Govt okays tribunal for speedy cyber crimes trial
The government has completed all procedures to set up a special tribunal in Dhaka to deal with cyber crimes that include hacking, blackmailing, defaming individuals and extortion online. The law ministry on Thursday approved... Full storyBIFPC presses for tax waiver on profit
Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company is mounting pressure on the government for getting a tax waiver on profit, although the provision was not included in the draft power sales/purchase agreement made... Full storyConspiracies can’t stop war crimes trial: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said on Thursday that her government was pledge-bound to complete the war crimes trials despite deep conspiracies to foil the process. Addressing a large public meeting at the... Full storyHC questions credibility
The High Court on Thursday questioned the credibility of the post-mortem examination and inquest reports of the Bishwajit Das, hacked to death by some Chhatra League activists on December 9, 2012, after watching... Full storyRecord boycott marks 4 years of 9th JS
The ninth Jatiya Sangsad steps into the last year of its term today amid a record boycott of the house proceedings by the opposition prompting a number of treasury bench members to act as ‘opposition’. Full storyGirl raped in Manikganj bus
A female passenger was raped in a running bus by its drive and his assistant on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Manikganj Thursday afternoon, police said. The driver, Dipu Mia, 24, and his assistant, Abul Kashem, 19, were later... Full storyMuhith mocks Goldstein
Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Thursday made a jibe at World Bank’s outgoing country director Ellen Goldstein saying it would be better for her to quit the WB job and join politics here. Full storyGraft rampant in police, courts, land admin: Muhith
Corruption is rampant in the police, the courts and land administration, finance minister AMA Muhith said on Thursday. He told this to reporter after chairing a national purchase committee meeting at the secretariat. Full storyTeachers continue sit-in
Nat’l Professor Nurul Islam dies
Pak court orders second action against PM
Pakistan’s top court on Thursday ordered officials to register a second criminal case against the prime minister, raising the pressure on the government as it nears the end of its term in office. Full storyBNP MPs may resign if necessary: Farroque
The opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, on Thursday said that the BNP lawmakers would resign, if necessary, unless the election-time non-party caretaker government system was restored. Full storyICT fully independent: Dipu Moni
Foreign minister Dipu Moni on Thursday evening briefed heads of international organisations and members of the diplomatic corps on the maiden judgment of an international crimes tribunal on the crimes... Full storyFakhrul sent back to jail
A Dhaka Court on Thursday sent acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir back to jail. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Saifur Rahman passed the... Full storyRMG workers stage demo for back pay
