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Rab members yesterday rescued a minor domestic help, tortured severely by her employers, from a house on Dilu Road in the capital’s Ramna area. The law enforcers arrested her employers Moshiur Rahman Titu, a trader, and his wife. They were handed over to Ramna police

Biman yesterday put back on duty the four pilots, suspended on October 26 on grounds of flight safety, two days after the pilots of the national carrier called off a strike on Friday. “We withdrew these pilots from duty on grounds of flight safety. We have reinstated them since everything has become normal,” Muhammad Zakiul ... Read more

The body of the pilot who went missing after a private flying club training plane crashed in the River Jamuna in Sirajganj on Saturday, was found on Sunday. A Cessna 152 of the Bangladesh Flying Academy crashed into the river at Chauhali in the district on Saturday morning. One of the pilots, Shamsuddin Miah, 25, ... Read more

At least 30 people were injured when a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch some 25 to 30 feet deep down the highway in Goalbathan area on Dhaka-Tangil bypass under Kaliakoir Upazila early on Sunday. The roof of the bus broke away from its body while the vehicle plunged into the ditch, police and ... Read more

The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive fined two textile mills Tk 36 lakh yesterday for discharging untreated liquid waste into the Buriganga River. Chandni Textile Mills Ltd and Imam Dyeing, Knitting, Printing and Finishing Industries both situated in Shayampur do not have any effluent treatment plant (ETP), though it is

Govt mulling proposal of a pvt consortium The national zoo in the capital’s Mirpur may fall victim to commercialisation, as the government is considering a private company’s proposal to set up an amusement park on one-third of the zoo’s land. The zoo is intended to conserve wild animals and serve academic purposes, whereas an amusement ... Read more

About two lakh farmers under the Northwest Crop Diversification Project have been deprived of the promised marketing support due to faulty planning and poor management of wholesale and growers’ markets built by the project. The markets were built during the first phase of the Tk 360 crore project from 2001 to

Dhaka-Phulbari march announces Phulbari declaration The Dhaka-Phulbari long march ended at Phulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday putting out a call for a greater movement involving the people if the Awami League-led government did not meet the nine-point demands the march pushed for. The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports, which ... Read more

Pilots offer apology for creating stalemate Biman’s flight operation became normal on Saturday after the pilots on Friday called off their strike, putting an end to the sufferings of its passengers headed for international destinations. The pilots called off their strike for an indefinite period on the prime minister’s assurance that their problems would be ... Read more

Pilot rescued, co-pilot missing A training plane of a private flying academy crashed into the River Jamuna at Chauhali in Sirajganj about 12:30pm on Saturday because of engine failure. One of the two pilots, Shamsuddin, 25, a resident of Jamalpur, has been rescued. The other pilot, Kamrul Hasan, 26, resident of Banani in

A female physician was found dead at her father’s residence in the city’s Kafrul area early on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Nigar Sultana Anny, 32, a physician of gayne department of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, and a resident of 270 Senpara Parbata of Mirpur. Quoting family members, police said that they recovered the ... Read more

A passenger of a private bus was killed after being pushed out by the driver’s assistant following an altercation near Matsya Bhaban in the city’s Ramna area, the police said. The victim, Badruzzaman, 28, was an executive of private company Summit group. Witnesses said that the transport worker pushed Badruzzaman out of the running bus

Dhaka University authorities yesterday filed a case against eight persons arrested for sending answers to multiple-choice questions via SMS to some of those taking the university admission test on Friday. DU Proctor KM Saiful Islam Khan said a university security officer, Kamrul Hasan, had filed the case with the New Market

Eleven youths were sued yesterday for harassing girl students of Rayerbazar High School in the capital and attacking the school’s managing committee chief. Abul Kashem Khan, president of the managing body, filed the case with Hazaribagh Police Station. Most of the accused are residents of Rayerbazar. Of them, eight were named and the rest

David Bergman Only four Bangladesh businesses have complied with legislation enacted in 2006 which requires large industrial companies to deposit every year 0.5 per cent of their net profits before tax into a government worker welfare fund, New Age has learnt. The money should come from the welfare funds that the companies are required to ... Read more

Biman pilots on Friday night called off their indefinite strike on the prime minister’s assurance of meeting their demands. The Bangladesh Airlines Pilots Association general secretary, Basit Mahtab, told New Age a two-member delegation which went to the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday was assured of

Female RMG Workers’ Recruitment in Jordan Govt won’t allow pvt agencies to handle The government has decided to send female garment workers to Jordan only through state-owned recruiting agency BOESL fearing a rise in migration costs and malpractices by private agencies. “We have asked the private recruiting agencies to reduce the migration charge but they ... Read more

Champa Rani murder Rony yet to be nabbed  The police on Friday picked up five people, including four associates of Rony Saha, who killed Champa Rani Saha at Madhukhali in Faridpur on October 26 after Champa had protested at his harassing her daughter. Rony is yet to be arrested, four days inside the killing, although ... Read more

A mob blocked the Dhaka–Aricha Road in the Rajalak Farm crossing near the Savar bus stand in Dhaka over the death of a man in a road accident at about 11:45am. The mob, which had blocked the road for an hour, set fire to the bus that caused the accident and vandalised at least 10 ... Read more

State-run agency compelled to suspend operations in several districts Private bus operators and their associations are obstructing Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) to operate in many districts compelling the state-owned transport provider to suspend operation on different routes. The private operators have been putting barricades on roads, intimidating passengers