Good to All, Bad to Cops Police out to ‘frame’ youth File third case against DU student Instead of withdrawing two “false” cases against him, police have now implicated Abdul Quader, a biochemistry master’s student of Dhaka University, in a carjacking. Known as a gentle, caring person to his classmates and teachers, Quader has been ... Read more
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11 greater dists to be made city corporations
The present government will upgrade the municipalities of 11 remaining old districts to city corporations within its tenure to ensure better civic facilities. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told this to newsmen yesterday emerging from the deputy commissioners’ conference at the cabinet division of
50 vehicles vandalised
50 vehicles vandalised The first day of introduction of ticket system for city buses in Chittagong saw a major hiccup as passengers angry with high fares and inadequate number of buses vandalised around 50 vehicles yesterday. City bus service stalled for three hours following the incident and regular travellers paid the price. Crowds were seen ... Read more
310 more people indicted
A Dhaka court on Wednesday charged 310 more people with murder and other criminal offences committed during the rebellion at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, in February 25–26, 2009. With the 310, the court has so far charged 740 people, including civilians and border guard soldiers
Raja Devasish rejects FM’s statement
Chakma Raja Devasish Roy yesterday in a written statement refuted Foreign Minister Dipu Moni’s claim that non-Bangalee hill-people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts are not “indigenous” but “ethnic minorities”. As the minister termed the hill-people as economic migrants, Raja Devasish said political, social, and economic causes of migration cannot be the basis of disentitlement to ... Read more
HRW calls for ensuring fair trial for BDR mutiny defendants
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the government to immediately stop mass trials of the alleged mutineers of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh, on February 25-26, 2009 to ensure fair trial. The US-based rights watchdog in a statement said that those responsible for killing 75 people during
Mother shot at by addict son
A drug addict fired at his mother as she had refused to give him money at village Najirpur at Baufal upazila in Patuakhali district. The Baufal police arrested the 32-year old man, Sohag, following a case filed by his mother Nurunnahar, and producing him in court on Wednesday sought five-day
Interference in recruitment
Lawmakers fight with minister over 7,000 jobs in railway Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain and members of a parliamentary committee yesterday quarrelled over lobbying and interference in recruitment of some 7,000 class-III and class-IV employees for the railway. At a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on the communications ministry, several ruling Awami League lawmakers alleged ... Read more
Khaleda invites Hasina for iftar
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday invited Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina to an iftar party she would host on August 4. Khaleda, also the opposition leader in parliament, will host the iftar in honour of the leaders of different political parties at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre
Good to all robber to cops
A Dhaka University student, known as a modest youth to his classmates and teachers, is a robber in the eyes of law. Abdul Quader, a master’s student of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been languishing in jail since July 16 after being arrested in two cases filed for robbery and possessing sharp
Free Suchitra Sen’s Pabna house: HC
The High Court Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to free the paternal homestead of the subcontinent’s renowned actress Suchitra Sen in Pabna town from illegal occupation, and hand it over to the government, reports UNB. A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice
Critics of microcredit chastised
Experts hail role of microcredit in poverty reduction Experts and politicians yesterday came down heavily on the critics of microcredit for being too ruthless about the economic concept, which is credited to contributing to pulling out millions out of poverty. They said there are both positives and negatives of the theory championed by Bangladesh’s lone ... Read more
Police asked to arrest Sagufta MD, director
The High Court on Tuesday directed the police to immediately arrest Sagufta Group’s managing director Khaled Jewel Mollah and director Waliq Mollah in connection with the death of a student who was killed when a brick fell on his head, reportedly from the company’s high-rise that is under construction on Panthapath. The bench of Justice ... Read more
Police asked to report on warrants in 15 days
A Dhaka court on Tuesday gave the police 15 more days to report on the execution of the warrants it had issued for arrest of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s eldest son Tarique Rahman and 11 others in a case for the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. Dhaka ... Read more
BSF kills 187 Bangladeshis since Jan 2009
Indian Border Security Force has killed 187 Bangladeshi nationals on the frontiers since January 6, 2009 when the Awami League-led alliance assumed office. According to figures available with rights organisation Odhikar, 976 Bangladesh nationals were killed, 990 injured, 226 arrested, 956 abducted and 14 were raped by BSF personnel and 184 went missing after
Oil-gas body begins tour today
The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports will begin today its four-day countrywide tours for mass contact from the capital to push for its seven-point demands. The demands of the organisation include the scrapping of the model production and sharing contract 2008 and the deals signed with ConocoPhillips for exploration ... Read more
HSC results today
The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations will be published simultaneously today. The results will be released at 2:00pm through the respective centres, educational institutions, websites of all education boards and also short message services (SMS) of different mobile phone
Dhaka confers highest honour on Indira
Sonia receives award for her mother-in-law Bangladesh on Monday conferred its highest state honour on the late Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, posthumously for her outstanding contribution to the War of Independence. A special ceremony was held at Bangabhaban where the Indian ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, received the posthumous Bangladesh Swadhinata Sanmanona
Care is the call
Int’l conference presses for law, awareness to ensure rights of special people A two-day international conference on autism opened in Dhaka yesterday with a call for promoting legislative and policy actions to ensure quality healthcare for autistic people, especially the children. The conference has brought together government leaders, policymakers, experts and activists from around the ... Read more
Bangladesh ahead of India in social sectors: Sonia
President of the Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi on Monday praised Bangladesh’s success in reducing fertility rates, underweight children, infant mortality and increasing immunisation, school enrolment, and life expectancy and said Bangladesh is ahead of India in these sectors. “Bangladesh has achieved economic and social success beyond anything thought possible at the