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Ershad, civil society urge Taranco Country’s civil society leaders have called upon visiting United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to help stop the one-sided national polls scheduled to be held on January 5. On Sunday, Taranco received a civil society delegation at his hotel and also held meetings with Jatiya party Chairman HM ... Read more

The International Crimes Tribunal’s registrar on Sunday issued the execution warrant for Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla on war crimes charges. The registrar, AKM Nasiruddin, told reporters in his office that he had issued the warrant about 4:00pm at the instruction of International Crimes

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Sunday evening and apprised him about the country’s overall situation, reports UNB. During the meeting that began at 6.25pm and ended 7.33 pm, the premier enquired about the health condition of the President as he returned

Resignation letters of JP ministers, adviser ‘sent to president’ All six Jatiya Party ministers and an adviser to the prime minister yesterday sent their resignation letters to the premier by post, said party’s Secretary General Ruhul Amin Howlader. “We tried to get an appointment with the prime minister since morning [yesterday] but did not get ... Read more

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a countrywide daylong strike for Monday protesting death warrant against its senior leader Abdul Quader Mollah. Jamaat Acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman announced the programme in a press release on Sunday following the issue of a death warrant by

2004 Bus Arson Justice denied to 11 victims All 18 accused including Nanak, Azam cleared as police probe finds them not guilty Eleven people, burnt to death in June 2004 in an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital’s Shahbagh, may never get justice after the failure of the Criminal Investigation Department in ... Read more

A rare riot broke out in Singapore’s Little India neighborhood Sunday night, apparently after a Bangladeshi worker was hit and killed by a bus, a local television channel reported. Channel News Asia showed dramatic pictures of burning vehicles and people attacking the windshield of a bus with sticks and garbage bins.

Cabinet secretary M Musharraf Hossain on Sunday asked the home secretary to beef up security around the cabinet division and the public administration ministry to bar officers on special duty (OSDs), officials and employees from meeting them without prior appointment. He also asked the home secretary to keep the officials and employees under

The jute and textile ministry has requested the home ministry to make violation of the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act-2010 as a punishable offence under the mobile court law, senior officials told New Age. They said that the ministry would start enforcing the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act from January. The law requires all government and private

Bangladesh Petrolium Corporation (BPC) is battling to avert diesel crisis during the current irrigation season as the special supply operation launched for farmers suffers setback due to blockade enforced by opposition alliance, concerned officials said. As the blockade disrupts the transportation

A court in Dhaka on Sunday sent Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Sadeque Hossain to jail after rejecting both bail and remand prayer. Metropolitan magistrate Syed Atiqur Rahman passed the order after the Tejgaon police sub-inspector Md Abu Zafar Talukder Manik produced Sadeque seeking him to be remanded in custody for 10 days for interrogation in

Pry Teachers Recruitment Test in 17 dists cancelled The primary and mass education ministry has cancelled the written tests for recruiting assistant teachers for primary schools in 17 districts after the ministry probe committee found that question papers of the test were leaked. The ministry took the decision on Sunday after the committee to probe the ... Read more

Stray incidents of violence and arson marked the first day of the third spell of the opposition-enforced blockade of road, railway and waterways on Saturday as pickets clashed with the police and torched vehicles and ferries to push for a non-partisan polls-time government. At the end of its last 131-hour blockade on Thursday, the Bangladesh ... Read more

Business leaders on Saturday threatened taking to the streets along with their workers and employees if major political parties failed to reach a consensus in three to four days. Asking political parties why businessmen would fall victim to their politics of confrontation, they said that miscreants had already burnt Standard Garments factory

Visiting UN official Taranco pushes for change in election schedule Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said it is the Election Commission, not the government that will decide any change in the schedule for the 10th parliamentary election. The premier made the comment while the visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Oscar Fernández Taranco, ... Read more

To hold another round of talks The visiting United Nations assistant secretary general for South and Central Asian affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco called on Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday and discussed different issues, including the next general election. After the meeting at Khaleda’s residence at Gulshan, BNP vice-chairman

Party now says cabinet members hand resignation letters to PM today Speculations and rumours over Jatiya Party’s stance on joining the parliament election were still rife on Saturday with Secretary General Ruhul Amin Hawlader now saying that party members in the cabinet will submit resignation letters to the prime minister on Sunday. Party Chairman HM ... Read more

Dhaka city unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party enforces a 24-hour general strike in the capital while BNP-backed student and volunteer fronts have also called dawn-to- dusk hartal in different districts for today in protest at the arrest of its leaders. The general strikes coincide with the BNP-led opposition alliance’s 72-hour countrywide

The warrant for the execution of the death sentence of Abdul Quader Molla on war crimes charges is likely to be issued today by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. On September 17, the Appellate Division sentenced Jamaat leader Quader to death overturning his life term awarded by the ICT-2 on February

The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance has renewed its call to government employees and officials not to abide by the government’s directives to hold a lopsided parliamentary poll under a partisan administration. “The Awami League is moving towards holding a one-sided stage-managed poll under its own management. The staff and officials of the government and the ... Read more