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Vegetable farmers badly affected Vegetable farmers who send their produces to Dhaka and other cities from outlying areas have been badly affected by the opposition’s blockade programmes which have gone on since November 26 for six days with a day’s break. Farmers from districts such as Narsingdi, Munshiganj, Rajshahi, Bogra, Gazipur, Manikganj and Jessore said that ... Read more

Law enforcers have filed a murder case against 15 leaders of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 18 party alliances, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for Saturday night bus attack that left a man dead and three others injured. Pro-blockade activists numbering 15 to 20 hurled crude bombs on a ... Read more

Referring to the killing of people in arson attacks on passenger buses as “mass killing”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was involved in the crime. The prime minister came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting the burn victims at Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of the

The BNP-led 18-party alliance has renewed its call for immediate step-down of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to end the country’s ongoing political crisis over the non-party poll-time administration. “The government is unleashing repression and oppression on opposition supporters and is implicating them with politically motivated charges. Despite this, our

Gazipur Factory Blaze Probe High-powered body set up The government on Sunday set up a high-powered committee to investigate the fire in a complaint factory at Konabari in Gazipur on November 28, officials said. The labour ministry has made the decision amid continued protest by the business groups as a group of miscreants set fire ... Read more

At least 40 people including readymade garment workers were arrested on Sunday in connection to a case filed over an arson attack at a garment factory of the Standard Group at Konabari area of Gazipur on Thursday night. The arrestees include an Imam and a Muazzin of a local mosque in the area. The administrator of ... Read more

Govt clears way for judicial magistrates to run the courts to check adulteration Food courts are finally going to be functional as the government has recently cleared the way for judicial magistrates to run the courts at each district and metropolitan city to check food adulteration. These courts are meant for dealing with the cases filed ... Read more

Rana Plaza Collapse Rescuer turned victim seeks way back to normalcy It was a spontaneous decision, coming to the aid of others in distress irrespective of the dangers involved. But never did he imagine that it would end up in a personal tragedy, crippling and turning him penniless, at the mercy of others. The morning of ... Read more

Confined in Iraq for Nearly 10 Months Debts now burden returnees  Following nearly 10 months of confinement in an Iraqi labour accommodation, 11 of 27 Bangladeshis have finally returned home, but now face an uncertain future with large debts. “It seems we can breathe fresh air under the open sky now,” said Zakir Hossain, 41, ... Read more

The winter this year will arrive late and be little shorter because of a number of depressions in the Bay of Bengal, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department officials on Sunday. BMD officials said the temperature will decrease within a few days. The Met officials said the country usually

AL won’t allow martial law: Hasina Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday warned that her party would never allow martial law to be enforced in the country to curb people’s rights again. “We won’t allow martial law to stage a comeback …we won’t allow the rights of people to be curbed…we won’t allow martial law ... Read more

Four people were killed and over 50 injured in violence across the country on Saturday, the first day of the 3-day road-rail-waterway blockade programme being enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance. The opposition alliance is enforcing the back-to-back blockade programme in consecutive weeks to push for cancellation of the election schedule for the 10th parliamentary

Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi landed in jail after the police had arrested him storming into the BNP headquarters breaking open a door on early Saturday. Metropolitan magistrate Ashikur Rahman ordered Rizvi to jail after the police produced him before the court in a case field with the Shahbagh police on ... Read more

Standard Group Factory Blaze BGMEA, owners demand exemplary punishment The apparel factory owners’ association on Saturday demanded an exemplary punishment of the people responsible for the fire that took place in the multi-storey industrial unit of the Standard Group at Konabari in Gazipur on Thursday night. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association president,

Scraps plan to bring DEMU, AC carriages for railway The government has finally decided to import 120 broad-gauge (BG) non-AC passenger carriages, instead of 10 sets (comprising three units) of Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) trains, and 70 BG passenger AC carriages, for the Bangladesh Railway (BR), under the $800 million Indian line of credit ... Read more

‘British curry industry biggest success story’ British prime minister David Cameron has expressed his hope that the forthcoming election in Bangladesh will pass off ‘properly and fairly’. He made the remark while addressing a function on the 9th British Curry Awards 2013 at Battersea Evolution in London on November 25, according to a media release ... Read more

The nation is waiting for a peaceful end to the current political impasse over the election-time government, election commissioner Abu Hafiz said here on Saturday. He added that the Election Commission (EC) will reschedule the election dates, only if it gets confirmed news about the issue. “We are hopeful that we’ll be able to see ... Read more

University admission seekers and their guardians are worried because of the deferral of admission tests in public universities for general strikes and blockade enforced by opposition political parties. Political programmes have also caused inconvenience to the admission who cannot move about freely to take the tests. As there is shortage of seats in public universities, aspirants ... Read more

The ruling Awami League (AL) plans to go for massive election campaigning, from December 10, for the upcoming parliamentary polls scheduled for January 5. This time, the party will use local and social media outlets for its election campaign, to win the coming elections. Talking to The Independent, Awami League publicity Secretary Dr Hassan Mahmud ... Read more

Says Quader Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has said all the opposition leaders will be released if BNP reaches a consensus with Awami League. The minister makes the comment at a time when BNP leaders are being arrested and implicated in different cases for killing, vandalism and