent Congressman For the first time in the history of the United States of America, Hansen Hashem Clarke, a Bangladeshi descent democratic member of the Michigan Senate, has won a congressional seat to the United States House of Representatives. After winning the congressional seat, held by Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick for more than 20

Stamford University 60 injured in cop-student clash in city At least 60 people including law enforcers were injured in hour-long clashes between police and students of Stamford University Bangladesh in the capital over an incident of barring a student from taking part in midterm examination. Around 20 injured students took first aid in the university ... Read more

The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to make a guideline or a policy to prevent stalking which caused a number of deaths in recent time. It also asked the law ministry to report to court in a month on steps it will have taken in this regard. The court posted for further hearing ... Read more

Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hussain on Tuesday said that chapter of the long overdue elections of the Dhaka City Corporation was now closed as the concerned ministry does not want to hold the polls for some special reasons. ‘This (DCC polls) chapter is closed now. The government may have a political plan for

The government has decided to set up mobile courts in every district against stalking of girls or women which in last few weeks caused deaths to a number of people. The home affairs ministry has already sent a proposal for inclusion of stalking in the mobile courts’ jurisdiction of scheduled offences to the law ministry ... Read more

Tagore singer Kalim Sharafi, also the founding director of Bangladesh Television, died about 11:45am on Tuesday in his house at Baridhara in the capital at the age of 86. Kalim, who is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter, was buried in the Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard with state honours after his namaz-e-janaza at ... Read more

At least eight traders were killed and another was injured critically when a vegetable-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch near Bangabandhu Bridge Extension Road in Tangail Sadar upazila early yesterday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Sobhan, 32, Noor Mohammad, 35, and Dhiren, 40, of Noyonpur village; Mohammad Shahanur, 45, Hurmud, 42, Azizar Fakir, ... Read more

Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad, the platform of labour organisations, is planning to wage a movement as the government is yet to respond to its nine-point demands. Agitation programmes will be decided at a meeting of the representatives of labour organisations and trade unions scheduled for November 27 in Dhaka if the government fails to meet

A domestic help died on Monday night after being severely beaten allegedly by her employer in city’s Old DOHS, Banani. Police and morgue sources said her death was caused by head injury. The victim Solema Begum, 35, was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on

Roundtable stresses bigger media role to prevent epidemic A significant number of young people in Bangladesh are vulnerable to HIV infection, as they are not getting proper information on how to prevent the disease, experts said. Blaming the absence of proper information dissemination process, they said the youth are engaging in risky behaviours like unsafe ... Read more