New long-route bus fares yet to take effect
As on Tuesday night, most of the long-route bus services were yet to comply with the seven per cent hike in fares from Tk 1.35 to Tk 1.45 per kilometre set by the communication ministry on Sunday. Full storyEC won’t take any suo moto action against Jamaat
Election commissioner Shah Nawaz said on Tuesday the commission would not take any suo moto action against Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the party which an International Crimes Tribunal said had contributed to creating... Full storyHijra rehab programme awaits FinMin nod
Secretary to the social welfare ministry Ranjit Kumar Biswas said Tuesday that they had laid out a programme to rehabilitate the country’s transgender people, known as hijras in the vernacular. Full storyPAC asks Janata, Agrani to recover Tk 38cr bad loans
The public accounts committee on Tuesday asked the state-run Janata and Agrani banks to recover Tk 38cr bad loans. The PAC made the recommendation in its 106th meeting reviewing the audit objections of fiscal year 2007-2008. Full storyFire kills minor girl in Ctg
A minor girl was roasted alive and two sustained injuries as a devastating fire broke out at 12 houses at Purba Gomdandi of Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong Monday night. The deceased was identified as Naima Akhter... Full storyHartal observed in Kushtia
The dawn-to-dusk general shutdown called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday in Sadar, Khoksha, Kumarkhali, Bheramara, and Daulatpur upazilas of Kushtia was observed without... Full storyACC interrogates 6 more SIBL officials
The Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday interrogated six more officials of Social Islami Bank Limited for their alleged involvement with the non-funded part of Hallmark-Sonali Bank scam. Full storyTIB calls for completion of other war crimes cases
Voicing deep satisfaction over the verdict against Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, the Transparency International Bangladesh on Tuesday called for immediate... Full storySayedee’s defence asked to conclude arguments today
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday asked the detained Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s defence counsel to complete his closing arguments today. Full story‘Govt knows convict’s location’
HOME minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir said his government was aware of the whereabouts of war crimes convict Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar. Azad was sentenced to death on Monday by the International Crimes... Full storyMosharraf explains Dec 31 speech
Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Tuesday denied having issued any threat to the prime minister or any other person in a recent speech. Full storyYoung man killed
A young man was beaten to death at Shibbati in Bogra on Tuesday evening. Bogra sadar police subinspector Haroon-Ur-Rashaid said a group of people killed beaten Sujan of Shibbati area to death near Shibbati bridge... Full storyImplement 50pc DA immediately: DUJ
DHAKA Union of Journalists called on Tuesday for immediately implementing 50 per cent dearness allowance for journalists and employees in the newspaper houses where it is yet to be implemented. Full storyMuslim Aid-UK distributes blankets among cold-hit people
Muslim Aid-UK, Bangladesh field office distributed 10,000 blankets among the cold-affected people in eleven districts of Bangladesh. The districts are Lalmonirhat, Dinajpur, Bogra, Sirajganj, Manikganj... Full storyMukitur Rahman Bhuiyan dies
