The cabinet on Monday approved the Mobile Court Bill 2009 in order to revive the executive magistrates’ authority to operate mobile courts for summary trial of the perpetrators of some specific offences. The home affairs ministry placed the bill at the weekly cabinet meeting in the secretariat with the premier, Sheikh Hasina, in the chair. ... Read more
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7 students hurt in roof-plaster collapse
Seven students were injured yesterday as a chunk of roof-plaster fell on them when they were in a class at a school at Prasanna Poddar Lane in the city’s Tantibazar area under Old Dhaka. The injured were identified as Mhethelia(6), Rubina(7), Soniya(8) Ashamoni,(7) Tania(7) Johohara(7) and Juli(6), Salauddin officer in-charge of
JS body summons RAJUK, works ministry officials
Graft charge against Mainul The sub-committee of the parliamentary standing committee on Housing and Public Works ministry formed to inquire into the allegations of corruption and irregularities against former adviser of the caretaker government Barrister Mainul Hosein has directed the concerned officials of the Housing and Public Works ministry, RAJUK and Public Works Department to ... Read more
JCD dissolves DU, 2 city units
The just-formed central committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Monday night dissolved the organisation’s three units and expelled four leaders for ‘breach of discipline and anti-organisational activities.’ The Chhatra Dal president, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, told New Age that the central committee has dissolved the Dhaka University, Dhaka city south and Dhaka city north units of the ... Read more
Unregistered driving schools mushroom
Untrained instructors teach driving to thousands; regulatory body sits idle For thousands of aspiring drivers of motor vehicles, the country has only 10 registered learners’ schools and five ‘qualified’ instructors, according to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). With over 50,000 vehicles taking to the roads or applying for registration every year and another 1.2 million ... Read more
No computers in poor Bangladeshi households
Poor people in Bangladesh own more mobile phones than the same group in India and Pakistan, more televisions than the Indian poor, but availability of computers in the poor Bangladeshi households is almost zero, according to a recent study. The survey by LIRNEasia, a Sri Lanka-based Asia-Pacific information and communication technology policy and regulation capacity-building ... Read more
Defaulted loans amount to Tk 154.51b
Beximco Group cos top list of bank loan defaulters, JS told Companies of the Beximco Group top the list of 2,196 bank loan defaulters, according to the latest report of the credit information bureau of Bangladesh Bank. Answering lawmakers’ questions in the parliament on Sunday, finance minister AMA Muhith disclosed that a total of 2,196 ... Read more
Death lurks in Dhaka Zoo
18 rare animals died in one year; various diseases inflicted on many of them; authorities say it’s normal Death seems to lurk in the corridors of Dhaka Zoo with 18 rare animals having lost their lives in just over a year. These include nine new animals procured from South Africa only last year. The recent ... Read more
Woman kills husband
A woman stabbed her husband to death in Kadamtoli area yesterday while police recovered body of an unidentified man from the city’s Kuril area. Sub-Inspector Liakat Hossain of Kadamtali Police Station said Mollika Begum locked into a quarrel with her husband Sumon Mahmud, 30, in his video shop at Muradpur around 2:30 pm over loan ... Read more
Student leaders who never get old…
Students at Dhaka University have found it disappointing that people in their 40s, who completed their studies at least a decade ago, are leading different student organisations. They say it is amusing that people who are going grey keep their hold on the reins of the two major student organisations. Many of the leaders are ... Read more
30 carried out operation
Karwan Bazar killers got only Tk 1.45 lakh A gang of thirty criminals launched the gun attack in broad daylight at Karwan Bazar on June 26 that left three persons killed for taking a revenge for the killing of their cohort Mamun and establishing supremacy over toll collection
Delwar claims CG bid to kill Khaleda too
Hossain Zillur for fair probe Demanding a transparent and neutral probe into the allegations of plotting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, when she was confined by the military-backed caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed, BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday apprehended that the attempt was also taken to kill
If allegation is credible form a neutral probe committee: Barrister Mainul
Former adviser to the caretaker government (CTG) Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday said if there is any credible evidence of the allegation of serving poison mixed food to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when she was imprisoned in the sub-jail, then a high level probe committee comprising neutral experts should be
Temporary labour court mulled for RMG disputes
The government would form a temporary labour court for Ashulia, Tongi and a part of Gazipur industrial area to settle disputes between garment industry owners and workers, said Commerce Minister Faruk Khan
Police on hunt for BNP, trade union leaders, activists
VIOLENCE AT ASHULIA Police on hunt for BNP, trade union leaders, activists Law enforcers are on the hunt for leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist party and trade unions in connection with the recent violence at garments factories of Ashulia at Saver in which two workers were killed and 200
Investment option for untaxed money in stocks widened
The new fiscal measure will allow investment of undisclosed money in more than one security and prevent withdrawal of the money from the capital market before two years, revenue officials said. The National Board of Revenue is expected to come up with necessary clarifications to put into force the revised budgetary measure
6 killed in mudslide
Six members of a family were killed as their mud-house collapsed during torrential rain in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj early yesterday. The deceased were Mubarak Miah, 42, a vendor, his wife Asma Begum, 35, and their four children Sumon Miah, 10, Amina Begum, 7,
AL to seek 6 more months to hold council
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) yesterday decided to seek six more months from the Election Commission to hold its party council. Party spokesperson Syed Ashraful told reporters after a meeting of the AL presidium, chaired by party chief and Prime Minister
Dutch ministers due today
Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Bert Koenders and Vice Minister for Transport, Public Works and Water Management Tineke Huizinga will arrive here for a two-day official visit today. It will be their first visit to Bangladesh, which aims to further strengthen ties between the two
JS session resumes today
The budget session of Jatiya Sangsad is scheduled to resume this afternoon ending a four-day recess. A number of pending bills will be considered by the house in the coming days as the budget session is scheduled to be prorogued