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A late rally by the south western Monsoon brought heavy to moderate rains across the country since Friday and the rains are not going away before Monday, met office sources said on Saturday. It brought miseries to many, particularly those who went for a vacation to the sea resort town of Cox’sBazar, where precipitations totalled ... Read more

Three people, including a woman and her granddaughter, were killed as they were struck by lightning at Chandpurchar village in Belkuchi upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified Jahanara Begum, 60, her granddaughter Halima, 7, also daughter of Belal Hossain, and Taslima, 9, daughter of Makbul Hosain. All of them hailed from the Chandpurchar village.

Three robbers died after mass beating in Rangpur and Munshiganj early Saturday. Two highway robbers, including the ringleader, were killed in a lynch-mob attack in Paglapir area of Sadar upazila in Rangpur early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Saju Mia, 40,

World Teachers Day today Public university teachers in Bangladesh are paid less than what their fellows get paid in many other countries on the count of purchasing power parity. The teachers, who also paid less than their fellows in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, said that they could hardly live a decent life university teachers

Sqc Verdict Leak ICT employee arrested Defence lawyer’s computer seized The Detective Branch of police on Friday arrested an employee of the International Crimes Tribunal for his alleged involvement in leaking parts of the draft judgement on Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The detectives claimed that they primarily cracked the clue to the leaking of parts of ... Read more

A large number of passengers on different routes, who are returning home for Eid-ul-Azha, will face serious problems because of poor roads, a shortage of vehicles, locomotives and vessels along with ticket mismanagement and safety issues. It is expected that some seven to eight million

Assistant teachers in government primary schools, who are Class III employees, get paid less than what government transport drivers, office assistants, steno-typists and computer operators, who enjoy the same status, are paid a month. Head teachers, who are also of the same status, however, get paid a little more than government drivers or other staff ... Read more

Remittance Bangladesh among top 10 earners Bangladesh is among top 10 recipients of officially recorded remittances for 2013, which is larger than the national foreign exchange reserve, says a World Bank report. In the last several years, Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserve continued to swell crossing the $16-billion mark. Meanwhile, the country’s forex

Investigation committee instituted Four newborns died in Tangail General Hospital on Friday after they had been administered injection ‘with their dates expired.’ Parents alleged the the four babies had died between 9:00am and 11:00am a few minutes after being administered injection by a nurse by the name of Rita on prescriptions by physician Syful Islam. ... Read more

Leader of the opposition in Parliament and Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Begum Khaleda Zia is scheduled to address a public meeting at Sylhet Alia Madrasha Ground on Saturday afternoon. The former premier left Dhaka for Sylhet at 5:30pm on Friday from her Gulshan residence. After reaching Sylhet city; she would be staying at ... Read more

Academicians and political analysts at an international conference on Friday said adoption of secular ideals in state activities in its true sense was the only solution to the growing threat of extremism nurtured by political use of religion in South Asian countries. They pointed out that although the charters of

Flyover opens to public Oct 11 after over 3 years of construction chaos on road After the long three-and-a-half years of sufferings that people underwent due to its construction work, the much-awaited Jatrabari flyover is set to open for public on October 11, official sources said. An official announcement of inaugurating the flyover on October ... Read more

The government on Friday signed a USD 500 million financial agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s (WB’s) concessional arm, to support major safety net programmes implemented by the disaster management and relief ministry. Around four million poorest households are supposed to benefit from the project.

Bank officials, dishonest businessmen involved The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in its investigation has found involvement of a huge number of employees of different banks in most of the graft cases taking place during the tenure of the present government. An official of ACC seeking

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday alleged that the government has decided to turn the Grameen Bank Ordinance into law to destroy the Bank. The party’s assistant secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, made the allegation at a press conference at the BNP headquarters at Naya Paltan. “Grameen Bank and its founder Nobel laureate ... Read more

An Awami League leader on Friday accused the BNP of stealing copies of the verdict against Salauddin Quader Chowdury to create a controversy. “The law ministry was not involved in leaking of the verdict, as alleged by the Opposition. In fact, the BNP was involved in the conspiracy. The guilty should be booked,” said Suranjit ... Read more

Airing doubt whether there will be any timely  election, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad said here on Friday that people would not accept any attempt to hold the next polls without  the participation of all political parties. “There’s uncertainty whether the election will be held in time. The people of the country won’t accept the ... Read more

Three people were killed in separate traffic accidents in Sylhet, Magura and Bagerhat districts on Friday. In Sylhet, a young passerby was killed as a truck ran him over on Sylhet-Tamabil road in Khadimpara Bypass point area of sadar upazila around 12:00pm. The deceased was identified as Afsar Miah, 21,

Cabinet endorses draft bill The cabinet on Thursday approved the draft of the Grameen Bank Bill 2013, providing the Bangladesh Bank with the authority to ‘regulate the micro-credit organisation like other financial institutions.’ The draft proposes increasing the authorised capital of the Nobel-winner Grameen Bank to Tk 1,000 crore from Tk 350 crore and the ... Read more

Patients suffered immensely as medicine traders kept their stores shut all over the country on Thursday in protest at the raids by drug administration and law enforcement agencies and seizure of counterfeit and substandard medicines worth Tk 5 crore. The duration of the strike, enforced by