An influential minister instigates transport strike : Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that an influential minister instigated the countrywide wildcat road transport strike that begun on Tuesday.
strikes against court verdicts HC seeks explanation
The High Court Division on Wednesday asked the government as well as the road transport owners association and the road transport workers federation to explain in three weeks why strikes, hartals or blockades called against court orders would not be declared illegal and those enforcing such action programmes would not be punished.
Aggrieved transport workers can appeal against sentences: Anisul
Law tminister Anisul Huq said on Wednesday that the aggrieved transport workers, instead of protesting at the verdicts, could go to the High Court to appeal against sentences delivered by the lower courts.
China for momentum in relations
The Chinese government has stressed the need for the continuation of momentum reached in political and strategic relations and the implementation of deals signed with Bangladesh during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to Dhaka in 2016.
Gulshan attack ‘arms supplier’ held in Dhaka
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s counter terrorism and transnational crime unit arrested a man suspected of supplying arms to Gulshan cafe attackers near Kakoli rail crossing in the capital’s Banani area Tuesday night.
No extra-judicial killing exists in country: HM
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday informed the parliament that there was no existence of extra-judicial killing in Bangladesh.
12 held, 10 injured during hartal
At least 12 people were arrested and 10 were injured as police clashed with pickets during half-day hartal enforced by left parties in Dhaka on Tuesday protesting at the price hike of gas.
5 JMB men to die for Hoshi Kunio murder
A Special Court in Rangpur on Tuesday handed death sentence to five members of banned Jama’atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh as they were found guilty of murdering Japanese farmer Hoshi Kunio, near his crop farm at Kaunia, Rangpur in 2015.
HC stays second phase of gas price hike
The High Court on Tuesday stayed the second phase of gas price hike, scheduled to come into effect from June 1, for six months.
Writers, publishers drive sales through social media
Increasingly more writers and publishers have been resorting to social media sites, especially facebook, to increase sales of their books during Ekushey Book Fair this year.
