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Rana Plaza COLLAPSE Eight months after the Rana Plaza collapse in the city’s suburb Savar, numerous human skulls and bones have surfaced at the disaster site in the past few days, hanging question marks against the Bangladesh Army-led rescue operation earlier. The body remains are being found by the locals, especially by urchins, who crossed the ... Read more

A Bangladeshi national was beaten to death by the members of Indian Border Security (BSF) along Dabalguri border in Patgram upazila early Friday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hoque, son of late Kasar Uddin of Dabalguri village. Witnesses said the BSF members and some Indian nationals caught cattle trader Abdul near the ... Read more

Undocumented Expatriates KSA gives 2 months for legalisation In a major relief to undocumented expatriates, Saudi authorities have granted a two-month grace period for thousands of expatriates who could not correct their legal status during the seven-month amnesty period to complete the rectification procedures at their Passport Department. Jeddah-based English daily Arabnews reported on Friday that ... Read more

Denied by the parents in love affair, a schoolboy killed himself by jumping into the Hatirjheel Lake from a bridge at Badda in the capital on Friday morning. His lover, Mim, 15, who also jumped into the lake alongside Tonmoy, 16, however, survived. Quoting the girl Mim, 15, police said Tonmoy and Mim both were ... Read more

The United States keeps reserved its observation about Sunday’s general elections in Bangladesh saying that it will be monitoring the situation and engaging as necessary. Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson of the US state department, said in Washington on Thursday that they would not also comment on the election results

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon people to resist those who would try to thwart the January 5 general elections and teach them an appropriate lesson. “Many plots and strategies are being hatched to foil the elections…You have to build resistance against those who would obstruct the polls. You will have to teach

A Juba Dal activist was killed and 20 others were injured in clashes with BGB troops in Chandpur on the first day of the countrywide indefinite blockade enforced by the 18-party alliance to force the government cancel January 5 polls and hold the election under a neutral administration. The deceased was identified as Faruk Hossain ... Read more

After five years (2009-2013) of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance government, the civil administration has become unstable, due to political influence on administration and in the absence of promised reforms, according to public administration ministry sources. At present, the civil administration is divided in two parts—pro-government and

Government primary and secondary schools have largely failed to compete with with non-government and private institutions, according to results of the Junior School Certificate and Primary Education Completion exams which were published on Sunday and Monday. Only one government school of the capital could earn a position in the top

The country’s political parties are facing serious obstacles in holding rallies, meetings and in carrying out their political activities, from the present poll-time government, which was formed to oversee a credible parliamentary elections, Jatiya Party (Ershad) leaders complained angrily, after police foiled its 28th founding anniversary programme in the city on Wednesday

US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Wednesday met BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury at his residence in the city, reports UNB. They had nearly an hour-long meeting from 10am at Shamsher Mobin’s Banani DOHS residence but the content of the meeting could not be known. Contacted, Shamsher Mobin told UNB that

Only One to Ride a Motorbike Sudden ban kicks up an uproar The government out of the blue has slapped an indefinite ban on pillion passengers on motorbikes upsetting law-abiding motorcyclists. “I always take my wife to her office at Motijheel, around 10km from my home at Taltala,” said Nazmul Ahsan. With no direct buses ... Read more

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president, AJ Mohammad Ali, on Wednesday described as baseless media reports, suggesting that there was consensus on not holding political rallies on the Supreme Court premises by lawyers with political affiliation. He also said that lawyers would continue their movement until the

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two persons with a large quantity of illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment from a house in the Rayer Bazar area of the city on Tuesday night. They were identified as Mohammad Firoz Alam (25) and Sohel Rana (22). RAB director (legal and media wing) Habibur Rahman told The ... Read more

House rent sees 10.91pc rise, it says The living cost in the capital witnessed a 11 per cent rise in 2013 hitting hard the poorer section of the city’s over 1 crore population, according to an annual report released by the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), reports UNB. The cost of living has been calculated ... Read more

Freedom was less than two months away for Shah Alam, a prisoner of Dhaka Central Jail, but then death befell him yesterday. The 35-year-old was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) by prison guards in the morning with his face swollen, said hospital and family

People ushered in the year 2014 as the clock struck zero hours past Tuesday in a somewhat sombre mood amid an unusual situation as the opposition alliance began enforcing a nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade for an indefinite period from the very first day of the year. The opposition alliance enforced the blockade to press for cancellation of ... Read more

A fresh diplomatic move has started to resolve the country’s ongoing political impasse in the last couple of days. And apparently as part of the effort, US Ambassador Dan W Mozena and British High Commissioner Robert Gibson met with the Leader of the Opposition, Khaleda Zia, at her Ghulshan residence in the last two days. The diplomats ... Read more

Nationwide blockade of roads, railway and waterways called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance for an indefinite period begins this morning pressing for election under a non-party government cancelling the ‘farcical’ election slated for January 5. The sixth spell of blockade begins at 6:00am

13 indicted for Tazreen FASHIONS?fire A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants against six people for the fire at Tazreen Fashions in Savar last year, after accepting charges against 13 people, including the owner of the company, Delwar Hossain. As many as 111 workers, most of them women, were killed in the blaze in the ... Read more