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The Rana Plaza tragedy is a reflection of sheer negligence of all the stakeholders involved in the value chain of the readymade garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh, and beyond, said an independent monitoring report on the Rana Plaza building collapse. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) released the report at a round-table conference at the ... Read more

Development partners and rights watchdogs, at a discussion in Dhaka on Saturday, urged the government to implement the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord, and its pledges regarding ethnic minorities, before it completes its tenure. They came up with the call at a discussion organised by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum (BAF), on the occasion of World ... Read more

Former lawmaker Hemayet Ullah Auranga and five others were killed in a traffic accident at Lauhajang in Munshiganj on Dhaka-Mawa Highway on Saturday. The accident took place near Medenipur Khanbari around 3:45pm, said Lauhajang police officer-in-charge Zakiur Rahman. Auranga was heading

A former FBI agent has been charged with soliciting thousands of dollars to hand over confidential information to someone who wanted to harm a prominent citizen of Bangladesh. The US attorney’s office said on Friday that the ex-agent, Robert Lustyik, was charged with conspiracy, bribery and disclosing a document. His friend Johannes Thaler has

Rajuk Uttara Model College made a hat-trick by retaining the top position among all education boards as it did the previous years, according to results of the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations published on Sunday. Most of the top 10 colleges among the education boards are from the capital city. Rajuk Uttara Model College with its ... Read more

Limon Hossain, maimed by Rapid Action Battalion shooting on March 23, 2011, passed Higher Secondary School examination scoring grade point average of 4. Limon, who took the exam in Business Management course from Kawkhali PGS School and College in Jhalakati, said that he now wanted to be a lawyer to fight for

Law and order has worsened in the capital and elsewhere in the past few days with crimes such as killing, extortion and mugging increasing before Eid. Statistics available with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police show that at least 25 people were killed in the capital in July. The figure in June was 16.

The commission investigating activities of the multi-level marketing company Jubak in its report blamed ministers, parliament members and politicians for the increase in the number of such entities which are engaged in financial malpractice and cheating with people. The commission, formed on May 4, 2011, submitted its

The overseas employment of Bangladeshi workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has virtually come to a halt during the last couple of months. Sources said Dhaka requested Riyadh to recruit workers from Bangladesh through a data bank prepared by the government instead of through private recruiters, who have been carrying out brisk business ... Read more

Conservation-ists are fighting an uphill battle to save the Royal Bengal Tiger from extinction in the face of systematic destruction of the Sundarban, the world’s greatest mangrove forest. There were about 440 tigers in the Sundarban — 121 of them males, 298 females and 21 cubs — according to the tiger census conducted in 2004. ... Read more

At least 31 people were killed and 1,253 injured in political violence and nine were killed in ‘crossfire’ by law enforcing agencies in the country in July. Human rights organisation Odhikar stated it in its monthly human rights monitoring report, released on Thursday. The report said that Border Security Force

A section of law-enforcers and leaders of so-called bus, truck and tempo workers’ unions are allegedly involved in extorting money from those operating buses, trucks, auto-rickshaws and rickshaws in the capital. The rate of extortion depends on the type of vehicle, it is alleged. Each bus has to pay on an average Tk. 500, a ... Read more

A special court in India posted for August 13 the trial of the death of Felani Khatun, a 15-year-old girl who was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force when she was crossing the border into Bangladesh through the Phulbari frontiers in Dinajpur on January 7, 2011. The director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, ... Read more

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said it never supported banning of any political party rather favoured facing a rival by political means. BNP’s statement came on the heels of the High Court verdict that declared illegal and unconstitutional the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, its key ally.

Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations will be published today. The results will be published on Saturday, within 60 days after the examinations, Subodh Chandra Dhali, senior information officer of the education ministry told New Age on Friday. The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, will first hand

Rapid Action Battalion officials on Friday said that they were looking for the people who allegedly attacked the battalion team to take away Juba League leader HM Jahid Siddique Tarek from its custody causing the death of Tarek and another on Wednesday night. The sacked Juba League Dhaka city (south) unit joint secretary,

The US embassy’s announcement earlier on Friday that it will remain closed on Sunday, August 4, is linked to a perceived terror threat from Al Qaeda, it’s been learned. The state department is in fact keeping several consulates and embassies around the world closed on the date, due to the security threat.

Expeditions on Mount Everest will be more closely monitored than before from next year, the BBC has learned. Nepalese officials say that for the first time, a government team will be located at the base camp. They will monitor and help expedition teams, coordinate rescues

There is only one psychiatrist per 156,000 mental patients in the country, showing a critical gap in the care for patients. According to experts, the health care sector is in a state of negligence, needing further care for itself, as it is the silent killer of economic growth. There are only 160 psychiatrists per about ... Read more

The High Court on Thursday declared illegal and unconstitutional Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration with the Election Commission as a political party.  A three-member special bench of Justice M Moazzam Husain, Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque, by a majority view, declared illegal and void the registration given to