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Nobel laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus earned the top position among the 10 inspirational Bangladeshis around the world in a list released on Tuesday by British Bangladeshi Power and Inspiration, an organisation based in London. Co-founder of YouTube Jawed Karim, BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, JAGGO founder Korvi Rakshand, Khan Academy

It was almost a one man show. Though the idea was conceived by one of his relations, Habib alias Sohel Rana, who was arrested by the RAB yesterday, told The Independent that he alone had dug the 25 feet tunnel into the vault room of the bank. “The blueprint of the burglary at the Kishoreganj ... Read more

Tk16.19cr stolen money recovered The RAB on Tuesday arrested the mastermind and his accomplice in connection with the burglary at a Kishoreganj branch of Sonali Bank. Thieves dug a tunnel from a house at Balurmath in the Shyampur area of the city and robbed the bank of Tk. 16.40 crore. The arrested were identified as ... Read more

Bank Burglary Manager among 17 held Seventeen people, including the Sonali Bank’s Kishoreganj branch manager Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan and its 11 employees, were detained until yesterday in connection with the looting of Tk 16.4 crore from the branch. Police said the detainees were interrogated in the Sadar police station in connection with the looting of ... Read more

The government has imposed a ban on use of primary students to welcome visiting public representatives. Ministry of Primary and Mass Education issued the circular on such restriction on Monday. The circular said the primary students are made to stand on roadsides when the public representatives, distinguished people and high officials are on a visit ... Read more

The first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema on the banks of the Turag at Tongi concluded on Sunday with the offering of ‘Akheri Munajat’ (final prayer). Millions of devotees from different places of the country and abroad joined the final prayers at the Ijtema ground and sought forgiveness and divine blessings for peace and prosperity ... Read more

Burglars have made away with Tk 16.4 crore from the volt of a Sonali Bank branch in Kishoreganj town, bank officials said yesterday. Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, Manager of Isha Kha Road branch of the bank, said the miscreants dug a passageway into the vault of the bank sometime Friday and Saturday and took away the

Several lakh Muslim devotees are converging on the congregation venue and attending the prayers with reciting the name of Allah and hearing the sermons. The first phase of Ijtema will end with Akheri Munajat (finalprayers) on Sunday while the second phase will be held on January 31-February 2, reports UNB. The first phase of Biswa ... Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees from around the world yesterday said Jumma prayer on the bank of Turag river on the first day of a three-day Biswa Ijtema. The largest religious congregations after the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the Biswa Ijtema began its first phase of programme immediately after Fazr prayer with sermon ... Read more

The High Court on Thursday gave the government and the police 48 hours to stop industrial waste dumping in the Buriganga River at Shyampur. In the directives, the court also summoned the department of environment director general and its director for enforcement to appear before it on

Bangladeshi scientists are set to offer an eco-friendly liquid fertiliser to farmers, in a bid to drastically reduce the costs of crop production. The liquid fertiliser, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, will increase soil fertility and the use of herbicide, pesticide and larvicide will not be necessary to control pests and weeds, according to ... Read more

More Bangladeshis living in Malaysia illegally were arrested yesterday, the second day of the crackdown on illegal migrants there. With the new arrests, the number crossed 300, Mantu Kumar Biswas, labour councillor of Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, said. He, however, failed to put the exact number of detainees. Meanwhile, Expatriate Welfare

Despite the suspension of cultivation of Bt Brinjal in India and a ban on its field trials in the Philippines, Bangladesh has released four controversial varieties of the genetically modified vegetable. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has developed four Bt Brinjal varieties namely BARI BT Begun – 1, 2, 3 and 4 from local varieties ... Read more

At least 225 Bangladeshis were detained by the Malaysian authorities on the first day of a nationwide crackdown on illegal foreign workers residing in the country, a local daily reports. Malaysian law enforcers picked up at least 1,565 illegal expatriates including the Bangladeshis in the operation–Ops Sepadu– that started early yesterday,

The findings of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based rights organisation, mention that the country’s record on human rights has deteriorated in the last 12 months as compared with the previous year. “Bangladesh has tumbled backwards on human rights in 2013,” states the World Report 2014 of HRW, released on Tuesday. “The government, led ... Read more

Malaysia started a crackdown last night on illegal migrant workers, including those from Bangladesh. Earlier yesterday, a source at Bangladesh high commission in Kuala Lumpur said that the Malaysian police would raid work places of the migrants and their residences to detain illegal foreigners staying without valid documents. Meanwhile, Expatriate Welfare

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a Tk 115 crore fund for spending on city infrastructure development and beautification of the capital ahead of the T-20 World Cup scheduled for March this year. The approval came at the first ECNEC meeting of the new government held at the NEC conference ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned BNP-Jamaat that they will have to shun militant and terrorist activities if they want to do politics in Bangladesh, reports UNB. “You (BNP-Jamaat) will have to shun militant and terrorist activities if you want to do politics in Bangladesh, or else, people will reject them,” she said.

Delay In Signing Of Sc Verdicts Litigants kept waiting for years Many judgments delivered by the Appellate Division take years to be written up in full causing great difficulties to the litigants. Although, the operative parts of judgments are announced in open court and bench assistants take dictation, litigants have to wait to get certified copies ... Read more

They’re undecided over future investment The public announcement favouring peaceful programmes in place of violent blockades and general strikes by the BNP and its allies has not been able to restore confidence fully among the businesspeople. This scribe got the impression while talking to a number of businessmen during last couple of days. Economic activities have already ... Read more