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Strike halts river communications

River transport workers on Wednesday went on strike for an indefinite period halting river communications and transport goods on waterways across the country. Thousands of motor launch passengers got stranded... Full story

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Govt sets up body to find out errant units

The government on Wednesday appointed a new five-member committee to look into the safety arrangements at readymade garment factories across the country with the objective of checking recurrence of fire which on... Full story

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Police use pepper spray

The police on Wednesday fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells and used pepper spray to disperse the non-government teachers and employees, who tried to besiege the secretariat demanding enlistment of their institutions for the monthly pay order facility. The police action for the second consecutive day on the teachers and employees left 30... Full story

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Dhaka prepares to face USTR threat

Dhaka is preparing to explain its position to the United States Trade Representative in response to the latter’s threat to withdraw the generalised system of preference facility for Bangladeshi... Full story

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26,192 primary schools nationalised

The government has nationalised 26,192 primary schools employing 104,000 teachers in the face of a movement non-government schoolteachers have carried out for two decades. Full story

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Sheikh Mujib’s Homecoming Day today

The historic Homecoming Day of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh, will be observed in a befitting manner throughout the country today. On this day in 1972 Sheikh Mujib returned to independent Bangladesh after being released from nine and a half months of solitary confinement in a prison in Pakistan during the country’s... Full story

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Cold wave has north shivering

A spell of bone-chilling cold strained normal life in the north as a cold wave was sweeping over the region for the second time with the temperature on Wednesday falling to 3.2 degrees Celsius in Dinajpur and... Full story

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Muhith ridicules leftists for calling general strike

The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, on Wednesday said that he would not make any comments on the latest statement of the World Bank country director, Ellen Goldstein, on the stalled Padma Bridge project. Full story

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Azmi submits documents to defend his father

War crimes accused Ghulam Azam’s son Abdullahil Aman Azmi produced more documents to defend his father on the seventh day of his testimony in International Crimes Tribunal-1. So far, Azmi, the first defence witness... Full story

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Harbin bags Barapukuria power project

The cabinet committee on national purchase on Wednesday approved a number of power projects including a 250 megawatt coal-fired plant in Barapukuria awarded to the controversial Harbin... Full story

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Venezuela delays Chavez inauguration

Venezuela heads into uncharted political waters Wednesday without ailing president Hugo Chavez amid calls for the Supreme Court to decide if his government’s postponing his inauguration is constitutional. Full story

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Two ministers ask teachers to work for AL

Two cabinet members in the presence of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at a rally on Wednesday directed primary schoolteachers to campaign and vote for keeping the incumbent Awami League government in power... Full story

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ACC team seizes docs from Bridges Div

An Anti-Corruption Commission investigation team led by ACC deputy director Mirza Zahidul Alam on Wednesday seized some documents from the Bridges Division office as part of its probe into Padma Bridge corruption. Full story

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Protests continue against fuel price hike

Left-leaning political parties on Wednesday called a countrywide half-day general strike on January 16 in protest against the latest price hike of fuel oils and the plan of the Awami League-led government to go for another... Full story

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Govt to build another flyover

The government on Wednesday decided to build another flyover in the capital connecting Shantinagar and Dhaka–Mawa highway under public-private-partnership. The cabinet committee on economic affairs... Full story

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Number of domestic workers surges 60pc in 15 years: ILO

The number of domestic workers worldwide has surged by 60 per cent since 1995 to more than 52 million, but despite their growing numbers most are still deprived of basic rights, the UN’s labour agency said Wednesday. Full story

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Traffic on Bangbandhu Bridge suspended for 9 hours

Traffic on the Bangabandhu Bridge on the river Jamuna was suspended for nine hours on early Wednesday as a truck went out of order on the bridge at 1:00am. Huge number of vehicles became stranded at both the ends... Full story

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Fakhrul’s bail hearing January 15

The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Wednesday posted for January 15 the hearing in two petitions of the detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir seeking bail in two cases. Full story

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5.9 magnitude earthquake jolts country

An earthquake of 5.9 magnitude jolted some parts of the country including Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet early Wednesday, officials said. ‘The epicentre of the earthquake was Myanmar-Indian border, nearly 495... Full story

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BSF halts road repair in Indian enclave in Kurigram

Indian border force forced to stop the repair work of an earthen road along the border at Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Tuesday. Local union parishad began the repair work in Katgiri area of Shilkhuri union... Full story

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Teletalk DGM’s remand extended

A Dhaka court on Wednesday remanded Teletalk deputy general manager AKM Asaduzzaman in the custody of Anti-Corruption Commission for two more days in a corruption case. Full story

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