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Minimum Wage For Rmg Workers Board fixes Tk 5,300 Employers disagree The minimum wages board for the garment workers on Monday recommended Tk 5,300 as minimum monthly wage for entry-level workers, up by Tk 2,300 from the existing structure amid opposition from owners’ representatives. The minimum wage was decided through vote among the board members after ... Read more

At least two people were killed and more than 100 injured during sporadic clashes between hartal supporters and activists of the ruling Awami League (AL) during the first day of the countrywide 60-hour hartal. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 18-Party Alliance enforced the hartal to press for its demand for a non-partisan election-time government

Political violence is claiming many innocent lives almost every day across the country. Three incidents, on Monday, in three separate places, within only a few hours, bore yet another testimony to the fact that common people are often treated as mere pawns to supplement the fascinating power game between political parties. Md Ramzan Ali, a ... Read more

Easy availability of raw materials used in the agricultural and industrial sectors, as also the cottage industry, and the absence of government monitoring have led to the alarming increase in commercial manufacturing of bombs. These bombs are freely used during political turmoil. A senior officer of the police’s Detective Branch, not wanting to be named, ... Read more

The Election Commission is contemplating to deploy army for law and order maintenance during the coming parliamentary election, due before January 24, election commissioner Shah Nawaz said on Monday He told reporters at his office that EC would meet soon to decide when the election schedule would be announced. Asked whether the EC would be able

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday iterated that it would not join an all-party interim government that might be formed by November 15. ‘Let us make it clear that BNP would never participate in the all-party interim government, nor take part in elections under it,’ BNP acting secretary

The Awami League said on Monday that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was not sincere in holding talks on formation of an election-time government. Addressing a rally, senior Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia does not understand her demand for a non-party

The verdict in the case of killings in a rebellion at the border force headquarters in 2009 is scheduled to be delivered today, officials said. Third additional metropolitan sessions court judge Md Akhtaruzaman is likely to start delivering the verdict at about 9:30am at the makeshift

Project to start early Both the commencement and the completion of metro rail project had been brought forward as Japan increased the fund for the project, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. Initially, the project was supposed to roll out in 2016, but it will now begin in 2014. The project was initially supposed to ... Read more

Cabinet approves draft bill The cabinet on Monday approved in principle a draft bill proposing imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Tk five lakh as the maximum punishment for illegal possession of formalin. The draft Formalin Control Bill 2013 placed in the weekly cabinet meeting by the commerce ministry seeking approval stipulates a ... Read more

A section of teachers of Jahangirnagar University again took position in front of the Vice-Chancellor’s residence from Sunday night to press home their demand for immediate resignation of the VC, Professor Anwar Hossain. JUTA president Professor Ajit Kumar Majumdar announced the indefinite sit-in in front of the VC’s residence protesting a warning

Houses at a Hindu village in Lamonirhat were attacked, vandalised and robbed and 15 Hindu people, including five women, were injured on Monday afternoon. The villagers said that a group of 15-18 people carried out the violence at Satpatki Majhipara, where a bunch of fishermen live. The injured were

The holy Ashura will be observed across the country on November 15 (Friday) as the moon of Muharram month was not sighted in Bangladesh sky on Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee held at the Baitul Mukarram Islamic Foundation conference room on

The British government has backed out from its earlier decision of introducing financial visa bond for visitors from Bangladesh and some other countries including India. The previous plan was due to start from November. The scheme would have required selected visa seekers of Bangladesh and some other countries to deposit

Absconding Al-Badr bosses Md Ashrafuzzaman Khan alias Nayeb Ali and Chowdhury Mueenuddin were sentenced to death by an International Crimes Tribunal for abducting and killing intellectuals at the fag end of the country’s liberation war in 1971. A three-member International Crimes

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday, tagged withdrawal of hartal, with her offer to the opposition for a dialogue on poll-time government. “The door for a dialogue is still open. But you have to withdraw the hartal. You have to commit to the nation that you would not play with the lot of the people,

The BNP-led 18-party alliance is going to enforce another spell of 60-hour nonstop countrywide hartal from 6am on Monday to push for its demand for arranging the next election under a non-party administration, reports UNB. The hartal programme will end at 6pm on Wednesday. BNP acting secretary general

The main opposition BNP has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call upon the opposition to lift the nationwide 60-hour hartal from Monday in the interest of dialogue is nothing but an instance of expediency. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s today’s call to sit for dialogue lifting hartal is a game. She is just playing tricks in ... Read more

One hundred and fifty-seven of the 322 unnamed workers killed in Rana Plaza collapse on April 24 have been identified from DNA sampling. The National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory at Dhaka Medical College Hospital submitted the test reports to the labour ministry on Sunday after

Attacks On Houses, Temples In Pabna HC orders inquiry The High Court on Sunday ordered an inquiry into attacks on houses and temples of Hindus in Pabna over a reported posting on the Facebook maligning Prophet Mohammad (SM). The court asked the inspector general of police to investigate the matter by a three-committee composed of ... Read more