Says Dr Kamal Amidst escalation of political violence centring the upcoming parliamentary election, Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said none would be allowed to “play” with people’s voting rights. “This country doesn’t belong to any person, party or a quarter. We, the people, are the owners of the country…. So none will be allowed ... Read more
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Exams put on hold for blockade
English Medium Schools Exams put on hold for blockade The handful of English medium schools in the capital that held classes and exams during the last opposition-called blockade yesterday suspended all exams. The school authorities said they had to suspend the exams following indirect pressure from some parents and being concerned over security
Tax return submission deadline extended
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) Saturday extended the deadline for submitting income tax return by another month up to December 31. NBR Chairman Ghulam Hossain said this at a programme in the city. This is the third time the NBR extended the deadline for submitting income tax return. Ghulam Hossain said, the NBR has ... Read more
One killed as Thai political protests turn violent
Mass opposition protests aimed at overthrowing Thailand’s embattled prime minister turned violent on Saturday with one person shot dead and several wounded as the government called on the army to protect key state buildings. The demonstrators, who want to replace Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government with an unelected “people’s council”, have
Namibia plane crash kills 33
A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday. The plane crashed in a Namibian national park near the border with Angola and there were no survivors, said Namibian deputy police commissioner
Fresh 72-hr opposition blockade from today
Cancel polls schedule, create scope for talks: BNP The BNP-led 18-party alliance will enforce a fresh spell of nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade from 6am Saturday. The opposition alliance is enforcing the programme just 25 hours after the ending of a 71-hour blockade that witnessed widespread violence across the country leaving 18 people killed and over ... Read more
AL names candidates for parliament polls
Party confides on stalwarts, Abul Hossain left out The ruling Awami League (AL) on Friday announced its final candidates’ list for 300 constituencies to contest the upcoming 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5 amid the opposition threat to boycott the polls. The party’s general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, announced the names of those who ... Read more
Newsperson becomes news item herself
In an ironic twist of fate, a newsperson has become a news item herself. This teenage girl, who collected various news items every week, found herself on a hospital bed when unidentified miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a running bus near the Children’s Park at Shahbagh area in the capital on Thursday evening. Two ... Read more
Withdraw polls schedule, create atmosphere for talks: BNP
The Acting Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has asked the Election Commission (EC) to withdraw the schedule it has announced for the 10th parliamentary polls in order to accelerate the process of dialogue for resolving the crisis over the poll-time administration. “The EC has announced
RMG unit burnt over worker’s death rumour
A group of miscreants set fire to a multi-storey industrial unit of the Standard Group at Konabari in Gazipur on Thursday night, damaging the property that suspended the factory operation. No casualties, however, were reported as 27,000 people working there had left eight-storey building before it had been set on fire. Fire fighters took more than 15 ... Read more
Ban writes to Khaleda
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, again wrote a letter to the leader of the opposition in the parliament, Khaleda Zia, also the BNP chairperson, requesting her to end the ‘bitter disputes’ over the forthcoming national elections slated for January 5. BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury
4 profs for MBBS students from now
New curriculum requires interns to work in upazila health complexes for 15 days MBBS students will require to take four professional exams, instead of the existing three, from the 2013–14 academic session under a new curriculum that has been put in force. The curriculum that the government effected in March also requires each of the ... Read more
Kazi Zafar forms new faction
Calls on Khaleda Kazi Zafar Ahmed formed a new faction on Friday, a day after his expulsion from Jatiya Party by its chairman HM Ershad. Kazi Zafar is the chairman of the new faction while Golam Mosih the secretary general, according to a press release. The faction was formed after a meeting at Mosih’s Gulshan ... Read more
Pry exams rescheduled
The Primary and Ebtedayee examinations already rescheduled for Saturday have been rescheduled again for Dec 6 (Friday). The exams were rescheduled for a fresh spell of opposition’s 72-hour blockade from 6am Saturday. The religious education, Quran-Tazbeed and Aqaid-Fiqh examinations will start at 9:30am on Friday, Director General of the Directorate of
Khaleda slams govt for suing Fakhrul, others
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged that the government has implicated at least 16 senior BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in connection with Thursday’s arson attack on a bus that left a youth dead and 16 people injured. In a written statement, Khaleda said the government has unleashed the politics of vengeance. She ... Read more
Ershad wants conducive atmosphere to contest polls
Jatiya Party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad has iterated that his party will not take part in the parliamentary election unless a congenial atmosphere is created for holding it onJanuary 5. “Just wait for my signal after submission of your nomination papers. If we think that the election will be credible, we would contest it. Go ... Read more
BNP hartal in Ctg tomorrow Mir Nasir denied bail
A Chittagong court has rejected two bail petitions of Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin, an advisor to the BNP chairperson. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mashfiqul Islam also rejected two remand petitions against Nasir and sent him to jail on Friday. During the day’s proceedings, the police produced Mir Nasir, arrested in two separate cases filed ... Read more
Suranjit urges oppn to join poll-time cabinet
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta, MP, on Friday urged the oppositions to join the all party government to maintain the progress of democracy, giving up the path of anarchy and violence. “The prime minister does not hold the supreme power. However, if the opposition wants to reduce the power of the prime minister, the ... Read more
New tiger sanctuary in Sundarbans soon
India is planning a new tiger sanctuary inside the world’s largest mangrove forest after a previously undiscovered group of the endangered beasts was discovered, wildlife officials have said. The reserve is planned inside the Sundarbans, a forest that straddles West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh, to protect the tigers from poachers and try to boost their
One shot dead in Cox’s Bazar clash
A man was shot dead and 25 people, including two cops, were injured in a triangular clash involving activists of the ruling party and BNP, and police in Chakaria municipality area on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Zaker Hossain, 48, son of late Akbar Ahmed of Miazirpara in the municipality. Local BNP claimed Zaker ... Read more