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Most of the buses and minibuses are avoiding the Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover on allegation of excessive tolls collected by the Orion Group. Saydabad Inter District and City Bus Terminal Owners’ Association general secretary, Mohammad Khairul Alam Molla told New Age on Wednesday

The newly set up Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) begins functioning this month. It will investigate only highly sensitive cases, like the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The PBI has state-of-the-art technology at its disposal, police sources told The Independent on Friday evening. In the beginning, a PBI unit will be working under an additional police ... Read more

The son of a Member of Parliament (MP) of Rajshahi-3 constituency and President of Rajshahi district Awami League was arrested for possessing contraband Yaba tablets on Thursday. Mostaque Ahmed Tulu (25), son of Meraj Uddin Molla, MP, was held by Shah Makhdum Thana police at night. The two were produced before the court on Friday morning.

A youth was killed at Tikatuli in the capital yesterday for protesting the harassment of his niece by a local thug, police said. The dead is Nepal Das, 25, who used to work at a shop at RK Mission road. Rajib Chowdhury, the suspected killer, forced into the shop around 4:30pm and hacked Nepal and then ... Read more

A woman killed herself along with her infant by jumping under a train at Borocapra in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogra yesterday. Swapna Rani, 30, wife of Niranjan Pramanik of Parshun village under Nandigram upazila of the district, with her one and a half years old son Niloy Pramanik, jumped under a Santhar-bound train around 12noon, witnesses said. Swapna’s ... Read more

Bangladesh toiled little on their way to script yet another history as they pulled off a facile 40-run victory over New Zealand in the second ODI to wrap up the three-match series. The comprehensive victory at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday gave them their sixth straight win over the Black Caps. It was also

With the ruling party and the opposition set for a massive showdown on the streets from this week, apprehension about escalation of political violence across the country is growing. Political observers believe that prospects of a dialogue between the two sides are becoming bleaker with each passing day, as both the ruling party and the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the opposition leader not to enforce any agitation programme that harms the academic life of students. “I’ll request her not to enforce such agitation programmes that harm the academic life of innocent students,” she said referring to the opposition’s next

The Wage Board that was formed to fix the minimum wages for workers of the readymade garments (RMG) industry once again failed to finalise the wage structure at Thursday’s meeting. It set November 4 as the fresh date for finalising the wage structure, which has been at the epicentre of much debate. The Wage Board was ... Read more

At least two people were killed and 40 others injured when a coach of Chittagong Mail train got derailed near Akhaura Rail Junction Colony on Thursday, disrupting communications for five hours. The dead were identified as Mostakin, 25, of Netrokona and Nurul Amin, 45, of Kishoreganj’s Ishwarganj. The injured passengers were admitted to Akhaura

Against the backdrop of fresh violence in Bangladesh, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concern and called upon political parties to respect the rule of law. He also urged all parties to ensure a favourable environment for credible and peaceful elections. “The Secretary-General has been following with

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party led-opposition alliance on Thursday warned that the people would not forgive the incumbent Election Commission if it held the next polls under the present government. Addressing a protest rally, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked the EC to work for holding the elections under a ‘non-party’

Nearly 30,000 jewellery shop-owners in the country, including 1500 in the city, are forced to depend on smuggled gold due to cumbersome import procedure and high taxes. “Our jewellery industry needs 16 to 30 tonnes of gold annually to meet the domestic demand,” said a leader of the Bangladesh Jewellery Samity (BJS).

1971 Killing Of Intellectuals Verdict in Ashraf, Mueen case on Sunday The judges will on Sunday deliver the verdict in the war crimes case against absconding Al-Badr bosses Md Ashrafuzzaman Khan alias Nayeb Ali and Chowdhury Mueenuddin on 11 charges of killing 18 intellectuals in 1971. ‘We will deliver the verdict on Sunday,’ the presiding judge ... Read more

TIB survey reveals involvement of owners, buyers, govt All the stakeholders in the garment sector, including owners, buyers, labour leaders and government agencies, are more or less involved in corruption and irregularities, a TIB study has found. Owners are involved in irregularities related to technical and social compliance issues while buyers help make fake audit ... Read more

Replacing Vehicles’ Number Plates BRTA falls far short of target The authorities have fallen far short of the target to affix retro-reflective number plates to radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags on motor vehicles in one year. The project was undertaken to improve services in the transport sector. Officials of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority

9 directors protest govt move to take control Nine elected borrower-directors of Grameen Bank yesterday condemned the Grameen Bank Act 2013, urging the government to keep from going ahead with the law. The female directors vehemently protested the Act, which is now waiting to be passed in parliament, saying that the new law would snatch ... Read more

Illegal Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia Several thousands to be deported after Nov 3  Several thousand Bangladeshi workers, who migrated illegally to Saudi Arabia without valid documents and therefore were denied the chance to legalise their status, must return home after an ongoing amnesty expires on November 3, according to officials. The number of such Bangladeshis ... Read more

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 14 people to 32 years’ rigorous imprisonment for killing businessman Kamrul Hassan in Joydevpur upazila of Gazipur in October 2001. The convicts are Jalal alias Shah Jalal, Nazrul Islam, Moniruzzaman, Babul, Hamid Member, Golam, Shahjahan, Alam, Jamal, Sabur, Biplob, Helal,

Total eclipse of the sun will occur on Sunday. It will start at 16 hours 04 minutes 24 seconds Bangladesh time and end at 21 hours 28 minutes 30 seconds, reports UNB. Central eclipse will start at 17 hours 05 minutes 18 seconds local time and end at 20 hours 27 minutes 42 seconds, said ... Read more