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The National Human Rights Commission has virtually ceased to exist as the government is yet to reconstitute the quasi-judicial body in line with the National Human Rights Commission Act enacted by the

BKMEA set to clear salaries, bonuses of its workers for Eid In the wake of the demand from different trade organisations, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday made it clear that the disbursement of the stimulus fund would be made only through the decision of the

In the absence of specific rules against contempt of parliament, the speaker of Jatiya Sangsad now intends to place in the house a panel’s recommendations for measures against those defying

JS body works on unfair sacking, retirement of defence officials A parliamentary committee yesterday sent 90 applications of armed forces officials to the defence ministry for verifying who were “deprived or harassed or sacked on political grounds” in the last

Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun yesterday said that the ongoing drive in the country’s south-western region was continuing in accordance with the list prepared by the law enforcing agencies to contain the

Two suspected criminals were killed in separate ‘crossfire’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion and police in Faridpur and Kushtia early Sunday.  Of them, Tofazzal Hossain alias Tapu Khan, a local Juba League leader, was killed in a gunfight with the

Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank Managing Director Prof Muhammad Yunus totally denied his involvement with any political party in Bangladesh. “I am not involved with any political party,” Prof Yunus told UNB over

Burial today Leaders, workers and supporters of BNP and other political parties, colleagues and well-wishers yesterday paid homage to veteran political leader Saifur Rahman, who died in a road crash

Zia Orphanage Trust case Leader of the opposition in parliament and BNP chairperson, Begum Khaleda Zia will appear before the metropolitan session judges court today (Monday) at 1.00pm for hearing of charge, in the

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni leaves for New Delhi today to discuss with her Indian counterpart S M Krishna all of the bilateral issues between the two neighboring countries, such as trade and investment,

I have lost an old friend, he says Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh expressed his profound shock at the sad demise of former Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman. In a condolence message sent Saturday to his son Naser Rahman, the Indian Prime Minister said

Ashuganj police started investigation into the deadly road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria that killed former finance minister and BNP standing committee member

The distribution of Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) rice for Tk 3 per KG across the country is being contemplated by the government. VGF rice was so long distributed free of cost among the extreme poor

Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on

Two enterprises of the Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC), Fish Harbour Complex and Fish Landing Centre, situated in Chittagong are now running very

The use of solar water pump for agricultural irrigation can boost country’s food production three times and cut the increasing demand of fuel and electricity significantly experts of Renewable

More than 25 left-wing leaders and student activists, who sustained serious injuries in Wednesday’s police attack on anti-gas export protesters in the capital, are still nursing

At least four persons were killed and 10-12 others were injured when a passenger bus skidded off the road fell into a ditch filled with water at Tangibari under Munshiganj district

A garment worker suffered severe damage to both her eyes after her divorced husband threw acid leaving the whole face burnt at Pahartali in the port city

Flash floods submerged some 20 villages, affecting over 100,000 people, as a flood embankment was breached in several places at Dakope upazila, Khulna, officials