No election if Khaleda sent to jail: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday categorically said there would be no election in the country if their chairperson Khaleda Zia is sent to jail by convicting her in ‘false cases.’
Mitu’s SIM card recovered from Bhola after 8 months
The police recovered the SIM card of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu from Bhola on Tuesday, eight and a half months after she was murdered in Chittagong.
Realtors get favoures, other land owners ignored
The cabinet committee on review of the capital’s Detailed Area Plan has left the applications of hundreds of affected land owners unaddressed.
WB stopped loan for one man’s conspiracy: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that as it was against the interest of one particular individual, false graft allegation was brought involving Padma Bridge and the World Bank stopped lending loan support on the basis of that allegation.
Life term requires convict to spend life in jail, not 30 yrs: SC
Life term implies that a convict has to spend his life, not 30 years, in jail, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court said Tuesday in a landmark verdict.
Abul Hossain should be reinstated to the office of minister: B Chowdhury
Bikolpodhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday demanded that former communication minister Syed Abul Hossain should now be reinstated to the office of minister to restore his dignity.
Autocracy resistance day observed
Left leaning student organisations and different socio-cultural organisations on Tuesday observed the ‘autocracy resistance day’ recalling the campus uprising of 1983 that forced the cancellation of Mazid Khan Education Commission report and forged students’ unity against the military regime of HM Ershad during the time.
CIVIL AVIATION BILL Death penalty proposed
The cabinet on Monday endorsed the draft of the Civil Aviation Bill 2017 incorporating death penalty as the maximum punishment for creating any obstructions to air navigation.
ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOLS Owners to pay VAT, not students: SC
The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Monday in a landmark decision directed the National Board of Revenue to collect value-added tax from the owners of English medium schools and not from the students.
Yet another road crash kills 13
At least 13 people were killed while 30 others got wounded in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Darikandi under Belabo in Narsingdi, Sunday morning.
