College student hacked to death in Sylhet
A mob burnt to ashes a tin-shed house and a microbus at Dakkhin Surma in Sylhet City Sunday night, after Rafiq Baks, driver of the microbus, allegedly hacked to death a college student and injured two women as a sequel... Full storyProsecution seeks permission for Azhar’s interrogation at safe home
The prosecution on Monday sought permission from the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to allow the war crimes investigation agency to interrogate detained Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam at its safe home. Full storyPeople won’t accept ‘farcical’ polls: Tariqul
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party spokesperson Tariqul Islam on Monday urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina not to push the country to the brink of anarchy by trying to hold ‘staged-managed’ general elections. Full story6 injured in BCL-JCD clash at JnU
New navy chief takes over command
The new navy chief, Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib, Monday took over command of the Bangladesh Navy from outgoing chief Vice Admiral Zahir Uddin Ahmed. The new chief of naval staff, Habib, is also being promoted... Full storyACC quizzes 6 more Shahjalal Bank officials
The Anti Corruption Commission on Monday interrogated six more officials of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited about a Tk 1.1 billion non-funded portion of the money embezzled by the Hall-Mark Group from Sonali Bank... Full story32 maunds of jatka seized in Patuakhali
The Rapid Action Battalion seized 32 maunds of jatka hilsa from a Dhaka-bound bus early Monday. The RAB also arrested Biplob, supervisor of the bus, alleged carrying the Jhatka illegally. Full storyPathik’s death anniversary today
Today is the second death anniversary of Pathikh Saha, former general secretary of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity. Sangbadik Pathik Saha Smriti Sangsad will hold a discussion at Maitree Hall in the city’s Paltan area at 3:30pm, with... Full storyHalf-day hartal passes off peacefully in Bagerhat
A half-day hartal was observed in Bagerhat town on Monday demanding arrest of the attackers on Ward Councilor and former Juba League leader Sardar Shamim Ahsan. The hartal was also called to press for the demand of... Full storyBusinessman robbed of Tk 13 lakh in Jaipurhat
Miscreants snatched Tk 13 lakh from a businessman after stabbing him at Pachbibi upazila in Jaipurhat early Monday. The victim was identified as Md Abdur Rahman, a chicken trader of Panchbibi Bazar. Full storyPanic grips DU campus over JCD’s entry
Ten crude bombs exploded as Bangladesh Chhatrta League took positions in groups at different key points at the Dhaka University on Monday after Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal had declared that they would enter the campus. Full storyExpulsion of Asia energy demanded
The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Monday called on the government to implement the Phulbari treaty signed in 2006 and drive out Asia Energy from Bangladesh. Full storyArrest Smart, Tazreen owners: SKOP
Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad, a combine of 13 labour rights bodies, on Monday demanded immediate arrest of the owners of Smart Fashions and Tazreen Fashions for death of workers in fire incidents at their factories. Full storyLimon’s charge hearing deferred to March 19
The hearing in the framing of charges against Limon Hossain, a college student who had to have his leg amputated being shot at by Rapid Action Battalion men on March 23, 2011, was deferred to March 19. Full storyTeachers put off strike to facilitate SSC exams
Teachers and employees of non-government secondary schools on Monday put off their indefinite, begun a fortnight back demanding nationalization of education and their jobs to facilitate the Secondary School Certificate... Full storyAEC chief exec visits Phulbari with warm clothes for poor
Controversial mining company Asia Energy Corporation Pty Ltd chief executive Gary Lye on Monday started visiting the Phulbari coal deposit area in Dinajpur while the company’s share price was on a sharp downward spiral... Full storyRazia Shahid sustains burn injuries
The widow of the late left politician Abdush Shahid sustained critical burn injuries Monday reportedly from a spark of a high-voltage live wire in their under-construction building beside the Hatirjheel-Begunbari Lake in the city’s... Full story673 students get KMRF scholarship
