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Manpower bureau fails to deliver service, discipline fraudulent agencies The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), the only place for cheated migrant workers to seek redress, is continuously failing to deliver the goods to the victims whose lives are devastated in shoddy immigration process. Taking advantage of weak rules and their loose enforcement by ... Read more

Most males in Rupganj and Kayetpara unions in Narayanganj fled homes last night for fear of arrest with links to Saturday’s violence. Police filed a case against over 3,000 unidentified villagers following the clash between locals and law enforcers over “forced purchase of land” for an army housing project in the

Sourav, the prime accused of Mridhat Sarima Rahman murder case, confessed to the killing before a Chittagong court yesterday. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Azizul Hoque recorded the 15-page confessional statement of Sourav under section 164 in the

Swapan Molla asked everyone he came across about his missing brother. He carried a newspaper with the picture of a bullet-hit man in bloodstained shirt at the Moushuri army camp in Narayanganj. “The injured person in the picture might be my brother. The face of the person is not clear in the picture. Like him, ... Read more

“I was scared and crying as I washed away the blood.” Shanto, aged twelve, was petrified when a Rab official forced him at gunpoint to wash the blood of bullet-hit persons from a bridge during Saturday’s clash at Rupganj in Narayanganj. Thousands of angry villagers had fought with law enforcers a fierce battle over a

Bangladesh Biman yesterday cancelled a Dhaka-Chittagong flight due to shortage of pilots, officials said. Meanwhile, the airline served show-cause notices to its four pilots for holding a press conference last week defying a directive of the authority. A number of scheduled flights of the national carrier were disrupted yesterday on the

Medical Colleges Results of admission test today The results of admission test of 61 public and private medical colleges will be published this afternoon. A total of 43,644 candidates competed for 2509 seats in 18 public colleges and 3550 seats at 43 private colleges this year, said Prof Khandaker Shefayet Ullah, medical education director

The minimum wage board made small increases in the wages of apparel workers of certain grades at the request of the government, labour ministry sources said. An increase in the ranges of Tk 98–Tk 120 was added to the gross minimum wages for workers of Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6. Apparel workers demanded some ... Read more

Delegation returns with no assurance from Malaysia to withdraw ban on recruitment of Bangladeshi workers Malaysia still keeps mum about lifting the ban on Bangladeshi jobseekers imposed early 2009 following widespread allegations of malpractices in recruitment process. “The Malaysian side did not say yes or no to our requests to open the job market for ... Read more

Sarima Murder ‘Killer’ arrested Police arrested the prime accused in Sarima Rahman killing case from a Chittagong-bound bus at Bhatiari under Sitakunda upazila early yesterday. The arrestee was SM Toha alias Sohrab alias Sourav, 26, son of Mohammad Lokman of Kulgaon area under the city’s Bayezid Police Station

Period of trip increased by three to four hours The shortage of ferries at Paturia-Daulatdia Ferry Ghat, which connects the southern districts with the central ones of the country, is leading to long queues of vehicles on each side of the Padma River and lengthening the duration of the trips by three to four hours. ... Read more

News media editors and senior journalists yesterday called for bolstering ethical practices in the field, saying the media has to play its due role in strengthening democracy, although money has started influencing it, and some politicians are attacking it viciously. Condemning some lawmakers’ recent diatribes against the media in the parliament, the

Bangladesh’s 33 million children, a half of all the children in the country, live in poverty, according to a report of United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Released in Dhaka on Thursday, the report states that one in four children in the country is deprived of at least four basic needs

Bangladesh will have to spend a colossal amount in the next 10 years to help 30 million victims of the rising sea level. ‘According to the health ministry’s estimate, the government will have to spend at least $2,081 million between 2010 and 2021 because of the rising sea level,’ said Iqbal Kabir, coordinator of the ... Read more

A female student of a private university was stabbed to death allegedly by her friend in Amirbagh area of the port city yesterday. The deceased was identified as Mridhat Sarima Rahman, 19, daughter of Mizanur Rahman of the city’s GEC area and a third-semester BBA student of

Fatullah Model Police Station yesterday finally recorded a rape case, three days after a 16-year-old mentally challenged girl was violated at Bhuiyanbag in the town. Talking to this correspondent in Kashipur Bhuiyapara area, victim’s younger brother Monir Hossain said the rapists demanded Tk 20,000 as toll from their family after capturing the rape

The terminal examinations for primary students will begin on November 23. The exams will end on November 29 and the results will be published on December 26. This year, 21,57,400 students will take the exams in 5,971 examination centres. There will be six examination centres in outside the country where 496 students will take the

Japanese Woman Death still shrouded in mystery The body of Japanese national Kazuko Uful, who died on October 18 mysteriously, was taken to the capital’s Apollo Hospitals mortuary yesterday after autopsy at Dhaka Medical College Morgue. Police are yet to know the reason behind the death but morgue sources said it could be a suicide. ... Read more

States UNFPA report; minister Razzaque feels food security threatened The country’s population is now 16.44 crore while the population growth 1.4 per thousand, said a UNFPA report. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday launched its world population report 2010. As for Bangladesh, Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque unveiled

Cost rises to $2.9b for design change; Muhith terms talks with WB fruitful; donors firm on graft issues Construction of the Padma Bridge will start in March next year instead of this year, and the cost will be $2.9 billion instead of the earlier projection of $2.4 billion, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday. The ... Read more