Implement CHT accord fully or face consequence: Santu Larma

Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti president Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, on Wednesday blamed successive governments for non-implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord in 19 years.

PM’s flight disruption: Biman suspends six officials

Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Wednesday suspended five of its engineering officers and a technician but spared the head of engineering department over a glitch that caused emergency landing of the aircraft carrying prime minister Sheikh Hasina on November 27.

Khaleda visits Mahmudur Rahman

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia visited ailing Dainik Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in city’s United Hospital on Wednesday evening.

Rohingyas face shelter, food crisis as influx on

Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh were suffering from food, shelter, and drug crises as influx of the religious minority Muslims of Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh continued on Tuesday when 250 more sneaked into the country.

ONE MONTH AFTER ATTACK ON B’BARIA HINDUS: Uneasy calm prevails at Nasirnagar

An uneasy calm still prevails at Nasirnagar and Hindus are still in fear of further attacks despite deployment of additional police, Border Guard Bangladesh and Rapid Action Battalion even after one month of attacks on the religious minority group on October 30.

Democracy needs active media role: Inu

Minister for information Hasanul Haque Inu on Tuesday said that the media should play a pro-active role in preserving democracy and upholding the values of the constitution of the country. At the same time, the media must work responsibly, he observed.

B’Desh sees progress in ending child marriage, but ‘still not enough’

Mentioning that Bangladesh has made a very good progress in dealing with child marriage, prime minister’s foreign affairs adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi on Tuesday called for joint efforts to eliminate the problem from the country as it is still far from enough.

PM demands global fund on water

Stressing the need for addressing issues like protection and utilisation of water resources comprehensively, prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Hungary on Monday shared a seven-point agenda with global leaders with a call for creating a global fund on water.

Graft, irregularities bedevil NITOR

Monir Hossain, with his fractured leg, on Thursday morning was groaning in pain outside the emergency operation theatre of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.

All Rid Pharma execs acquitted

The Dhaka Drug Court on Monday acquitted all the five accused, top officials of Rid Pharmaceuticals Limited, of the charges of producing and marketing toxic Paracetamol syrup that caused the deaths of at least 28 children in 2009.