Other Headlines

The Election Commission (EC) has sent letters to the political parties to learn about their positions in the 10th Parliament so that 50 women candidates can be elected to the reserved seats of the national assembly. “We need to know the parties’ positions — whether they are in coalition or are independent. Then we can distribute ... Read more

Superintendent of Police in Dinajpur Ruhul Amin on Monday admitted that the police had failed to control the situation before and after the attack on Hindus at Kornai in Dinajpur Sadar upazila on January 5. The Dinajpur district authorities on Monday held a meeting at the Kornai Government Primary School and told the local people that ... Read more

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail to Abdul Majid, the chairman of a union under Satkhira district, on condition that he will plant 50 trees. The HC bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah granted the bail for six months to Abdul Majid, chairman of Shialdanga union parishad,

Professor Anwar Hossain has finally resigned as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, after nearly a year-long protest by teachers, students and staff of the university. Talking to this correspondent yesterday, Anwar Hossain said, ‘I have sent my resignation letter to President Abdul Hamid, the chancellor of the university’.

The court of SM Mojibur Rahman, judge of the Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1, is scheduled to hand down the verdict in the Chittagong arms haul cases on January 30. Rahman on Monday fixed the date to pass the verdict, nine years after the country’s biggest arms haul cases, after hearing the argument of defence lawyers. Defence lawyers ... Read more

Two young men, including a suspected extortionist, were stabbed to death in separate incidents in the city’ s Mirpur and Bangshal areas on Monday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Fazal, 21, son of Sirajul Islam of Third Colony under Darus Salam police station and Sahid, 25, of Gobinda Das Lane under Bangshal police ... Read more

Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed, reports AP from Stockholm. The women were born without a uterus or had it removed because of cervical cancer. Most are in their 30s and are ... Read more

28 new faces; JP plays dual role, only 2 tiny parties solely on opposition bench Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, who was sworn in as prime minister yesterday, formed her council of ministers by inducting lawmakers of four other parties into her cabinet. In the 49-member council of ministers, she included the chiefs of the ... Read more

After taking oath as the prime minister for the third time, Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that she would never bow to any national or international pressures regarding the just-concluded parliamentary polls. “You know well that Sheikh Hasina does not succumb to any pressure whether it is

The BNP yesterday said that Awami League has started its journey towards authoritarianism by abandoning all norms and morality of the democracy. “The country has been thrown into darkness again in a planned manner. The pro-democratic and independent minded people of the country would never recognize and accept it as a legitimate

Former President and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has been appointed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special envoy with the rank and status of a cabinet minister. The Cabinet Division yesterday issued a gazette notification in this regards. According to sources, guests present at the oath taking ceremony started laughing at

At least 35 former ministers and state ministers of the previous Grand Alliance government have failed to secure berths in the new cabinet of Sheikh Hasina. The ministers and state ministers have been dropped from the cabinet because of their alleged poor performance and controversial roles. The influential ministers axed from

Some AL leaders who were ministers previously but were not included in the immediate past government have been made ministers in the new cabinet.Among them, Amir Hossain Amu has been made the industries minister, Tofail Ahmed the commerce minister and Mohammad Nasim has been made the health minister. Amu and Tofail were

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has picked up some new faces with clean image in her cabinet as ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers. Advocate Anisul Huq, AKM Mozammel huq, Asaduzzaman Noor, Emaj Uddin, Sayedul Huq, Syed Mohsin Ali, Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu and

Four former advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have retained their positions in the new government. HT Imam, Moshiur Rahman, Gowher Rizvi and Maj Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique were appointed as advisers to the prime minister yesterday. The Cabinet Division in a gazette notification said they were appointed with the rank and status of

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh phoned Sheikh Hasina last evening and congratulated her on assuming office as prime minister of Bangladesh. He wished her and the people of Bangladesh all success in the endeavour to strengthen democratic institutions in Bangladesh, according to a press release of the

The European Union (EU) expects Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s new government to make a talks offer to the BNP to reach an agreement for holding an inclusive, transparent and credible election. “Now that there is a new government, the EU expects that it will make an offer of dialogue to the BNP, in order to ... Read more

Stray incidents of violence marked the countrywide blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-Party Alliance, on Sunday. The blockade, which resumed at 6am on Sunday, after a two-day break, will continue till 6am on Monday as the 18-Party Alliance has postponed its protest programme after this period until further

The local patrons of 37 foreigners, who were arrested on charges of illegally running Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business at Uttara area in the city, wanted to use them to siphon off people’s money through forged credit cards in Bangladesh, RAB sources said. On December 22, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 conducted ... Read more

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will launch an investigation into the wealth and assets of some ministers and MPs of the previous government. The decision was taken at a meeting on Sunday, a senior ACC official said. The official said former ministers and MPs, who contested the January 5 general